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A celebration of
Aotearoa New Zealand’s
LGBTQI+ + writing talent
Full programme
All
events
free
10 – 14 February 2021
Welcome
Stories from home For the first time, this year we
The 2021 samesame but different are featuring an honoured writer
festival is a time for us to shake off the posthumously. Ngaio Marsh has long
upheaval of 2020. We invite you to our been regarded as a ‘Crime Queen’,
queer literary home, to sit back and but her life was shrouded in mystery.
be entertained by some of the best Her award-winning biographer,
LGBTQI voices today and to celebrate Joanne Drayton, explores her life, her
our community’s literary achievements. secrets and her impact on rainbow
This year it is no surprise that we are communities.
reflecting on the idea of home, as it has As ever, we are incredibly grateful for
been particularly important to us over the generous support of our sponsors,
the past year. especially Creative New Zealand,
This year’s programme features Foundation North and The Rule
many stories from home. We explore Foundation, as well as our wonderful
the notion of home in our opening patrons. Their contributions mean that
gala, what it means for our LGBTQI we can all enjoy and celebrate the
communities and how it shapes us. inspiring creativity within our LGBTQI
Our panel ‘Queer Bodies’ applies the communities.
concept of home to our most intimate
Sam Orchard
residence – our bodies; while our ‘Far
Director
from Home’ session features writers
exploring concepts of identity when you
are far from your homeland. The Ellen Melville Centre
is at 2 Freyberg Place,
This is a year of firsts for us. We have a
Auckland CBD.
new residence: thanks to Proud Centres,
we will be based in the Ellen Melville
Centre. Also our festival now covers
five days instead of the customary two.
Most importantly, all our events this year
are FREE.
Wednesday 10 February
5pm – 7pm
PRIDE Poetry Speakeasy Share your rainbow poetry, come and
Speak it, slam it, recite it, read it, listen in a welcoming word nest.
perform it, sing it. Grey Lynn Library, 474 Great North
samesame but different and Auckland Road, Grey Lynn, next to St Joseph’s
Libraries present the sixth PRIDE Poetry Church. (Ramped entrance, mobility
Speakeasy open mic, with guest poet parking available).
Courtney Sina Meredith.
Thursday 11 February
7pm – 8pm
Hello Darkness Peter wrote as he battled
Victor Rodger, the cancer. Hello Darkness
award-winning author of is a moving, sometimes
Black Faggot, presents funny but always honest
a one-man adaptation examination of one man’s
of Hello Darkness, the life as he contemplates the
critically acclaimed book end. Assisting Victor in his
by ssbd’s late founder, presentation is acclaimed
Peter Wells, which was actor Roy Ward.
inspired by a series of This event is at the Ellen
Facebook posts that Melville Centre.
Thursday 11 February
6.30pm – 7.30pm
The Sisters Gay present... of letters. Rediscover the lost and loving
Your Loving Friend: A library event arts of correspondence, complete with
for Pride curlicues. Brought to you by the letters
Our 2021 literary salon – aka Storytime GREY LYNN & LIBRARY.
– for grown-ups and other family, All welcome!
featuring ardent epistles and juicy Grey Lynn Library, 474 Great North
journals by ladies (and the odd gent) Road. Entry free, refreshments provided.
All events are at the Ellen Melville Centre
Gala evening Saturday 13 February
10.30am – 11.30am
Friday 12 February
7.30pm – 9pm Crime and Punishment
Crime and punishment are loaded terms
At Home with samesame for LGBTQI writers. Who gets to decide
Home can mean many things to
what constitutes a crime, and who
our LGBTQI communities, meanings
dishes out the retribution that follows?
that have gathered new layers in the
Join three
strange year we’ve all just experienced.
whipsmart
Whether it is a place of comfort and
writers who
belonging, a place to escape from, a
have waded
real location or a state of mind, home is
into this
a concept at once alluring and elusive.
contested
Rhion Munro hosts some of Aotearoa’s area in a panel
most exciting writers as they tell hosted by two-
intimate stories of home and explore its time finalist for
many meanings for them. Join us for an the Ngaio Marsh awards, Jen Shieff.
evening where poignant observations
Featuring Aroha Awarau, who explored
mingle with laugh-out-loud anecdotes
the unjust gay-panic defence in his
as the sun sets across Freyberg Square.
