The Creative Cities Southern Hui is for ALL creative minds. Join the conversation across all art forms, disciplines, experiences and interests.
Meet, listen, share and collaborate with us as we collectively explore our connections, locally and globally.
Every event is FREE and open to ALL creative minds. Registration is required through the Dunedin City of Literature website.
Spanning several days, the ‘Hui’ offers multiple events, talks, workshops and performances around the themes of creativity, connection and collaboration.
Click HERE or see the schedule below:
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER, 9AM – 5PM
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION | TOWER BLOCK, G07
CENTRE FOR THE BOOK SYMPOSIUM: BOOKS AND USERS
As books and print become increasingly available in multiple formats and media, do our uses change and do we expect different things from books?
REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL
CENTRE FOR THE BOOK SYMPOSIUM: BOOKS AND USERS
As books and print become increasingly available in multiple formats and media, do our uses change and do we expect different things from books?
REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL
9am GATHERING AND WELCOME
BOOKS AND IDENTITY – CHAIR: SHEF ROGERS
9.15am Donald Kerr – Stalking the Elusive Rev. Shoults
9.35am Marian Crawford – A Lively Phantom: The Rare and Popular Artist Book
9.55am David Goodwin – Book Choices as an Indicator of Invisible Qualities
10.15am Discussion
10.30am Tea and coffee / Kaputi
9.15am Donald Kerr – Stalking the Elusive Rev. Shoults
9.35am Marian Crawford – A Lively Phantom: The Rare and Popular Artist Book
9.55am David Goodwin – Book Choices as an Indicator of Invisible Qualities
10.15am Discussion
10.30am Tea and coffee / Kaputi
MARKS IN BOOKS – CHAIR: JOHN HOLMES
11am Jessica Thomas – Healing Books: Hidden Communities in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius
11.20am Alexandra Newman – ‘So you don’t have to go to the trouble of reading’: Indexing, Note-taking and Correction-making in the Smithsonian Institution’s 1491 Historia Naturalis
11.40am Karen McAulay – 19th century Scottish Music Scores
12 noon Discussion
12.15pm –1.45pm Lunch / Free time
11am Jessica Thomas – Healing Books: Hidden Communities in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius
11.20am Alexandra Newman – ‘So you don’t have to go to the trouble of reading’: Indexing, Note-taking and Correction-making in the Smithsonian Institution’s 1491 Historia Naturalis
11.40am Karen McAulay – 19th century Scottish Music Scores
12 noon Discussion
12.15pm –1.45pm Lunch / Free time
CULTURE FORMATION – CHAIR: DONALD KERR
1.45pm Lachy Paterson – Ma¯ori and Books during the Missionary Period
2.05pm Rosi Crane – ‘I’m very badly in want of a book’ — Building a 19th century Museum Library
2.25pm Moira White – Literary NZ Women at the 1925 South Seas Exhibition
2.50pm Discussion
3.05pm Tea and coffee / Kaputi¯
1.45pm Lachy Paterson – Ma¯ori and Books during the Missionary Period
2.05pm Rosi Crane – ‘I’m very badly in want of a book’ — Building a 19th century Museum Library
2.25pm Moira White – Literary NZ Women at the 1925 South Seas Exhibition
2.50pm Discussion
3.05pm Tea and coffee / Kaputi¯
INFLUENCE OF BOOKS – CHAIR: TRISH BROOKING
3.30pm Raymond Huber – Books for your Inner Child
3.50pm Phillippa Duffy – A Book in the Hand… Worth its Weight in Gold
4.10pm Sue Wootton – Bibliotherapy: Books as Medicine
4.30pm Discussion
4.45pm – 5pm Closing remarks, and adjourn to the University Staff Club
3.30pm Raymond Huber – Books for your Inner Child
3.50pm Phillippa Duffy – A Book in the Hand… Worth its Weight in Gold
4.10pm Sue Wootton – Bibliotherapy: Books as Medicine
4.30pm Discussion
4.45pm – 5pm Closing remarks, and adjourn to the University Staff Club
THURSDAY 30 NOVEMBER, 9AM – 5PM
DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY | AUDITORIUM
GUEST SPEAKERS: CREATIVE CONNECTIONS
Creative Connections aims to explore creativity as the touchstone of healthy, sustainable communities, and celebrate the power of collaboration to inspire.
MC: Victor Billot – Otago University Press
Coffee and tea from 8.30am; University Book Shop pop-up store open at the venue
REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL
DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY | AUDITORIUM
GUEST SPEAKERS: CREATIVE CONNECTIONS
Creative Connections aims to explore creativity as the touchstone of healthy, sustainable communities, and celebrate the power of collaboration to inspire.
