Books, Books & more Books

It’s only 3 days till DCM’s very delight­ful & very Large annu­al book­fair. Over 75,000 have been sort­ed and packed ready for sale start­ing 8am this Sat­ur­day at Shed 6, Queen’s Wharf. This year it’s a one day event run­ning for 12 hours from 8am till 8pm. At the book­fair you’ll find clas­sics, cook books, […]

Read Books, Save Lives — The Annual DCM Bookfair

Instead kick­ing off on all the amaz­ing books you’ll find at Book­fair this week­end. I thought you might like to know how cold it’s been in Welling­ton, last night it was 2.7°C in Kel­burn overnight, with a light dust­ing of snow.  Snow is fun except when you don’t have a place to call home, to store your belong­ings, […]

Why Science Fiction is the only legitimate artform of the 20th and 21st centuries

Local artist, writer and intel­lec­tu­al David Cauchi is giv­ing an address at the Film Archive on Sat­ur­day after­noon.

David is a right old char­ac­ter, and also the painter of one of my favourite works of art — enti­tled The fab four (Tas­man, Cook, Du Fresne, De Surville) (above).

More info after the jump.