# Rutene Spooner

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New Billy T. James cabaret - Be like Billy?

A new cabaret show Be like Billy? explores the legacy of one of New Zealand's greatest entertainers: Billy T James. Rutene Spooner grew up watching Billy's work on old VHS tapes with his whanau, and now stars in the one-man show where he shares his personal relationship with his childhood hero and …

Stage Direction w/ Alice Canton: September 27th, 2024

Alice Canton and Rutene Spooner join Beth in-studio to chat about Be Like Billy, a show on at Te Pou Theatre as a part of Kōanga Festival. Tickets through Te Pou’s website.

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: September 27th, 2024

Sofia had a kōrero with co-curator, Dr Jane Davidson-Ladd, about Ngā Taonga Tūturu: Treasured Māori Portraits, a new exhibition showing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. The exhibition brings together whakairo and oil paintings from the gallery’s collection, offering insights into the significa…

Episode 4: Rutene Spooner

Join Tracey for another episode of Behind the Velvet Curtain. This week she catches up with full time storyteller and part time mischief maker, the hugely talented Rutene Spooner. Rutene is bringing two shows to Taranaki this month for the Right Royal Cabaret Festival - Pīpī Paopao and Be Like Bi…

Rutene Spooner: artist involved in We The Young on the new festival coming to Auckland

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 famil…

Rutene Spooner reads Hooks and Feelers by Keri Hulme

Send us a text Keri Hulme's story Hooks and Feelers won the 1975 BNZ Katherine Mansfield prize and set her on the writing path that led to her becoming our first ever Booker Prize winner with The Bone People. Selected from the anthology Oh, to be a writer, a real writer with the kind permission of …

Jason Te Mete: strangers singing disco at the Nelson Arts Festival

Jason Te Mete explains how Battle Chorus works. The audience is split into two teams, learns a set of choruses on the night, then sings off. Jason co-created it with Rutene Spooner, and it began in 2019 as a commission for the Auckland Cabaret Festival. This year's disco edition is at the Nelson Ar…