Marlo Schorr-Kon

Dec 10, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Marlo Schorr-Kon |Lucy Croft

Music festivals are one of the highlights of summer in Aotearoa. It’s an amazing feeling to be surrounded by thousands of people who all love music just as much as you do. Like non-disabled festival-goers, the most important thing is to have a good time with the people you are there with. Your company can really make or break a festival experience, so be sure to pick some good peeps to take along.

Oct 23, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Eda Tang |Marlo Schorr-Kon

What’s DAT? Originally known as DAFT (Disabled Artists’ Festival of Theatre), DAT Fest returns to Pōneke for its third year. Over two weeks in the beginning of November, Te Auaha will be home to an all D/deaf, Disabled, and Neurodivergent (DDN) lineup of performances. With a disco, an NZSL interpreted taxidermy session and a cabaret brunch amidst its colourful programme, one could say there’s something for everyone at this year’s DAT Fest.

Oct 21, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Marlo Schorr-Kon |Eda Tang |Van Mei

1. First Class LimoSo it looks like moving yourself isn’t really an option at airports, but Air New Zealand is providing the Koru Club of wheelchairs for you to move from one end of the airport to the other in style. It’s timeless, sleek and moves with grace. Even though the seat is so hard you can literally see the previous user’s bum prints on the seat, it’s a seat that you can transfer onto with relative ease. Belt in baby. Enjoy the legroom.

Aug 21, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Robyn Hunt |Red Nicholson |Olivia Shivas |Marlo Schorr-Kon

Hope, and sometimes wry humour, are threaded through the interactions with medical and general staff and other patients - the boredom, the mundane and familiar daily hospital routine. There is also fear and pain. Trish is no Pollyanna. The poems are deceptively simple, but the light touch and acute observation is anything but lightweight. It packs a satisfying sharpness and astringency of observation when you least expect it.

Aug 13, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Red Nicholson |Marlo Schorr-Kon

Under the newly-announced traffic light system, any disabled person receiving the Jobseeker Benefit (or anyone receiving the Supported Living Payment who has been assessed as able to work) will begin in the hazy, four-laned glory of a green light setting. One transgression, however, and you’re instantly plunged into the orange setting, irrespective of whether or not the transgression actually happened.