Passageways

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When:

Fri 15 May ’09, 10:30am–11:30am

Where: ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Standard: $23.00
Earlybird: $19.50
Friend (Pre 13 May) : $18.50
Student : $11.50
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.writersfestival.co.nz

Ann Thwaite and Joanna Woods have recently published books which share migration as a major theme. They will talk about their own books and share their experience of research into other people's lives. Thwaite's family history, Passageways, tells the story of a family on two sides of the world from the mid-19th century, when all her great-grandparents arrived in New Zealand, until 1945 when the writer and her brother returned to London after their wartime evacuation as children. Her parents were the founder-publishers of New Zealand News in London. Joanna Woods' biography of migrant Charles Baeyertz, Facing the Music, is in part the story of New Zealand's first significant cultural publication, The Triad, which became an Australasian magazine based in Sydney. Both authors illuminate long-neglected periods of New Zealand's cultural past, a time when we were beginning to carve out an identifiable culture of our own. Join them for some lively talk. Chair: Hamish Keith.