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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 19 at 5.30pm. Earlybird $25; Standard $30; Patrons $20; Students $15.
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MYANMAR TRAGEDY: FRANCIS WADE
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-4.00PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Freelance journalist Francis Wade has worked extensively in South East Asia and contributed to The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Asia Times Online, the Democratic Voice of Burma and The Los Angeles Review of Books. In his riveting book Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim ‘Other’, he reveals the deep ssures that have spurred mass violence and refugee ight. The book has garnered praise from the BBC’s Fergal Keane, who lauded Wade for his “moral courage and intellectual insight”, and author Pankaj Mishra who praised its “historical depth and intellectual acuity”. Wade speaks with Hannah Brown. Supported by Platinum Patrons Dame Rosie & Michael Horton.
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DEAR MURIEL: ALAN TAYLOR
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-4.00PM LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE
The divine Muriel Spark is one of Scotland’s most revered writers, with legions of fans that include such luminaries as Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. On the occasion of the hundred-year anniversary of her death, literary editor and friend Alan Taylor delivers Appointment in Arezzo, an intimate, fond and funny memoir – full of colour and indiscretion – of one of the great novelists of the last century. Taylor, founding editor of
the Scottish Review of Books, reveals his Muriel, in conversation with Michael Williams. Supported by Heartland Bank.
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THE UNKNOWN ANZAC
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-4.00PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
It was a mystery that caught the post-war imagination of thousands around the world. In 1928, a Sydney newspaper reported an unknown
ANZAC lying in a Sydney psychiatric hospital having been found wandering London streets during the war. That man was Stratford-born George McQuay, whose journey traversed rural New Zealand, Gallipoli and the Western Front, desertions and hospitals, and nally a return home. In his engaging new book Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac historian David Hastings follows McQuay’s journey and through it takes us deep inside the Great War and the human mind. He speaks with David Slack.
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CITY STREETS
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-4.00PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Both Pip Adam, in her Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted novel The New Animals, and Dominic Hoey in his longlisted Iceland, use the life and landmarks of the inner city streets of Auckland. Chinese writer Xue Yiwei celebrates the stories of the rising city of Shenzhen in his widely- read collection Shenzheners. They talk of the inspiration of place, and the ways in which location gives vital realism and urgency to their stories, in conversation with Julie Hill.
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