Goodbye Sarajevo
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When:
| Sat 14 May ’11, 5:30pm–6:30pm |
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Where: ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland CBD Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Festival Club: $16.00
- Earlybird: $20.00
- Standard: $25.00
- Student : $12.50
- Booking fees may apply
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In May 1992, Hana Schofield and Atka Reid were caught in the middle of what became the bloodiest European conflict since World War Two. Hana is twelve years old and boards one of the last UN evacuation buses to flee the besieged city of Sarajevo. Her 21-year-old sister Atka stays behind to look after their five younger siblings. They say goodbye thinking they’ll be apart for only a matter of weeks, but as the Bosnian war escalates, months go by without contact. As a refugee in Croatia, Hana is a long way from home and family and desperate for news; Atka’s daily life is punctuated by sniper and mortar attacks and desperate food shortages as she and the family struggle to survive. Nineteen years later, both sisters live in Auckland. Goodbye Sarajevo tells their compelling story of courage, survival, and the unexpected turn of events that brought them and their family to New Zealand. They share their story with Lynn Freeman.
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