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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Maori Healing and Psychiatry
DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to the launch of Wiremu Niania and Dr. Allister Bush’s second book\, Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry\, also authored by David Epston. This is a free event and is open for all to attend. We ask that you register your attendance for catering. \nEFTpos is available as well as cash to purchase books. \nAuthors available for book signing. \nDoors open from 5.30pm \nRegister here \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nNgā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Ngā Kūaha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into Māori knowledge about wairua (spirituality) handed down by his forebears and other Māori sources. \nThe authors provide historical examples of Western mystical experiences and contrasting Western psychiatric and psychological explanations of voices and visions as hallucinations. Further chapters focus on narratives and perspectives from people who have experienced voices and visions\, and have had interactions with mental health services\, told from multiple viewpoints; individual\, whānau (family)\, Māori healing and psychiatry. The benefits of joint Māori healing and psychiatry approaches on wellbeing are examined. Drawing on their 18-year partnership Wiremu and Allister highlight the harmful colonial impact of psychiatry in suppressing Māori views of voices and visions. They describe ways of working together in clinical practice to address this history of injustice and how to identify whether distressing perceptual experiences may represent Māori cultural experiences\, psychiatric or psychological symptoms or all of these. \nThis book advocates for practices that enable genuine partnerships between Māori healers\, other wairua practitioners\, and mental health clinicians in order to improve the mental health and spiritual care of Māori and perhaps other peoples. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nWiremu Niania\, born in 1949 and of Tūwharetoa\, Ngāti Kahungunu\, Tūhoe descent\, was adopted into the Niania whānau in Tiniroto. Raised by his kuia\, Te Awhimate Niania\, he displayed spiritual awareness from a young age\, guided closely in mahi wairua practice. \nApprenticed to his kuia\, who was considered a tohunga\, Wiremu assisted with mahi wairua from his teenage years. Besides his spiritual journey\, he has diverse life experiences\, including work as a shearer\, fencer\, scrubcutter\, musician\, songwriter\, Māori activist\, and youth worker. \nIn 1999\, Wiremu studied Mental Health with Indigenous Training and Consultants\, later joining the Māori cultural therapy team in Gisborne Hospital’s mental health unit. His unique approach to mental health and spiritual distress earned him a role as a cultural therapist at Te Whare Mārie\, Specialist Māori mental health service\, until 2010. \nCollaborating with Allister Bush\, Wiremu authored Tātaihono: Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry\, winning the Ashton Wylie Book Award in 2014.  A sought-after presenter\, he speaks globally on topics like traditional healing in clinical settings. \nAllister Bush\, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist\, Te Whare Mārie\, Māori Mental Health Service and Pasifika CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service)\, Te Whatu Ora\, Porirua\, Aotearoa New Zealand. \nDavid Epston\, Co-originator of Narrative Therapy\, Tāmaki-makau-rau Auckland\, Aotearoa New Zealand.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-nga-kuaha-voices-and-visions-in-maori-healing-and-psychiatry/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Michael Belgrave | Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to an evening with Professor Michael Belgrave\, author of new book Becoming Aotearoa\, and Associate Professor Lyndon Fraser. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nIn the first major national history of Aotearoa New Zealand to be published for 20 years\, Professor Michael Belgrave advances the notion that New Zealand’s two peoples — tangata whenua and subsequent migrants — have together built an open\, liberal society based on a series of social contracts. Frayed though they may sometimes be\, these contracts have created a country that is distinct. This engaging new look at our history examines how. \n\nABOUT AUTHOR \n\nMichael Belgrave joined Massey University in 1993 on the opening of the university’s Albany campus. A historian and previously a research manager at the Waitangi Tribunal\, he taught in the social policy and social work programme until 2014\, as well as Māori studies and history. In 1995 he began a long involvement with social workers and schools\, managing and evaluating Massey University’s pilot of the programme\, and becoming the leading advisor and evaluator in the development of a government pilot and in the generalisation of the programme throughout New Zealand. The programme is now provided to all decile 1–3 schools. \nHe continued to maintain a strong interest in Treaty of Waitangi research and settlements\, providing substantial research reports into a wide number of the Waitangi Tribunal’s district inquiries. More recently\, he has been heavily involved in assisting iwi in negotiating the historical aspects of Treaty settlements. He has published widely on Treaty and Māori history\, including being lead editor of Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (Oxford University Press). He received a Marsden Fund award in 2015 for study into the re-examination of the causes of the New Zealand wars of the 1860s.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/becoming-aotearoa-book-launch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Gavin Bishop Treasury by Gavin Bishop
