After One Foot Forward

One Foot Forward hit the stage at the Lady Fisher Auditorium with Karen Hunter, Just the Tikit and Snapshots (the Literatti-student collaboration) on November 1st 2008. The show went really well, and clips have slowly started appearing on Youtube. We ended up with heaps of footage so it's taking a while to edit it all together. We dig performing in bars, street corners etc etc, but little can compare to a theatre stage and what you can do there. HUGE thanks from all of us to Kate Barton for her animations, as well as Erin Gaffney and Darcy Gladwin for their photographs. Also thanks to our sound technician Daniel Larsen for enduring endless technical rehearsals and making us sound great on the night!

Since then, there've been a few developments.

In order to work more on other things, Shane Hollands, founder of The Literatti, has left the group. He will be greatly missed by us, though we take comfort in knowing he's still gonna be around performing, so we won't have to miss out on his charismatic performances. The grapevine is whispering he's taking over the radio with his show 'Dirty Words' on Fleet FM.

Sabrina Muck joined the ranks back in late November and we're stoked. We performed together for the first time on December 2nd at Poetry Live. When our powers combine....awesome poetry is born.

We've have locked down the London bar on March 7th for our Auckland Fringe Festival gig, which is going to be WIKID. Nikki Patin, Def Jam poet and performance artist from Chicago, will be joining us for this one before she kicks off her nation-wide Phat Grrrl Revolution Tour. A 'little' show we've titled Growl. This is a collaboration of epic undertaking - we've been working on poems together via google documents for a couple of months now. When Nikki arrives in NZ on the 25th of Feb we'll have just over a week to rehearse together in person before Growl hits the stage. We can't wait.

And...(drum roll please)...Gravity Coffee has decided they dig what we do and want to sponsor us! This is some of the best news we've had in a while and opens up a whole host of other possibilities. Yay to Gravity!

Due to life getting in the way, master's theses and what not, The Literatti will be taking a break after the month of March (we have four gigs, Growl and then the Inhibition Exhibition series). We've decided it's time to lay low for a while, so we can focus on workshopping new material (we might open these sessions up, so keep an eye out for that) and just developing further.

Growl will be our only full length show for the year, so don't miss it, 'tis going to be grand. We will return in 2010 bigger, better and rearing to go.