28 Aug 2022

Daisy Speaks prepares to launch Christchurch's WORD festival

From Standing Room Only, 2:27 pm on 28 August 2022
Daisy Speaks

Daisy Speaks Photo: supplied

After two disrupted years, Christchurch is looking forward to its WORD literary festival complete with real life audiences.

Trustee, MC, poet - and occasionally chauffeur - for the festival, Daisy Speaks, can't wait.

Daisy will be hosting Confluence 2022, at which Pasfika and Māori musicians and poets will celebrate the cultural, musical and ancestral connections between the islands of Polynesia and Aotearoa.

Lynn Freeman talked with Daisy Speaks, who descends from Sāmoan orators, and first asked her why she's so invested in WORD?

Daisy is chairing Confluence 2.0, part of the WORD Festival on Saturday the 3rd of September at the Piano on Christchurch.