Name: The Handlers - Kōrero with Poata Alvie McKree
Start: 2025-03-29T11:00:00+13:00
End: 2025-03-29T12:00:00+13:00
Location: 8 Ambrico Place

$The Handlers - K\u014drero with Poata Alvie McKree$

A unique opportunity to hear Alvie McKree share her insights about Wāhine handling it all at the Crown Lynn factory during the 1970s.
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The Handlers - Kōrero with Poata Alvie McKree

Join us on Saturday 29th March, 11am –12pm to hear playwright Alvie McKree and Te Toi Uku director Louise Stevenson discuss Alvie’s play The Handlers that debuted at Te Pou Theatre in 2024.

A sell-out show, The Handlers, delves into the lives of wāhine handling it all in the Crown Lynn factory during the 1970s. Humorous, emotional and nostalgic, the play explores discrimination and racism in the labour market during the time.

Poata Alvie McKree (Ngāti Kahu, Ngāpuhi ki Whangaroa, St Vincent, Barbados) is an interdisciplinary artist and arts therapist committed to telling stories that foster our connection to the earth, the ancestors, the divine, and each other. Alvie writes for live performance, facilitates therapeutic art and movement workshops, and offers ritual and ceremonial gatherings for women. Alvie’s play, The Handlers, debuted at Te Pou Theatre in 2024.