The 7th Festival kicks off on the 23rd May
32 authors - 14 events over 10 days, geographically spread from Pahiatua to
Martinborough.
Literature, debate, music , food, history, biography, children’s,
poetry, farming, business - the most diverse Yarns Festival yet.
Highlights include:
Cognitive psychologist Michael Corballis, who explains what we are
really doing , when we daydream. He will also be featuring in the Yarns Debate.
Experience the “art of debate” with some of New Zealand’s best
debaters in action.
In this 100 anniversary year of WWI there will be “War Yarns in the
Barn”.
Sit on hay bales and sip hot chocolate listening to historians tell
anecdotal yarns.
Celebrate the life and music of Dave McArtney of Hello Sailor at
Aratoi's Wesley Wing.
Hear the inside story of our history with stories as diverse as Norman
Kirk, Masterton’s 1942 earthquake, and the battles to built Fonterra.
NZ entrepreneur of the year and ski champion Sam Hazledine talks small
business tactics. Ex-model, violinist and author Christine Leunens talks facts
v fiction of life at Hedley’s Bookshop
Enjoy a glass of wine in front of the fire at Gladstone Vineyard and
let poets warm your senses, or armchair travel and cook with Masterchef’s Aaron
Brunet and Martinborough’s Jo Crabb.
It is also a family-friendly festival featuring a pop-up book talk at
the Masterton Public Library.
Tickets on sale at Hedley’s Bookshop www.hedleysbooks.co.nz
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