Our incredible line-up line-up for Inspiring Minds features:
📗 Indigenous author, poet and artist from the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe, Sasha LaPointe (USA)
📘 Award-winning indigenous poet Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Porou), author of poetry collections Rangikura (2024) and Poūkahangatus (2022)
📒 Award-winning novelist Pip Adam, author of Audition (2023), Nothing to See (2020), and The New Animals (2017)
🎇 Recipient of a Christchurch Civic Award, engineer, Muslim community leader and writer Bariz Shah
🎤 Professor of Linguistics and Executive Dean of Arts at UC, Kevin Watson
🏢 Police-turned-booksellers Louise and Gareth Ward, owners of independent bookshop Wardini Books
🗻 Science communicator Ben Kennedy, who, in his own words, loves “learning and teaching about rocks”
🎧 Singer, songwriter, performer and interviewer Anika Moa (Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri)
🏉 expert on Māori sporting practices, indigenous masculinity and the politics of sport in Aotearoa, Phillip Borell (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa)
To register your students please get in touch with our Schools Coordinator at schools@wordchristchurch.co.nz for more information and to come along.
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