Saturday, 12 Sept
Going West Books & Writers Festival

8.30am  Coffee/tea      
9.00am  Vintage to Vanguard: Elly van de Wijdeven and Finn McCahon-Jones explore vintage and vanguard jewellery of Aotearoa New Zealand, in conversation with jewellery aficionado Anna Miles.
10.00am  Take That! Stephanie Johnson shares The Writers' Festival at our Writers' Festival with the able assistance of Harry Ricketts.
10.30am  Morning Tea
11.00am  A Walk on the Wild Side: Chris Maclean, Shaun Barnett and Geoff Chapple in a conversation ranging over tramping and terrain in the unique wilderness of New Zealand.
12.00pm  What Lies Beneath: Elspeth Sandys shares her voyage into memoir and its complex relationship with memory with Murray Gray.
12.30pm Lunch

Maurice and Maurice: 
1.30pm  Plumbing the Depths: Rachel Barrowman talks with Geoff Chapple about her recently published biography Maurice Gee: Life and Work.
2.30pm  The View to Muddy Creek: To mark the beginning of a project to establish a writers' residency at Maurice Shadbolt's Titirangi home, we visit the house and the lives lived in it with Sean Shadbolt, David Ling and Lucy Treep in conversation with Naomi McCleary.
3.30pm Afternoon tea
4.00pm  NZ Invents the World: Wallace Chapman celebrates with authors Jon Bridges & David Downs Kiwi No. 8 wire inventions that changed the World. 
5.00pm  Future Faction: Damon Keen, Amie Maxwell, Katie O’Neill and Toby Morris tackle climate change in Faction’s High Water, and in conversation with cartoonist, comics writer and blogger Adrian Kinnaird.
(SESSIONS END)

8.00pm  Poetry Slam: The spoken word hits the road in a fast-paced evening of competitive performance poetry with generous cash prizes.

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More information can be found on our website www.goingwestfest.co.nz
and on our facebook page www.facebook.com/GoingWestFest

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