Want something fun and free on Saturdays this month? You can Get Crafty from 11am to 12pm at Central Library Peterborough. This week's session on 3 September is weaving with paper fish and using the app quiver to bring our fishy pictures to life. On 10 September, we will be making Picasso faces. See all…
My WORD – Anne on the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival
Ever since WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival ended on Sunday I've felt rather sad and a little lost. When I've been to other literature festivals I've been enthused, happy and have absolutely gorged myself on as many sessions as possible. Then they ended and that was that. WORD was different to that and also…
Sister Cities/First Nations – WORD Christchurch
We all consider ourselves good people, so it can be confronting to realise that we're unwittingly contributing to oppression. For peace of mind it can seem easier to ignore the evidence rather than engage in change, thinking if we cover our eyes then it isn't there, it's all the past, it doesn't affect me. Or…
How are we doing, Christchurch? – WORD Christchurch
For a session dedicated to an honest discussion of how Christchurch people are coping post-quakes 'How are we doing, Christchurch?' had a lot of laughs in it. Mind you, there's a dry sort of humour that I've grown to associate with Christchurch people and the quakes. Jokes in the midst of loss and grief, of…
Tales from the Ice – WORD Christchurch
With the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival winding down, this was an event to cool our heels on. Tales From the Ice was brought to us by Dr Rebecca Priestley (VUW NZ) - Dispatches from Continent Seven; Matt Vance (NZ expedition leader) - Ocean Notorious; Alok Jha (ITV science corresponder) - The Water Book and chaired by Simon Wilson…
Tickled Fiction – WORD Christchurch
Can Kiwi writers do comedy? New Zealand writers are repeatedly told that their work is too dark, too serious. Is this true? Three local writers got together at this event to tickle this topic. Here's what emerged: Damien Wilkins Damien read from his novel Dad Art - in his words 'a mid-life crisis book about a…
WORD Up to Flying Nun – WORD Christchurch
The WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival was an absolute blast. The highlight for me was a celebration of In Love With These Times - My Life With Flying Nun by Roger Shepherd, at Blue Smoke in the Tannery. It's been a while since I had to queue to get into a gig! Playing to a…
Reimagining Journalism – WORD Christchurch
Relentless and unstoppable digital forces have changed the flows of information in recent years. And there's no going back. There's a multiplicity of media sources out are all vying for our precious time: pushing hard news and hard bodies at us through every possible platform. Arguably, no other sector of the economy has been rattled…
Ask A Mortician: Caitlin Doughty – WORD Christchurch
If Caitlin Doughty had her way, we'd all be dealing with death very differently. Mortician and author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes she believes we have become too distanced from caring for our dead. Less than 100 years ago, that was what people did, they cared for their own dead. A sold-out Concert Hall…
The Right to be Cold – WORD Christchurch
As a fellow introvert I find Sheila Watt-Cloutier incredible, going from interpreter/nurse at the Ungava Hospital to International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, among other things. Here's someone who won't need Tara Moss's book Speaking Out as she has already been speaking out for decades via various platforms, successfully raising awareness of Inuit and…
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