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to the launch of The Gavin Bishop Treasury: 10 Favourite Fairy Stories and Original Tales by Gavin Bishop. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nComprising over two hundred pages of fabulous storytelling and stunning artwork\, children will be spellbound by this beautiful hardback gift treasury of ten favourite fairy tales and original stories by the acclaimed Gavin Bishop. \nBetween the covers you will find four of Gavin’s delightful original tales\, featuring such beloved characters as drab Mrs McGinty\, who becomes a sensation when a fast-growing plant takes off in her yard\, along with a rainbow-chasing sheep\, a little rabbit who longs to visit the sea\, and a bear who decides he can go without his winter sleep. \nThere are also six of Gavin’s delicious\, humour-filled fairy tale retellings\, including crafty Mr Fox with an empty food sack to fill\, the gloriously illustrated Three Little Pigs\, and Rats!\, in which Mrs Polly Piper\, vexed by an infestation of cheeky rodents\, accepts help from the dashing\, accordion-playing Rapscallion Claw. \nThis beautiful gift collection will entrance families of all ages and sizes and is the ideal inducement to snuggle up and read together. \nThe 10 gorgeous stories included in this treasury are: Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant; Bidibidi; Mr Fox; Chicken Licken; A Apple Pie; The Three Little Pigs; Little Rabbit and the Sea; Stay Awake\, Bear!; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; and Rats! \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nGavin Bishop (Tainui\, Ngāti Awa) is a highly acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator of more than 70 books\, whose work ranges from original stories to retellings of Māori myths\, European fairy stories\, and nursery rhymes. \nBorn in Invercargill\, he spent his childhood in the remote railway settlement of Kingston on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Studying under Russell Clark and Rudi Gopas\, Gavin graduated from the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts with an honours degree in painting. He taught art at Linwood High School and at Christ’s College in Christchurch. \nAmong the numerous fellowships and national book prizes that have been awarded to Gavin throughout his career\, highlights are his Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement – Non-fiction in 2019; his Te Waka Toi Ngā Tohu ā Tā Kingi Ihaka/Sir Kingi Ihaka Award in 2018 recognising lifetime contribution to strengthening Māori art and culture through his children’s books; The Arts Foundation’s Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award in 2013; and the 2000 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and his distinguished contribution to children’s literature in New Zealand. Gavin was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2013\, and President of Honour of the NZ Society of Authors. \nGavin lives and works in Christchurch\, New Zealand. See more about him and his work at www.gavinbishop.com.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-gavin-bishop-treasury-by-gavin-bishop/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Monty Soutar | Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Bateman Books warmly welcome you to an author talk starring Monty Soutar to celebrate the release of the second instalment in the Kāwai series\, Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment.  \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book in hardback or paperback format today. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nIt’s 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Māui\, New Zealand. Hine-aute\, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga\, is fleeing through the bush\, a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her fishing net. What follows is a gripping tale of a people on the cusp of profound change that is destined to reverberate through many generations to come. \nThe Europeans have arrived\, and they’ve brought guns and foreign diseases\, ushering in a whole new world of terror and trouble. They’ve also brought a new religion\, which will cause Māori to question everything they had believed to be true. Hine and her sons Ipumare and Uha are caught in the crossfire of change\, creating fractures in their close familial bonds and undermining everything they hold dear. \nFrom raids by musket-wielding war parties to heightened internecine warfare; from the influx of whalers\, traders and Christian missionaries to the signing of The Treaty of Waitangi\, Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment strikes hard and deep into the heart of the initial impact of colonisation on Māori\, and is guaranteed to leave readers stunned. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nDr. Monty Soutar (Ngāti Porou\, Ngāti Awa\, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki\, Ngāti Kahungunu) has worked as a Senior Historian for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage\, Director of the Tairāwhiti Museum in Gisborne and as the World War One Historian in Residence at Auckland War Memorial Museum. In 2015 he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and historical research. He continues to serve on the Waitangi Tribunal. \nDr. Soutar is the author of Whitiki Whiti Whiti E! Māori in the First World War and Nga Tama Toa – The Price of Citizenship: C Company 28 (Māori) Battalion 1939-1945. In 2021 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer’s Fellowship to write the Kāwai series. Monty lives in Gisborne with his wife and youngest daughter.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kawai-tree-of-nourishment-author-talk/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:DECULT 2024
DESCRIPTION:New Zealand’s first cult conference gathers cult survivors\, academic experts\, advocates and activists – in person and live-streamed. \nJoin us at DECULT 2024 to raise awareness\, build networks and educate professionals who want to minimise harm. \n\nAre you concerned about cults and want to understand their dynamics?\nHave you come out of a harmful group or are helping someone to leave?\nDo you want to offer professional support for cult leavers?\n\n\n\n\n\nThen DECULT 2024 is for you.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/decult-2024/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Wild Walks Aotearoa | Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to the launch of Wild Walks Aotearoa by Hannah-Rose Watt. