Monday, May 14, 2012

YARNS IN BARNS


Masterton District Library and Wairarapa Library Service in conjunction with
Hedley’s Bookshop
present . . . .

YARNS
IN BARNS

24 May – 3 June 2012

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Thursday 24 May
Hedley’s Bookshop, 150 Queen Street, Masterton.
 7.00pm – Celebrating New Zealand Music Month. Blue Smoke and Blue Beat: the lost history of Kiwi pop a musical conversation with Chris Bourke and Nick Bollinger. Tickets $8
 Friday 25 May
Cody Lounge, Masterton District Council Building, Chapel Street, Masterton.
 7.00pm – Official opening by Radio New Zealand broadcaster Lynn Freeman.
 7.15pm – Literary Connections. Lynn Freeman talks to award-winning novelist Stephanie Johnson. Tickets $8
 Saturday 26 May
 Martinborough Library, Jellicoe Street, Martinborough.
 12.30pm – Storytelling Hour with special guest Ken Benn, “raconteur, author and storyteller”, with local tellers Gaye Sutton and Alice Robertson. Tickets $5; Children $2
Hedley’s Bookshop.
 4.00pm – Helen Brown: Inspirational talk from best-selling author of Cleo, How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family and its sequel After Cleo Comes Jonah. Tickets $8
 Sunday 27 May
       Gladstone Vineyard, Gladstone Road, RD 2, Carterton.
 3.00pm – ‘Poems on the Vine’: With Helen Heath, Michael Harlow and Lynn Davidson. MC Pat White. Ticket price, $12, includes one glass of Gladstone wine.
 Monday 28 May
 Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, 8 MayBruce Street, Masterton
 7.00pm – Celebrating New Zealand Music Month: Play It Strange with Mike Chunn, founding member of Split Enz.
 Tickets $8
 Tuesday 29 May
   Masterton Library, Queen Street, Masterton
 2.00pm – Wairarapa History: Ian F. Grant chairs panel with Gareth Winter, Neil Frances and Lydia Wevers recounting some of the more colourful aspects of local history.
  Clear River Estate Winery, 119 Solway Crescent, Masterton
 7.00pm: Zen Under Fire: Marianne Elliott, a former human rights lawyer, yoga teacher and UN worker in Afghanistan.
 
Tickets $8
 Wednesday 30 May
   Copthorne Hotel and Resort, High Street, Solway, Masterton.
 7.00pm – The Ant and the Ferrari: Dr Kerry Spackman takes on the big questions puzzling mankind and answers them in an engaging and uplifting way. Tickets $10
 Thursday 31 May
   Greytown Town Centre, Main Street, Greytown.
 7.00pm – Al Brown (right) and Fleur Sullivan, top chefs, authors and restaurateurs with MC David Kernohan. Tickets $10
 Friday 1 June
   Carterton Events Centre, Holloway Street
    ‘The Great WBS Yarns in Barns Debate’. Seating from 7.00pm.
 7.30-8.30pm – The debaters, including Bernard Beckett, Catherine Robertson, Vanda Symon, Harry Ricketts, Marama Fox and Mark Reason, will, under the watchful eye of adjudicator Gordon McLauchlan, grapple with the pros and cons of the proposition: “The arts have a sporting chance in New Zealand … Yeah Right”. Tickets $15
 Saturday 2 June
      Wairarapa Archive, 79 Queen Street, Masterton.

 10.00am – Gordon McLauchlan discusses his new book The Passionless People Revisited. Tickets $5
 11.30am – With Criminal Intent, Vanda Symon discusses the art of crime writing. Tickets $5
        Strang Woolshed, Gladstone, Carterton.
 3.00pm – Yarns in Barns: Outdoor Adventure Yarns featuring ‘Big’ Al Lester, with Gareth Winter adding a local touch. Lively entertainment – Prize for the best outdoors or hunting yarn! Hot chocolate provided. The Woolshed is 4km on the right south of Gladstone intersection on road to Longbush. $5 adults, $2 students.
 Sunday 3 June
       Hedleys Bookshop, 150 Queen Street, Masterton
 2.00pm –Gecko Press and Julia Marshall. Julia will talk about Gecko Press which translates and publishes award-winning, curiously good children’s books from around the world. Tickets $5, children free
       Clear River Estate Winery, 119 Solway Cres, Masterton
 4.00pm – Tim Wilson, (right) author and TV broadcaster in conversation with Guy Somerset. Tickets $10 includes one glass of wine.

Introducing at Yarns in Barns
 Bernard Beckett: Author of children’s and young adult fiction and winner of many awards. His novel Genesis won the Young Adult Category in the 2007 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
 Ken Benn: Woolf Fisher Fellow, well travelled raconteur, performer and author of the recently published novel Lethal Deliveries.
 Nick Bollinger: Music columnist, broadcaster - National Radio’s ‘The Sampler’ since 2001 - and author of 100 Essential NZ Albums.
 Al Brown: Chef, fisherman, TV presenter, culinary ambassador and restaurateur, and best-selling, award-winning author of Go Fish, its sequel Stoked and soon- to-be-published Get Fresh.
 Helen Brown: A New Zealander, now living in Melbourne, and a multiple award-winning columnist and author.

