Community / Kaupapa

Collective publishing, bookmaking & zines

Cass’s Repo Press zines at Zinefest Tauranga 2024.

At Zinefest Tauranga 2024.

Cass’s zines in the media 2024.

At Kirikiriroa ZineFest 2024.

Taraheke | BushLawyer Press: A collective publishing project of Anahera Gildea, Michaela Keeble, Nadine Anne Hura, Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Cassandra Barnett. Current books include Sedition by Anahera Maire Gildea and Surrender by Michaela Keeble (both 2021).
Michaela Keeble, Intertidal, published by Anemone Press (a collective publishing project of Cass and Michaela), 2020.

‘Definitely maybe’ (for Taraheke)

‘New world jam’ (for Nizhooni)

Tanka collection (for Whakaruruhau)

‘The hood of sleep’ (for Izuba)

‘Lewanna goanna’ (for my sis on her wedding)

Collected waiata & karakia (for Izuba)

‘Hoses’ (for my dad)

‘Doongtsh’ (for my dad)

‘Rooted to the earth’ (for Zealandia)

Words by Kerehi, book by Cass & Zubi (2020). A revised version of this story, by Kerehi Grace and Michaela Keeble with illustrations by Tokerau Wilson, has been published as Paku Manu Āriki Whakatakapōkai (Wellington: Gecko Press, 2023).
4th Floor journal (Guest editor, Writing as Activism issue), 2019, and Dominion Post review.
‘Mobilise your maxims’ (A Ramp Magazine 3, Guest editor, 2005) and ‘Failures and Disasters’ (A Ramp Magazine 4, Guest editor, 2006)

Art & literature: selected talks, readings, podcasts, panels & other events

Workshops & facilitation

‘Orientations’, a writing workshop at Pūtaringamotu and The Physics Rm, Ōtautahi Christchurch, 2024.

Te Kiekie Writing Workshop 2024: A two-day workshop on writing art, writing the whenua and good manuhiritanga.

Ramp Festival Workshop 2023: An afternoon workshop on art writing and ekphrasis.

Awards & residencies

Auckland Regional Parks Artist in Residence 2022 (at Craw Homestead, Anawhata, Waitākere for two months, October-December 2022).

See below under ‘Spoken out loud’ for Hei Konei | Being Here, a short film (by Kirsty MacDonald, 2023) about Cass’s residency at Anawhata and her rāhui/constraint-based poetics.

Runner up, Pikihuia Māori Literature Awards 2019 (Emerging Fiction Writer in English).

Spoken out loud: videos & podcasts

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Jakarta Biennial 2021 panel discussion: 'Talking across on unfamiliar ground' with Vera Mey, Grace Samboh and Pitra Hutomo. Thinking through complications of positioning in relation to displacement, diasporas and exiles.

Selected poetry events / readings

Chairing conversation with Anahera Gildea and Michaela Keeble, at the launch of their respective Taraheke Press poetry books, Sedition and Surrender. Unity Books, Wellington 2022.

Wai ata fun-raiser: Spoken word with local funk / roots musicians at this fundraiser for a creative youth hub in Paekākariki (St Peter’s Hall, 2020).

Intersections: A poetry reading of BIPOC solidarity for International Poetry Day, 2020.

Night of Untold Stories: 100% offline, invite-only community poetry event, sharing the stories that can’t be published (co-curated with Whakaruruhau at Pātaka, Porirua 2019).

Invasion Day: Poetry reading in honour of special guest Melissa Lucashenko (Pātaka, Porirua, 2019)

Graduates of the IIML (class of 2018) read at Te Papa (Wellington, 2018).

Selected art events / panels / talks

Keynote panel discussion about AI’s implications for toi Māori (Māori art), with Eugene Hansen and Rangituhia Hollis, ADA (Aotearoa Digital Arts) Symposium, Wellington 2024.

Opening talk for Ayesha Green, Nova Paul and George Watson at City Gallery Wellington, 2023.

Conversation about Te Manu Huna a Tāne, Verb Literary Festival, Wellington 2020.

Convenor of In situ - writers’ responding to the exhibition The earth looks upon Us | Ko Papatūānuku te matua o te tangata (Adam Art Gallery, Wellington 2018).

Floor talk, Dark Matter: Ann Shelton (Auckland Art Gallery 2016).

Talk about ‘Pitter patter, Papatūānuku’ for Enjoy Book Fair, Wellington 2016.

Talk about John Akomfrah and Bridget Reweti at COCA, Christchurch 2016.

From In Time I Will See Things a Little Differently by Fiona Jack (2010). Edited transcript of a conversation between Fiona Amundsen, Cassandra Barnett, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Fiona Jack, Louise Menzies, Layla Rudneva-Mackay and Robyn Pickens, about the photo Election day in New Plymouth, 1893 (Auckland: ARTSPACE, 20 April 2010).

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Mahi toi (art for Pirauiti) nā Izuba