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! \nWild Walks Aotearoa is an informative\, inspiring and visually stunning guide to tramping in New Zealand\, for walkers of all levels and experiences. Featuring 59 walks across New Zealand’s North and South islands\, this practical guide is for anyone keen to explore Aotearoa’s wilderness on foot. Containing key info about essential gear; safety on the tracks; how to read topographical maps and trail markers; hut and track etiquette; advice for solo and female trampers; and details and logistics for each walk\, this book will be your new tramping companion. \nPacked with well-trodden and lesser-known walks – from quickies while on a roadie\, to hikes for tykes and multi-day journeys – you’ll find options for all ages\, fitness and experience levels. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of New Zealand’s picturesque landscapes\, Wild Walks Aotearoa is a must-own\, whether for inspiration on your coffee table or planning your next adventure. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\nHannah-Rose Watt is a passionate and experienced tramper\, mountaineer and adventurer. She grew up tramping and camping with her family in the rugged beauty of New Zealand’s South Island\, and she has a deep-rooted connection to the wilderness. \nAlongside her professional work in the outdoor industry\, including for DOC and Macpac\, Hannah dedicates her time to exploring Aotearoa\, leading tramping trips\, educating new trampers\, and fostering safe and inclusive outdoor experiences through her wild social media channels. Her mission is to inspire others to explore enchanting landscapes and to foster an appreciation for the natural world. \nHannah lives and works in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/wild-walks-aotearoa-book-launch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Lily\, Oh Lily | Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Canterbury University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of Lily\, Oh Lily: Searching for a Nazi ghost by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today. \nLily Hasenburg was just such a figure in Holman’s growing years. She was whispered into his ear by grandmother Eunice – in memorable stories of her older sister\, who married and moved to Germany at the turn of the 20th century\, and was later caught up in the Nazi web spun by Adolf Hitler. Unable to shake loose this story\, Holman pursued her to Berlin\, Hamburg and Dresden. Here\, we have an account of his pilgrimage; the kind of family history we might bury\, and forget – to our loss. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJeffrey Paparoa Holman is an acclaimed poet\, historian and memoirist. His poetry has been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards; his family memoir The Lost Pilot (Penguin\, 2013) was warmly received in Aotearoa and overseas. Best of Both Worlds: The story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau (Penguin\, 2010) was short-listed for the Ernest Scott Prize (History) in Australia. Since retirement from his role as senior adjunct fellow at the University of Canterbury\, he has taught creative writing in both primary and high school programmes.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/lily-oh-lily-book-launch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Days of Ice | Artists in Antarctica
DESCRIPTION:DAYS OF ICE\nYou are warmly invited to join Days of Ice at Tūranga to celebrate the opening of the Antarctic science season. Come celebrate Ōtautahi Christchurch’s connection to Antarctica with interactive activities\, speakers\, film\, Explore Antarctica and more. \n\nWhat transformation happens when writers\, musicians and artists stand in the vast\, cold spaces of Antarctica? Join Patrick Shepherd and fellow artists to celebrate the work of Kiwi artists in Antarctica and Antarctica’s power to inspire. \nTuesday 8 October\n5.30pm: Days of Ice opening\n6.00-7.30pm: Patrick Shepherd and fellow artists \nTautoru / TSB Space\, Hapori | Community\, Level 1\, Tūranga \nFree\, bookings required
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/days-of-ice-artists-in-antarctica/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Kataraina | Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Some of the Scorpio team are hitting the road in September to support the launch of Kataraina by Becky Manawatu\, the much-anticipated sequel to instant classic Auē (2019). Do you have friends on the West Coast? Let them know we’re on our way\, for one night only! \nSaturday 28th September\, 5.30pm \nVENUE UPDATE: now at The Denniston Dog Pub\, 18 Wakefield Street\, Westport 7825
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kataraina-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Sylvia Tour | Just Janie & Sig Wilder
DESCRIPTION:Two modern-day troubadours brought together by the poetry of two Sylvia’s. \nJust Janie and Sig Wilder are banding together with their new double single ‘Sylvia’. Fusing nostalgic Laurel Canyon folk and alt-country grit onstage in a ‘songwriter rounds’ format\, they will share the songs and stories of the music that made them. \nSig and Janie met earlier this year in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and realized they’d both written songs titled ‘Sylvia’\, influenced by poetry collections from Sylvia Plath and Sylvia Legris. After performing together\, the duo knew there was something special when their voices merged. Now they’re bringing that magic to the stage. \n‘Sylvia’ includes two tracks\, written individually and recorded together. \nSylvia I\, written and composed by Just Janie\, responds to reading Sylvia Plath’s poetry collection Ariel. After picking up the collection at Scorpio Books in Ōtautahi and feeling drawn in from the two cover lines: ‘I rise with my red hair\, and eat men like air’\, Janie was floored by the collection. This is a song to deal with the trauma of reading Sylvia Plath. \nSylvia II\, written and composed by Sig Wilder\, is a response to reading Sylvia Legris’s poetry collection Garden Physic. With each page Sig\, who is also a gardener\, discovered a wealth of complex plant references and botanical histories. He was inspired by the botanical glossolalia seemingly of Sylvia’s own invention and the collection’s ability to create music from language. This is song is an exploration of the language of plants and the haunting relationship between poet and reader. \nDrawing inspiration from the folk scene of the late sixties and early seventies\, Central Otago-born artist Just Janie has a crisp and tender style\, creating worlds for listeners to melt into. Raised in the American Midwest and now living under the Southern Cross\, Sig Wilder’s music is a journey through the hills and plains of Aotearoa\, weaving the nostalgia and sorrow of Americana into the fabric of Aotearoa’s musical landscape. \n\nThis gig occurs simultaneously with regular Saturday afternoon shopping conditions and is free to attend.