The 20th Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki – The Programme is announced
Happy birthday!
From 12 to 17 May, will deliver to Tāmaki Makaurau:
- 41 international literature luminaries
- 222 New Zealand writers, panellists, chairs, hosts and thinkers
- Six sensational days of talks, panel discussions and events
- Discussions that traverse the environment, gender politics, conformity, religious faith, international diplomacy, mental health, penal reform, indigenous rights, terrorism, whānau and technology among many other pressing and pertinent issues of our time
- Free events
- A vibrant family programme
- Documentary screenings, schools’ events, poetry, perfume, music, mash-ups, tattoos, queer objects, theatre, protests, ghosts, eye charts, typewriters, dance and more in a massive Festival week.
The full programme is on writersfestival.co.nz, but here are some highlights.
- Deafblind lawyer Haben Girma
- East West Street’s Philippe Sands QC
- UAE Assistant Minister Omar Saif Ghobash
- Three Women’s Lisa Taddeo
- Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong (via SKYPE)
- Counter-terrorism consultant Julia Ebner
- Ex-White House Nudge co- author Cass Sunstein
- Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani
- New Zealand-born Beijing correspondent Anna Fifield
- Alan Duff In Conversation With My Country
- Poet laureates Simon Armitage, Jenny Bornholdt and Selina Tusitala Marsh
- Mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer and public scientist Tim Flannery
- Veteran travel writer and one of the 50 greatest post-war British writers Colin Thubron
- Moana Jackson on decolonisation
- A tribute to K’ Rd
- A Māori word a day with Hēmi Kelly
…and so much more!
Tickets will be on sale via Ticketmaster from 9:00am this Friday 13 March.
