Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts Full Programme

 

2015 MAY FESTIVAL PROGRAMME LAUNCHES

·        More than 40 exciting events now released, running from 17 – 31 May (Festival weekend at King’s College, London 28 – 31 May)

·        Key events partnering with Women on Boards UK, Tait Memorial Trust, Menzies Centre, British Museum, English PEN, Picturehouse Cinemas, Royal Observatory Greenwich and Literary Death Match

·        Discussion, performance, film and music including themes across nature & the environment, arts & science, travel & adventure, radicalisation and national identity, migration, globalisation, sport and the two World Wars

The Festival presents a string of events spanning performance, film and literature delving into themes and topics such as nature and the environment, women in business, migration, travel and adventure, radicalisation, national identity and the two World Wars.

Festival highlights include Peter Carey, Howard Jacobson, Kate Grenville, DBC Pierre, Ruth Padel, AC Grayling, Steve Toltz, Li Cuinxin, Dylan Horrocks, Vincent O’Sullivan, Omar Musa, Tony Birch and Melissa Lucashenko.

The Festival will join forces with the British Museum, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Women on Boards UK, Picturehouse Cinemas and Literary Death Match to present an array of stellar participants and provocative conversation and performance.

The 2015 Aus & NZ Festival has been established to bring together stories and ideas from a globally-diverse cast of both established and emerging writers, thinkers and creators. The Festival is supported by the governments of both countries and will explore Australian and New Zealand culture and identity in London and beyond. 

                                                              

FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT  

THURSDAY 28 MAY, 7pm-8.30pm

The Festival premieres on Thursday 28th May with a blistering mix of poets, performers, musicians and writers from Australia and New Zealand. Featuring writers Steve Toltz, Melissa Lucashenko and DBC Pierre; Performance poet Selina Tusitala Marsh and Kiwi duo Duncan Sarkies & Joe Blossom performing an extract from their show Demolition of the Century.

·         The full 2015 programme - www.ausnzfestival.com