Politics Events at WORD Christchurch Festival

GUYON ESPINER: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM MASTERCLASS

Learn the nuts and bolts of interviewing, journalism techniques, information gathering and structuring a story in this masterclass with award-winning RNZ journalist Guyon Espiner.

MELANI ANAE: FIFTY YEARS OF THE POLYNESIAN PANTHERS

Friday, 2 September 6:00 pm

Dr Melani Anae and Rev Alec Toleafoa reflect on the apology for the Dawn Raids, and five decades spent in peaceful resistance, educating New Zealand about ongoing racism, and Pasifika empowerment.

WAR AND PEACE

Saturday, 3 September 2:30 pm

Ross Calman and Dr Te Maire Tau on the life of Te Rauparaha, the turbulent history between Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Toa and the peace marriages that followed.

THE FARAWAY NEAR: REBECCA SOLNIT

Friday, 2 September 10:00 am

Renowned writer and activist Rebecca Solnit joins Morgan Godfery live from the US to talk George Orwell, roses, climate, resistance and love.

THE FARAWAY NEAR: PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

Friday, 2 September 12:00 pm

Tenacious New Yorker staff reporter Patrick Radden Keefe joins us from New York to talk about his gripping books Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and the newly published Rogues: True Stories if Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks.

THE FARAWAY NEAR: RACHEL KUSHNER

Friday, 2 September 2:00 pm

Take a spin through America’s heady counter-culture with celebrated US author Rachel Kushner.

HOW TO BE (A BAD) MUSLIM

Friday, 2 September 3:30 pm

Journalist, poet and observer of human behaviour Mohamed Hassan asks what it means to be Muslim in the 21st century.

THE GENTRIFICATION BLUES AND COMEDY HOUR

Saturday, 3 September 12:30 pm

Two gifted satirists, Coco Solid and Murdoch Stephens, tackle housing and gentrification in their recent books. Join them for a sparky conversation about the places we live.

NO OTHER PLACE TO STAND: CREATIVITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Saturday, 3 September 4:30 pm

How do we adapt, mitigate and create in response to the climate crisis? Can good writing get us past the language of science and policy to where the ecological and human meet?

THE FARAWAY NEAR: LUKE HARDING

Saturday, 3 September 8:00 pm

Veteran Guardian foreign correspondent and former Russia bureau chief Luke Harding speaks with Guyon Espiner about the war in Ukraine.

INSIDE THE WEALTH GAP: STORIES AND STATS

Saturday, 3 September 6:30 pm

Economics commentator Max Rashbrooke and chronicler of life on the poverty line, author, playwright and poet Dominic Hoey, talk wealth, poverty and opportunity with Danyl McLauchlan.

NICK BOLLINGER: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE COUNTERCULTURE IN AOTEAROA

Sunday, 4 September 10:30 am

Join Nick Bollinger in conversation with Philip Matthews about the colourful transformation of New Zealand life wrought by the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s.

HAPPINESS AND OTHER BAD IDEAS

Sunday, 4 September 12:30 pm

What makes our moods? What do meditation and medication do to our brains? Is it better to be happy or do good?

CHRIS FINLAYSON: THE INNER CIRCLE

04 Sep - 19 Sep 2022 2:00 pm

Christopher Finlayson was in the engine room of the John Key-led National government. He speaks with Kim Hill about his remarkable career, and getting to know the real John Key.