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Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilised World acclaimed journalist and Rolling Stone mildly gonzo contributor Jeff Goodell, travels to 12 countries and reports from the front lines of global warming. The book follows previous award-winning work on cooling the planet and big coal, and cements his place as one of the world’s leading climate change journalists. He discusses the future and its watery crisis with Dan Salmon. Supported by Plantinum Patrons Julienne Brown & David McLean.
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THE SCIENCE OF LOVE: MICHELE A’COURT
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.30PM LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE
It’s the question everyone eventually asks of a couple: How did you meet? The answer, more often than not elicits a retelling that author and comedian Michele A’Court argues recreates the experience of rst-sight passion. In
her new book How We Met: The Ways Great Love Begins, NZ couples talk about their rst encounters, and scientists describe the ways in which we encode and reframe memories. In this interactive session, stories of “romantic, absurd, serendipitous, convoluted, scandalous, breathtaking” collisions take centre stage.
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ODE TO URSULA
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.30PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
In memory of the extraordinary Ursula Le Guin, writers and fans Karen Joy Fowler and Elizabeth Knox join David Larsen to share stories of their rst encounters with her work and explore the legacy of the writer David Mitchell describes as a “crafter of erce, focused, fertile dreams”.
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CELLULOID STORIES
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.30PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
In the early 1990s the New Zealand Film Archive asked esteemed historian Christopher Pugsley to catalogue New Zealand’s earliest lm. Pugsley’s book The Camera
in the Crowd: Filming New Zealand
in Peace and War 1895-1920 is the result of that treasure hunt and sets the scene for this illustrated talk complete with archival clips and stills documenting our early love affair with cinematography.
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FREE EVENT
FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION
DISAPPEARANCES
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.30PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Absent, lost, removed or on the run,
our ctions are full of stories of the missing. Chilean novelist Carlos Franz joins New Zealand novelist Charlotte Grimshaw and Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlisted novelist Kirsten McDougall and shortlisted poet Elizabeth Smither, in ten
minute readings about disappearance. Introduced by Christine O’Brien.
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WE MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.15PM 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
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