- nz
COUCH STORIES
FESTIVAL MAINSTAGE
Wed 23 Oct, 7.30pm
Couch Stories are true, personal stories told live on stage, without pictures or notes.
Kōrero
- free
- international
CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS
BHUTANESE, COLOMBIAN & SRI LANKAN in AOTEAROAUPPER TRAFALGAR STREET
Sat 19 – Mon 28 Oct
Please note the venue is different from what’s listed in the printed Festival brochure.
This year’s Festival has a designated space hosted by communities from different cultural backgrounds, to encourage informal conversations around arts and culture.
Sold Out
- nz
PECHAKUCHA
FESTIVAL MAINSTAGE
Tue 22 Oct, 7.30pm
PechaKucha returns for its twelfth year at the Festival, with a diverse range of presentations from interesting and creative people.
- international
PORTRAITS IN MOTION
GERMANYFESTIVAL MAINSTAGE
Sun 20 Oct, 7pm
What began as a one-to-one travelling theatre grew into a 16-year odyssey, turning photographs into magical flipbooks.
- nz
PUKAPUKA TALKS: BACKING WILD CARDS
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Sun 27 Oct, 3.30pm
Discover what happens when you team up feminist writer and playwright Renée, ONZM (born 1929), with journalist and debut novelist Becky Manawatu (born 1982).
- nz
- international
PUKAPUKA TALKS: CAGING SKIES
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Sun 27 Oct, 1.30pm
Meet Nelson-based novelist Christine Leunens, whose novel Caging Skies is the inspiration for a major new Hollywood film.
- nz
PUKAPUKA TALKS: DOCTORS WHO WRITE
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Sat 26 Oct, 3.30pm
Join three physicians – who are also poets, playwrights and prose writers – in conversation with medical student and writer Emma Espiner.
Sold Out
- nz
PUKAPUKA TALKS: NATIVE SON
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Fri 25 Oct, 1.30pm
Join national literary taonga Witi Ihimaera in conversation with Guyon Espiner, discussing the revealing encore to his memoir, Māori Boy.
- nz
- international
PUKAPUKA TALKS: ON THE EDGE
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Fri 25 Oct, 11am
Chessie Henry and Miriam Lancewood reveal what drove them to write such intimate memoirs about their extraordinary lives.
- nz
PUKAPUKA TALKS: SOUTHERN SCIENCE
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Mon 28 Oct, 11am
Naomi Arnold and Rebecca Priestley, both award-winning science writers, explore what’s above and beyond Aotearoa New Zealand.
- nz
PUKAPUKA TALKS: THE ABSOLUTE BOOK
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Sat 26 Oct, 1.30pm
Elizabeth Knox’s new novel, The Absolute Book, is being heralded as a triumph of fantasy, grounded in the reality and challenges of the times in which we live.
- nz
PUKAPUKA TALKS: THE FRIDAY POEM
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Fri 25 Oct, 3.30pm
Something exciting – fun, dazzling, often powerful – is going on in New Zealand poetry.
Limited Tickets
- nz
PUKAPUKA TALKS: THINKING BRUNCH 1 – ‘LIVING’ LONGER
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Sat 26 Oct, 10am for brunch, 10.30am start
Meet four extraordinary people who are redefining what ‘ageing’ and ‘eldership’ mean, and learn some of their insights into having a long and fruitful life.
Sold Out
- nz
PUKAPUKA TALKS: THINKING BRUNCH 2 – THE TIME TO ACT
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Sun 27 Oct, 10am for brunch, 10.30am start
With a climate emergencies being declared in many places, we bring together a business leader, a researcher, a filmmaker, an activist and RNZ broadcaster Kim Hill to explore what this means in practice.
PUKAPUKA TALKS: WEST ISLAND
AOTEAROA / AUSTRALIAGRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Mon 28 Oct, 1.30pm
Five notable New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by award-winning author Stephanie Johnson.
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