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/sylvia-tour-just-janie-sig-wilder/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Make It Make Sense | Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books\, Moa Press and Shit You Should Care About warmly welcome you to the launch of Make It Make Sense by Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins. Registrations are essential for this event\, so please send in your RSVP and reserve your spot. Pre-order your book today! And now\, a message from the authors: \nSOUTH ISLAND BABIES WE ARE COMING TO YOU! We are so goddamn excited to be launching our first!! ever!! book!! and to get to come and launch it at one of our fave bookstores: Scorpio Books!! \nWe couldn’t think of a better way to send this thing out into the world than with a bunch of our favourite worn-out women (or worn-out people)\, hanging out and trying to make sense of all our burning questions about the world\, ourselves\, whether we hate our jobs or just need a bit of sleep\, and whether good love is really coming for us or if we’ll be stuck in situationships until we die. \nWhere? Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\nWhen? Friday September 20th\, 6-8pm\nWhat can you expect? An evening of love\, grief\, girlhood\, friendship\, but mostly\, a whole lot of fucking fun and phoenixing <3 \nCan’t wait to see your cute face!! \nLuce & Bel xxxxxx
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/make-it-make-sense-book-launch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Shain Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:RDU\, Scorpio Books and Auckland UNESCO City of Music warmly welcome you to an author talk featuring Shain Shapiro. Shain is touring Aotearoa New Zealand in support of his latest book This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. This event will include book signings\, readings and discussion. Special guests to be announced. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Bookings essential. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \nThis Must Be the Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music\, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed\, built\, managed and governed.Told in an accessible way through personal stories from cities around the world — including London\, Melbourne\, Nashville\, Austin and Zurich — This Must Be the Place takes a truly global perspective on the ways music is integral to everyday life but neglected in public policy.Arguing for the transformative role of artists and musicians in a post-pandemic world\, This Must Be The Place not only examines the powerful impact music can have on our cities\, but also serves as a how-to guide and toolkit for music-lovers\, artists and activists everywhere to begin the process of reinventing the communities they live in. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nShain Shapiro holds a PhD from the University of London and lives in East London. He is a globally recognised thought leader at the convergence of music\, culture and urban policy. This is showcased in his debut book\, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better\, released on Repeater Books in September 2023.  He is also an accomplished academic\, having authored courses for the Global Leaders Institute and Berklee College of Music and is also the co-founder of Unison Rights\, a new copyright management entity in Spain.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-shain-shapiro/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240809T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'The Ones That Bit Me' by Marcus Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Nau mai\, haere mai \nNau piki mai ki tēnei hui whakanui pukapuka \nMassey University Press invites you to the launch of: The Ones That Bit Me! Camels\, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor \n\nFriday 9 August 2024\, 6.30pm\nGM Hair Design\n300 Cashel Street\nCentral City\, Christchurch\nFacebook Event here\n\nIf you’d like to attend\, please RSVP.\nBooks will be available for sale and signing.\nNgā mihi nui\nThe Massey University Press team
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-ones-that-bit-me-by-marcus-taylor/
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240808T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240808T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240711T232952Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'A Man Holds a Fish' by Glenn Busch
DESCRIPTION:Te Papa Press and Scorpio Books warmly welcome you to the launch of Glenn Busch‘s new book\, A Man Holds a Fish. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \nSelected by the legendary photographer himself\, the 79 extraordinary images in Glenn Busch’s A Man Holds A Fish cement and celebrate his reputation as one of New Zealand’s most important photographers. Almost other-worldy\, and striking in their humanity and emotional affect\, the images in this resonant book bear returning to again and again. \nBusch’s work secured public notice in 1984 with the publication of Working Men. As art writer Peter Ireland observes in his essay\, ‘In the early 1970s . . . the social documentary tradition was the reigning\, respectable approach\, and Busch’s work remains foundational\, even after half a century retaining a vividness and force in its resistance to any tendency to idealise in his portraiture\, as this book so clearly attests.’ \nA handsome\, large-format book\, beautifully designed by Seven\, this book serves as both an introduction to the work of a hugely influential and widely regarded figure in photography in Aotearoa New Zealand and a celebration of his place in our art history. