Join facilitator Sarah Ell and three authors Robert Vennell, Edin Whitehead and Skye Wishart in conversation about our wonderful world of plants and birds. Free Event.

Gattaca is a science fiction film written and directed by New Zealand born Andrew Niccol, made in 1997.
Screening at 10.30am, 6.00pm, & 8.15pm

A special after-hours gallery event at Te Uru, with Peter Simpson interviewed by Wallace Chapman against the backdrop of Colin McCahon’s epic painting, GATE III.

How three cultural polymaths wrote, published and sold their stories. With director, musician and now novelist John Pain and his publishers from Dunbar Noon: fellow Hallelujah Picasso Peter McLennan and writer Jaq Tweedie. This promises to be a rowdy exploration of the business of subculture in Aotearoa.

A New Zealand musical romance written by Rochelle Bright. Maisie (Kimbra) tells the story of how her dad met and fell in love with her mother, and how it all devastatingly fell apart.

Funny As is an extensive, authoritative, hilarious history of New Zealand’s funny men and women. Michele A’Court in conversation with Paul Horan and Philip Matthews.

Erewhon, Gavin Hipkins’ first feature-length film is an experimental adaptation of Samuel Butler’s anonymously published 1872 novel Erewhon: or, over the range.

Phil Vine joins Neville Peat and Jeff Murray to examine how we tell the biggest story of our current moment in time – climate change.

Just how do books get from the mind of the writer all the way to the eyes of the reader? This is the story of stories. Going West has invited three prominent and diverse book publishers Harriet Allan, Bridget Williams and Peter Dowling, to share their insights, experiences and anecdotes.

Owen Gill examines the changes we need to make to accommodate two million Aucklanders, photographer Patrick Reynolds has documented the city’s architecture and Malcolm Paterson has delved into the historical stories of Tāmaki Makaurau and Kaipara. They will join in a conversation about how we might become a place that is better at telling its stories.

Auckland Museum invited five writers to explore the Museum’s documentary heritage collection. With Dina Jezdic in the chair join Saraid de Silva Cameron, Mohamed Hassan, Louise Tu’u, To’asavili Tuputala, and Lucy Zee in discussion.

Hot on the heels of the launch of A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley, we’re thrilled to have Elspeth Sandys on stage with journalist Matt Nippert, talking about the man, his life, and what he means now to New Zealand, and the country he called home - China.

Carl Shuker, author of A Mistake and Kirsten Warner, author of The Sound of Breaking Glass join Siobhan Harvey to explore how consequence drives the arc of their stories.

Register to participate in a free writers clinic with playwright Gary Henderson, novelist James George and poet Apirana Taylor

In Death and Dying in New Zealand, essayists Dr Kiri Edge, David Slack and Vana Manasiadis explore the ways we talk about 21st century death and dying in Aotearoa in conversation with publisher Emma Johnson.

Please join us, in partnership with Penguin Random House, to launch Native Son, the second volume of memoir by Witi Ihimaera.

Garage Project founder Pete Gillespie joins Mark Easterbrook to discuss beer, stories, and turning craft beer into art.

In conversation with Sue Orr, Witi Ihimaera revisits a time when to simply be published as a Māori author was a landmark moment.

In Wild Honey, poet and anthologist Paula Green surveys New Zealand’s women poets, from the first published to the most recent bright lights. In conversation with poets Kiri Piahana-Wong and Anne Kennedy.

Recent novels from writers Rosetta Allan and Craig Cliff travel through very different landscapes, but take their characters and readers on physical and emotional journeys. In conversation with Caroline Barron.

Alan Duff is joined by Guyon Espiner to discuss A Conversation with My Country, his fresh and personal account of where New Zealand has been and where he believes we can go from here.

In association with Titirangi Library, Going West present a series of readings by Apirana Taylor and Paula Green and the launch of Cutting Through, an anthology of writing by the Green Bay Writers, Titirangi Poets and Waitakere Writers.

Editor Janet McAllister is joined by contributing essayists Tulia Thompson and Tui Gordon to dissect their collection Living on Volcanoes and the myriad of topics it traverses.

Kids bring your parents to a day of interactive play. Fun times with actors, storytellers and lots of hands-on creating for busy minds and busy hands.

Author Elizabeth Knox and graphic novelist Dylan Horrocks discuss Knox’s latest novel The Absolute Book, and how they have both approached cutting through the rules of what is reality.