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Saturday 1 August
 Lloyd
Jones
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Lloyd Jones is a consummate writer who has single-mindedly
followed his heart to dedicate himself to the art of writing.
His experience in journalism and life has helped to produce
a rich tapestry of work that has become the first choice
of readers across the world.
Multi-award winning and best seller, Jones is a graduate
of Victoria University. His accolades include the 1988
Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow at Menton,
the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Montana NZ Book and Readers Choice
Awards, Scholarship in Letters and other awards, and the 2007 Creative New Zealand
Berlin Writers’ Residency.
Sat 1 Aug, 10am, Spiegeltent Salon Perdu
 Sam
Hunt
New Zealand/Aotearoa
New Zealand’s best-known and loved travelling poet rambles into town
with a percolating fresh brew of writings and poems that distill the essence
of this country into potency fit to enliven the soul.
Hunt’s poetry appeals to a wide-ranging audience that includes thousands
of school children over the decades. His familiar tall and rangy frame has
been seen from the Cape to the Bluff and his gifts to poetry heard far further.
Awarded a QSM in 1986 for his contribution to New Zealand poetry, this former
Burns Fellow and outstanding performer shows a rare talent that needs to be
seen to be fully appreciated.
Sat 1 Aug, 11.30am, Spiegeltent Salon Perdu
 Rebecca
Priestley
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Author, reviewer and columnist, Priestley is one of NZ’s leading science
writers. Editor of science anthology, The Awa Book of New Zealand Science and
co-author of Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA: 68 great New Zealand scientists, Priestley
has worked as a science communicator for more than 15 years. In 2006 with Veronika
Meduna she co-curated, Butterflies, Boffins and Black Smokers: two centuries
of science in New Zealand, for the National Library gallery.
Her columns, articles and reviews have appeared in magazines, newspapers and
on Te Ara – the online encyclopedia of New Zealand. Rebecca is currently
in the final stages of a PhD in the history and philosophy of science, in which
she is looking at NZ’s nuclear and radiation history.
Winner of the Royal Society 2009 Science Book of the Year.
Sat 1 Aug, 1.30pm, Spiegeltent Salon Perdu
 Harry
Ricketts
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Literary scholar, poet and reviewer, Ricketts grew up in England, Malaysia
and Hong Kong before settling in New Zealand in 1981. He is an associate professor
in the School of English, Film and Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University
of Wellington.
Published across the globe, he is the author of many books including the critically
acclaimed biography The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling, and
was a finalist in the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards in the reference
and anthology category with Spirit Abroad: A Second Selection of New Zealand
Spiritual Verse.
Ricketts’ latest book, How to Catch a Cricket Match, reflects a life-long
passion in playing, watching and reading about cricket.
Sat 1 Aug, 3pm, Spiegeltent Salon Perdu
 Hamish
Keith
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Writer, art curator and consultant, broadcaster, media man, Keith is considered
a living taonga by many. Born in 1936 and awarded an OBE for Services to Art
in 1981.
He was part of a group which persuaded Len Lye to gift his works to the Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery and was an original trustee of the Foundation. He was the original
negotiator for the Te Ma¯ori exhibition and chaired the Arts Council for
six years. Keith has sat on this country’s leading art and heritage boards,
served as president of Actors Equity and was founding president of the Writers
Guild.
His recent TV series and companion volume, The Big Picture, gained critical
acclaim. In 2008 his long-awaited and highly anticipated autobiography Native
Wit was unleashed.
Sat 1 Aug, 4.30pm, Spiegeltent Salon Perdu
 SLAVA’S
SNOWSHOW Russia
Undoubtedly the highlight of the Festival, SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW
will transform the TSB Showplace into a wintry wonderland of escapism.
This unforgettable event culminates in a blinding, heart-stopping
snowstorm that engulfs the entire audience. The lyrically beautiful,
theatrical experience melds the unbridled hilarity and unexpected
poignancy of clowning with awe-inspiring imagery, whimsical music
and amusement park thrills
Sat 1 Aug – 7.30pm, Sun 2 Aug – 6pm,
Tues 4 Aug – 7.30pm, Wed 5 Aug – 7.30pm, Thurs 6 Aug – 7.30pm,
Fri 7 Aug – 7.30pm, Sat 8 Aug – 2pm and 7.30pm
TSB Theatre, TSB Showplace
 Ship
Songs New Zealand/Aotearoa
Written and Performed by Ian Hughes With Songs and Lyric by Don McGlashan
Directed by Anna Marbrook
If you’re lost, throw yourself at the mercy of the sea – it may
just bring you home.
Inspired by how his parents met, actor Ian Hughes weaves together three extraordinary
sea-going adventures that span five centuries and four continents, and traverses
the connection between the sea, love and everyone’s quest to reach
the shore.
Fri 31, 7.30pm, Sat 1 Aug, 8pm Theatre Royal
Wed 29 July, 7.30pm, Cue Theatre, Inglewood
 Penny
Ashton
Hot Pink Bits New Zealand/Aotearoa
Saucy songs and sexy secrets are revealed by New Zealand’s global
comedienne Penny Ashton in her internationally triumphant show Hot Pink
Bits. Ashton
wows with witty, titillating facts and hour glass figures, resplendent
in sumptuous
hot pink corset and fishnets, and all in the best possible taste.
R18:
Sun 26 July, 7.30pm, Oakura Public Hall
Tues 28 July, 7.30pm, Kakaramea Hall
Wed 29th July, 7.30pm, Tarata Hall
Thurs 30 July, 7.30pm, Urenui Community Centre
Fri 31 July, 7.30pm, Rawhitiroa Hall
Sat 1 Aug, 7.30pm, Makahu Hall
 Te
Radar
Eating the Dog
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Comedian, satirist and raconteur Te Radar discovers that for every success
there’s got to be a few failures! An irreverent and hilarious look at
the non-champions of New Zealand history, people who gave life a red hot go
and maybe lost a limb, or their life in the process.
Fri 31 July, Sat 1 Aug, 8.30pm, Spiegeltent
Salon Perdu
 Meow
Meow
Beyond Glamour: The Absinthe Tour No fixed
address
From Paris to Berlin, Vegas to Shanghai, international singing and exotic performance
artist, Meow Meow, mixes up an explosive cocktail of ‘kamikaze kabarett’.
Meow Meow, is a tour de force that turns cabaret inside out and performs in
the famously magnificent Spiegeltent, a European mirror tent that is the ultimate
cabaret and music salon.
Fri 31 July, Sat 1 Aug, 10pm, Spiegeltent Salon
Perdu
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