A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: TINY LECTURES ON THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

Jo Burzynska

Dr Jo Burzynska is a writer, multisensory artist, perfumier and wine critic. Her work in these areas has converged in projects that explore aesthetic and linguistic correspondence between the senses. Recent years have seen her increasingly focus on creating olfactory art, and launch her own perfume label, Osmic Resonance. Jo is Wine Editor of the NZ Herald’s Viva magazine, the author of Wine Class: All You Need to Know About Wine in New Zealand (Random House), and is currently writing a book for Routledge based on her doctoral research exploring sensory interactions within art and creative practice. She is currently based in the briny-scented port town of Ōhinehou Lyttelton, New Zealand.

Lloyd Jones

Murdoch Stephens

Naomi van den Broek

Naomi van den Broek is a creative person living and working in Ōtuatahi Christchurch. By day she's a professional bossy britches and problem solver managing UC’s campus at the Arts Centre. By night she performs (as Naomi Ferguson), writes, makes things using fibre and threads, laughs/claps loudly in audiences for other people's work, and generally doesn’t feel fully alive unless the day has involved some creativity. She also likes to read, eat, cook, ride her bike and talk.

Robert Sullivan

Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry as well as a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Māori legends for children. He co-edited, with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, the anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English, Whetu Moana (2002) and Mauri Ola (2010), and an anthology of Māori poetry with Reina Whaitiri, Puna Wai Kōrero (2014), all published by Auckland University Press. Among many awards, he received the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry. He is associate professor of creative writing at Massey University. His new collection, Hopurangi / Songcatcher, was launched in Christchurch this year.

Sam Duckor-Jones

THE MUSEUM OF UNRULY DESIRES

Take an after-dark tour of the museum, with poets waiting beside favourite taonga to read work that illuminates these treasures in surprising ways.

THE GENTRIFICATION BLUES AND COMEDY HOUR

Two gifted satirists, Coco Solid and Murdoch Stephens, tackle housing and gentrification in their recent books. Join them for a sparky conversation about the places we live.

LLOYD JONES: MODERN FABLES

Join Lloyd Jones in conversation about how myths, fables and legends shape our understanding of the past, and of ourselves.