Maurice Shadbolt, On writing history to life

Maurice Shadbolt, master storyteller, celebrates the near forgotten lives from New Zealand’s history and the business of writing them to life in both fiction and memoir.

Oratory, Season 3Going West Festival5 April 2021New Zealand Aotearoa History, Historical fiction, Biography, Memoir, Hamiora Pere, Colonial New Zealand, New Zealand Land Wars, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, The Season of the Jew, One of Ben’s, Maurice Shadbolt

Words and Melody

Poet Paula Green in conversation with creative collaborators Bill Manhire, poet, and Norman Meehan, musician and jazz composer.

Discourse, Season 3Going West Festival28 March 2021Poetry, Music, Bill Manhire, Norman Meehan, Paula Green, Small Holes in the Silence

Women Then, Women Now Wāhine o Mua, Wāhine o Nāianei

Five leading women meet in the 125th year since the 1893 granting of female suffrage in New Zealand.

Discourse, Season 3Going West Festival21 March 2021Feminism in Aotearoa New Zealand, Women in New Zealand, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Women Writers in New Zealand, Sex Education, Carol Hirschfeld, Sandra Coney, Golriz Ghahraman, Dame Fiona Kidman, Lizzie Marvelly

Diana Wichtel: Driving to Treblinka

In conversation with Steve Braunias, Diana Wichtel talks of her memoir and the long search for her lost father Ben Wichtel, a Polish Jew, rounded up by the Nazis and who jumped to safety from a train on the way to the Treblinka death camp.

Season 3, DiscourseGoing West Festival14 March 2021Memoir, Family History, Autobiography, Treblinka Death Camp, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Holocaust Survivors, Jewish Refugees, Poland, Antisemitism, Diana Wichtel, Benjamin Wichtel, Steve Braunias

Max Cryer Tracking the Vernacular

Appearing at Going West in 2002, Max Cryer talks about New Zealand’s vernacular English and its origins.

Oratory, Season 3Going West Festival7 March 2021New Zealand English, Kiwi Words, Linguistics, English Dialects, Max Cryer