Award-winning visual artist, spoken word poet and storyteller wani toaishara brings his compelling one-person show garçon to Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre. Recognised across mediums for his work celebrating Black life and representation, dislocation and Indigeneity, this new production offers an intimate and personal window into the streets he grew up in.

garçon is a dynamic coming-of-age story, taking audiences on a ride through wani’s childhood in Auckland, New Zealand. From the classroom to the basketball court to the milk bars and garage hangouts of Ranui and Massey, the performance paints vivid portraits of a community of young boys navigating the complexities of boyhood in a neighbourhood intent on making them men.