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Presented by:Hedleys BooksFraser Books
Masterton District LibraryWairarapa Library Services
Kokomai Creative Festival,Wairarapa
yarnsinbarns.co.nz
8th - 18th October 2020
Thursday 8 October: Supergood with Chelsea Winter7pm (doors open 6.15pm): Carterton Events Centre, 50 Holloway St, Carterton, Sold Out
Friday 9 October: Official Festival Launch with former Prime Minister Jim Bolger7pm: Copthorne Solway Park Hotel, 230 High St, MastertonTickets: $20/$10 students includes refreshments.Join former Prime Minister Jim Bolger and writer David Cohen as they discuss their new
book, Fridays with Jim: Conversations about our country.
Saturday 10 October: Aroha: Māori Wisdom for a Contented Life Lived in Harmony with our Planet11am: Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre, 85379 State Highway 2, Mount BruceTickets: $10 includes free bus, leaving at 10am from the Church Street bus stop, and entry to Pūkaha park.Respected Māori psychiatrist Dr Hinemoa Elder explores what these whakataukī can teach us as told in her new book Aroha – Māori Wisdom for a Contented Life Lived in Harmony with our Planet.
Saturday 10 October: The Little Doctor Book Launch3pm: Masterton Library, 54 Queen StreetTickets: Free Chris Szekely, Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library, launches The Little Doctor, the previously unpublished
autobiography of Dr Guy Scholefield, author of the first NZ Dictionary of Biography. Hosted by the Wairarapa Times-Age in conjunction with Fraser Books.
Sunday 11 October: The Girl in the Mirror author Rose Carlyle in conversation with Lucy Cooper11am: Ata Rangi Vineyard, 14 Puruatanga Road, MartinboroughTickets: $15 includes a glass of wine Author of the thriller The Girl in the Mirror, Rose Carlyle will speak about what it’s like to have her debut novel create a publishing sensation, optioning Hollywood film rights, as well her life as a keen adventurer.
Sunday 11 October: Stacy Gregg’s Pony Club Secrets2pm: The Historic Barn, 121 Humphries St, GreytownTickets: $8/children and students free.Stacy Gregg tells her Pony Club Secrets and entertains from her new book The Forever Horse.
Sunday 11 October: Chef Monique Fiso in conversation with Cuisine columnist Martin Bosley
4pm: Greytown Town Centre, 89 Main StTickets: $20/$10 studentsWellington Chef Monique Fiso is a modern-day food warrior, taking Māori cuisine to the world and breathing new life into the ancient knowledge of foraging and kai Māori through her award winning restaurant and new book Hiakai.
Monday 12 October: Pipi’s Pizza Party, Illustration Workshop and Book Signing4pm: Masterton Library, 54 Queen Street, MastertonTickets: $5 for the illustration workshop/book signing freeAuthor and Pipi chef Alexandra Tylee and illustrator Giselle Clarkson celebrate the release of their wonderful new cooking book for kids, Egg & Spoon with an illustration workshop, author signing and pizza party. Illustration workshop 4pm by ticket only. Book signing from 5pm. Pipi’s Pizza Truck on site for pizza sales to the public.
Wednesday 14 October: Fantastic Fiction 7pm: Hedley’s Bookshop, 150 Queen Street, Masterton Tickets: $10/students freeThree of New Zealand’s best novelists, Stephanie Parkyn, Carl Nixon and Charity Norman, chat about their latest work with Guy Somerset. The ultimate book club night.
The Wairarapa’s Festival of Reading celebrates a love of stories and the printed book in an eclectic range of venues from
Mt Bruce to Martinborough.
Thursday 15 October: Walking Back to Happiness Book Launch5pm: Greytown School Hall, 73 East StTickets: Free. Tea, coffee and finger food will be available.Journalist Don Farmer shares some of his stories featured in his new book Walking Back to Happiness – A Wairarapa Boy’s Story.
Friday 16 October: The Quick and the Dead with Cynric Temple-CampNoon: Carterton Courthouse, 60 Holloway StTickets: $10/$5 studentsPathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp talks about life and death, crime and forensics from his recent book The Quick & the Dead.
Friday 16 October: Anthony Byrt on artists Billy Apple and David Hockney7pm: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Exhibition open to view from 6pm, 12 Bruce St, MastertonTickets: $10/$5 studentsAnthony Byrt talks about Billy Apple, David Hockney and Ann Quin from his new book
The Mirror Steamed Over: Love and Pop in London, 1962 in conversation with broadcaster Noelle McCarthy.
