After being forced to postpone this week’s Festival, which featured 80+ events and 150
speakers, WORD Christchurch is pleased to announce that the event will go ahead at a later
date: 10–13 November 2021 (that’s Show Weekend for Cantabrians). The festival will not
run on Sunday 14 November due to a major event in the area already scheduled.

The WORD team has secured the venues, and is now in the process of checking speakers’
schedules. The new programme will be released soon.

“We moved quickly and decisively to postpone the festival once the first lockdown was
extended last week, and we absolutely did the right thing,” says WORD Christchurch
programme co-director Rachael King. “This new programme may be slightly scaled back, but
as much as possible will retain the events that our audience has booked for, so there will be
as little disruption as possible.”

“We’re proud of our 2021 programme, and we are grateful to the writers and everyone else
who has been very supportive of turning this around.”
Ticket buyers will be contacted regarding potential ticket transfers (to new dates) and
refunds.

For further updates, please refer to the WORD Christchurch website, and sign up to the
newsletter, at www.wordchristchurch.co.nz

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For comment please contact Rachael King on litdirector@wordchristchurch.co.nz & 021 815
117; or Nic Low (programme co-director) on nic@wordchristchurch.co.nz & 022 193 6344