New Zealand Post Book Awards Festival
Thursday 14 May, 7.00 - 9.00 pm
Student Centre, NMIT, 322 Hardy St, Nelson
Poems, rap, lyrics and general word spouting!
A One Minute Knock-Out Competition!
Come and perform your original work. Entry open to all secondary students.
Creative Writing students from NMIT Demo. Supper Provided. All Welcome
Tickets $1. Entry forms and tickets available from Page & Blackmore Booksellers, Tasman District Library, Nelson Public Library.
This promises to be a lively event with the students strutting their stuff - with one minute to wow the crowd and get through to the next round it will be action packed. Entrants need to come prepared with a handful of their one-minute performances – poems, rap, lyrics and general word spouting.
To prepare they might like to enrol in the New Hub Writing Workshops (in Term 2) tutor: writer and performer Sharyn Croft.
The Pig Lit Book Celebration
New Zealand Post Book Awards Festival
Sunday 17 May 2.00 - 4.00 pm
The Granary, Founders Park
All Welcome. Free Event.
Come and celebrate the New Zealand Post Book Awards.Enter the world of children’s books. Bring: a cushion, a puppet and dress-up: as a pig or a piggy story character. Have a chance to win a ride on the Crackerjack Train.
Programme:
2pm Welcome
2:15 Awesome Theatre Puppet Show
2:30 The Sneetches by Dr.Seuss: An Adaptation
from Year 10 Drama, Nayland College.
3:00 Crackerjack Train (winning tickets)
3:15 Story Time
3:30 Awesome Theatre Puppet Show
3:45 Story Time
4:00 Closing
Other activities: Character hunt, book quiz and hunt, piggy art, story reading, spot prizes.
