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114 FREE EVENT
GREAT READS
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-4.00PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Two of our international guests share their thoughts with Tom Moody on the books that are crying out to be read, recent and classic, and why. Join Scottish literary editor Rosemary Goring and Kenyan master Ngu~g~ı wa Thiong’o to get your outside-of- Festival reading list for the year.
115 SPECIAL CONCERT EVENT
ALEX ROSS & STROMA
some of the most beautiful and intriguing compositions of the
last 100 years. Presented by Chamber Music New Zealand in association with Auckland Writers Festival. This concert will be audio described for patrons
with low vision. For details please visit chambermusic.co.nz/access
Adult $35-$85 (A, B, C Reserve), Students $10. AWF Patrons eligible for 20% discount on standard reserve rate selected.
116 GENERAL EVENT
DRIVING TO TREBLINKA: DIANA WICHTEL
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 4.30-5.30PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Ockham New Zealand Book Award shortlisted Driving to Treblinka is
the personal and profound story of journalist Diana Wichtel’s search for her lost father Ben, a Holocaust survivor, who was to follow his wife and children to NZ from Canada
in 1964, but never arrived. In the course of Wichtel’s quest she scours the archives, travels the world, and unearths the story of her father and his Warsaw family, and their fate at the hands of the Nazis. The NZ Listener feature writer has carved a career out of deftly pro ling others as well as critiquing television; she now turns her gaze on herself and those closest to her. She speaks with Jeremy Hansen.
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THE HUMANITIES: A.C. GRAYLING
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 4.30-5.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Big thinking philosopher A.C. Grayling has ranged widely in his books to date, among them: Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggle for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West; Liberty in the Age of Terror; The God Argument; and The Age of Genius and Democracy and Its Crisis. He is the founder of the private New College
of the Humanities in London, an inveterate traveller and compelling public speaker. With Hannah August he discusses the evolution and importance of education, humanism and the humanities, all of which have informed his writing over the last
30 years.
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 4.00-6.15PM GREAT HALL, AUCKLAND TOWN HALL
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross – author of The Rest Is Noise – shares the concert stage with mezzo-soprano Bianca Andrew and Aotearoa’s pre-eminent modern ensemble STROMA, to present a companion soundtrack to Ross’s book, featuring
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