The Same Same but
Different writers festival offers something for everyone when it returns for
the third time on 9-10 February 2018 at AUT’s central city campus.
The festival
celebrates Aotearoa New Zealand’s LGBTQI+ writing talent as part of Auckland
Pride 2018.
The two-day February programme highlights
the breadth of LGBTQI+ writing talent including New Zealand’s brightest young
talent such as Cole Meyers and Courtney Sina Meredith to 88- year old theatre
writer Renée. This year’s international guest is Australian trans man Quinn
Eades, an acclaimed academic, author and poet.
The festival opens
on Friday evening, 9 February with the gala session ‘Great Moments’. The
line-up of festival founder Peter Wells, Hera Lindsay Bird, Marilyn Waring,
Chris Tse, Anton Blank and Mani Bruce Mitchell will pitch their lively,
controversial and intense stories of great moments.
Sessions on
Saturday 10 February range from Pasifika writers, theatre writers (including Snapchat-dude
Tom Sainsbury and Madeline Sami), an intersex documentary discussion to an
academic panel themed ‘queering the academy’.
In the closing gala
on Saturday evening, ‘It Gets Better’ with Jo Drayton, Courtney Sina Meredith,
Cole Meyers, Sam Orchard and Gina Cole, will tell stories of the winding roads
we walk to be ourselves.
The festival also includes two free
events, the ‘Poetry Speakeasy’ at Ley’s Institute Library Ponsonby on Wednesday
7 February, and a ‘Queer Zine Workshop’ at the Auckland Central
Library on Friday 9 February.
he festival is open to everyone. Programmes
are available at The Women’s Bookshop, Unity Books and some Auckland libraries.
Tickets for individual sessions or a full festival pass are available now at
iTicket.www.iticket.co.nz/go-to/same-same-but-different-lgbtqi-writers-festival.
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