Interviews with people at the opening of the exhibition Poutokomanawa: The Carmen Rupe Generation. The exhibition runs from 20 September - 15 December 2019 at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington.
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2010s, aotearoa new zealand, artist, arts, bamboo bar (oaks complex, wellington), carmen rupe, carmen's international coffee lounge (wellington), chanel hati, chrissy witoko, chrissy witoko memorial trust, collage, community, community response, community support, conservative, criminalisation, dana de milo, exhibition, friends, georgie keyse, georgina beyer, gypsy (wellington), happiness, helmet, history, homosexual law reform, homosexual law reform act (1986), identity, jack trolove, jacquie grant, jennifer edwards, kayla riarn, language, law, le balcon / the balcony (wellington), malcolm kennedy-vaughan, marae, marilyn monroe, marriage equality, museum of new zealand te papa tongarewa (wellington), new zealand aids foundation (nzaf), new zealand portrait gallery (wellington), new zealand prostitutes collective, nicolette page, photography, police, pou, pound (wellington), poutokomanawa, poutokomanawa: the carmen rupe generation (exhibition, 2019), prostitution reform act (2003), research, safe sex, safe space, sam orchard, scott kennedy, scotty and mal's cocktail bar (wellington), sex work, sydney (australia), talei langley, taonga, taupuruariki brightwell, trans, transexual, transgender, tutankhamun, visual arts, wellington, will hansen