AUCKLAND, KIWIS & FOLKS in the area...let's MEET UP. may 16th: ninja location sought! (Patreon)

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HALLO LOVES. 

this is a message for the people of auckland, and the kiwis in general....but obviously anybody is welcome to read.

mostly, aucklanders!!!!

first off, happy day-aftrer-tasman-bubble day. i imagine you're feeling the same kind of sweeping relief-terror combo i am feeling, though the government does seem to know basically what's up. it's still an unsettling feeling to experience CHANGE after a whole year of being a locked-up little country. i wonder how everybody else here is feeling about that. 

tell me?

greetings from across the hauraki gulf. i'm sitting in a little cafe on this shitty rainy day trying to get myself ready for the offline plunge i'm taking in a few days. i go offline on friday and don't come back on until the following thursday. it's the longest i've been offline in a while. i'm going to a yoga retreat in the south island mountains to do nothing but take care of myself. phone is going in a goddamn drawer.

MEANWHILE, i gotta plan for the future, and i'm hoping to do a big MEET UP with all of you a few weeks after that when the auckland writer's fest rolls around.

since i'll be in town on may 16th for the writers fest gig, and since i assume a handful of you are coming to see me.....i'll be in conversation with the novelist catherine robertson, talking deeply about writing, memoir, truth, pain and all that good stuff. maybe even pondering a NEW BOOK.... 

SUN, 16 MAY 2021 - 3:45pm – 4:45pm - Waitākere Room, Aotea Centre

tickets are at http://awf.gcdn.nz/programmes/event/there-will-be-no-intermission-amanda-palmer/1397857/

.....

the night before, neil and i are doing an event together (saturday), that one's almost sold out, whoo-hoo. tickets are HERE: https://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/event/an-evening-with-neil-gaiman-amanda-palmer/1389854/

......

neil's got a talk on the sunday, before mine, that ends at noon, and my event with catherine robertson starts at 3:45pm: they're both in the aotea center. so i'm thinking we can hang about 12:30-2pm, so SAVE THE TIME. 

as for where: anybody have ideas? there may be WEATHER, so i'd love to do something indoors. something easily walkable - i'd say within ten minutes on foot - to the aotea center would be ideal. 

WHAT YOU GOT, AUCKLAND? 

anybody have a gallery? store? church? house? basement? attic? vault? restaurant? let's DO IT. it should fit about 150-200+ people in case things get mad. doesn't need a stage or a PA: just a SPACE where humans can gather and feel wonder. i'll bring a ukulele....we can also hang and talk and maybe bring plates and snacks. 

this event will be FREE and PATRON-ONLY although, espeically if the space is large, i''d encourage you to bring yer whanau with you.

leave any ideas and, if you're the contact for the space, your contact info in the comments below. if you have friends that you think can helkp, hit them up and then comment. if you have a space idea but don't know the folks involved, just give me enough to go on!!!! if you don't want to share your personal contact info here, then leave details about the space, and you, and i'll dig up your email through the patreon app or DM you. 

don't be grumpy if i don't get back to you, if we get inundated with ideas it'll be hard to respond to EVERYONE....and i'm also counting on you all to put your heads together to suss out the PERFECT SPOT. TALK TO EACH OTHER, DAMMIT, this is YOUR GODDAMN CITY.

i'm happy to pay for rental, but don't want to rent some boring corporate space run by non-community people. we can always chip in for the space, i can put a koha basket by the door if it comes down to it.

OK, HIT ME WITH IDEAS!!!!

OH AND ALSO, save saturday may 29th, ALL NIGHT, for a special waiheke cinema experience. neil and i are cooking something up, and it's all ages, so book yer beds. 

x

a

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