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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!