In episode five, our hero goblins gather with their kinfolk and try to piece together why their home was razed to the ground.
Fury of the Smallblends radio drama, improv comedy and tabletop roleplaying into a unique audio experience. In our story, four stalwart heroes delve into a goblin den seeking fame and fortune. Months later, four avenging goblins step into the human world seeking retribution. All that follows is decided by the roll of the dice!
In episode five the goblins are surrounded by distant kith and kin at the Goblin Market. Amid the hustle and bustle, our four protagonists are lost in thought. Why is it they came to lose their home? Who were the monsters responsible? And how might the goblins of Jaggedjaw take their revenge?
This episode dives deep into each goblin’s psyche. We learn more of their secrets, their pasts and hints of what their futures might hold. Smiggly loses himself in the bottle, Sly looks to the skies and Scritches seeks a means to continue the hunt for the heroes. The littlest goblin Skree nurses the greatest secret of all…
Fury of the Small is a limited series Dungeons & Dragons podcast produced by The Wild Magic Tavern, in partnership with The Spinoff. It stars Brynley Stent, Arlo Gibson, Ella Hope-Higginson, Tom Eason and Paddy Carroll with sound design by Te Aihe Butler.
The Spinoff’s top picks of events from around the motu.
In many ways it is a curse to be the person in the family who is supposed to know about art. When I go to art galleries with my mum, she will, without fail, ask me what an artwork means. It might be an abstract painting full of nice colours, a sandwich board sculpture or a poetic video work of bodies swimming through water. It used to bug me, since it is hard to articulate a clean and tidy answer, especially if you can only really guess. Sometimes the only thing you can say is it’s a painting about paint, which can come across as a tight-lipped, opaque answer.
Recently I’ve spotted myself doing essentially the same thing. Before spending time with an artwork, I will look for the information label and glean all possible fact and interpretation from it. I might even pick up the printed leaflet and hold it between me and the work. There’s a comfort in thinking that we can know and understand something, but it’s a little boring. There’s no room for new things to make their way into our brain.
This week I’m spotlighting a festival that I don’t quite understand. I’m going to one of the performances, and even though I’ve read the description three times I’m not sure what it is. I’ve decided that’s a good thing.
Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Avenue, Auckland Central
June 11-14
$0 – $35
Even the F.O.L.A festival’s website is a little perplexing. Strange symbols pop up and follow around your cursor, the event listings are on little piled up cards that you can move around the screen and the logo is barely readable (but very trendy). F.O.L.A is a festival for experimental live art – the event roster includes things like a free workshop on creating immersive psychedelic worlds with light and liquid, a walk in the rain accompanied by a soundtrack, an outdoor exhibition called Fleapit and a terrifying-looking performance called Glory Whole. There’s nudity, swearing and elements of chaos.
So why spotlight this strange, and maybe rude, thing? Well, its one of the only festivals in the country which is run by artists (Nisha Madhan, Julia Croft, Nahyeon Lee, and Hannah Moore) and I like that the events are so different to anything else. It really may be your one chance to carry a mysterious box around in the rain, watch artists reverse-mine copper or be guided on how to survive the necropolis.
Kiwi North Museum, 500 State Highway 14, Maunu, Whangārei 10am Sunday, June 15 $2.50 per ride
“Catch a ride on a steam train, rumble through the bush on a tram, jump on a jigger, whizz around the miniature train track, or enjoy a nostalgic hayride across the open paddocks.”
Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Avenue, Auckland Central 6:30pm Saturday, June 14 $30 – $40
As part of the F.O.L.A festival, artists will attempt to reverse-mine community e-waste for copper, preparing it to shoot back from whence it came. Bring along your old cables!
NZ Portrait Gallery, Shed 11, 60 Lady Elizabeth Lane, Wellington Waterfront 2pm Sunday, June 15 $15
Join a special Matariki raranga (weaving) session lead by Frank Topia (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Haua) and Linda Lee (Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Huia, Ngāti Kurī, Ngāi Tākoto, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōri, Ngāpuhi).
Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin
12pm Tuesday, June 17
Free
Contemporary jeweller Jane Dodd will discuss her current exhibition, The Kingdom, which invites viewers to explore the intricate connections between species.
