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Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Book Launch, 'Unmooring' by Bridget Auchmuty.
Location: Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery
Region: Alexandra
Dates: Sat, 26 September 2020 @ 4pm - 6pm.
'Unmooring' is a collection of poetry by Oturehua resident Bridget Auchmuty. 'We are unmoored by circumstances that set us adrift from our normal lives into unknown waters. The poems in this debut collection range from the luxury of certainty, through the loss of a partner, to establishing a new life in a different part of the country. But nothing is secure, and a global pandemic threatens again to disrupt the familiar. Through it all, there is reassurance in recognizing the perfection in arising and passing away.'
Bridget Auchmuty was born in Britain in 1951, came to New Zealand to visit her sister, and never went home. She spent more than thirty years in the Nelson region, where she and her partner lived on ten acres in the Motueka valley. After his death she shifted to the Ida Valley in Central Otago, where she lives in a yurt. The core of this collection formed one component of her Master’s degree in Creative Writing at Massey University.
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It is the work of a poet who knows how important people and places are ... I kept thinking, too, about life's voyagings. I found the whole very affecting - touching, tender, rueful at times and very affecting. And all the more impressive for being unsentimental. - Brian Turner
Location
Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery
21 Centennial Ave, Alexandra
September 2020
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Queenstown Writers Festival - Short Story Competition.Fri, 5 June 2020 - Tue, 1 September 2020 @ Entries Close 1st September 2020. | 2 | 3 | Artbay Gallery, Queenstown - A Forest by Sam FoleyFri, 4 September 2020 @ 10am - 5pm daily. Arts Central - Chamber Music, Lara Hall and Rachael Griffiths-Hughes.Fri, 4 September 2020 @ 7.30pm. Artbay Gallery - 'A Forest' by Sam FoleyFri, 4 September 2020 - Sat, 31 October 2020 @ Daily. | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Denis Kent Retrospective Exhibition.Sat, 5 September 2020 - Mon, 19 October 2020 @ 10am - 4pm daily. | ||
6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Central Cinema - National Theatre Live: Present Laughter.Thu, 10 September 2020 - Sun, 13 September 2020 @ 10th September at 2pm. 13th September at 5pm. | 11 | Wakatipu High School - All Shook Up.Wed, 9 September 2020 - Sat, 12 September 2020 @ Daily. |
Central Cinema - National Theatre Live: Present Laughter.Thu, 10 September 2020 - Sun, 13 September 2020 @ 10th September at 2pm. 13th September at 5pm. | 14 | 15 | 16 | Kids Circus Classes - Alexandra.Thu, 23 July 2020 - Thu, 17 September 2020 @ Thursdays; 3.30-4.30pm and 4.45-5.45pm. | 18 | 19 |
20 | Aotearoa Poster Competition 2020 - Entries Open.Tue, 18 August 2020 - Mon, 21 September 2020 @ Entries Open Now. | 22 | 23 | Central Otago Art Society - Blossom Festival Art ExhibitionTuesday Thu, 24 September 2020 - Fri, 2 October 2020 @ 10am - 4pm Daily. | 25 | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Landscape Painting Demonstrations by Denis Kent.Sat, 26 September 2020 - Sun, 27 September 2020 @ Daily. Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery - Book Launch, 'Unmooring' by Bridget Auchmuty.Sat, 26 September 2020 @ 4pm - 6pm. |
27 | 28 | 29 | Alexandra Musical Society - A Musical Degustation, All the Best Bits Exposed.Wed, 30 September 2020 - Sat, 3 October 2020 @ Daily. |