2024 Programmes
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Event 00
Take 3, 5 and 10 Ticket Bundles
Tue, 14 May 20247:27pm - 7:27pm -
Event 01
A Feijoan Lunch
Wed, 15 May 202412:30pm - 2:30pm -
Event 02
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024
Wed, 15 May 20247:00pm - 9:00pm -
Event 03
A Room of One’s Own
Thu, 16 May 20242:00pm - 3:05pm -
Event 04
Festival Gala Night: Choices and Chain Reactions
Thu, 16 May 20247:00pm - 8:30pm -
Event 05
Whakawhetai Gratitude: A Daily Bilingual Journal Session
Fri, 17 May 20249:15am - 9:45am -
Event 06
Word of the Day
Fri, 17 May 202411:00am - 11:45am -
Event 07
Te Reo Kapekape: Māori Wit and Humour
Fri, 17 May 202412:30pm - 1:00pm -
Event 7
WORLDWIDE BOOK CLUB
Fri, 17 May 20243:30pm - 4:00pm -
Event 08
NO STUPID QUESTIONS
Fri, 17 May 20242:00pm - 2:30pm -
Event 09
Worldwide Book Club: Hong Kong
Fri, 17 May 20245:00pm - 5:30pm -
Event 11
Writing Short Stories
Fri, 17 May 20249:00am - 10:30am -
Event 12
Celeste Ng
Fri, 17 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 13
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist’s Life
Fri, 17 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 14
Excommunicated
Fri, 17 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 15
Kua Tū Ake te Reanga Kōhanga Reo The Kōhanga Reo Generation Is Here
Fri, 17 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 16
A Room of One’s Own
Fri, 17 May 202410:00am - 11:05am -
Event 17
What Can I Write About?
Fri, 17 May 202411:00am - 12:30pm -
Event 18
2024 Honoured Writer: Anne Salmond
Fri, 17 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 19
Cancelled: Natalie Haynes: A Very Modern Classicist
Fri, 17 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 20
New Zealand: A Gangster’s Paradise?
Fri, 17 May 202411:30am - 12:30am -
Event 21
The Creative OE
Fri, 17 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 22
Finding Your Narrative Voice
Fri, 17 May 20241:00pm - 2:30pm -
Event 23
Richard Flanagan
Fri, 17 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 24
The Dictionary People
Fri, 17 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 25
Reunited: Jerry Pinto and Pip Adam
Fri, 17 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 26
The Fight for Indigenous Rights
Fri, 17 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 27
A Room of One’s Own
Fri, 17 May 20242:00pm - 3:05pm -
Event 28
Anna Funder
Fri, 17 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 29
Ireland: Small Island, Literary Powerhouse
Fri, 17 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 30
Stories to Save Languages
Fri, 17 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 31
Crime-Writing: Page, Screen and Moving Between
Fri, 17 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 32
Writing Poetry as a Way of Paying Attention to the World
Fri, 17 May 20243:00pm - 4:30pm -
Event 33
Lauren Groff
Fri, 17 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 34
Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager’s Field Guide
Fri, 17 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 35
Writing the New Zealand Man: A New Era
Fri, 17 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 36
Gone by Lunchtime Live!
