Leadership in a Landscape

In this address from the opening of the 2013 Going West Writers Festival, Sir Bob Harvey pays homage to the West coast and the role that this landscape, and the books he loves, have played in his extraordinary life.

Oratory, Season 2Going West Festival26 November 2020Going West Books and Writers Festival, Waitakere City, West Auckland, Leadership, Mayor Bob Harvey, Sir Robert Anster Harvey KNZM QSO, New Zealand Politics, New Zealand Labour Party, Books, The landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, Te Kawerau ā Maki, Karekare

The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune

The story of the iconic New Zealand television series Outrageous Fortune and the fictional West family of West Auckland at the 2009 Going West Books & Writers Festival.

Season 2Going West Festival19 November 2020Television series Outrageous Fortune, New Zealand Television, Comedy Drama, TV3, James Griffin, Rachel Lang, Robyn Malcolm, Cheryl West, Simon Prast, Waitakere City, West Auckland

Working Class Heroes

Poets Serie Barford and Glenn Colquhoun celebrate their working class roots as part of a train journey west called the Oblivion Express.

Performance, Season 1Going West Festival20 August 2020The Going West Oblivion Express Steam Train, Poetry, Working Class, West Auckland, South Auckland, Te Reo, Glenn Colquhoun, Serie Barford, Cherie Barford

The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road

Jesse Mulligan interviews Steve Braunias about his book, The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road, exploring the fast-food joints on New Zealand’s second busiest road.

Discourse, Season 1Going West Festival12 July 2020Lincoln Road, Henderson, West Auckland, Fast-Food, Steve Braunias, Jesse Mulligan, Food