Acclaimed painter New Zealand Euan Macleod

Festival Gala Opening


Fri 4 Nov 6:00pm

Join us for the Festival Gala Opening. Meet the artists from the Waiheke Book Festival exhibitions. Esteemed painter Euan Macleod, NZ born now Sydney resident, winner of Australian prestigious Archibald Prize and Sulman Prize. Euan's work has stolen the art scene, hearts and minds of Australian public and private collections.

Euan Macleod The Painter in the Painting, recently published by biographer and fellow artist Wellingtonian Gregory O’Brien, who joins Euan for the festival weekend.

Expect the unexpected...

Warwick Broadhead at his best. Wine and superb finger food.

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Festival Week

Friday 4 - 6 November 2011 Waiheke Community Art Gallery Exhibitions - FREE

The Sea of Where it Was We Went:: Euan MacLeod - new paintings, Gregory O'Brien - paintings and drawings from three harbours, and from an island without a harbour.


Locations

Travel by Fullers Ferries from Auckland and Devonport to Waiheke

Artworks Theatre:
cnr. Ocean View Rd and Korora Rd, Oneroa

The Owhanake Barn:
75 Korora Rd, Oneroa (opposite the. Steiner Kindergarten)

The Boatshed:
cnr. Tawa and Huia St

Mudbrick Restaurant:
Mudbrick Vineyard restaurant, Church Bay


Festival Team

Creative Director: Geraldine O'Sullivan- Beere

Waiheke Art Gallery Director:
Linda Chalmenrs

Tickets & Programme:
Margaret Peacocke

Finance:
Pamela Lim

Committee:
Judy Rae, Lizzy Firth


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Mudbrick Lunch


The Boatshed

Lloyd Jones NZ writer - Hand Me Down World

Lloyd Jones


Sat 5 Nov 10:00am

Catch the ferry. Artworks is a short 5 minute taxi or bus ride up the hill. Keen visitors can walk.

Visit the art gallery to enjoy the festival exhibitions and the library for rare books.  - FREE

11:00am Artworks

Opening by Mayor Len Brown Artworks Theatre


Jenny Bornholdt - master poet

Jenny Bornholdt, master poet (photography Deborah Smith) Immerse in her words - captured fragments of life and relationships. Jenny has a credible body of work including nine published works of poetry.

Visit Waiheke Community Art Gallery for artist floor talk by Euan Macleod and Gregory O’Brien - book signing - FREE

12:30-1:30 Lunch

The Artworks Theatre café will have simple filled rolls, coffee and small treats.

 

1:30pm

Lloyd Jones, writer

Lloyd Jones in Conversation New Zealand’s eminent writer Lloyd Jones in conversation with Finlay Macdonald...

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Lloyd Jones has published essays and children's books but his best known works are: The Book of Fame, Biografi and Mister Pip, Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner, Montana Medal for Fiction and Kiriyama Writers' Prize, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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Finlay Macdonald was editor of the NZ Listener magazine from 1998 to 2003, commissioning editor at Penguin New Zealand from 2003 to 2005 (during which time he published David Lange: My Life), and an award winning weekly columnist for the Sunday Star-Times from 2003 to 2011. He contributes to various publications, writes and presents for television and radio, and lives in Auckland with his wife Carol Hirschfeld and their two children.


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Laurence Fearnley award winning book The Hut Builder

Laurence Fearnley


Sat 5 Nov 2:30pm

Laurence Fearnley NZ writer
Laurence Fearnley, winner of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction - Cutting edge New Zealand fiction.

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Emily Perkins, one of the judges of the recent NZ Post Awards, says:

"In this novel Laurence Fearnley continues her committed exploration of Southern lives, and in doing so creates something new - a 21st century approach to a 20th century Pakeha origin story.

Through the character of Boden Black, butcher, poet, and sometime mountaineer, she gives voice to the taciturn archetype of the Great Southern man, and reaches into awkward corners of the psyche with tenderness and empathy."

3:30pm The Barn

Deck Chair readings at The Barn Come to The Barn on Korora Rd for an enchanted afternoon of relaxed Deck Chair readings. Bring your rug and sit on the grass. Kick back, unwind with a glass of wine and rub shoulders with the literati.

Book launch: A Messy Affair by Caroline Lark...

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Caroline Lark is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and artist. London born, she graduated in Fine Arts, Psychology and Philosophy of Education from Cambridge.

Her poetry, widely published in the UK and New Zealand, has appeared in literary journals in Australia and France...

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Storytellers and poets will enchant - Waiheke’s own Pita Rikys and Sue Fitchett, plus acclaimed master poet Jenny Bornholdt and more…

The Barn will display works “in studio” by Gregory O’Brien and Euan Macleod, who have worked in this Waiheke studio. Enjoy the backdrop of Artists at Work with Euan Macleod The Painter in the Painting book signing.

We have chairs and plenty of room - move inside if it’s wet. Wine & strawberries (included). French Crepes for sale. The iconic French Crepe trailer will be The Barn serving savoury and sweet crepes. Take a taxi van from theatre down to The Barn. Or travel in your own car.

6:00pm Ferry Back

Catch the 6pm ferry back to town or stay and dine in the village.

 

Caroline Lark writer of A Messy Affair

Caroline Lark


Sun 6 Nov 10:00am

Catch the ferry.
Visit festival exhibitions - FREE

11:30am Mudbrick

Arrive to a welcome glass of bubbles. Wander Mudbrick's charming potager garden. A menu to delight is promised by Mudbrick's talented chefs.

The Mudbrick Literary Lunch showcases Peta Mathias, New Zealand cooking celebrity...

Peta Mathias

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Outrageous red-head Peta will delight with her new book hot off the press, Beat till Stiff. Peta Mathias is a respected and prolific author & chef

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Peta Matthias author of Beat Till Stiff

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And Michael Smythe reveals the secrets of NZ designed products from gumboots to Crown Lynn and talks about his book New Zealand by Design...

Michael Smythe writer

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Myths busted and questions posed as design stories revealed.

It seems that New Zealanders didn’t invent the Thermette, the electric fence or the jet boat even though they made the most of them.

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New Zealand by Design


3:pm The Boatshed

Enjoy chic luxury at Waiheke's nautical 5 star seaside hotel. High tea includes a glass of bubbly, seriously-good finger food, tea and coffee... and...

Anah Dunsheath, leading New Zealand antiquarian expert, talks about her rare books and Laurence Fearnley reads from her award winning fiction....

6:00pm Ferry Back

Organise your taxi connect to catch the 6pm ferry to Auckland