Keri Hulme: BAIT
Keri Hulme: BAIT
At the 1997 Going West Festival, author Keri Hulme made a rare public appearance to discuss and read two excerpts from h... Read more
19 Jun 2022
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39mins
Molten Clefts of Magma
Molten Clefts of Magma
Beloved west Auckland poet Serie Barford was nominated in the NZ Book Awards for Sleeping With Stones, traversing oceans... Read more
12 Jun 2022
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23mins
Contested Spaces
Contested Spaces
Lucy Mackintosh, Richard Shaw and Pita Turei discuss stories of Taranaki and Tāmaki Makaurau, both ancient and personal,... Read more
5 Jun 2022
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52mins
Forward Into the World of Light
Forward Into the World of Light
Casting lines out into Moana Pasifika and pulling words back to West Auckland, Tongan, Samoan and Pālagi poet Karlo Mila... Read more
29 May 2022
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36mins
Robin Hyde’s Auckland: an audiovisual essay.
Robin Hyde’s Auckland: an audiovisual essay.
A deep dive into the life of Robin Hyde, aka Iris Wilkinson, exploring her contribution to New Zealand literature, her t... Read more
22 May 2022
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25mins
Maurice Shadbolt
Maurice Shadbolt
From Going West’s second year in 1997, master storyteller Maurice Shadbolt, celebrates the near forgotten lives from New... Read more
4 Apr 2021
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16mins
Words and Melody
Words and Melody
The magic of weaving poetry and music together is on show in this Going West session from 2017. Paula Green, poet, antho... Read more
28 Mar 2021
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35mins
Women Then, Women Now | Wāhine o Mua, Wāhine o Nāianei
Women Then, Women Now | Wāhine o Mua, Wāhine o Nāianei
Women in Aotearoa New Zealand. Five leading women meet in the 125th year since the 1893 granting of female suffrage in N... Read more
21 Mar 2021
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55mins
Diana Wichtel: Driving to Treblinka
Diana Wichtel: Driving to Treblinka
In 2017, Going West was the first festival to invite award winning journalist Diana Wichtel to talk about her newly publ... Read more
12 Mar 2021
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46mins
Max Cryer Tracking the Vernacular
Max Cryer Tracking the Vernacular
Appearing at Going West in 2002, Max Cryer talks about New Zealand’s vernacular English and its origins. As he notes, “W... Read more
7 Mar 2021
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31mins