Escape the winter blues, the short days and
long nights for two action-packed days in Tauranga at Queen’s Birthday weekend.
The new Escape! Festival has a focus on
words, whether written, spoken or performed, with a first-class line-up,
including award-winning authors and performers.
Travel writer Peter Riordan will talk about the Middle East and the Indian
sub-continent, chef Jo Crabb has a
second home in a French village and a life of food experiences, photographer Craig Potton will take us to his favourite
remote places both here and in Nepal and India, and beer writer Michael Donaldson will outline the
social history of the “amber nectar” and modern craft brews.
Dame
Fiona Kidman reflects on a lifetime of writing and
her strong-willed female characters, Tim
Wilson discusses his new comic novel “News Pigs”, and military historian Damien Fenton takes us into the mire,
miseries and small miracles of World War 1.
The state of our waterways – the bad and
the good – is the focus for a discussion between Federated Farmers chairman Bruce Wills, economist Rod Oram, cultural advisor Antoine Coffin and conservationist Craig Potton. Chaired by Professor Jacqueline Rowarth of
Waikato University, this event promises to be one of the highlights of Escape!
As well as two workshops – writing from
memory with Fiona Kidman and a cook
school with Jo Crabb – Escape!
includes two performances.
“The
Bookbinder”, which won the Best of the Fringe Festival award in Wellington
this year, will be performed in a bookstore to only 20 people at a time,
weaving shadowplay, paper art and puppetry into theatre for curious children
and adventurous adults.
Film-maker and novelist Duncan Sarkies and musician Sean O’Brien have created a stage
version of Duncan’s latest book, “The
Demolition of the Century”, a humorous and sometimes heartbreaking look at
families, memories and the fragility of the human mind.
- Tickets are on sale at the Baycourt box office in Tauranga, www.ticketek.co.nz
or phone 0800 842 538. Full details of the Escape! programme are
available at www.taurangafestival.co.nz
2 comments:
What a great looking weekend. Allow me to strongly recommend Duncan Sarkies show. Saw it at the Fest in Wellington and it is charming.
Thanks TR, sorry you can't be here this year, maybe next time ...
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