BROWN BAG TALK STORY & PERFORMANCES Wednesday, October 10 - 12:00pm John A. Burns Hall, 3rd Floor, Room 3015/19
Coco Solid (also known as Jessica Hansell) is an Auckland-raised writer, musician and visual artist. Coco found her writing voice as a young Pasifika woman in underground rap and comic/zines in New Zealand. Since then she has become an critically-acclaimed rapper, poet, essayist, journalist and screenwriter, using poetry and storytelling as her entry into multiple disciplines and worlds. With her Māori Samoan German heritage at the core of her work, she aims to make the holistic practical, the political pop-cultural and the existential accessible. Recently working on Jemaine Clement's comedy 'Wellington Paranormal' and 'Ahikāroa' (New Zealand's first bilingual soap), Coco writes and directs cult cartoon sitcom AROHA BRIDGE (part of Taika Waititi's production company Piki Films). She has toured and recorded with musicians globally and has her master's degree in creative writing from Victoria University. An activist and creative organiser on her home-turf, Coco is an outspoken advocate for gender and racial equality in the arts.
David Eggleton began reciting his poetry in the New Zealand rock music scene of the early eighties, and he has since toured on the cabaret circuit in Sydney and Melbourne and in Holland, Denmark and in Britain. He has performed his poetry in schools, universities, pubs, clubs and cafes all over New Zealand. His poetry has been described as “A poetry of inclusion and affirmation...with an ability to fully depict the multi-faceted nature of a country”, and he has been called “A dynamic, forceful, up-to-the-minute bard and easily one of New Zealand’s best poets.” While another critic described him as: “A hilarious subverter of language, sublime, funny...”
BROWN BAG TALK STORY & PERFORMANCES Wednesday, October 10 - 12:00pm John A. Burns Hall, 3rd Floor, Room 3015/19
Coco Solid (also known as Jessica Hansell) is an Auckland-raised writer, musician and visual artist. Coco found her writing voice as a young Pasifika woman in underground rap and comic/zines in New Zealand. Since then she has become an critically-acclaimed rapper, poet, essayist, journalist and screenwriter, using poetry and storytelling as her entry into multiple disciplines and worlds. With her Māori Samoan German heritage at the core of her work, she aims to make the holistic practical, the political pop-cultural and the existential accessible. Recently working on Jemaine Clement's comedy 'Wellington Paranormal' and 'Ahikāroa' (New Zealand's first bilingual soap), Coco writes and directs cult cartoon sitcom AROHA BRIDGE (part of Taika Waititi's production company Piki Films). She has toured and recorded with musicians globally and has her master's degree in creative writing from Victoria University. An activist and creative organiser on her home-turf, Coco is an outspoken advocate for gender and racial equality in the arts.
David Eggleton began reciting his poetry in the New Zealand rock music scene of the early eighties, and he has since toured on the cabaret circuit in Sydney and Melbourne and in Holland, Denmark and in Britain. He has performed his poetry in schools, universities, pubs, clubs and cafes all over New Zealand. His poetry has been described as “A poetry of inclusion and affirmation...with an ability to fully depict the multi-faceted nature of a country”, and he has been called “A dynamic, forceful, up-to-the-minute bard and easily one of New Zealand’s best poets.” While another critic described him as: “A hilarious subverter of language, sublime, funny...”
