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LOLA RIDGE AND OTHERS: TERESE SVOBODA
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 1.00-2.00PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
Early 20th-century radical poet and editor Lola Ridge was born in Ireland, raised in NZ and Australia and settled in New York where she became a poet and activist. Guggenheim Fellow
and award-winning writer Terese Svoboda has restored Ridge to her rightful place in history with the biography Anything That Burns You. Svoboda has also written 17 other works—including poetry and ction, and the engrossing and suspenseful Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, a memoir of her uncle, who served as a military policeman in occupied Japan. In conversation with Stephanie Johnson.
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FREE EVENT
FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION
REFRAMING
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 1.00-1.50PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Historian David Christian, journalist Amy Goldstein, art writer Madeleine O’Dea and novelist Stephanie Parkyn bring us new ways of seeing the past in ten
minute readings. Introduced by Christine O’Brien.
25 SPECIAL EVENT
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST MONGREL: ROWLEY HABIB
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 2.00-3.30PM HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
A delight of music, readings and performance, directed by Nancy Brunning and with a distinguished cast including: Rawiri Paratene; Te Kahu Rolleston; Tanea Heke and Mitch Tawhi Thomas, in celebration of labourer turned award-winning Ma- ori writer Rowley Habib (Nga- ti Tu- wharetoa, Lebanese). Hear Habib’s words championing the urban Ma- ori
voice and then join in the post-show ko-rero. Presented in partnership with Ha- pai Productions with the support of Creative New Zealand.
Also presented May 19 at 2pm and May 20 at 10am. Earlybird $25; Standard $30; Patrons $20; Students $15.
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WRESTLING WITH
“Radical, modernist, ery, glamorous, feminist—adjectives and categories can only gesture toward the enduringly signi cant life and works of the poet Lola Ridge, whose story has been gracefully told, with her poems lucidly understood, by Terese Svoboda.” —Robert Pinsky
anything that
burns you
a portrait of
lola ridge, radical poet
by terese svoboda
INTRODUCTION BY MOLLY CRABAPPLE, AUTHOR OF DRAWING BLOOD
THE DEVIL: ~~
NGUGI WA THIONG’O
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 2.30-3.30PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Often mentioned as a deserving
Nobel Prize nominee, and described
as the Kenyan Mandela, the African
writer and human rights champion
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Ngugı wa Thiong’o has spent his
life grappling with the post-colonial experience. Translated into over 30 languages, his novels and memoirs tell a compelling and challenging story of Africa. In his latest memoir Wrestling with the Devil, he references one of his most powerful novels, the critique of capitalism Devil On The Cross, written in secret, on toilet paper, while he was imprisoned. Kubé Jones-Neill talks with wa Thiong’o, one of the world’s literary treasures and the recipient of a 2005 Honorary Doctorate from The University of Auckland. Supported by the Michael King Writers’ Centre and The University of Auckland.
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