Festivals & Lifestyle

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lifestyle

Meet The Markavist, Mark Pacey

By day, Mark Pacey is the go-to man for Wairarapa's history at the local archives. After hours, he’s the author of books on subjects as diverse as the U.S. Marines, pharmacies, brewing and the Wairarapa coastline. ...

On The Couch: Gregory O'Brien

If anybody in Aotearoa New Zealand deserves the description polymath, it’s Gregory O’Brien.  The poet, artist, art curator, and writer of fiction and non-fiction, has this year been longlisted for the ...

Book Binding Workshop

Robin Ramsden shows you how to make a 4th century Nag Hammadi codex. Her design is reusable and the leather will last long after you fill your notebook, and with her written instructions you can make your own at home. ...

Off For A Walk

“How can you see your life unless you leave it?” writes Catharina van Bohemen in Towards Compostela, her account of walking the Camino de Santiago. Dame Kerry Prendergast and Sue and Tim Pankhurst (Every ...

Let Your Imagination Soar With James Russell!

Join James Russell, bestselling author of The Dragon Brothers Trilogy, and junior fiction series The Dragon Defenders and Children of the Rush, as he takes you on a journey of creativity and shows you how to unleash your ...

The Crewe Murders

The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains Aotearoa New Zealand’s most famous cold case. It spawned two trials, two appeals, a royal commission finding of police corruption ...

The Wisdom Years By Joy Cowley

Joy Cowley says the child in her will never die. In her life-affirming, life-challenging workshop, she will take participants through the stages of life and what they mean, with a focus on what Joy calls “the ...

Word Gets Around: Delaney Davidson And Barry Saunders

Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders are storytellers who use music as their medium, and coming together as collaborators has taken them in new and exciting directions. “These songs just started appearing out of the ...

The Pictures In Our Heads

New life for Auē and The Bone People

The debut novels by West Coast writers Keri Hulme (The Bone People) and Becky Manawatu (Auē) are modern classics. Now both books are being transformed into a variety of media and ...

Hidden Gems: Jenny Bornholdt On Annemarie Hope-Cross

A tribute event to the late Lydia Wevers.
Annemarie Hope-Cross (1968–2022) was a fourth generation photographer who used early photographic processes and antique cameras to produce handmade images that are ...

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