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nGlenn Busch\, best known for his intimate\, thought-provoking portraits and captivating social documentary work\, was born in Auckland in 1948. He left school at 14 and spent his early years working as a manual labourer in many different places around Australia and New Zealand. His passion for photography began with the viewing of the work of Hungarian photographer Brassaï and his understanding of the medium was helped through a chance meeting with John B Turner. \nThroughout his career\, Busch has focused on capturing the essence of daily life\, often exploring themes of community\, work and identity. His influential projects include Working Men\, You Are My Darling Zita\, The Man With No Arms and Other Stories\, My Place and the ongoing Place In Time documentary project. \nBusch has also contributed to New Zealand’s photographic education with his founding of the influential Auckland photography gallery\, Snaps\, and through his many years of teaching at the School of Fine Arts\, University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. \nPeter Ireland is a well-known painter\, curator and art writer with a deep interest in photography inter alia.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-a-man-holds-a-fish-by-glenn-busch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240807T163000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240807T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
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SUMMARY:Author Talk at Tūranga | Ruth Shaw
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a wonderful and warming early evening event. Amanda Cropp speaks to author Ruth Shaw about her latest projects and her life after international bestseller The Bookseller at the End of The World\, and her new book Bookshop Dogs\, already a NZ bestseller. \n\n4.30pm Meet the author\, book sales\, signing and refreshments.\n5-6pm Ruth Shaw and Amanda Cropp\nFree\, bookings required\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nRuth Shaw runs a cluster of ‘wee bookshops’ in remote Manapōuri in the far south of New Zealand. She lives with her husband\, Lance. In 2022 she published her first memoir\, The Bookseller at the End of the World\, a book that has since become a critically acclaimed national and international treasure. The Bookseller at the End of the World has been translated into Italian\, Dutch\, German\, Turkish and Chinese and will be available in Swedish\, Russian\, Slovakian\, Arabic and Korean soon.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-ruth-shaw/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240730T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240730T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240701T015225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240722T214153Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'The Mess We Made' by Megan O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:Please join Scorpio Books and Moa Press for the launch of local author Megan O’Neill’s debut novel The Mess We Made. \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \nThe Mess We Made is an addictive will-they-won’t-they debut love story about whether there can ever be a second chance for your first love. \nQuin and Henry meet as kids and quickly become inseparable… They are high-school sweethearts until one night\, one bad decision shatters everything. Years later\, Quin’s stuck working at a local takeaway. She’s not spoken to Henry since he left town nine years ago. She barely talks to her twin brother Josh\, and their mum has a degenerative disease – Quin’s dealing with the fact that she might get it too. \nWhen Henry suddenly returns – and keeps showing up at work to walk Quin home – she feels herself falling all over again. But his reappearance triggers the secret she’s kept buried for the past nine years\, and she doesn’t know if she can trust Henry not to disappear on her when he learns the truth. \nIf you love the millennial angst of Normal People and the addictive appeal of It Ends With Us and Daisy Jones and the Six\, you will be captivated by Quin and the enigmatic Henry. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nMegan O’Neill grew up in the small rural town of Waiau Pa\, overlooking the Manukau Harbour in Auckland. She now lives in Christchurch\, enjoying the wild nature on her doorstep and everything else the South Island has to offer. In her debut novel The Mess We Made\, she was inspired to write characters who were messy\, raw and real.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-mess-we-made-by-megan-oneill/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240719T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240719T110000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240626T005403Z
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SUMMARY:(FULLY BOOKED)Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Due to overwhelming demand this event is at capacity. Check out our other great Kidsfest Events\, we would love to see you these holidays! \nJoin Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales for a morning of magic and face painting!\nFriday 12th July or Friday 19th July at 10am.\nPlease RSVP for facepainting as numbers are limited – email us at tellingtales@scorpiobooks.co.nz.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/fully-bookedmelanie-poppins-at-telling-tales/2024-07-19/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Telling Tales
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240719T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240719T110000
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SUMMARY:Kidsfest - Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Join Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales for a morning of magic and face painting! Friday 12th July or Friday 19th July at 10am. \nPlease RSVP for facepainting as numbers are limited – email us at tellingtales@scorpiobooks.co.nz
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kidsfest-melanie-poppins-at-telling-tales/2024-07-19/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240714T110000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240714T140000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Sam Smith
