MESSAGE FROM IAN CONRICH IN LONDON

CENTRE FOR NEW ZEALAND STUDIES,

BIRBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

Please find below details for the next 4 sessions at the Centre
for New Zealand Studies, with the first of these special dates this evening.
All sessions are free and no prior booking required. Please note the slight
date change for the event with Ian Wedde. Any enquiries to Ian Conrich
ian@ianconrich.co.uk

Seminar 20
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Centre for New Zealand Studies, Rm. 330, North Block, Senate House,
Malet St., London WC1
6.30-8.00

Maori Culture and the Influence of Tipuna (Ancestors):
Whakapapa, Mythology, and Music

Ariana Tikao and Ross Calman (both University of Canterbury), discuss Maori
music and Maori mythologies and the ancestral importance within their work.
Ariana is the CNZS Musician in Residence; Ross is the author of The Treaty
of Waitangi (2003), and The New Zealand Wars (2004), and co-author of the
Reed Essential Maori Dictionary (1999), the Reed Maori Picture Dictionary
(2001), and the Reed Book of Maori Mythology (2004).

Seminar 21
Thursday 3 April 2008
Lecture Theatre B04, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1
6.30-8.30

Screening of
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey
(1988, Vincent Ward, 90 mins)

To be preceded by
Dirty Creature (1995, Grant Campbell, 11 mins)

Seminar 22
Thursday 10 April 2008
Keynes Library, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1
6.30-8.30

Special performance by acclaimed composer
Anthony Ritchie

Details to follow, but Anthony will be discussing and playing some of his
compositions. His compositions number more than 100, and include symphonies,
operas, concertos, choral works, chamber music and solo works. His
compositions have been performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and
the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

Session 23
Thursday 17 April 2008
Centre for New Zealand Studies, Rm. 330, North Block, Senate House,
Malet St., London WC1
6.30-8.00

Look Out! Viewing a Pure Land
Special guest speaker
Ian Wedde

Poet, short story writer, novelist, curator, critic, and editor. The author
of many books including Tales of Gotham City (1984), Georgican (1984),
Symmes Hole (1986), Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems (1987), Survival
Arts (1988), Tendering (1988), and The Commonplace Odes (2001).

Ian will be reading from his recent novel The Viewing Platform (2006) and
his collection of poetry Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty (2005). Copies
of these books will be available at a book signing afterwards.