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FREE EVENT
FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION
AN INSIDE VIEW
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 4.00-4.50PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Novelists Rajorsh Chakraborti
and Xue Yiwei join poet Janet Charman and journalist Francis Wade to reveal an insider’s take on their experience of Asia in ten minute readings introduced by Christine O’Brien.
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DEMOCRACY: A.C. GRAYLING
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 5.30-6.30PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Democracy and Its Crisis is the latest book from leading British intellectual A.C.Grayling. Inithetraces democracy’s birth in ancient Greece to its bastardisation in the 21st-century. He delivers a lecture on democracy’s current lowpoint, and the pressing need for reform. Supported by Craigs Investment Partners.
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SOUR HEART: JENNY ZHANG
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 5.30-6.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Praised as ingenious by The New Yorker for its “technical artistry with an unfettered emotional directness” Jenny Zhang’s debut short-story collection Sour Heart interrogates the immigrant experience in eight linked stories told from the perspective of a rst-generation, Chinese-American girl living in New York, and was the rst acquisition of Lena Dunham’s publishing imprint Lenny Books.
It follows poetry, essays and the chapbook Hags, all of which have contributed to marking Zhang
out as one of her generation’s most provocative voices. In conversation with Rosabel Tan.
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HOMAGE TO THE RIVER
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 5.30-6.30PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Last year, the 290-kilometre-long Whanganui River became the rst river and the second resource (after Te Urewera) to be given its own legal
identity, with the rights, duties and liabilities of a person. To celebrate
this mighty body of water join the river’s kaitiaki, speaking on behalf of the river and upholding its values. In an event that includes readings from Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlisted poet Airini Beautrais’ book Flow: Whanganui River Poems, and the recorded contemporary and traditional music of Auaha, the Whanganui takes centre stage in Auckland.
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WE MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 5.30-6.15PM HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
“I think therefore I am...often
wrong.” Inapotentsoloperformance, Australian writer and actor Emma Mary Hall re ects on the globalised, social-media world which saturates each of us daily with information and misinformation – a slew of facts, beliefs, opinions and prejudices. We May Have To Choose, an Edinburgh Fringe and Australasian theatre hit, mesmerisingly lists 621 of Hall’s own opinions to provoke us to re ect on how we engage with information, ideas and issues, and to think more critically. Directed by Prue Clark.
Also presented May 19 at 5.30pm and May 20 at 2.00pm. Earlybird $25; Standard $30; Patrons $20; Students $15.
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