Early Festival Events
How would a writer respond to Te Papa’s latest international exhibition, Surrealist Art: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen? Find out in this free event curated by poet Rebecca Hawkes.
Image credit: Unica Zürn, Composition, 1955, gouache on paper. © Verlag Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin, Germany. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Photo: Studio Tromp
(SOLD OUT) Join women’s historian Jessie Bray-Sharpin on a walking tour of some of Wellington’s most interesting feminist ghosts. Two tours only. Limited capacity.
Artist Catherine Bagnall and writer Jane Sayle lead an expedition into the bush with hand-crafted costume pieces that will transform us into not-quite-humans. We’ll look at the world a little differently and then enjoy a picnic together. Suitable for ages 3 and up.
Forager and writer Johanna Knox comes to your home to lead your coven on a foraging expedition followed by a creating writing workshop inspired by our nature adventures. One of four of our special Travelling Coven events in the lead up to Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022.
SOLD OUT (more tickets will be released if we are in Level 1 and the guidelines under Level 1 enable us to host more people)
Expert forager and writer Johanna Knox sits down with writer and Rongoā specialist Arihia Latham to talk about the story behind her beautiful, and hugely successful book, A Forager’s Treasury. Tickets include tea and cake.
Poet and embroiderer Stacey Teague comes to your home to lead a workshop in bringing words and weaving images together. One of four of our special Travelling Coven events in the lead up to Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022.
We are delighted to bring the creators of cult hit book Literary Witches, Taisia Kitaiskia and Katy Horan, to our Festival via the magic of the internet, to discuss collaboration, witches, creative women and inspiration with local artist-writers Catherine Bagnall and Jane Sayle.
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Writer Ingrid Horrocks comes to your home to lead your coven in conversation about our memories of travel, on books about various ways of travelling in nature, and we will work on some of our own writing too (even if you never have before). One of four of our special Travelling Coven events in the lead up to Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022.
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Writer and artist Jess Richards comes to your home to lead conversation and a creative workshop where we let recipe books and and memories of food inspire us. One of four of our special Travelling Coven events in the lead up to Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022.
(SOLD OUT) A limited capacity event with extraordinary poet Alison Glenny who will talk with writer Pip Adam about her latest book, Bird Collector. Like a vast cabinet of curiosities, this book leads the reader into shadowy corners, full of strange treasure.
