Thanks to the Associate Minister for Arts, Culture & Heritage, Grant Robertson, and to Jan Logie, Under-Secretary, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Justice (Sexual and Domestic Violence Issues), Minimum screened in Parliament’s Beehive Theatrette during last year’s #directedbywomen , following Kanya Stewart’s classic Even Dogs Are Given Bones (1982, for Dyke Productions and Auckland Women’s Community Video ), about the women who occupied the Rixen clothing factory in Levin when the owner decided to close the factory but wouldn’t pay them redundancy. still from Even Dogs Are Given Bones It was a beautiful thing when Grant Robertson introduced the evening and asked the Even Dogs Are Given Bones women to stand up so we could applaud them. And beautiful to watch the two works — made almost 40 years apart — together; and to watch all the Minimum episodes at once, in a crowded cinema. As well as some o...
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