NZSA Auckland Branch
Friday 3 June
(meet from 5pm, meeting starts 6.15pm)
The Coffee Club, 42 High Street, Auckland CBD

Bridget Hackshaw, winner of the Crystal Arts Trust Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction (The Judith Binney Prize), and Rosetta Allan, co-founder of the Crystal Arts Trust, will be in conversation about the fascinating experience of founding an arts trust and winning a prize with your first book.

Many of us like to support fellow authors but Rosetta Allan has gone beyond attending book launches and posting on Facebook by starting an entire trust to fund fellow authors and artists. How and why? Come and find out!

Bridget Hackshaw won this year’s Judith Binney Prize for a best first work of Illustrated Non-Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book, The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble (published by Massey University Press).The daughter of James Hackshaw before her father’s death in 1999, she talked with him about this body of work and has researched and photographed the buildings and artworks resulting from his collaboration with Colin McCahon and Paul Dibble. She is the producer of a film directed by Christopher Dudman about the Hackshaw, McCahon and Dibble collaboration.

Rosetta Allan is an award-winning author of poetry and prose. At the end of 2021 she and her husband James formed the Crystal Arts Trust – an independent registered charitable trust dedicated to cultural philanthropy. The Trust sponsors the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Best First Book Awards.

Meeting Location

Our meetings are back in person and will be held in The Coffee Club, 42 High Street, Auckland CBD (on the edge of Freyberg Square). We don’t require a koha but instead encourage everyone to buy drink and food which suits your budget and dietary requirements. Please support their business as they are allowing us to use the space for no cost.
Parking is available just up the road in the Victoria St carpark and The Coffee Club is an easy walk from the train or ferry.
Attend the National AGM

Expertise Needed

The committee has received many requests to continue offering Zoom. Is there anyone who can take responsibility for hybrid meeting? This would require someone who has the equipment, data, and knowledge to Zoom the meeting from the Coffee Club. Email us if that’s you!

Please Note:

The Auckland Branch would like to keep our members as safe as possible. Please wear a mask except when you are eating and drinking as per guidelines https://www.business.govt.nz/covid-19/face-coverings-requirements/

The Auckland Branch works to create meetings which are welcoming. We aim to be a great introduction to NZSA for new members as well as a place of community. For this reason:

• the business part of the meeting is kept brief and finer points about the running of the branch are managed at committee level. No new business is added to the agenda on the night.
• all members are expected to act in a professional, appropriate manner.

Thank you from all members.