Third Wellington International Poetry Festival
Third Wellington International Poetry Festival
Wellington 3-7 November 2005
Main Venues: Te Papa/ The Marae, City Art Gallery, Upper Hutt Library, Lower Hutt Library, Pataka Museum and Paekakariki Hall.
Now in it’s third year, the Wellington International Poetry Festival, has become an icon event of Wellington city, adding a focus on poetry and peace to its exciting and varied cultural calendar. The festival has as its central theme Disarmament and Peaceful Dialogue.
WIPF offers a plethora of events to stimulate, educate, entertain and celebrate cultural diversity and peaceful poetic dialogue. The events are highly accessible and diverse; most are free of charge and at various times of the day and evening, promising everyone a chance to come and experience the Festival.
Hinemoana Baker (NZ)/ Prabal
Basu (India)/Grant Caldwell (Australia)/Jim
Christy(Canada)/John Dean (Ireland)/ Doc
Drumheller(USA-NZ)/Andrew Fagan (NZ)/ Sam Hamill
(USA)/Olivia McCassey (NZ)/Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japan)/James
Norcliffe/Vincent O’Sullivan (NZ)/Angelina Polonskaya/
Elizabeth Smither(NZ)/Carmen Tafolla (Mexico-USA)/Tendo
Taijin (Japan)/Denys Trussell (NZ) & Ahmed Zaoui (Algeria)
Best wishes from the team at the Third Wellington
International Poetry Festival
ENDS
The 3rd
Wellington International Poetry Festival gratefully
acknowledges the support of Japan Foundation, Wellington
City Council, Community First, NZ Community Trust, Creative
Communities NZ, Upper Hutt City Council, Hutt City, Porirua
City Council, Kapiti Coast District Council, The Pelorus
Trust, The Phoenix Trust, Sargood Bequest,The Southern
Trust, Peter & Mary Biggs and all other friends and
supporters.