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TOO MUCH: DURGA CHEW-BOSE
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 11.30-12.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Labelled by Vulture as one of the
most exciting debuts of 2017, and by Bustle as one of the most anticipated feminist releases of the year – alongside work by Rebecca Solnit and Roxane Gay – Durga Chew-Bose’s debut collection of self-referential essays Too Much and Not the Mood has established her as a member of the millennial intelligentsia. Taking
its title from a Virginia Woolf diary entry, Chew-Bose’s lyrical collection offer insights into art, literature, pop-culture, and what it means to
be a Bengali-Canadian. She speaks with Ella Yelich-O’Connor. Supported by International Festival of Authors and Canada Council for the Arts.
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STAGE WOMEN: LISA DWAN
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 11.30-12.30PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
Anna Karenina, Antigone and the women of Beckett are just some of
the roles that Irish actor Lisa Dwan has fashioned as her own in an illustrious theatrical career. As heated debate continues over the position and representation of women on and off the stage and screen, Dwan joins Fiona Samuel for a conversation about towering female literary characters, what they reveal about both the
past and current stirred-up times.
Supported by Culture Ireland.
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LIFE ON THE ISLAND
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 11.30-12.30PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
One hundred kilometres north-east
of downtown Auckland, in the outer Hauraki Gulf, facing the full brunt of Paci c weather lies Great Barrier Island. With no reticulated electricity, no ATM machine, no street lights and one pub, this is a wild place with a long history of farming, whaling and shing, and a
resilient population of around 1000. At the heart of this close-knit community are Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson whose tales of birth, death and simple living in between are the subject of the book Island Nurses. The pair reveal what it is to live in a NZ outpost in conversation with Owen Scott.
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WRITERS ON FILM: MARGARET ATWOOD
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 11.45-12.35PM AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM
On the eve of her 70th birthday
in 2010 Canadian star Margaret Atwood travelled to North America and the UK to publicise her dystopian novel The Year of the Flood, with a theatrical version of the novel which combined performance, music and readings. On route, Atwood’s primary concern was to ensure the survival
of song birds. The documentary In The Wake of the Flood, directed by Ron Mann, captures Atwood’s unusual book tour, a kind of travelling medicine show. (Runtime 47 mins.) Supported by Auckland Art Gallery
T o i o T a- m a k i .
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