Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Word Christchurch Newsletter



THANK YOU!

Thanks to all those who came to our Autumn Season in association with the Auckland Writers Festival. What a great week it was, with memorable appearances from Helen Macdonald, Nick Davies, Steve Braunias, David Walliams, Xinran and David Mitchell.

Thanks too, to our troop of volunteers for working so hard, especially at the David Walliams session where the signing queue was 500-strong and went for an hour and a half. We’ll post some pictures and review and preview links on our Facebook page this week, so keep an eye out. 

Now that you’ve got a taste for getting out and hearing authors speak, don’t miss these two stunning events presented by our talented partners  in the coming week.



The Royal Society New Zealand and the Auckland Writers Festival present:

Invisiblity: A Cultural History
Philip Ball

Philip Ball enthralled audiences at the Auckland Writers Festival and he is now coming to Christchurch to present a lecture on a fascinating topic that crosses the science and art & culture divide.
Scientists have today worked out how to manipulate the path of light rays so as to render objects invisible, but the stories that we have told about invisibility are not stories of a technical capability but of power, desire, concealment, morality and corruption. From a history of invisibility that encompasses Plato, magic, spiritualism and Victorian physics, H. G. Wells, cinematography and the emerging new science of metamaterials, ideas of invisibility are, like all ideas rooted in legend, ultimately parables about our own hopes and fears.

 

 Friday 22 May, 6pm 
Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margaret’s College
12 Winchester Street, Buy tickets
here
 


Bookenz and Plains FM present:

Stuff I Forgot to Tell my Daughter
Michele A’Court

Liberated from the daily minutiae when her daughter left home, Michele A'Court suddenly found the time she'd never had as a parent, so she began to make a list of things she should have told her daughter. The list became a hit comedy show and the list kept getting longer. So now it has become a book – a funny, wise, honest and maybe even a useful book.

Don’t miss seeing Michele live in what is sure to be a warm and hilarious evening.

7.30pm, Tuesday 26 May
The Atrium, Christchurch Netball Centre
455 Hagley Avenue, Buy tickets here

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