Thursday, August 25, 2016

THE FESTIVAL HAS STARTED!


THE FESTIVAL HAS STARTED!
Last night we had young poets at the Xchange and launched C1's amazing pop up book Let's Take a Walk. Today we welcome hundreds of students to our Inspiring Writers schools day, and really kick things off with the New Regent St Pop-Up Festival, Can Books Change the World* and PechaKucha Night.
See you there!
 
 
SHIFTING POINTS OF VIEW
A number of sessions in the festival this year have been designed to provoke discussion and maybe even change a few minds. They are also the stories behind the news headlines. Here are just a few
 
EMBRACING DEATH

Using the case of Lecretia Seales as a starting point, Caitlin Doughty, Ruth McManus and Seales’ widower Matt Vickers discuss euthanasia and society’s attitudes to death with Cate Brett. More
 
READ:  an extract from Matt Vickers’ book Lecretia’s Choice
READ: Saturday's article in The Press about the forthcoming parliamentary inquiry into euthanasia involving Matt Vickers.
 
 
BUSTED: FEMINISM AND POP CULTURE
How far has feminism come? Join editor of New York feminist magazine BUST, Debbie Stoller, in conversation with Charlotte Graham. More
 
LISTEN: to a brilliant interview with Debbie by Kim Hill
READ: Debbie Stoller interviews in The Spinoff: “Society doesn’t let women live past 40.”
 
 
REIMAGING JOURNALISM
Contributors from Freerange Press’s latest release, Don’t Dream It’s Over: Reimagining Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, discuss the state of the media today and how journalism might flourish again. More
 
LISTEN: to a very forthright and honest interview with Paula Penfold, contributor to Don’t Dream It’s Over and WORD panellist on Sunday Mornings with Wallace Chapman.
 
 
TRUE CRIME
Why do true crime stories hold so much fascination for readers and viewers? Jarrod Gilbert talks to Steve Braunias and Tim McKinnel, the investigator behind the Teina Pora case, about false confessions, and the nature and characteristics of homicide.More
 
READ & WATCH: The Teina Pora/Malcolm Rewa case is back in the news
 
WORK/SEX
A timely and important discussion in which three writers, Kate Holden, Jodi Sh. Doff and Leigh Hopkinson talk about their experiences working in the sex industry. More
 
READ: Two of our panellists weigh in on the Chiefs' stripper scandal
 
 
*Unfortunately due to flight delays Nadia Hashimi will not be appearing on Can Books Change the World? However she will be appearing on Sunday at 3.30pm as per the programme.
Chris Tse has had to cancel due to ill health. We wish him a speedy recovery.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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