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Friday 17th May
Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
Writers Diana Bridge , Anita Desai , Sharad Paul and John Sinclair read work that evokes the East, introduced by Paula Morris .
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Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:45 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD
Price: FREE
Poets Miles Merrill , Courtney Meredith , Ken Arkind and Carrie Rudzinski perform their work, introduced by Michelle Bolton .
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Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, LITERARY INTEREST
Price: FREE
YA writers Libba Bray , Kate De Goldi , Paula Morris and Patrick Ness read from their work, introduced by Oliver Phommavanh.
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Saturday 18th May
Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
Weaving archival images into a discussion on Maori and their initial relationship to writing, Alison Jones and Kuni Jenkins talk about their award-winning book He Korero: Words Between Us and what the first...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 07:30 p.m.
Venue: UPSTAIRS FOYER, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD
Price: FREE
Auckland Theatre Company’s Literary Unit, in partnership with the Festival, presents an insight into the process of playwriting. Three playwrights, one shared play written especially for the Festival over six...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 01:00 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, LIFE'S EASY PLEASURES, LITERARY INTEREST
Price: FREE
The Festival introduces a live book valuing event. Bring your literary treasures to the Festival and expert Pam Plumbly , from auction house Art + Object, will provide the lowdown on their provenance and worth....
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Price: FREE
For many, New Zealand’s growing income gap is alarming, with some seeing it as the most pressing economic and social problem facing the country. In a new book on the subject journalist Max Rashbrooke has...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, NON-FICTION, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Price: FREE
Around the world, writers continue to be harassed, imprisoned and tortured for their work. Five writers representing five regions - Masha Gessen : Russia; Robert Sullivan : the Pacific; Gilbert Wong : Asia; ...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:15 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD
Price: FREE
Expat Fleur Adcock is joined by Peter Bland , John Newton and Maris O’Rourke for readings from their work, introduced by Paula Green .
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, NON-FICTION
Price: FREE
In 1969 Rod Edmond , a member of the distinguished Edmond writing clan, journeyed from New Zealand to England, where for many years he taught history and literature at the University of Kent. Migrations charts...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 04:45 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FICTION, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
Novelists Eleanor Catton , Karen Healey , Lawrence Patchett and Scarlett Thomas read work that plays with and manipulates time, introduced by Renee Liang .
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, LIFE'S EASY PLEASURES, NON-FICTION
Price: FREE
Architects Ian Athfield (subject of Julia Gatley’s book Athfield ) and Julie Stout , and writer John Walsh (most recently author of Big House, Small House ), discuss New Zealand’s domestic...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:15 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, LIFE'S EASY PLEASURES, NON-FICTION
Price: TBA
In an age of first-world food obsession, writers Wayne Macauley, Sue Orr, Dave Veart and Ian Wedde read from work that celebrates or scorns these foodie times, introduced by Peter Wells.
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Sunday 19th May
Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, LITERARY INTEREST
Price: FREE
Jane Stafford and Mark Williams have knocked off a Herculean task, editing an anthology of New Zealand literature. In discussion with Iain Sharp they conduct a sweep of our writing, reading selections,...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, LIFE'S EASY PLEASURES, NON-FICTION
Price: FREE
Chickens in the backyard and dinner from the garden seem the city-slicking rage these days. What’s given rise to the trend and is it really viable? Not to mention the thorny question of whether flowers will...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 01:45 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, NON-FICTION
Price: FREE
Who are we and what defines us? Such questions will inform readings by Renee Liang, Diego Marani, Emma Martin and Kirsten McDougall, introduced by Rod Edmond.
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, FREE EVENTS, NON-FICTION, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Price: FREE
Following in the footsteps of the famed English travel writer H V Morton, freelance journalist and Travcom Travel Book of the Year award winner for God of the Stones , Peter Riordan journeys through the Middle East,...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, FICTION
Price: FREE
Mention the S&M-themed 50 Shades of Grey in company and many judgements will be passed - literary merit, bad soft porn, feminist empowerment, marketing genius - and on it will go. Whichever side of whatever...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, LITERARY INTEREST
Price: FREE
Stephanie Johnson, Ramona Koval, Mary Paul and CK Stead read work that celebrates the inspiration that is writing and literature, introduced by Jane Stafford.
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FILM AND THEATRE, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
One of the most intriguing recent local films is Alyx Duncan’s The Red House , featuring her non-acting parents playing themselves in a drama presented as a documentary. In an age of scripted reality, what does...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FICTION, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
Writers Kate Atkinson, Hamish Clayton, Charlotte Grimshaw and Tania Moir read selections from their work that reference the repeating of history, introduced by Peter Wells.
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