Fri, 17 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 37
Writing the Child
Fri, 17 May 20245:00pm - 6:30pm -
Event 38
Dan Carter: The Art of Winning
Fri, 17 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 39
Suzanne Heywood: Wavewalker
Fri, 17 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 40
Pacific Non-Fiction Today
Fri, 17 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 41
Sinéad Gleeson and Becky Manawatu
Fri, 17 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 42
STREETSIDE: BRITOMART
Fri, 17 May 20246:00pm - 8:00pm -
Event 43
Dai Henwood: The Life of Dai
Fri, 17 May 20247:00pm - 8:00pm -
Event 44
If Not Now, When? Midlife Realisations and Rebellions
Fri, 17 May 20247:00pm - 8:00pm -
Event 45
Tusiata Avia
Fri, 17 May 20248:30pm - 9:30pm -
Event 46
Peter Frankopan
Fri, 17 May 20248:30pm - 9:45pm -
Event 47
Whakawhetai Gratitude: A Daily Bilingual Journal Session
Sat, 18 May 20249:15am - 9:45am -
Event 48
Word of the Day
Sat, 18 May 202411:00am - 11:30am -
Event 49
Te Reo Kapekape: Māori Wit and Humour
Sat, 18 May 202412:30pm - 1:00pm -
Event 50
No Stupid Questions
Sat, 18 May 20242:00pm - 2:30pm -
Event 51
Worldwide Book Club: Japan
Sat, 18 May 20243:30pm - 4:00pm -
Event 52
Worldwide Book Club: Ireland
Sat, 18 May 20245:00pm - 5:30pm -
Event 53
Your Family, Your Fiction
Sat, 18 May 20249:00am - 10:30am -
Event 54
Trent Dalton
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 55
AI: Good or Bad, it’s Here to Stay
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 56
Te Tiriti 101
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 57
Writing Across Generations
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 58
The Ockham NZ Acorn Prize for Fiction 2024 Winner’s Interview: Emily Perkins on Lioness
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 59
Horror Writing
Sat, 18 May 202411:00am - 12:30pm -
Event 60
The Year the World Votes
Sat, 18 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 61
Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Tales from a Tokyo Cafe
Sat, 18 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 62
Let’s Get Physical: The Importance of Horny Stories
Sat, 18 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 63
Herstory: Bringing Women of the Past to Life
Sat, 18 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 64
He Māori?
Sat, 18 May 202412:00pm - 1:00pm -
Event 65
Writing Sex: Consent is Hot
Sat, 18 May 20241:00pm - 2:30pm -
Event 66
The Story of Art Without Men
Sat, 18 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 67
How to Survive Te Ara ki te Ora
Sat, 18 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 68
Across the River of Meaning
Sat, 18 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 69
Homegrown Frights
Sat, 18 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 70
Catherine Chidgey and K Patrick: Teacher’s Pet
Sat, 18 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 71
Grave New World: Writing Dystopia Today
Sat, 18 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 72
Fantasy & Romantasy Unwrapped
Sat, 18 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 73
Pacific Arts Aotearoa
Sat, 18 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 74
Stinky Poo, Stinky Poo: A Staged Reading of Badjelly the Witch
Sat, 18 May 20242:30pm - 3:15pm -
Event 75
The Art of Theatre Reviewing
Sat, 18 May 20243:00pm - 4:30pm -
Event 76
Still Wanted: A Room of One’s Own
Sat, 18 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 77
Our Land in Colour
Sat, 18 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 78
The Science Behind Science Fiction
Sat, 18 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 79
A Bookish Family Quiz
Sat, 18 May 20244:30pm - 5:30pm -
Event 80
Make Better Approaches to Editing
Sat, 18 May 20245:00pm - 6:30pm -
Event 81
A Waiata in an Hour He Waiata i te Hāora
Sat, 18 May 20245:15pm - 6:15pm -
Event 82
The 2023 Booker Prize Winner: Paul Lynch
Sat, 18 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 83
Samantha Shannon
Sat, 18 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 84
Leslie Jamison
Sat, 18 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 85
Why Am I Like This?
Sat, 18 May 20246:00pm - 7:00pm -
Event 86
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Sat, 18 May 20247:00pm - 8:00pm -
Event 87
Our Culture, Our Climate – Voices from Across the Pacific
Sat, 18 May 20247:00pm - 8:00pm -
Event 88
Communal Living
Sat, 18 May 20247:00pm - 8:00pm -
Event 89
The Singapore Lit Salon
Sat, 18 May 20248:30pm - 9:30pm -
Event 90
The Art of the Short Story
Sat, 18 May 20248:30pm - 9:30pm -
Event 91
Sam Neill
Sat, 18 May 20248:30pm - 9:45pm -
Event 92
Whakawhetai Gratitude: A Daily Bilingual Journal Session
Sun, 19 May 20249:15am - 9:45am -
Event 93
Worldwide Book Club
Sun, 19 May 202411:00am - 11:30am -
Event 94
Te Reo Kapekape: Māori Wit and Humour
Sun, 19 May 202412:30pm - 1:00pm -
Event 95
Worldwide Book Club: Recommendations from Latin America
Sun, 19 May 20242:00pm - 2:30pm -
Event 96
No Stupid Questions
Sun, 19 May 20243:30pm - 4:00pm -
Event 97
The Uncanny and The Unruly: Writing From Personal Archives
Sun, 19 May 20249:00am - 10:30am -
Event 98
Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 99
Performing at Your Peak: From the Sports Field to the Writing Desk
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 100
The Crewe Murders
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 101
Kia Whakatōmuri Te Haere Whakamua I Walk Backwards Into The Future With My Eyes On The Past
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 11:00am -
Event 102
A Room of One’s Own
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 11:05am -
Event 103
Writing From Life: The Personal Essay
Sun, 19 May 202411:00am - 12:30pm -
Event 104
Shashi Tharoor
Sun, 19 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 105
Pulp Friction: The Rise of Book Bans
Sun, 19 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 106
Leadership in High-Pressure Careers
Sun, 19 May 202411:30am - 12:30am -
Event 107
The Philosophy of Care
Sun, 19 May 202411:30am - 12:30pm -
Event 108
He Māori?
