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DRAWN OUT: TOM SCOTT
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-5.00PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Cartoonist Tom Scott needs little introduction to NZ audiences as one of the nest observers of our political landscape. A life member of the
Press Gallery and currently editorial cartoonist for the Dominion Post,
Scott has written television and stage dramas and collaborated with local heroes Edmund Hillary, John Clarke and Murray Ball. His memoir Drawn Out is shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Scott tells his riotous life story, with the aid
of cartoons.
Supported by Heartland Bank.
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CONSIDERING THE WOMEN: CHOMAN HARDI
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-5.00PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
Celebrated poet, teacher and feminist Choman Hardi arrived in Britain in 1993 seeking asylum from Kurdistan.
She attended Oxford, London and
Kent Universities, and was a Research Fellow at Oxford, before returning to her home city of Sulaimani in 2014
to teach English, and to found the region’s groundbreaking Center for Gender and Development Studies.
Her two poetry volumes include Life
for Us, and Considering the Women. She has also written insightfully about
the impact of genocide on women in Iraq. Hardi discusses poetry, geography and women in the Muslim world with Paula Green. Supported by Platinum Bold Patron Theresa Gattung.
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FREE EVENT
THE MICHAEL KING MEMORIAL LECTURE
READY OR NOT: DAMON SALESA
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-5.00PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
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FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION
OUT OF EMPIRE
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-4.50PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Mother England’s in uence, for good and ill, still resonates around the globe. Four writers – 2018 Awards longlisted Michael Belgrave, local debut author Alexandra Tidswell, Singapore’s Sharlene Teo and Kenya’s Ngu~g~ı wa Thiong’o – share readings from their work, introduced by Anne Kennedy.
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THE REST IS NOISE: ALEX ROSS
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 5.30-6.30PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
The cultural critic Alex Ross is most widely celebrated for his 2007 book
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a landmark history of music since 1900. He also has published Listen
to This, a collection of his writings for
The New Yorker, where he has been the music critic since 1996. For the magazine, he covers classical music from the Metropolitan Opera to the downtown avant-garde, and has also written on
In Island Time Damon Salesa argues that while NZ has passively allowed a tacit segregation to take hold between Pakeha and Pasifika, the future of this country is Pacific, whether we are ready or not. Setting a course through the “islands” ofPacificlifeinNZ – O-tara,Tokoroa,
O- amaru and beyond – Salesa envisions
a country becoming “even more Pacific by the hour” and challenges us, in this year’s Michael King Lecture, to embrace our Paci c talent, and nally act like a Paci c Nation.
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