 Chris Bourke (right): Historian, journalist, editor, radio producer, and triple prize-winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards for Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964.
 Mike Chunn: Original member and biographer of Split Enz, former APRA head and founder and CEO of the Play it Strange Trust, and co-author of I’m With The Band, with its practical advice to aspiring young musicians wanting a career in NZ popular music.
 Marianne Elliott: Human rights and environmental advocate, international yoga teacher and UN worker In Afghanistan.
 Marama Fox: Acting, singing, dancing and storytelling since early childhood; continuing, as a teacher, to encourage local oral histories.
 Neil Frances: Masterton archivist and author of Ketchil, co-author of Things Have Been Pretty Lively Round Here and the recently published Safe Haven, The Untold Story of New Zealand’s Largest Ever Military Camp, Featherston 1916-1919.
 Lynn Freeman: After nearly 30 years at Radio New Zealand, currently presenter and co-producer of the Arts on Sunday. She has produced award-winning features and documentaries and is a judge of the annual Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. 
 Ian F. Grant: A founder-director of National Business Review and founder of the NZ Cartoon Archive at the National Library. Currently at work on his 15th book and partner, with wife Diane, of Fraser Books, Masterton-based publishers.
 Michael Harlow: Author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Tram Conductor’s Blue Cap. A new collection of poetry, The Company of Map Makers, is forthcoming. Among awards, he was the Burns Fellow at Otago University 2009.
 Helen Heath (left): Internationally published author of poetry and essays. Her next collection, Graft, focuses on the intersection between people and technology.
 Stephanie Johnson: Author of two collections of poetry, three collections of short stories and nine novels. The Shag Incident won a Montana Award. Her latest novel is The Open World.
 David Kernohan: Owner/taster at Gladstone Vineyard, architect, former Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at Victoria University and author of five books on architecture, including Wairarapa Buildings published in 2003.
 Al Lester: The Nelson-born policeman, sportsman and hunter is the author of a series of humorous tales of mates, mishaps and misadventures in the New Zealand bush, including Hunting In the Raw, A Bum In the Bush, and A Sting In the Tale.
 Julia Marshall: After 12 years working for publishers in Sweden, Julia set up Gecko Press in Wellington in 2004, specialising in children’s translations of European fairytales, beginning with the very popular Donkey.
 Gordon McLauchlan: TV frontman, radio commentator, 10 years editor-in-chief of Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia, but best known as a cultural critic and social historian. He has written several best-sellers, including The Passionless People.
 Mark Reason: A sports journalist, writing for the Dominion-Post and Britain’s Daily Telegraph, who scurrilously accused the All Blacks of cheating last year. He also once read English at Cambridge University.
 Harry Ricketts (right): A poet, academic, editor, reviewer and Associate Professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University. His acclaimed biography of Rudyard Kipling, The Unforgiving Minute, was published in 1999.
 Alice Robertson: She loves the old stories and her work with children is well-known around Wairarapa. Alice is the author of So You Want To Be A Storyteller.
 Catherine Robertson: Her first novel, The Sweet Second Life of Darrell Kincaid, hit the New Zealand bestseller lists immediately and reached number 1. Her second novel, The Not-so-Perfect Life of Michelle Lawrence, will be out this September.
 Guy Somerset: NZ Listener’s Arts and Books Editor. Presenter NZ Listener Book Club.
 Dr Kerry Spackman: Winner of the 2009 KEA World Class Award for Creative Thinking and Director of the GoldMine which develops ‘cutting edge’ technology for NZ’s elite Olympic athletes. Author of The Ant and the Ferrari and The Winner’s Bible.
 Fleur Sullivan: The pioneering restaurateur has received numerous awards for her restaurants at Moeraki and now Oamaru. Her restaurant featured in the book Fleur’s Place and her new memoir is titled Fleur.
 Gaye Sutton: A regular contributor to the ‘Glistening Waters Festival’ and audiences around New Zealand and abroad have enjoyed her stories.

 Vanda Symon (right): Penguin New Zealand decided not only did they want to publish Vanda’s first novel, Overkill (2007), but they wanted a series of crime fiction novels about Sam Shephard. Three more have followed. Her latest novel is The Faceless.
  Lydia Wevers: Literary critic, historian, editor, reviewer, and Director of the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University. Her 2010 book Reading on the Farm was about the library at Brancepeth Station in Wairarapa – its books and who read them.
 Pat White: Gladstone-based poet, essayist, artist, and 2010 Writer in Residence at the historic Randell Cottage in Wellington. Author of several poetry collections and the memoir How the Land Lies: of longing and belonging.
 Tim Wilson: Former TVNZ US correspondent and author of The Desolation Angel, a collection of short stories.
 Gareth Winter: Historian, gardening writer, archivist, and author of several Wairarapa histories, including Two Men of Mana and Other Stories, which featured at ‘Yarns in Barns’ in 2010.

Organising Committee
David Hedley, Ian F Grant, Steve Trotman, Ewan Hyde,
Chris Hawker, Shirley Nightingale and Pat White
Festival Co-ordinator
Steve Trotman

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