Sun, 19 May 202412:00pm - 1:00pm -
Event 109
Performing Your Poetry
Sun, 19 May 20241:00pm - 2:30pm -
Event 110
Janet Frame at 100
Sun, 19 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 111
The Craft of Making People Care
Sun, 19 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 112
The Madness of Grief
Sun, 19 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 113
Prison Labour and the Making of Aotearoa New Zealand
Sun, 19 May 20241:00pm - 2:00pm -
Event 114
Abraham Verghese
Sun, 19 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 115
Damon Salesa: An Indigenous Ocean
Sun, 19 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 116
Stinky Poo, Stinky Poo: A Staged Reading of Badjelly the Witch
Sun, 19 May 20242:30pm - 3:15pm -
Event 117
We Can Be on Other Planets: Māori Speculative Fiction
Sun, 19 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 118
Beef: Writing Asian Female Rage
Sun, 19 May 20242:30pm - 3:30pm -
Event 119
Writing Dialogue That Doesn’t Suck
Sun, 19 May 20243:00pm - 4:30pm -
Event 120
The Long View
Sun, 19 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 121
The Day I Was Born – Te Rā i Whānau ai Ahau
Sun, 19 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 122
Rugby League in New Zealand
Sun, 19 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 123
Otherhood
Sun, 19 May 20244:00pm - 5:00pm -
Event 124
Leïla Slimani - Cancelled
Sun, 19 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 124
Jane Campion: A Creative Life
Sun, 19 May 20245:30pm - 6:30pm -
Event 125
Ann Patchett with Meg Mason
Sun, 19 May 20247:00pm - 8:15pm -
Event 126
Bursting with the Razzle: A Dazzlehands Disco
Sat, 18 May 202410:45am - 11:15am -
Event 128
Found Poem Badges
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 12:00pm -
Event 129
Unleash Your Inner Superhero!
Sun, 19 May 202410:45am - 11:15am -
Event 130
Action Stations
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 1:00pm -
Event 131
My First Words About Tikanga Māori
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 10:30am -
Event 132
Don’t Scare the Dentist!
Sun, 19 May 202410:30am - 12:00pm -
Event 133
Bursting with the Razzle: A Dazzlehands Disco
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 10:30am -
Event 134
Kia Piki te Ora!
Sun, 19 May 202412:15pm - 1:00pm -
Event 135
Make a Mean Zine
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 4:00pm -
Event 136
Dreaming of Africa
Sat, 18 May 202411:30am - 12:00pm -
Event 137
Take the Mic
Sat, 18 May 202412:15pm - 12:45pm -
Event 138
Illustrator Showdown
Sat, 18 May 20241:30pm - 2:00pm -
Event 139
Dance like the Atua
Sat, 18 May 20242:15pm - 2:45pm -
Event 140
Action Stations
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 4:00pm -
Event 141
Tapa Navigators
Sat, 18 May 20243:00pm - 4:30pm -
Event 142
Pipi and Pou and the Forgotten Stream: A Walking Adventure
Sat, 18 May 202410:00am - 4:00pm -
Event 142
Pipi and Pou and the Forgotten Stream: A Walking Adventure
Sun, 19 May 202410:00am - 4:00pm
