Saturday, August 29, 2015

Word Christchurch - A SUNDAY FULL OF IDEAS


A SUNDAY FULL OF IDEAS
The weather is looking dreary so cosy up inside and feed your mind this weekend.


VENUE: TVNZ Festival Club, Market Square, the Arts Centre
TICKETS: $20 Door sales available or book at ticketek.co.nz 
FOOD AND DRINK:  available at the venue
BOOK SALES:  and author signings at the venue


10.00AM

ON BELONGING

Patrica Grace and Paula Morris in conversation

Treasured New Zealand writer Patricia Grace discusses Chappy, her first novel in a decade, with Paula Morris, whose On Coming Home explores similar themes of nostalgia, memory and belonging.

More here


12PM

IMAGINARY CITIES
Fiona Farrell, Anna Smaill, Hamish Clayton, Hugh Nicholson, chaired by Lara Strongman.

Taking the Christchurch blueprint as a starting point, this panel will look at ways in which we imagine cities, either in fiction, in history, or in contemporary life; whether as utopias or dystopias, cities imagined or reimagined.
In association with Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu


More here


2PM

THE STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY
Margaret Wilson

In the era of public choice and free markets, does the New Zealand state still have the best interests of its individual citizens at heart? With the TPPA finally being debated in the media, this timely and important discussion is not to be missed.
Introduced by Bronwyn Hayward.

More here


4PM

ON NORTH KOREA: INVENTING THE TRUTH

Suki Kim is the only writer to ever go undercover into North Korea to write a book from the inside. Get a glimpse inside the mysterious closed-off world of a country where a military dictatorship exploits the myth of a Great Leader to its own citizens, who are “imprisoned in a gulag posing as a nation”.
Chaired by Paula Morris.


More here

Watch Suki Kim's TED talk, which has had over 1.5 million views. 


 


6PM

ON PERVERSION

Jesse Bering, who has appeared recently on American talk shows such as Chelsea Lately and Conan, argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another.

WARNING: Adult themes. Obviously.

More here


SEE YOU SUNDAY!



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