CULTURE CLUB
WORD Christchurch is coming from 31 August to 4 September! Meet us in the city for our top picks of the city’s festival celebrating people, stories, and ideas. For more on the programme, check out wordchristchurch.co.nz
THE FARAWAY NEAR: TSB SPACE, TŪRANGA
AN EVENING WITH LIANE MORIARTY
ADVENTUROUS WOMEN
CHRIS FINLAYSON: THE INNER CIRCLE
1–4 September, various times TSB Space, Tūranga
27 August, 7–8pm, Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margaret’s College
3 September, 5.30–6.45pm The Piano
4 September, 2–3pm The Piano
Prepare to be inspired and moved as five extraordinary but very different women share powerful stories of bravery and risk from their own adventurous lives. Hear environmentalist, bookseller and author Ruth Shaw; writer, multimedia artist, Fulbright scholar and musician Coco Solid; mountaineer and author Jo Morgan; and The Two Raw Sisters cookbook authors and entrepreneurs Rosa and Margo Flanagan share stories of adventure. This is one of the most popular storytelling sessions, so make sure to grab your tickets early!
Hear lawyer and former senior minister Christopher Finlayson speak with legendary broadcaster Kim Hill about his time working alongside John Key for the National government, where he served as Attorney-General, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, and Minister for the Arts, Culture and Heritage. Expect tales from his early years and time as a lawyer before entering politics – where he fought for Ngāi Tahu, pursuing the iwi’s Treaty claims – to entering politics and becoming one of the most senior members of the John Key-led National government.
The beautiful, innovative venue, The sensational Liane Moriarty of The Faraway Near, puts you at the Big Little Lies will be live on stage table with a stellar international at WORD for a discussion around writer seated with you via a her hotly anticipated new novel life-sized screen. Share drinks Apples Will Fall. Moriarty is known and conversation for an intimate and loved for her psychologically and unique literary experience. complex and thrilling pageThis year, a star-studded line-up turners, many of them now of international guests will be thrilling TV series. This promises beaming in to WORD, including to be a warm, wise, and insightful Guardian correspondent Luke conversation about the intricacies Harding, Station Eleven author of family life and love, friendship Emily St John Mandel, activist dynamics, how local observations and writer Rebecca Solnit, New become global stories, and the Yorker reporter and author Patrick darkness that can lie beneath Radden Keefe, and historical seemingly perfect lives. Join her novelist Heather Morris. Grab a at the Charles Luney Auditorium table with family and friends! at St Margaret’s College.
WORD CHRISTCHURCH FESTIVAL 5 DAYS OF BOOKS, STORYTELLING & IDEAS 31 AUGUST – 4 SEPTEMBER 2022 BOOK NOW AT WORDCHRISTCHURCH.CO.NZ
