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DeRay Mckesson: The Other Side of Freedom
This is an unmissable opportunity to hear from one of the world’s leading civil rights activists in conversation with Action Station’s Laura O’Connell Rapira. In his book, On the Other Side of Freedom, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson gives an extraordinary, personal insight into the power of the imagination and what it takes to […]
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Natalie Haynes presents Troy Story
BBC presenter, writer and comedian Natalie Haynes takes on the Trojan War. Based on her latest novel, A Thousand Ships, Natalie’s hour of ‘Troy Story’ steers you through the stories of the women at the heart of the greatest conflict in ancient literature. Settle in for a wild ride from divine pleasure to carnage and […]
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Joshua Tepania & The Miracle Goatherders
Poetry Live Presents: Joshua Tepania & The Miracle Goatherders Tuesday 23rd July at 8pm Guest Poet: Joshua Tepania I was born and raised in Auckland city. I left school and I couldn’t read so I taught myself how to read by reading comic books for three years. My two main poetic inspirations are Tupac and […]
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NZWG Seed and Seed Advanced Round 2 2019 OPEN
Seed Grants Scheme for New Zealand Writers. New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) and New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) are excited to announce the continuation of the Seed and Seed Advanced grants pathways in 2019, with Round 2 now open. The NZWG Seed grants allow writers to be innovative, brilliant, and to create something they own, […]
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Taking the Sting out of Editing
Date: 9:30am (for a 10am start) – 3pm, Saturday 23 November 2019 Location: Waikanae Baptist Church, Te Moana Road, Waikanae Faculty: Catherine Robertson Cost: $86.25 including lunch To register contact: kirsten@kahini.org There are two types of writers: those who claim to enjoy the editing process, and the other ninety-nine per cent who know the rest are liars. Editing […]
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Listening to the Waves
Date: 9:30am – 4pm, Saturday 19 October 2019 and 9:30am – 4pm, Saturday 2 November 2019 Location: Waikanae Baptist Church, Te Moana Road, Waikanae Faculty: Lynn Jenner Cost: $172.50 including lunch To register contact: kirsten@kahini.org A workshop for writers of prose (fiction, memoir, essays or other non-fiction) What if you thought of your sentences as waves and your […]
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Let’s Go There
Date: 9:30am – 4pm, Saturday 7 September 2019 Location: Waikanae Baptist Church, Te Moana Road, Waikanae Faculty: Rajorshi Chakraborti Cost: $86.25 including lunch To register contact: kirsten@kahini.org In recent times, I’ve been thinking a lot about various writerly limits and how to negotiate them. What are the limits that appear within different writers as we work, from within […]
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How to Speak Your Truth Without Being a Slave to It and the Power of What If
Date: 10am-3pm, Saturday 24 August 2019 Location: Waikanae Baptist Church, Te Moana Road, Waikanae Faculty: Victor Rodger Cost: $86.25 including lunch To register contact: kirsten@kahini.org Sometimes it is necessary to leave the absolute truth behind in order to follow the story. Sometimes we need to let go of the reality of our experiences, to let go of what […]
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This Hostile Place: Carl Shuker and Lawrence Patchett
Lawrence Patchett’s first novel The Burning River is a work of fictional futurology set in a version of New Zealand where a plastic miner who survives by alliances and trade is swept into a perilous inland journey with new companions. In Carl Shuker’s novel A Mistake, a gifted female surgeon at Wellington Hospital must make […]
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Flight across Worlds: Elizabeth Knox and Craig Cliff
Elizabeth Knox’s new novel The Absolute Book is set in London, Norfolk, the Wye Valley, and Auckland, as well as in the hospitals and train stations of Purgatory. Old acts of revenge return with force, as three people are driven towards a reckoning felt in more than one world. Craig Cliff’s second novel Nailing Down […]
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Short Sharp Script 2: Circa Theatre
More exciting work in progress from the second group of IIML scriptwriters, at Circa Theatre. This week the spotlight falls on work from David Mamea, Helmut Marko, Monica Pausina, Sophie Scott, and Rachael Stokes. Introduced by Ken Duncum.
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Short Sharp Script 1: Circa Theatre
Actors perform dynamic new work by MA scriptwriting students from the IIML. This week scripts by Sally Bollinger, Mitchell Botting, Emily Callam, Emilie Hope, and Jonathan King are introduced by Ken Duncum.
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