The Spirit of the 60s: The Photography of Michael Cooper exhibition provides a fitting backdrop to this conversation and will be open to view from 6pm hosted by curator David Hedley.
Saturday 17 October: This Farming Life with Tim Saunders in conversation with Ian Grant10am: Cobblestones Museum, 169 Main St, Greytown
Tickets: $8/$5 studentsAn unsentimental yet lyrical love letter to the land, in This Farming Life, Tim Saunders shares the joys and the harsh realities of farm life over five generations. Book Cobblestone’s famous morning tea to enjoy after the talk for an additional $7.50. Offer only available to ticket holders and must be booked and paid
when purchasing your event tickets.
Saturday 17 October: Miriam Lancewood Wild at Heart - the dangers and delights of a nomadic life in conversation with Sally Round1pm: Strang’s Woolshed, Gladstone 4km on the right, south of the Gladstone intersection on the road to Longbush.Tickets: $10/$5 studentsIn Wild at Heart Miriam Lancewood explores
the dangers and delights of a nomadic life. Miriam’s first book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for 7 years in the NZ bush with her husband, hunting and gathering, and roaming the bush as nomads. She now recounts a sequel story in remote parts of Europe seeking a simple life unfettered by society’s norms.
Saturday 17 October: Yarn in the Barn with Dog Zen author Mark Vette in conversation with Gareth Winter3pm: Strang’s WoolshedTickets: $10/$5 studentsThis year’s iconic Yarn in the Barn event features world renowned animal trainer and behaviouralist, Mark Vette, telling stories from his life from Buddhism to Hollywood and all the puppies in between as told in his new memoir Zen Heart: What I have learnt from Animals and Life. Yes, there will be puppies.
Sunday 18 October: Double Header with Tom Scott and Ian Trafford in association with Featherston Booktown11am-2pm: Anzac Hall, 62 Bell St, Featherston
Tickets: $20/$10 students for each event or double header price $30/$15 students. Lunch $5 (a hot beverage and the choice of either a sweet or savoury item of food).11am: Searching for Charlie with Tom Scott in conversation with Ron MarkIn his new book Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar Tom Scott
uncovers the true story of the most highly decorated soldier in the Commonwealth forces of WWII.1pm: Into the Unknown with Ian Trafford in conversation with Jane TolertonInto the Unknown is a personal account of WW1 from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist’s grandson 100 years later.
Sunday 18 October: Poems on the Vine2:45pm: Gladstone Vineyard, 340 Gladstone Road, RD2, GladstoneTickets: $15 includes a glass of wine or juiceThis year, Poems on the Vine features passionate poet Tim Wilson with poet-painter Rebecca Hawkes, RAK Mason Fellow Jenny Powell reading from her ‘Meeting Rita’ on the artist Rita Angus, and James Brown reading from his newly published Selected Poems of James Brown.
TicketsAll tickets are available at yarnsinbarns.co.nz or through Hedleys Books 06 378 2875 / 027 281 6421, [email protected].
Festival Pass available for $60 (entry to all events except Chelsea Winter & Monique Fiso) To guarantee a seat at the events you’d like to attend, Festival Pass holders should RSVP to Hedleys Books at [email protected]
SupportersAllen & Unwin Publishers | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History | Arrow FM | Ata Rangi Vineyard & Winery
Jo Beetham | Kate Bicknell & Ron YoungBubbles and Inspiration | Carterton District Council
Cobblestones Museum | Copthorne Hotel and ResortDestination Wairarapa | Eastern & Central Community
Trust | Gladstone Vineyard | Greytown School Greytown Town Centre | Harper Collins Publishers
Kokomai Creative Festival, Wairarapa | Masterton Arts Fund | Masterton Creative Communities
Masterton District Council | Media Works NZNew Pacific Studio | NZME | Penguin Random House NZ
Pipi’s Pizza Café & Truck | Printcraft | Pūkaha Mt Bruce Wildlife Centre | Jamie & Marilyn Strang | South
Wairarapa Creative Communities | Tranzit Group Trust House | Upstart Press Ltd | Victoria University
Press | Wairarapa Times-Age | White Swan
