Diana Wichtel: Driving to Treblinka
In 2017, Going West was the first festival to invite award winning journalist Diana Wichtel to talk about her newly published memoir Driving to Treblinka: a long search for a lost father. It would go...
12 Mar 202146min
Max Cryer Tracking the Vernacular
Appearing at Going West in 2002, Max Cryer talks about New Zealand’s vernacular English and its origins. As he notes, “We live in New Zealand. We speak a language of our own. We think we speak English...
7 Mar 202131min
From a Certain Point of View
This session from the Going West Festival in 2018 explores creative non-fiction. Award winning novelist, essayist, academic, teacher of creative writing and the founder of the Academy of New Zealand L...
10 Des 202044min
Writing in the Night Kitchen
Sometimes at Going West, things just connect. When writer Sarah Laing found out she was pregnant she bought a bottle of folic acid and a children’s book, Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen. In 200...
3 Des 202043min
Leadership in a Landscape
Sir Bob Harvey is a Westie to the core. He’s a successful writer, historian, politician, environmental campaigner, film guy, advertising gun, surf life-saver and co-founder of the Going West Writers F...
26 Nov 202044min
The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune
In 2009, as part of an afternoon celebrating Waitakere City and West Auckland, Going West guests heard the story of iconic New Zealand television series Outrageous Fortune and the fictional West famil...
19 Nov 202045min
Salt Beef and the Farmer’s Ordinary
As keynote seeker at the 2007 Going West Festival, Tony Simpson spoke to the festival theme Food for Thought. An award-winning social historian, food critic, writer on; food history, the working class...
12 Nov 202038min
Words Between Us -- He Kōrero
This session from Going West 2011 is based on an exhibition and subsequent award winning publication Words Between Us - He Kōrero by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins, which won the 2012 Ngā Kupu Ora...
1 Okt 202053min
