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Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksBushline Pukapuka Talks book launch at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalThis is an audio recording of the Whakatū Nelson launch of Robbie Burton’s new memoir, Bushline, a deeply personal memoir in which he pays homage to a life shaped by the power of the landscape of Aotearoa. Hosted by Annette Lees.
Robbie Burton is a tramper and book publisher, who has had a life-long love of the Aotearoa mountains.
In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. Over his long career at the helm of Pot...2022-12-1656 min
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksBloodlines Pukapuka Talks session (featuring Renee) at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalEsteemed Aotearoa playwright and author Renée (Ngāti Kahungunu) wrote and published her first crime novel when she was 90. Blood Matters is the riveting sequel to the 2020 Ngaio Marsh finalist The Wild Card, and is another tale of Porohiwi, a small town that doesn't yield its secrets without a fight. This kōrero is facilitated by Renée's publisher, Mary McCallum.
The Wild Card was published by Cuba Press in 2019 and, after being shortlisted for the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards, was snapped up by Joffe Books UK in an international two-book deal for the worldwide English language right...2022-12-161h 00
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksWawata (Hinemoa Elder) Pukapuka Talks session at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalIn this intimate kōrero, Hinemoa Elder discusses her new pukapuka, Wawata – Moon Dreaming, which explores how living in sync with the moon can help us find a growing sense of place and harmony. Facilitated by Olivia Hall.
Dr Hinemoa Elder (Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi), author of Aroha, top-selling Aotearoa non-fiction title of 2021, shows us in this new book how to reclaim intimacy with others, with ourselves and with our planet using the energies of Hina, the Māori moon goddess.
Hina has 30 different faces to help illuminate life’s lessons...2022-12-1558 min
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksFrom Page to Screen Pukapuka Talks session at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalMichael Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue) and Christine Leunens have written novels that have not only been snapped up by numerous international publisher but are also currently making their way from the page to the screen. Doug Brooks facilitates this ‘behind the scenes’ discussion about the adaptation of Better the Blood and In Amber's Wake.
Michael Bennett is an award-winning screenwriter, director and author. His short films and feature films have won awards internationally. Better the Blood tells the story of tenacious Māori police detective Hana Westerman who is pulled into the search for Tāmaki M...2022-12-1556 min
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksPūrākau: Weaving Māori myths into modern stories Pukapuka Talks session at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalWhiti Hereaka and Nic Low have written two remarkable books that tell ancient Māori stories in fresh and compelling ways, with Hereaka flipping perspectives on a well-known tale, and Low using tramping and climbing adventures to bring the past to life.
Winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In this new version of the story, Kurangaituku takes us on the journey of her extraordinary life – from the birds who sang he...2022-12-1558 min
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksBreaking the Cycle (Noelle McCarthy) Pukapuka Talks session at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalPrize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy's memoir, Grand: Becoming my mother’s daughter, is an astonishing debut about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming. Fellow journalist/broadcaster Wendyl Nissen, who had her own mother difficulties and challenges with alcohol, facilitates the conversation.
At the heart of Noelle McCarthy’s memoir is a revelation about lines of women in families, and trauma, and how it has the potential to repeat. From Catholic Ireland in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s to sparkling Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in the first years of the new millennium, Grand is a...2022-12-1554 min
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksSavage Domesticity (Catherine Chidgey) Pukapuka Talks session at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalElizabeth Knox CNZM speaks with Catherine Chidgey about her two latest books: The Axeman’s Carnival (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022) and her critically acclaimed 2020 novel Remote Sympathy. In both books, Chidgey chips away the façade of domesticity to expose darker places.
The Axeman’s Carnival is Chidgey at her finest – comic, profound, poetic, and true. In this story, Marnie is married to a farmer and their marriage is a violent one. When she rescues a magpie chick that has fallen from its nest and raises it, it becomes an internet sensation. Her husband Rob is opposed...2022-12-1556 min
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksThe Forgotten Epidemic Pukapuka Talks session at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalBestselling authors Wendyl Nissen and Charity Norman have both ‘been through the fire’ of supporting a parent with dementia, which led to them writing two astonishing books. In this session, they explore what works when it comes to dementia treatment and care and what desperately needs to change to ensure our loved ones can die with dignity.
Wendy Nissen’s mother Elsie died with Alzheimer’s in 2019 and Charity Norman’s mother Beryl died with the same disease in 2016. When a parent gets dementia, how do their immediate whānau attempt to understand and process the experience afterwards...2022-12-071h 03
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksBeyond Belief Pukapuka Talks session at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalAnke Richter’s Cult Trip is a gripping, visceral, thriller-like investigation into Centrepoint, Gloriavale and Agama Yoga. In this session, Noelle McCarthy quizzes Richter about the dynamics that turn a group into a cult, and why we are all susceptible to undue influence.
Cult Trip: Inside the world of coercion & control is an investigative personal deep dive into Aotearoa New Zealand’s most notorious present and former “high-control groups”, told in a personal journalism style by Anke Richter, one of the world's leading journalists on cults.
This book can be compared to Stasiland in style. Apart fro...2022-11-2958 min
Nelson Arts Festival Pukapuka TalksThe Crucial Decade Pukapuka Talks session at the 2022 Nelson Arts FestivalIn 'The Crucial Decade', Kim Hill invites Paul Tapsell (Te Arawa, Tainui), Mike Joy and Dave Lowe to explain how we can respond to the climate crisis and transform our lands, waterways and communities. Recorded on Sunday October 22 at the 2022 Nelson Arts Festival, as part of our Pukapuka Talks literary programme.
In Kāinga: People, Land, Belonging (BWB Texts) Paul Tapsell looks at the legacy of colonisation and how alienation from traditional Māori settlements and whenua (land) has become part of a wider story of environmental degradation and system collapse. He argues that only a complete ste...2022-11-251h 32
Showy Ovaries with Penny Ashton.Showy Ovaries UnleashedSend us a textTo end Showy Ovaries Season Two we have the raucous, ribald, squirty and hilarious recording of Showy Ovaries Live taken at the Suter Theatre on Friday October 21st for the Nelson Arts Festival. Penny was like really really really excited to welcome back Nicky Pellegrino and Niki Bezzant, together with 140 cheering punters to discuss their books, their menopauses and women's health in general. They chat about David Bowie's influence on Niki's bits, blinding rage, fanny physio, snake oiliness, tongue gymnastics and the joy of unleashing the menopausal glare with no fucks left to...2022-10-301h 21