ADVENTUROUS

Word
Christchurch

29 August – 2 September 2018

Bringing the community together through its love of words in all their forms...

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Featuring

An Evening with Lee Child

Friday, 23 November, 2018 7:00 pm

WORD Christchurch, in association with Penguin Random House New Zealand, is excited to announce An Evening with Lee Child on Friday, 23 November.

Catch up on what you missed with our podcasts!

Missed out on one of our events? We record some of the best of WORD Christchurch events, including highlights from the 2018 festival so you can revisit them if you were lucky enough to see them, or hear them for the first time if you weren’t.

It’s a Wrap!

Thousands flocked to events in Christchurch this week to celebrate words in all their forms at the WORD Christchurch Festival. The festival, with a theme of ‘adventurous’, drew a bigger audience than ever before, with attendance well in excess of 15,000, a whopping 25% increase from the previous record set by the 2016 festival.

Kaveh Akbar: Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Tuesday 6 November 6:30 pm

WORD Christchurch, in association with LitCrawl Wellington, is proud to present Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar for an evening of poetry and conversation with Erik Kennedy.