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FREE EVEnT SpEAkERS’ CORnER
SHAMEFuL pOVERTY
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 11.00-11.30AM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CEnTRE
Academic Jonathan Boston, co-author of Child Poverty in New Zealand, contends that child poverty in this country is significant, damaging and unacceptable and calls for urgent action: 20 minutes at the podium,
10 minutes of audience challenge.
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pROFESSOR pEnGuIn: LLOYD SpEnCER DAVIS
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 11.45-12.45pM AuCkLAnD ART GALLERY AuDITORIuM
Professor Penguin is Lloyd Spencer Davis’ homage to the birds who wear tuxedoes, can’t fly, and split their time between the land and the ocean. Davis journeys from Antarctica to the Galapagos, Argentina to New Zealand, to reveal the soon-to-be- not-so-secret life of the fascinating penguin. Supported by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tämaki.
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BOnD AnD BEYOnD
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 12.00-1.00pM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CEnTRE
Anthony Horowitz mines the world of spooks and gumshoes to craft great books. Creator of The Diamond Brothers, Alex Rider and The Power of Five (aka The Gatekeepers) series for younger readers, and the author of Conan Doyle estate-approved novels The House of Silk and Moriarty for grown-ups, he also writes extensively for television including for cosies Poirot, Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. His latest commission from the Ian Fleming Estate, is a new James Bond novel. A session for all the thrill-seeking family, chaired
by Michael Williams.
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SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 12.00-1.00pM LOWER nzI ROOM, AOTEA CEnTRE
The international award-winning
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
is Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir detailing his dogged search to recover the story of his family lost to the Holocaust; debut writer Helena Wisniewska Brow’s Give Us This
Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile
explores the wartime deportation of her father, one of 732 Polish children offered refuge in New Zealand in 1944. Peter Wells speaks with Mendelsohn and Brow about loss, discovery and heartfelt family matters.
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SInGApORE: A WRITER’S pERSpECTIVE
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 12.00-1.00pM uppER nzI ROOM, AOTEA CEnTRE
For some of us the Switzerland of the South Seas is not much more than a fleeting stopover for shopping, maybe even a cocktail at Raffles. But, for Edwin Thumboo, Singapore has been home for more than eighty years, and the place where he has forged a career as a writer, academic and the country’s unofficial poet laureate. Join him in conversation with Paula Green as he shares insights into this still largely undiscovered nation. Supported by Asia New Zealand Foundation.
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