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Wednesday 15th May
Date: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Time: 08:00 p.m. - 09:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS, SPECIAL EVENTS, WORLD AT WAR
Price: $35 EARLYBIRD $40 STANDARD
Sharpen the grey cells. A heavyweight foursome assess the current shift in global power and debate the extent to which the East’s ascension spells the West’s death knell. The jousters are:...
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Thursday 16th May
Date: Thursday 16th May 2013
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 02:15 p.m.
Venue: HAMMERHEADS RESTAURANT
Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $95
A headmaster once said of Max Hastings that he “resembles a Chinese firecracker, which we expect to explode at any minute”. Hastings went on to make his name as a correspondent during the Falklands war,...
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Date: Thursday 16th May 2013
Time: 07:00 p.m. - 08:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $35 EARLYBIRD $40 STANDARD
Trumpets. Fanfare. Storytelling - unedited and unplugged - with eight of this year’s guest writers will launch three days of action-packed programming.
Charged with providing a seven-minute story...
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Friday 17th May
Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 02:15 p.m.
Venue: THE NORTHERN CLUB, AUCKLAND
Category: LIFE'S EASY PLEASURES, SPECIAL EVENTS, SPORT
Price: $95
Gideon Haigh is an Australian journalist. He has written 26 books on cricket, and is a life member of the South Yarra cricket club where in a “triumph of availability over ability” he holds the record...
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Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 07:00 p.m. - 08:15 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, NON-FICTION, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS, SPECIAL EVENTS, WORLD AT WAR
Price: $35 EARLYBIRD; $40 STANDARD
Writer and raconteur William Dalrymple returns with his latest work of history, Return of a King , a comprehensive and compelling account of the British invasion of Afghanistan in 1839, launched by one Lord...
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Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 08:30 p.m. - 09:30 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $40
Jazz pianist Norman Meehan , vocalist Hannah Griffin , saxophonist/clarinettist Colin Hemmingsen and poet Bill Manhire present a concert of Manhire’s poetry set to original music. In the round-table club...
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Saturday 18th May
Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 04:00 p.m.
Venue: HERITAGE HOTEL, AUCKLAND
Category: NON-FICTION, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $55
Celebrating the love and energy that goes into bringing food to the table, in our afternoon tea event this year we tuck in with four artisan producers, each of whom feature in Simon Farrell-Green’s book Food...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 07:15 p.m. - 08:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE, FICTION, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $35 EARLYBIRD $40 STANDARD
Whitbread-winning Behind The Scenes at the Museum won Kate Atkinson legions of fans. Since then she’s beguiled the world with a raft of novels including Case Histories and When Will There Be Good News , the...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 07:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $15
Poetry Idol is our rambunctious, sell-out slam in which 10 poets - from fledglings to the old hands - go head-to-head for the Festival Champion crown, and $500, under the guidance of Hot Pink Poet Penny Ashton. Judges...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 08:30 p.m. - 09:45 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: ART, MUSIC, POETRY, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $40
Leonard Cohen biographer Sylvie Simmons has her ukulele; New Zealand troubadour Don McGlashan his guitar. Together they’ll sing songs: hers, his, Leonard’s and, in between, talk about songwriting, in the...
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Sunday 19th May
Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:45 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE, FARAWAY LANDS, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
In 1973 an emerging writer by the name of Albert Wendt delivered his first novel. Sons For The Return Home was groundbreaking, exploring love, freedom and racism in Aotearoa New Zealand. It was made into a film and...
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