September 13, 2025 • 6 mins
A new youth-focused arts festival is set to debut in Auckland next week - and run until the 28th of September.
We The Young is Auckland Live's first attempt at creating a festival specifically geared to a youth audience and it aims to make the arts more accessible for young people and their families.
One artist involved in the festival is Rutene Spooner and he says the event will be 'something special'.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
A new youth arts festival starting this week is aiming
to make the arts accessible and affordable for young people
and their families. Where the Young kicks off on Tuesday
and is Auckland Live's first ever festival created specifically for
a youth audience. One of the artists involved in the
festival is Routine Spooner, and Rutene joins me.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Now, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So this is the first time Aukland Live has created
a festival sort of exclusively aimed at a young audience.
This is something that we need.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Do you think I think so. There's an organization so
I definitely think so. I think.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Thinking around our tom Riki Papaya is an organization that
focuses on It's a collective really run by Kiar and
Palmer Down and Wellington and it groups together all the
children's theater makers or entertainment makers or and they did
a study and realized the whole in their gap for
(01:10):
our for our tumdikey lots of focus for live performance,
for our for for us pakiki as adults, but it's
really exciting that Auckland Live that come on board. You know,
I want Amiti to capital e. They used to run
a festival and that they're no longer operating at full
capacity anymore for Mint, you know, and they've been bitten
(01:31):
by by the financial strain and so on. Amita to them,
But Auckland Life has stepped in and created this amazing
festival tailored to our tamadike from sixteen years under.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And uh there's there's heaps, it's Choker.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And it's really cool because there's a strong focus on
accessibility and affordability and there's look, there's a number of
free events as well as some tailored to neurodivergent audiences.
It's really important that art is accessible, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I think so, And I think Rosa Stratey who's the
producer and it's's mama and so she's done some really
conscious thinking around what us as parents, what helps us
take our tomidique, you know, the decisions that we have
to make around ushering our Tomati key to live events
and so everything is thought through, like in terms of
(02:22):
the access A lot of the events, no, all of
the events are coded.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
They've got little keys so that parents know, oh, this
is a sound lead event or this.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Is this is how you access that that particular space
because that whole center altis square in all the surrounding
venues in there active and I think that's going to
create a lovely wee hub and it's I think it's
going to be something special.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think so too, Brute and Ay, tell me about
your show.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, my show Pep Pop Pole, it's been it's been
around for a couple of years. Actually, we started making
it in lockdown, so I start of the process was
that online. I mean everyone was working online and it
was well, it was a new challenge to try to
create art with my collaborators through a camera on.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
A zoom call.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
But we did it and finally we came out to
al Marloman we were able to tattoo and play and
it's had a few well a couple of years in
development and it's done a few festivals along the way,
and it's morphed into something that is well that we're.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
All super happy with.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
And so the show itself is a I like the
label as like a theatrical concert. Well, some people are
calling these kind of things a gigsicle which is like
a giggy musical kind of thing. But my background is
in cabaret, and so I wanted to create something for
Talmadiki and if I was still honest, to be honest,
(03:58):
I wanted to create something for my daughter.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
She was three years old at the time.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And so because I'm originally from the East coast, Naichipu
and but I live here in Tamaki, Makoto, I wanted
to create something that reminded her of those values being
somebody village values when somebody's living away from our from
our par and al maray.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And so I.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Created this this work that speaks to our money, our
bird life, and it is well, it's looking at dail
Mali in its simplest form and and for me looks
at tereil Mali and it's like on a matter pay
nature or it's musical nature, which I think is what
(04:43):
makes this show ef It's the kumuta talking for its
sweetness here. But it makes it special is because it
it doesn't profess to be the pool of knowledge teaching
everybody todayl Mali, but it invites it's a place for
us to explore it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
No matter what.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And of course it's the beginning today, at the beginning
of Marina Lguag Week as well. But look, you've been
involved in Mari music for a long time now, and
it's come a long way in recent years, hasn't it.
I mean, do you love that your daughter was growing
up hearing Mari pop songs on the radio?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I think we uh, you know, we've gone over the
revitalization mountain and now we're getting we're able to get
specific well, like we're able to push the language in
all the little corners and make it as normal as possible.
And I really love, particularly with pop popole, having the
varied participants and I say participants not so much audience,
(05:44):
but from different backgrounds and Ben I want to go there,
stand in front of them, deliver something, teach them something,
and then we.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Play it back. Is pretty special.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And I try and think back to my time as
a tominiki, feeling like trio Maui or Maori music was
its own thing.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Now it feels like Mali.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Music is is everybody's thing and can be everybody's thing.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Absolutely, Brutine Spooner, thank you so much for your time
this morning. Really appreciate it. Were the young it starts
this Thursday. It's going through the twenty eighth of September.
