Festival Events - Early Release
Machine de Cirque
Machine de Cirque
Trafalgar Centre
Fri 30 Oct | 7.00pm | 70 min
Sat 31 Oct | 2.00pm | 70 min
$60 – $79
Endlessly inventive and ridiculously energetic circus for the whole whānau.
The Swimmer and The Whales
Witi Ihimaera Smiler
NCMA
Sat 25 Oct | 12.30pm | 60 min
$25
Witi Ihimaera Smiler will kōrero with filmmaker Hamish Bennett about his new memoir, Te Kaikaukau | The Swimmer, as well as his highly anticipated new YA novel, The Star Path of the Whales: A Return to the Realm of The Whale Rider, which revisits the classic novel that became the classic film. They will also discuss Ariā and the Monster Island, the third children’s book in the Astromancer series.
Towards the Truth
Shehan Karunatilaka
NCMA
Sat 25 Oct | 7.30pm | 60 min
$25
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka discusses his life and literary adventures since winning the 2022 Booker Prize for his astonishing novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
