What you really want from a session called "You write funny!" is for there to be writers and for them to be humorous. It's pretty much right there in the title. You're expecting to laugh a bit. And certainly this Friday night session at WORD Christcchurch Festival 2018 MCed by the affable Ray Shipley filled…
Juno Dawson: Gender Games: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
Much like Juno Dawson's fiction, this talk covered a wide range of topics, from her latest novel Clean — a realistic look at heroin addiction and withdrawal through the lens of its socialite heroine, Lexi Volkov — to her shared love of the Spice Girls with interviewer and fellow Young Adult author Karen Healey, to…
Helen Clark: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
It was quite a coup for the festival organisers securing a busy woman like Helen Clark to fill in last-minute for a guest withdrawal. But like the other authors, Helen had a book to promote so I guess it's tit-for-tat. For a woman of 68, Helen shows no signs of retiring and writing her memoirs…
“We’ve all been through a lot” Chessie and Chris Henry: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
I doubt there are many literary - or related - events where you have the author, one of their subjects and an audience made up of people who have been through many of the events described, to a greater or lesser extent, in the place where one of the events took place. This was the…
Opium licking, self-mummification, and whistling trees: Jonathan Drori: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
Jonathan Drori loves trees. So much so that he has spent a career working with them as a documentary film maker at the BBC, and on the boards of Kew Gardens in London, and the Eden Project in Cornwall. On a very wet afternoon yesterday in a full auditorium at The Piano for WORD Christchurch…
Charlotte Grimshaw: I and I and existentialism: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
Blurring the lines between fact and fiction is a way of life for Charlotte Grimshaw. Growing up in father C.K. Stead's orbit, Charlotte's world was one where every facet of life could be fictionalised. Charlotte spoke at WORD Christchurch Festival 2018 with Kate de Goldi about her latest novel, Mazarine, in which she explores the…
Anne Salmond – Tears of Rangi: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
Dame Anne Salmond: anthropologist, professor, environmentalist, writer, eloquent speaker, and still frequently asked to refute the opinions of the same old ex-politicans giving their ill-informed reckons about te ao Māori and its place in New Zealand. A tiresome task for someone who has spent their lifetime learning as much as possible about tikanga Māori and…
Comfortable in Your Skin: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
Five eminent queer writers and artists gathered on Friday evening to speak on the topic of feeling comfortable in their skin, with personal responses to a personal topic. Georgina Beyer (former politician, agitator for trans rights) I felt wrong in my skin from the get go. It manifested itself at four years of age with…
Curiosities : Paula Morris and Tina Makereti: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
My next adventure was waiting for me at The Piano; a port in a storm after The Hunt for Moby-Dick at the Christchurch Art Gallery. Curiosity is the seed of adventure. For Paula Morris and Tina Makereti it has led to historically sensitive, lyrical works of fiction based on both fact and social myth. Paula (Ngāti Wai) is…
Kā Huru Manu: My names are the treasured cloak which adorns the land: WORD Christchurch Festival 2018
Takerei Norton and Helen Brown along with David Higgins from the cultural mapping team at Ngāi Tahu presented a session on Kā Huru Manu, the Ngāi Tahu digital atlas dedicated to recording and mapping traditional Māori place names and histories in the Ngāi Tahu tribal area. David Higgins set the scene for what would prove…
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