For more information on the festival and the show Peepy Papal,
head to the events tab at Auckland Live, dot co,
dot mz so go check it out. There's nineteen live
performances and as I said, there's lots of free things
as well.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to news Talks it Be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
A new youth arts festival starting this week is aiming
to make the arts accessible and affordable for young people
and their families. Where the Young kicks off on Tuesday
and is Auckland Live's first ever festival created specifically for
a youth audience. One of the artists involved in the
festival is Routine Spooner, and Rutene joins me.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Now, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So this is the first time Aukland Live has created
a festival sort of exclusively aimed at a young audience.
This is something that we need.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Do you think I think so. There's an organization so
I definitely think so. I think.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Thinking around our tom Riki Papaya is an organization that
focuses on It's a collective really run by Kiar and
Palmer Down and Wellington and it groups together all the
children's theater makers or entertainment makers or and they did
a study and realized the whole in their gap for
(01:10):
our for our tumdikey lots of focus for live performance,
for our for for us pakiki as adults, but it's
really exciting that Auckland Live that come on board. You know,
I want Amiti to capital e. They used to run
a festival and that they're no longer operating at full
capacity anymore for Mint, you know, and they've been bitten
(01:31):
by by the financial strain and so on. Amita to them,
But Auckland Life has stepped in and created this amazing
festival tailored to our tamadike from sixteen years under.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And uh there's there's heaps, it's Choker.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And it's really cool because there's a strong focus on
accessibility and affordability and there's look, there's a number of
free events as well as some tailored to neurodivergent audiences.
It's really important that art is accessible, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I think so, And I think Rosa Stratey who's the
producer and it's's mama and so she's done some really
conscious thinking around what us as parents, what helps us
take our tomidique, you know, the decisions that we have
to make around ushering our Tomati key to live events
and so everything is thought through, like in terms of
(02:22):
the access A lot of the events, no, all of
the events are coded.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
They've got little keys so that parents know, oh, this
is a sound lead event or this.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Is this is how you access that that particular space
because that whole center altis square in all the surrounding
venues in there active and I think that's going to
create a lovely wee hub and it's I think it's
going to be something special.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think so too, Brute and Ay, tell me about
your show.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, my show Pep Pop Pole, it's been it's been
around for a couple of years. Actually, we started making
it in lockdown, so I start of the process was
that online. I mean everyone was working online and it
was well, it was a new challenge to try to
create art with my collaborators through a camera on.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
A zoom call.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
But we did it and finally we came out to
al Marloman we were able to tattoo and play and
it's had a few well a couple of years in
development and it's done a few festivals along the way,
and it's morphed into something that is well that we're.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
All super happy with.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
And so the show itself is a I like the
label as like a theatrical concert. Well, some people are
calling these kind of things a gigsicle which is like
a giggy musical kind of thing. But my background is
in cabaret, and so I wanted to create something for
Talmadiki and if I was still honest, to be honest,
(03:58):
I wanted to create something for my daughter.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
She was three years old at the time.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
And so because I'm originally from the East coast, Naichipu
and but I live here in Tamaki, Makoto, I wanted
to create something that reminded her of those values being
somebody village values when somebody's living away from our from
our par and al maray.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And so I.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Created this this work that speaks to our money, our
bird life, and it is well, it's looking at dail
Mali in its simplest form and and for me looks
at tereil Mali and it's like on a matter pay
nature or it's musical nature, which I think is what
(04:43):
makes this show ef It's the kumuta talking for its
sweetness here. But it makes it special is because it
it doesn't profess to be the pool of knowledge teaching
everybody todayl Mali, but it invites it's a place for
us to explore it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
No matter what.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And of course it's the beginning today, at the beginning
of Marina Lguag Week as well. But look, you've been
involved in Mari music for a long time now, and
it's come a long way in recent years, hasn't it.
I mean, do you love that your daughter was growing
up hearing Mari pop songs on the radio?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I think we uh, you know, we've gone over the
revitalization mountain and now we're getting we're able to get
specific well, like we're able to push the language in
all the little corners and make it as normal as possible.
And I really love, particularly with pop popole, having the
varied participants and I say participants not so much audience,
(05:44):
but from different backgrounds and Ben I want to go there,
stand in front of them, deliver something, teach them something,
and then we.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Play it back. Is pretty special.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And I try and think back to my time as
a tominiki, feeling like trio Maui or Maori music was
its own thing.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Now it feels like Mali.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Music is is everybody's thing and can be everybody's thing.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Absolutely, Brutine Spooner, thank you so much for your time
this morning. Really appreciate it. Were the young it starts
this Thursday. It's going through the twenty eighth of September.
For more information on the festival and the show Peepy Papal,
head to the events tab at Auckland Live, dot co,
dot mz so go check it out. There's nineteen live
performances and as I said, there's lots of free things
as well.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to news Talks it Be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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