CANCELLED AND POSTPONED EVENTS

We are sorry to say that due to ongoing COVID restrictions and complications, these events are now cancelled or postponed. You’ll find information on refunds here.

It’s one thing to schedule a big festival, and another to re-schedule a big festival during a pandemic. Between lockdowns, concerns for audience safety, changes to venue capacities, and, most of all, artist availability, we’re sad to say that we have lost more than half of this year’s programme. Some events are postponed and will return in 2022; many are cancelled for now. Here’s a list of everything that’s gone, as a reminder of the hard work our writers, speakers and staff put into each one.

You can still support the festival by coming to our remaining events, buying livestream tickets if you can’t make it in person, or making a donation. And you can still support our writers by buying their books and spreading the word about their work.

*Please note some of the below events changed after the first lockdown – these represent the second iteration for many of the events

POSTPONED

TE PIKI O TĀWHAKI: THE ASCENT OF TĀWHAKI

KĀ WAI O TAHU: MARLON WILLIAMS, ARIANA TIKAO, RUBY SOLLY

DAVID MITCHELL & TINY RUINS: IF I WERE A STORY AND YOU WERE A SONG

CANCELLED

KURA REO – MĀORI LANGUAGE CLASS – THURSDAY

KURA REO – MĀORI LANGUAGE CLASS – FRIDAY

KURA REO – MĀORI LANGUAGE CLASS – SATURDAY

KURA REO – MĀORI LANGUAGE CLASS – SUNDAY

MAGAZINE IN RESIDENCE: TAKAHĒ

STEPHANIE JOHNSON: THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW

INSPIRING WRITERS SECONDARY SCHOOLS DAY

READ ALOUD SCHOOLS DAY

POETRY TAKES YOU PLACES

SLAM POETRY IN WAIMAKARIRI SCHOOLS

MATARIKI AND STAR LORE

UNSETTLING STORIES

HER SAY

HER SAY AT LINWOOD LIBRARY

PERIPATOS IN PŪTARINGAMOTU

ALISON WONG: MEMOIR WORKSHOP

KARLO MILA: POETRY WORKSHOP

TRANQUILITY & RUIN

ADAPTING AVIA

WIT WORLD

THE NEXT GENERATION

FUNNIER AND WEIRDER

BAD DIARIES SALON: NEAR

THE STARDUST CABARET

PARENTING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

THREE MINUTES OF FAME

LANDLORDING

RAY SHIPLEY’S LATE NIGHT POETRY HOUR

OVER THE TEACUPS WITH SARAH FERGUSON, DUCHESS OF YORK

CUT TO THE BONE

BACKLISTED: BRINGING NEW LIFE TO OLD BOOKS

THE GREAT WORD STORY HUNT

MEGAN DUNN: THINGS I LEARNED AT ART SCHOOL

BOOK LAUNCH: ATUA BY GAVIN BISHOP

BILL HAMMOND: ACROSS THE EVENING SKY LAUNCH

MELANI ANAE: FIFTY YEARS OF THE POLYNESIAN PANTHERS

MARY HOLM: YOUR MONEY

HOW TO WRITE A POEM

HE WAIATA HOU: INDIGENOUS WRITERS WORKSHOP

 

 

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Word Christchurch Festival 2021

PO Box 29 270
Christchurch 8440

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