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NZ Fest Digest: Time's Shape

The themes of historical awareness, presence and transformation are grappled with in many Writers' Week events.

NZ Fest Digest: Blossoming Voice

Since Writers Week kicked off, my days have been a flurry of talks and events, and writing has become more about the connections between them.

NZ Fest Digest: Time with Catton

“Ambition is the desire for permanent change,” says Eleanor Catton at her New Zealand Book Council lecture, as part of the NZ Festival Writers Week.

NZ Fest Digest: Makeshift Magic and Mayhem

How do you dance to puppetry? That's the question I brought, along with my silliest friend, to Suitcase Royale's Ballad of Backbone Joe.

NZ Fest Digest: Light and Sound

Where Power Plant's show seemed more a technician's tribute, Brel was a heartfelt work of integrated stories, sound and light, sensuality and setting.

NZ Fest Digest: Dancers Go Gaga

I wonder if Deca not only refers to the decade of choreography from which it draws, but also to early counting of children, and the 1 and 0 composites of communication in the digital age.

NZ Fest Digest: From Fringe to Feast

The NZ Festival has begun and I have collected my big bundle of tickets. Because I’m also a Fringe Festival fan, they’ve left me without a single night free until mid March.

It's NZ Festival time

Wellington writer Renee Gerlich scopes out new director Shelagh Magadza’s 2014 New Zealand Festival programme.