Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
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Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
One of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most acclaimed writers, Elizabeth Knox, discusses her incredible memoir of a calamitous time.
When | Āhea
Mon 20 Jul 2026, 12.15 to 1.15
Where | Ki hea
Rongomaraeroa, the marae, Level 4
Cost | Te utu
Free, with museum entry
In this event, three poets discuss their new collections.
Debut poet Haro Lee’s Watching Television in a Love Motel takes on self, family, and past though the cultural lens of TV.
Helen Rickerby’s genre-bending poetic memoir, My Bourgeois Apocalypse, is made with fragments from journals of the ‘weird years’, including the pandemic.
Airini Beautrais’s return to poetry finds her crafting a portrait of an uneasy time in The Salt Quilt, both sharp-witted and self-aware.
These three innovative poets are joined by Chris Tse for a conversation about bending poetic form to make past and future come alive.
Elizabeth Knox, photo by Ebony Lamb
Two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s top short fiction writers, Lawrence Patchett and 2026 Acorn Award-winning Ingrid Horrocks, discuss the art of the short story.
Mon 27 Jul 2026, 12.15 to 1.15
Event Ngā kaupapa motuhake
Two novelists discuss their newest books for young readers, and how fiction might show us how to challenge tyranny and have courage.
Mon 10 Aug 2026, 12.15 to 1.15
Event Ngā kaupapa motuhake
The International Institute of Modern Letters presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
From Mon 6 July
