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pop music, literature, history, and gay life. In 2008 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Ross speaks with Fergus Barrowman. Presented in partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand.
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LAB GIRL: HOPE JAHREN
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 5.30-6.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Heralded as the Jane Goodall of botany in Science magazine, Hope Jahren
is the recipient of three Fulbright scholarships, was named one of TIME’s 100 most in uential people in 2016, and is the Wilson Professor at the University of Oslo's Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics. Her memoir Lab Girl – a National Book Critics Circle Award winner – is a visceral, funny tale of work and love, her relationship with her scientist father Bill, their adventurous global eld trips, the complexities of the natural world, and sexism in and beyond the laboratory. She speaks with Siouxsie Wiles. Supported by Te Pu-naha Matatini.
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AFLAME: DUNN & FENSTER
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 5.30-6.30PM UPPER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE
Lately there has been a surge in creative non- ction, a form in which the writer wraps a discursive text
on matters of life and art around
the process of writing itself. One compelling exponent of the form is South-African born Gigi Fenster, who in Feverish straddles history, family, and things medical – how to induce a fever, for instance. Another is art critic Megan Dunn, who in Tinderbox sets out to rewrite Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which
book paper burns) from a feminist perspective, while working in a doomed bookshop. Fenster and Dunn explore the heat and light in their writing with Carole Beu.
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WE MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 5.30-6.15PM HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
“I think therefore I am...often
wrong.” In a potent solo performance, 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 18 at 5.30pm and May 20 at 2.00pm. Earlybird $25; Standard $30; Patrons $20; Students $15.
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