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Rita in Writing – September 2008 

When: Thursday 18 September 2008,
Where:
Cost: Free entry

September’s theme of our Art After Dark sessions illuminated the exhibition RITA ANGUS: Life & Vision. This event took place on 18 September 2008.

Creative Lives

A panel discussion with biographers of three creative New Zealanders. Join Jill Trevelyan, author of Rita Angus: An artist’s life and co-curator of the exhibition, Philip Norman, Montana Award winning biographer of Douglas Lilburn, and Gordon Ogilvie, writer of the acclaimed Denis Glover: his life, in a discussion chaired by Lydia Wevers.

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Reading for Rita

Immerse yourself in the poetry of Rita Angus’s contemporaries as read to you by well-known Wellington poets Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O’Brien.

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Michaela Manley – singer-songwriter

Sit back and enjoy this live solo performance in a cafe setting.

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Visit the RITA ANGUS: Life & Vision website

Rita Angus: Life and Vision
Featured artwork: Self-portrait  1936-1937.
Oil paint on canvas, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, purchased 1980



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