Literary Events | Takunetaka Mātātuhi

Adult Summer Reading Challenge

Challenge yourself over the long hot summer.*

Read 10 books and record your progress to earn a free DVD rentals voucher**

Stretch your horizons by reading five books outside your comfort zone and you’ll go into the draw for a chance to win a $50 book voucher.

Pick up a reading record at your local library and start your journey!

FREE
Runs until 31 March
All Dunedin Public Libraries

* Weather not guaranteed
**Limited to one voucher per person

Dunedin Fringe: The Bacchae

An adaptation of Euripides' original Greek tragedy of power, gender, and morality, all through a unique Aotearoa perspective.

Journey to the city of Thebes in the heart of ancient Greece, and follow Dionysus - the god of festivities, fertility, and wine - into confrontation with Pentheus, the latest in a long line of kings, and the first to oppose all that the god stands for. The collateral damage of their conflict drags in the king's innocent mother Agave, and the previous king Cadmus.

Sam Pretious is an emerging writer-director currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Otago. His previous work includes writing and directing an original one-act play, Lovestain, in February 2020 as part of the My Noisy Valentine event. In his Fringe Festival debut, he and his team weave together theatre, live music, and dance in a startling new adaptation of the mythic epic by Euripides, in partnership with the Dunedin City Library.

Tickets: $7.50-$10 available from the Dunedin Fringe Festival website

Friday 26th March, 6pm
Saturday 27th March, 2pm
Sunday 28th March, 2pm

Author event: Gaps in the Light
Join us in celebration of the arrival home of Gaps in the Light — the new book by poet and hybrid writer, Iona Winter (Waitaha/Pākehā). Gaps in the Light has been lauded overseas, featuring on the short and long lists of numerous awards.

Iona's work is widely published and anthologised internationally. She creates work to be performed, and has authored three collections, Gaps in the Light (2021), Te Hau Kāika (2019) and then the wind came (2018). Skilled at giving voice to difficult topics, she often draws on her deep connection to land, place and whenua. Iona lives on the East Otago Coast.

RSVP - Book online: https://tinyurl.com/IonaWinterGapsintheLight or contact: library@dcc.govt.nz or 03 474 3690

About the book: https://adhocfiction.com/2021/02/gaps-in-the-light-iona-winter/

For sale on the day (cash only): Gaps in the Light $25 (RRP $27.99), Te Hau Kāika (2nd Ed.) $20, then the wind came $20.

Friday 9th April, 6pm

Blueskin Bay Library

FREE