DESCRIPTION:Come along and meet bestselling writer Sam Smith\, author of Don’t Scare the Dentist and Miles and Jones\, in the school holidays at Tūranga Library. Sam Smith will be doing two shows. The first is at 11.00am and will focus on his picture books for younger children\, and the second is at 1.00pm and will be about the first installment of his graphic novel series Miles and Jones: The Anaconda Attack. Both events are free\, no bookings required. \n\n11:00AM – 11:45AM: Don’t Scare the Dentist by Sam Smith \nCome along and meet bestselling writer Sam Smith and enjoy stories\, songs and craft! \nGet ready to laugh out loud with DON’T SCARE THE DENTIST. \nJoin Dr Charlie as he faces his biggest fear… a child in his dental chair. \n\n1:00PM – 2:00PM: Miles and Jones: The Anaconda Attack by Sam Smith \nBest friends Amelia Miles and Shackleton Jones team up to save their park from the curses of Glam-Evil\, an ultra-villain with a grudge. The hilariously funny\, graphic novel series from writer and comedian Sam Smith and illustrator César Lador. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nSam Smith is a bestselling writer\, comedian\, and former-dentist. He pivoted from dentistry to comedy after a MS diagnosis caused him to partially lose his vision. He is a head writer for the TV show 7 Days\, creates the tasks for Taskmaster NZ\, and wrote for Wellington Paranormal. He is the go-to audience warm-up act for many shows including Dancing With the Stars\, The Project\, Have You Been Paying Attention? and Patriot Brains.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-sam-smith/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240712T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240712T110000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240626T005403Z
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SUMMARY:(FULLY BOOKED)Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Due to overwhelming demand this event is at capacity. Check out our other great Kidsfest Events\, we would love to see you these holidays! \nJoin Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales for a morning of magic and face painting!\nFriday 12th July or Friday 19th July at 10am.\nPlease RSVP for facepainting as numbers are limited – email us at tellingtales@scorpiobooks.co.nz.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/fully-bookedmelanie-poppins-at-telling-tales/2024-07-12/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Telling Tales
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240712T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240712T110000
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SUMMARY:Kidsfest - Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Join Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales for a morning of magic and face painting! Friday 12th July or Friday 19th July at 10am. \nPlease RSVP for facepainting as numbers are limited – email us at tellingtales@scorpiobooks.co.nz
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kidsfest-melanie-poppins-at-telling-tales/2024-07-12/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240710T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240710T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240618T013231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T011755Z
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Laurence Fearnley
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to an author talk featuring Laurence Fearnley in conversation with Morrin Rout.  \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nFollowing a disastrous family holiday\, Libby and Curtis make a promise: If they ever visit the West Coast of the South Island again\, it will be to stay at the majestic Grand Glacier Hotel. \nTwenty years later\, Libby is recovering from cancer and the couple finally return to the resort. Except the glacier has retreated\, nothing goes to plan\, and after a storm separates her from Curtis\, Libby finds herself alone in the isolated hotel. \nDisappointed\, she tentatively begins to explore her surroundings. Could the inaccessible hotel and its curious collection of staff and guests hold the key to Libby reconnecting with the person she once was? \nAt the Grand Glacier Hotel is award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley’s third novel responding to the five senses. Drawing on a varied soundscape\, this tangible\, moving portrait of physical and emotional recovery offers a way forward\, one hopeful step at a time. \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nLaurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist. Her novel The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards. In 2014 her novel Reach was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\, and\, in 2008\, Edwin and Matilda was runner-up in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Her second novel\, Room\, was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. In 2004 Fearnley was awarded the Artists to Antarctica Fellowship and in 2007 the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. In 2016 she won the NZSA/Janet Frame Memorial Award and in 2017 she was the joint winner of the Landfall essay competition. She was named a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2019. She lives in Dunedin. \n\n\n– \n\nABOUT THE CHAIR: \nMorrin Rout has spent over 25 years organising literary events and festivals and producing and presenting book programmes on national and local radio. She is the former Director of the Hagley Writers Institute and is a current member of the WORD festival trust board.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-laurence-fearnley/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240710T110000
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SUMMARY:Kidsfest Costume Competition at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Come along to Telling Tales on Wednesday 10th July at 10am in your most exciting costume!\nHave a fun-filled morning\, check out our other Kidsfest activities and win great prizes! Extra points if your costume is book related.\nNo bookings required.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kidsfest-costume-competition-at-telling-tales-2/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Telling Tales
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240710T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240710T110000
