Live from the NZ Festival, St James Theatre, Wellington
8:15 Marcus Chown: the universe and health
8:40 Jennifer O'Sullivan: fringe spirit
9:05 Alison Bechdel: dykes and comics
9:35 Dylan Horrocks: before and after Hicksville
9:50 Kate Camp: The Quiet Volume
10:05 Joe Blossom and Duncan Sarkies: music and
demolition
10:25 Aidan Dooley: Tom Crean
10:50 Caoilinn Hughes: poetic evidence
11:05 Rhys Morgan: drag and spanking
11:20 Ulf Stark and Julia Marshall: Sweden and
translation
11:40 Liam O'Maonlai: song and dance
This Saturday's team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Associate producer: Zoe Ferguson
On-site engineers: Colin Pearce, Chris Keogh Studio
engineer: Damon Taylor
Accompanist: Joe Blossom
Research by Anne Buchanan, Infofind
8:15 Marcus Chown
British astrophysicist Marcus Chown is
cosmology consultant for the New Scientist, the author of many
popular science books, and recipient of the 2011 Future Book
Award for his iPad app The Solar System. He is an executive committee
member of the National Health Action Party, and has been named the "most
influential tweeter about David Cameron" by academics at Imperial College.
He speaks at a solo session for Writers Week during the NZ Festival (7 March),
with novelist Eleanor Catton and poet Robert Sullivan at Writers Under the
Stars (9 March, sold out), and at Royal Society events at the University of
Auckland (11 March) and the Aurora Centre in Christchurch (12 March).
8:40 Jennifer O'Sullivan
Jennifer O'Sullivan is an improviser and producer. During
the 2014 Fringe Festival, she ran the Gryphon Theatre, performed in four shows
(Return to Sender, Pundemonium, Here's a Thing! Late Night Improv, Battle of
WITs), and was awarded the Spirit of the Festival award (with James Nokise).
During the upcoming Comedy Festival (24 April to 18 May), she is producing two
shows with Hair of the Dog Productions (Adam Wright in Utopia, and Sam Smith
and Robbie Ellis in Augmented Fourth), performing and managing two Wellington
Improv Troupe shows (Return to the Planet of Forbidden Improv and All Star
Micetro), and performing in Pundemonium. She is also co-creative director of
the Wellington Improv Troupe, Chief People Wrangler at Pledge Me, and Festival
Director of the New Zealand Improv Festival (28 October to 1 November).
9:05 Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel has been writing, drawing, and syndicating
the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For for thirty years. It has run in over
fifty publications in North America and the UK, and reprinted in a number of
collections including The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (Jonathan Cape,
ISBN: 978-0-224-08706-3). She also authored the award-winning 2006 memoir, Fun
Home: A Family Tragicomedy (Jonathan Cape, ISBN: 978-0-224-08051-4), and the
2012 book, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (Jonathan Cape, ISBN:
978-0-224-09352-1). Bechdel is a guest at Writers Week, with a sold-out session
alongside Terry Castle (8 March) and a solo appearance (9 March), and she will
speak at an Auckland Women's Centre and NZ Festival event in Freeman's Bay (16
March).
9:35 Dylan Horrocks
Dylan Horrocks is a New Zealand cartoonist best known for
his 1998 book, Hicksville. His new book, Incomplete Works (VUP, ISBN:
9780864739223), collects many of his shorter comics from 1986 to 2012 and will
be launched at Writers Week, and his full-colour book-length comic The Magic
Pen will be published later this year. Horrocks will join Adrian Kinnaird,
Jonathan King and Robyn Kenealy for a discussion about comics, during Writers
Week (10 March).
9:50 Kate Camp
Kate Camp has published five collections of poems, and
contributes the Kate's Klassic segment to Saturday Mornings. During Writers
Week she will be chairing two German authors in a conversation around
"culture", and taking part in the session for the launch of the
Griffith Review. Today she will discuss NZ Festival show The Quiet Volume, a
literary experience for two by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells (8 and 11-15
March).
10:05 Joe Blossom and Duncan Sarkies
New Zealand musician Sean O'Brien has recorded and
performed with a number of various bands since the 1990s. He currently performs
as Joe Blossom, releasing his solo album debut, Nocturnes (Cabbage Tree
Records), in 2011. Tyger Tyger, the new single from his upcoming album, is out
now, and he will accompany author, screenwriter and performer Duncan Sarkies
for The Demolition of the Century at the NZ Festival (11 March).
10:25 Aidan Dooley
Aidan Dooley is an Irish writer, director and actor who
brings his production of Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer to the NZ Festival (6-9
and 11-13 March), and to Auckland for one public performance (20 March), plus
school events. Crean was one of the few men to serve with both Scott and
Shackleton, surviving three famous expeditions.
10:50 Caoilinn Hughes
Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish-born New Zealand-based poet
who combines the creativity associated with the written word with the precision
connected with science. Her new collection of 40 poems, Gathering Evidence, won
the 2012 Patrick Kavanagh Award, and poems from the collection won the 2013
Cúirt New Writing Prize, the 2012 STA Travel Writing Prize and the 2013
Trócaire / Poetry Ireland Competition. Gathering Evidence will be launched at
the Victoria University Press Festival party on 8 March and Hughes will be
doing a free reading on 11 March at Meow in Wellington.
11:05 Rhys Morgan
Whanganui-born actor Rhys Morgan has successfully
established a career in Britain and Australia as drag queen Spanky. He brings
his comedy cabaret show, Candice McQueen: Nasty!, to the NZ Festival for two
performances (8 and 9 March).
11:20 Ulf Stark and Julia Marshall
Ulf Stark is the author of around 30 books for
children and young adults, including Fruitloops and Dipsticks, My Friend
Percy's Magical Gym Shoes, My Friend Percy and The Sheik, Can You Whistle,
Johanna?, and My Friend Percy and Buffalo Bill. He has written film, TV
and theatre scripts, and won many prizes in Sweden and
internationally. Julia Marshall of Gecko Press is his New Zealand translator
and publisher. Their Writers Week session is on 9 March.
11:40 Liam Ó Maonlaí
Liam Ó Maonlaí is the frontman for Irish group The
Hothouse Flowers, and has collaborated with choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan
on the Fabulous Beast show, Rian, bringing eight dancers and five musicians
together for contemporary dance to traditional music from around the world.
Rian will be performed over four nights at the NZ Festival (12-15 March), and O
Maonlaí will perform with the Rian band at Rhythm and Reels, a night of Irish
folk music, in Paraparaumu (9 March) and Masterton (10 March).
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