When Ngāti Toa School teacher Pearl Freemantle told her students there were seahorses living in the sea near Porirua, they didn’t believe her.
“They thought I was doing one of my 'jokes' when I told them seahorses are in our local moana,” says Pearl. “One of the year 6 girls, who I had told when she was a year 2 that we had seahorses locally - and who thought they were a mystical being like a unicorn - was leaping with excitement after snorkelling, as she had seen one!”
Tired of comics making stand-up look easy? Then slide along to the LATE NIGHT JAZZ SCAT where we challenge the brightest stars of the festival to perform their material to the improvised jamming of a live jazz band.
