Dirty Passports (alternatively capitalised as DIRTY PASSPORTS)
Curated by Nathan Joe
Poster Imagery by Daniel Vernon
A lineup and celebration of the finest BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) storytellers and spoken word artists in Aotearoa.
Dirty Passports features your favourite minorities behaving badly. Untwisting their tongues and shattering stereotypes all for the audience’s displeasure.
Dirty Passports was conceived in 2021 as a unique platform for BIPOC storytellers to be in conversation with each other. It was most recently presented at Wānaka Festival of Colour’s Aspiring Conversations programme (pictured above).
Presentation History:
Basement Theatre (Auckland), 2021
Basement Theatre (Auckland), 2022
Basement Theatre (Auckland) & WORD Festival (Christchurch), 2023
Aspiring Conversations (Wānaka), 2024
The very first DIRTY PASSPORTS lineup at Basement Theatre, Auckland, 2021
“Dirty Passports gave the intersectional vibes I have been (and always am) craving — decolonisation, queerness, feminist agendas… I wasn’t left wanting on any fronts.”
The Speakeasy