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FREE EVEnT SpEAkERS’ CORnER
SpEAkInG TRuTH TO pOWER
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 12.00-12.30pM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CEnTRE
Following the heated debates around Eleanor Catton’s recent comments on power and culture, writer Philip Temple puts the case for why writers should lead the way in public discourse. 20 minutes at the podium; 10 minutes of audience challenge.
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FREE EVEnT SpEAkERS’ CORnER
ADJuST OR pERISH
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 1.00-1.30pM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CEnTRE
Editor of Living In A Warmer World, Jim Salinger argues that climate change science is indisputable
and that we must urgently seek to understand what it will mean for all our futures: 20 minutes at the podium; 10 minutes of audience challenge.
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WHALE YEARS: GREG O’BRIEn
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 1.15-2.15pM AuCkLAnD ART GALLERY AuDITORIuM
Incorporating poems from his latest collection Whale Years, Greg O’Brien melds art works, photographs and moving images to trace an imaginative encounter with the Pacific Ocean, which began with a voyage on HMNZS Otago to Raoul Island in 2011. Supported by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tämaki.
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In THE LIGHT OF WHAT WE knOW: zIA HAIDER RAHMAn
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 1.30-2.30pM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CEnTRE
Louise Adler is a fan, as are Joyce Carol Oates and James Wood. Last year, former human rights lawyer
Zia Haider Rahman produced his novel In the Light of What We Know, a personal and political exploration of the world post-9/11. The Observer’s Alex Preston calls it “an extraordinary meditation on the limits and uses of human knowledge, a heartbreaking love
story and a gripping account of one man’s psychological disintegration”. Rahman is in conversation with Metro editor Simon Wilson. Supported by Platinum Patrons Erika & Robin Congreve.
44 MORRIS GLEITzMAn
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 1.30-2.30pM LOWER nzI ROOM, AOTEA CEnTRE
Spend an hour in the company of wonderful children’s writer Morris Gleitzman talking about and reading from a selection of his much-loved books for 8-12 year olds including Once, Then, Now, After, Pizza Cake, Extra Time and Loyal Creatures. Come prepared to be delighted and entertained by one of the smartest, funniest writers around.
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DESIGnInG AuCkLAnD
SATuRDAY MAY 16 – 1.30-2.30pM uppER nzI ROOM, AOTEA CEnTRE
Housing, transport and land use are topics du jour in Auckland, a city with a severe case of arrested development. Join former Auckland Council urban designer Sue Evans, urban designer Garth Falconer, and architectural photographer and
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