MC: Victor Billot – Otago University Press
Coffee and tea from 8.30am; University Book Shop pop-up store open at the venue
REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL
9am Mayor Dave Cull – Dunedin as a UNESCO City of Literature
9.25am Paulette Tamati-Elliffe – (Ka¯i Te Pahi, Kai Te Ruahikihiki (Otakou), Te Atiawa, Ngati Mutunga), Otepoti – He Puna Auaha
9.50am Councillor Aaron Hawkins – Ara Toi O¯tepoti: A city catching up with its creative community
10.15am Sue Bidrose – My Day With Helen: NZ Nongovernmental Delegation to the UN on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and Children
10.40am Tea and coffee / Kaputi¯
11.05am Anna Maria Lorusso (Bologna UNESCO City of Music) – Promoting culture in the city: Book fairs, libraries, university
11.30am Welby Ings – Disobedient voices: Short film, cultural capital and why it is easier to get your work acknowledged internationally
11.55am Victor Rodger – FCC (FLOW. CREATE. CONNECT): Putting Pasefika front and centre
12.20pm –1.15pm Lunch / Free time
1.15pm Hera Lindsay Bird – Language builds the world
1.40pm Shayne Carter – Life as a writer of songs and memoir
2.05pm Iona Winter – Whakahokihoki – A return to many places
2.30pm Craig Cliff – We are all storytellers – Analogue and digital perspectives on narrative
2.55pm Tea and coffee / Kaputi
3.20pm Guy Ryan – Creativity, entrepreneurship and backing young New Zealanders
3.45pm Melanie Kidd ( Norwich UNESCO City of Literature) Creative Writing. Creative Words. Creative Change.
4.10pm Steven Edmund Winduo (Papua New Guinea) – Transitions and Transformations
4.35pm Noel Waite (Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature) – Anything Can Happen: Creative Cities Unbound
5.30pm – 7.30pm Delegates are warmly invited to stroll with us at the end of the day to the Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery (nearby at 2 Dowling Street), for a special ‘delegates only’ launch of the Otago Fonebook I by Michelle Chalklin-Sinclair and Judith Cullen – who will be there to sign books on the night. You are invited to relax with a glass of wine or juice and at the same time view new oil paintings by highly regarded New Zealand artist Sam Foley, who will also be in attendance.
9.25am Paulette Tamati-Elliffe – (Ka¯i Te Pahi, Kai Te Ruahikihiki (Otakou), Te Atiawa, Ngati Mutunga), Otepoti – He Puna Auaha
9.50am Councillor Aaron Hawkins – Ara Toi O¯tepoti: A city catching up with its creative community
10.15am Sue Bidrose – My Day With Helen: NZ Nongovernmental Delegation to the UN on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and Children
10.40am Tea and coffee / Kaputi¯
11.05am Anna Maria Lorusso (Bologna UNESCO City of Music) – Promoting culture in the city: Book fairs, libraries, university
11.30am Welby Ings – Disobedient voices: Short film, cultural capital and why it is easier to get your work acknowledged internationally
11.55am Victor Rodger – FCC (FLOW. CREATE. CONNECT): Putting Pasefika front and centre
12.20pm –1.15pm Lunch / Free time
1.15pm Hera Lindsay Bird – Language builds the world
1.40pm Shayne Carter – Life as a writer of songs and memoir
2.05pm Iona Winter – Whakahokihoki – A return to many places
2.30pm Craig Cliff – We are all storytellers – Analogue and digital perspectives on narrative
2.55pm Tea and coffee / Kaputi
3.20pm Guy Ryan – Creativity, entrepreneurship and backing young New Zealanders
3.45pm Melanie Kidd ( Norwich UNESCO City of Literature) Creative Writing. Creative Words. Creative Change.
4.10pm Steven Edmund Winduo (Papua New Guinea) – Transitions and Transformations
4.35pm Noel Waite (Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature) – Anything Can Happen: Creative Cities Unbound
5.30pm – 7.30pm Delegates are warmly invited to stroll with us at the end of the day to the Artist’s Room Fine Art Gallery (nearby at 2 Dowling Street), for a special ‘delegates only’ launch of the Otago Fonebook I by Michelle Chalklin-Sinclair and Judith Cullen – who will be there to sign books on the night. You are invited to relax with a glass of wine or juice and at the same time view new oil paintings by highly regarded New Zealand artist Sam Foley, who will also be in attendance.
FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER, 10.30AM – 5PM
ATHENAEUM BUILDING | THE OCTAGON
WORKSHOP: CREATIVE CITIES TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
Identify and take home a new collaborative arts project. Bring your enthusiasm and your creative inspiration! Facilitated by Noel Waite – Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature, with a welcome to the Athenaeum Building and the art of heritage restoration by Lawrie Forbes.
12.30pm – 2pm Lunch / Free time
REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL
ATHENAEUM BUILDING | THE OCTAGON
WORKSHOP: CREATIVE CITIES TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
Identify and take home a new collaborative arts project. Bring your enthusiasm and your creative inspiration! Facilitated by Noel Waite – Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature, with a welcome to the Athenaeum Building and the art of heritage restoration by Lawrie Forbes.
12.30pm – 2pm Lunch / Free time
REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL
FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER, 5.30PM – 8PM
4TH FLOOR | DUNEDIN CITY LIBRARY
MERELY PLAYERS: CREATIVE CABARET
Walk with us after the Workshop to the City Library nearby to kick back with a glass of wine or juice and enjoy some special local performance.
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4TH FLOOR | DUNEDIN CITY LIBRARY
MERELY PLAYERS: CREATIVE CABARET
Walk with us after the Workshop to the City Library nearby to kick back with a glass of wine or juice and enjoy some special local performance.
REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature and the Centre for the Book invite you to the Creative Cities Southern Hui. Full biographies at www.cityofliterature.co.nz
