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FRIDAY 18 MAY
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A MAORI WORD A DAY: H E- M I K E L L Y
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 9.00-9.30AM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
Start your Festival Day, Friday to Sunday, with a fun half-hour Te
Reo lesson, led by Ma-ori-teacher, translator and writer Hemi Kelly whose book A Ma- ori Word A Day is
a simple, fun and practical Ma-ori dictionary for all New Zealanders. Polish up those vowel sounds. Ka pai.
All welcome; entry by koha, no ticket required.
inventiveness, and put the case for novelty. Join Eagleman, Creative Fellow of the Creative Thinking Project based at The University of Auckland, in this one-off lecture and tour of human creativity, from Picasso to concept cars, umbrellas to lunar travel, as he discusses the cognitive software that makes it all possible. Supported by The Creative Thinking Project.
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THE ABSENT SEA: CARLOS FRANZ
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 10.00-11.00AM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
Chilean writer Carlos Franz is feted as a masterful and eloquent voice in Latin American literature. The author of award-winning novels and short stories, his signature work is The Absent Sea (El desierto), which won the International Novel Prize La Nacion/ Sudamericana in 2005. Set in the aftermath of Chile’s 1973 coup, it’s “a fascinating story that is, at the same time, a dive into the depths of cruelty and human compassion, and into
the violence of history,” according to Peruvian heavy-weight Mario Vargas Llosa. Franz talks about his work and his country, with Tom Moody. Supported by Embassy of Chile.
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WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 10.00-11.00AM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Sue Bradford and Joan Withers seem an unlikely pairing: one an activist and former politician of the left with
a middle-class background; the other
a corporate leader with a working- class background. Both, however, are women of substance with alternately challenging and rewarding lives, as explored in recent books Constant Radical: The Life and Times of Sue Bradford by Jenny Chamberlain and Wither’s A Woman’s Place. Bradford and Withers compare and contrast, and discuss personal and broader concerns with former unionist turned professional director Rob Campbell.
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THE CREATIVE BRAIN
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 10.00-11.00AM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
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Superstar neuroscientist David Eagleman’s latest book, co-authored with composer Anthony Brandt, is The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World. In it, the pair weave together the sciences and the arts to explore human
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