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SUMMARY:Kidsfest Costume Competition at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Come along to Telling Tales on Wednesday 10th July at 10am in your most exciting costume! \nHave a fun-filled morning\, check out our other Kidsfest activities and win great prizes! Extra points if your costume is book related. \nNo bookings required.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kidsfest-costume-competition-at-telling-tales/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240708T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240708T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240605T005714Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand' by Lyndy McIntyre
DESCRIPTION:Lyndy McIntyre\, Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand\, Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly invite you to the launch of Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand by Lyndy McIntyre. To be launched by Rebecca Macfie. \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nLyndy McIntyre’s Power to Win tells the story of the living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. The living wage movement is grounded in the fundamental belief that all New Zealanders should be paid enough to meet their needs\, enjoy their lives and participate in society. Yet\, from the 1980s\, with the gap between rich and poor growing and poverty increasing\, more and more workers could no longer afford to aspire to this quality of life. The question of how to rectify resultant social inequities was becoming urgent. \nIn Power to Win\, McIntyre documents the history of the Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand from these roots to the present day. This is the story of the movement’s efforts to lift the wages of the most disadvantaged people in our workforce – women\, Māori\, Pacific Peoples\, migrants and refugees\, and young workers. McIntyre provides a window into the lives of these workers and those committed to ending in-work poverty: the activists\, faith groups\, unions and community organisations who come together to tilt the axis of power from employers to low-wage workers. \nPower to Win is the record of an extraordinarily successful movement. It is a celebration of hope and an inspiring read. This book shows that communities have power and that change can happen. \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nLyndy McIntyre grew up in the 50s and 60s in a time of relative prosperity in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the 70s she became increasingly active in left/progressive issues and her community. Lyndy learnt about unions on the job as a union delegate in the printing industry through the 1980s. In 1990 she started a 30-year working life in unions\, with a brief stint as a parliamentary press secretary. In 2007 she was elected to Kāpiti Coast District Council. She served one term and decided that union work was more worthwhile. In 2015\, she became one of two paid community organisers in Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2020\, she retired from her community organising role and began to write this story of the movement.\n\nFind out more at oup.nz/power-to-win
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-power-to-win-by-lyndy-mcintyre/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240706T090000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240721T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240613T210021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240613T020320Z
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SUMMARY:Kidsfest Reading Challenge at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Read books to win! Pick up an entry form in-store during the holidays. Submit it during KidsFest (6th July – 21st July) to win a brilliantly bookish prize. \nBooks can come from Telling Tales\, your local library\, or your own bookshelf! Different challenges for each age category: 0-5\, 6-9\, 10+. \nThis event is free to enter\, entry forms available at the counter throughout the school holidays (Saturday 6th July – Sunday 21st July).
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kidsfest-reading-challenge-at-telling-tales/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Telling Tales
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240706T090000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240721T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240613T210020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240613T013252Z
UID:10000071-1720256400-1721581200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Kidsfest Treasure Hunt at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Find the letters hidden around the shop and unscramble them into the name of a famous book character! Entry Forms can be found at the counter every day throughout the school holidays. \nPrizewinners will be selected during the first week of term three. \nThis is a free event\, no bookings required.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kidsfest-treasure-hunt-at-telling-tales/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Telling Tales
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240701T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T104529
CREATED:20240605T005011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T005011Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Rere Takitahi/Flying Solo' edited by JCL Purchase and AJ Woolf
DESCRIPTION:Olearia Press and Scorpio Books invite you to celebrate the launch of a new anthology of collected writings on the experience of solo parenthood and differently-structured families in Aotearoa New Zealand. This event will feature readings from contributors – lineup TBA.