Thanks to all those who came to our
Autumn Season in association with the Auckland Writers Festival. What a
great week it was, with memorable appearances from Helen Macdonald,
Nick Davies, Steve Braunias, David Walliams, Xinran and David Mitchell.
Thanks too, to our troop of volunteers
for working so hard, especially at the David Walliams session where the
signing queue was 500-strong and went for an hour and a
half. We’ll post some pictures and review and preview links on our
Facebook page this
week, so keep an eye out.
Now that
you’ve got a taste for getting out and hearing authors speak, don’t
miss these two stunning events presented by our talented
partners in the coming week.
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The Royal
Society New Zealand and the Auckland Writers Festival present:
Invisiblity: A Cultural History
Philip Ball
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Philip Ball enthralled
audiences at the Auckland Writers Festival and he is now coming to
Christchurch to present a lecture on a fascinating topic that crosses
the science and art & culture divide.
Scientists have today worked out how to manipulate the path of light
rays so as to render objects invisible, but the stories that we have
told about invisibility are not stories of a technical capability but
of power, desire, concealment, morality and corruption. From a
history of invisibility that encompasses Plato, magic, spiritualism
and Victorian physics, H. G. Wells, cinematography and the emerging
new science of metamaterials, ideas of invisibility are, like all
ideas rooted in legend, ultimately parables about our own hopes and
fears.
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Friday 22 May, 6pm
Charles
Luney Auditorium, St Margaret’s College
12
Winchester Street, Buy tickets here
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Bookenz and
Plains FM present:
Stuff I Forgot to Tell my Daughter
Michele
A’Court
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Liberated
from the daily minutiae when her daughter left home, Michele A'Court suddenly
found the time she'd never had as a parent, so she began to make a list
of things she should have told her daughter. The list became a hit
comedy show and the list kept getting longer. So now it has become a
book – a funny, wise, honest and maybe even a useful book.
Don’t miss seeing Michele live in what is sure to be a warm and
hilarious evening.
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7.30pm, Tuesday 26 May
The Atrium,
Christchurch Netball Centre
455 Hagley
Avenue, Buy tickets here
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