\n \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nIncluding over fifty writers from diverse ethnic and demographic communities (representing parents/grandparents/matua\, offspring/rangatahi\, educators\, doctors\, social workers\, researchers\, creatives and other disciplines) Rere Takitahi/Flying Solo “eviscerates” the lived experience of an often neglected and misunderstood sector of society\, focusing attention on aspects of their lives that will resonate with readers who have experienced similar. \nFrom Katherine Mansfield’s sinister story about an abandoned\, single mother trying to survive in early 19th century rural New Zealand\, to Jess Young’s moving poem about wet nappies hanging throughout the house while her milk lets down during her WINZ appointment\, to Fiona Farrell’s intellectually disabled Skinny Louie\, who births her child all alone in the orchid house at the Dunedin Botanic Gardens\, to Alexandra Balm’s mother and son migrating to New Zealand from eastern Europe\, to Michael Botur’s solo father going to great lengths to support his little girl\, Rere Takitahi/Flying Solo explores the fates of alternatively-structured families and single parents through short and micro-fiction\, essay\, memoir\, poetry and reportage. \n– \n\nABOUT THE EDITORS: \nJCL Purchase (aka Jenny Purchase) is a senior secondary teacher of English\,  French\, and ESOL but has also taught an eclectic range of subjects in the tertiary sector. Possessing extensive academic and business writing experience\, since completing a master’s degree in creative writing at AUT in 2010\, and a further Post-Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies in 2011\, she has branched increasingly into creative writing\, scriptwriting\, reviewing and article writing. Some of her work has been published in journals\, publications\, anthologies\, and online\, and she released a collection of short stories\, Transit Lounge in 2022 (Lasavia Publishing). One of Jenny’s short stories received Creative New Zealand funding for a short film. She has also received special mentions in the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition and the Aeon Competition. She is currently working on an epic historical novel in the classic tradition and a memoir/philosophical reflection on her life and times. She campaigns tirelessly for magazines\, newspapers\, and periodicals to publish more short fiction and poetry. \nAJ (Angela) Woolf is a writer and artist living in Marlborough. She has published short stories and currently has four novels ready for publication. Several of Angela’s short stories and novels have reached the finals in competitions such as the Michael Gifkins Prize\, and she received third place in the Zephyr Short Story Competition in 2020. \nBoth editors are former solo parents and members of alternative families.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-rere-takitahi-flying-solo-edited-by-jcl-purchase-and-aj-woolf/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Hopurangi—Songcatcher' by Robert Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:Auckland University Press and Scorpio Books invite you to celebrate the launch of Robert Sullivan‘s new poetry collection Hopurangi—Songcatcher. Inspired by the cyclical energies of the Maramataka\, these poems see the poet re-finding himself and his world – in the mātauranga of his kuia from the Ngāti Hau and Ngāti Kaharau hapū of Ngāpuhi; in his mother’s stories from his Ngāti Manu hapū at Kāretu; in the singing and storytelling at Puketeraki Marae\, home of his father’s people of Kāti Huirapa\, Kāti Māmoe\, Waitaha and Kāi Tahu Whānui in Te Tai o Āraiteuru; and in the fellowship of friends on Facebook. \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nTo be launched by Anna Jackson. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \n“Rich\, accessible and fun\, intense and moving\, Hopurangi—Songcatcher presents poems charting the increasing harmonisation of a Māori literary intellect with his world in cultural\, spiritual and physical terms. This harmonisation is focused through his intensifying connection with the Maramataka\, the whenua he inhabits\, his Māori community (online and in real life)\, and his own body. The poems are extraordinarily appealing – technically tight\, warm and emotionally moving.” — Tina Makereti\, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nRobert 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 and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His most recent collection was Tūnui | Comet (Auckland University Press\, 2022).
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-hopurangi-songcatcher-by-robert-sullivan/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'The End of the Beginning' by Jenna Heller
DESCRIPTION:AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU and Scorpio Books invite you to the launch of Jenna Heller’s new book\, The End of the Beginning.\n \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nA tornado rips the roof from a strip mall. A girl is scorched by her own reflection. A daughter enacts revenge for her mother’s grotesquely inappropriate remarks. An unwell man prepares to leave his home and community for the last time. A woman contemplates her impending transformation into a sea creature\, while another\, gifted with second sight\, finds that ghosts start to outnumber the living. \nWith plots that hinge on moments of unease\, betrayal\, or violence\, these small stories focus on becoming and unforeseen departures. Ranging from North America to Aotearoa\, they move through the captured time of childhood memory to the vastness of geological time as experienced by an escaping moon\, and often\, they lean into a queer and ecologically-inflected Gothic. \n“Brilliant\, tender and spare.” – Frankie McMillan \n“With a delicate but strong sense of narrative voice\, Jenna Heller has seized the flash form and made it her own.” – Tina Shaw \n“These spare yet sumptuous stories ripple with wonder and warmth. They are also ruthless. Nothing under the sun escapes Jenna Heller’s sharp-eyed perception. The End of the Beginning is flash fiction at its finest.” – Michelle Ross \n“These small stories riff on genre\, but often lean into a dark humour that scratches at the unease in human relationships with other humans and with the environment\, like a succession of brutal jokes. Jenna Heller is attentive to the ‘suitcase behind the smile’\, to life as it is lived and its multiple alternate personalities.” – Alison Glenny \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nJenna Heller was the joint-winner of the Meniscus Australian CLA Best Prose Prize 2019\, shortlisted for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing 2019\, runner-up of the North & South Short\, Short Story Contest 2019\, winner of National Flash Fiction Day NZ 2020\, runner-up for the Caselberg International Poetry Prize 2021\, and was also selected for inclusion in the international anthology Best Small Fictions 2020\, 2021\, and 2023.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-end-of-the-beginning-by-jenna-heller/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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