2020 play Provocation, Jennifer
Featuring award-winning playwright
Palgrave, crime-writing duo and
Ahi Karunaharan, acclaimed story-teller
authors of the lesbian mystery novel
and journalist
The One That Got Away, and Vogel
Aroha Awarau,
award winner M. Darusha Wehm,
lesbian
author of the sensational cyberpunk
crime-writer
detective series, Andersson Dexter.
extraordinaire
Jen Shieff,
recently Saturday 13 February
published
12 noon – 1pm
writer of Queer Bodies
wildly successful Not That I’d Kiss a Continuing our theme of ‘Home’, we
Girl, Lil O’Brien, and writer of the turn inward to our own bodies, to
internationally acclaimed homecoming the very skin we inhabit. Experiences
series, Rūrangi, Cole Meyers. of queerness often reside in or arise
from our bodies, whether it is the joy Crossing the Lines, which describes the
we share, the pain we carry or our experiences of gay soldiers in World
experiences of our identity and sexuality. War II, Marolyn Krasner, American-
The writers on our panel discuss how born but New Zealand-based author
queer bodies influence their writing. of The Radicals, and multi-talented
Featuring the creators of the joyously playwright Ahi Karunaharan.
subversive show Reclamation, Ria
Hiroki and Elyssia Ra’nee Wilson-Heti, Saturday 13 February
Dunedin-based psychologist and author 3.30pm – 4.30pm
of Perv and Why is the Penis Shaped Like
That?, Jesse Bering, writer and disability
Honoured Writer: Ngaio Marsh
activist Henrietta (Etta) Bollinger, and Crime Queen: Secrets
poet and publisher Jackson Nieuwland. and Red Herrings
Chaired by queer academic and fat Joanne Drayton
studies scholar George Parker. Ngaio Marsh
was a global
Saturday 13 February ‘crime queen’ in
2pm – 3pm those harrowing
decades of
Far from Home doubt haunted
What happens when storytellers or by two World
subjects are far from home? This panel Wars and
explores the pain, perspectives and the Great
sometimes acute clarity of writers who Depression. The detective novel was
have written on a range of subjects while a parable of redemption that offered
disconnected from their homelands and comforting tales of good conquering
communities. Award-winning historian evil. One of the many fascinating things
Chris Brickell about Ngaio Marsh is how the queen
delves into of the crime novel managed to conceal
the perks and herself in so many layers of mystery,
perils of the red herrings and intrigue. Her sexuality
tyranny of was debated during her life and after
distance with a her death, and she remains an enigma.
panel including Join award-winning author Joanne
Brent Coutts, Drayton on a journey into the mind and
author of mystery of Ngaio Marsh. Why did she
Saturday
write her stories? How did she edit her
life? And what career-ending dangers
did she have in store for her biographer? night gala
Saturday 13 February Saturday 13 February
5pm – 6pm 7pm – 8.30pm
The Peter Wells Lecture Objects from Home
Kassie Hartendorp LGBTQI stories often come wrapped
The Peter Wells Lecture is named in up in objects that conceal or reveal. In
memory of samesame but different’s this stimulating session, five fantastic
late founder, the great writer and activist writers and
Peter Wells. Each year we invite a writer creatives bring
to discuss issues close to their heart that their precious
directly affect the LGBTQI community. queer objects
and share
Kassie Hartendorp (Ngāti Raukawa)
the stories
is a renowned community activist and
they hold.
organiser working in the areas of youth,
Community
takatāpui,
icon Carole
anti-racism,
Beu hosts these amazing writers
workers’ rights
and performers as they reveal the
and housing.
secrets of their treasured objects.
In her lecture
Join gay historian Chris Brickell,
she will talk
ground-breaking publisher Ian Watt,
about how we
performer and musician Ramon Te
as LGBTQI
Wake and award-winning poet Courtney
people have
Sina Meredith for this thoroughly
a crucial role to play in the broader
entertaining Saturday evening.
movement for change, how we bring
our whakapapa, our strengths, our At the conclusion of this event, the
pain, our joy and our lessons to help winners of the Peter Wells Short
create a better world, and how that Fiction Contest will be announced.
will allow us to find home in the new Special thanks to Foundation North
world that we will birth together. for their sponsorship of the contest.
Refreshments available from 6.15pm
Online event
Experienced publishing professional
Elizabeth Heritage will use her insider
knowledge
Sunday 14 February to guide you
10.30am – 11.30am through the
Gary Lonesborough: The Boy from
different
the Mish
avenues to
‘I like to think it is part of my DNA publication.
as an Aboriginal person
In this practical
– to tell stories,’ he says, ‘because
Aboriginal people have been workshop
telling stories for thousands we will:
of years.’ - demystify the jargon;
Join Gary Lonesborough, author of - help you figure out the commercial
The Boy from the Mish, talking about strengths of your work;
his debut novel, a funny and heart- - go through the process of pitching
warming story set in a rural Australian to agents and publishers in detail;
community, about seventeen-year-old - do practical exercises to enable
Jackson finding the courage to explore you to apply these principles
who he is. Published in February 2021, to your specific situation.
this book is already receiving critical Handouts will be provided. Please
acclaim for its powerful storytelling bring a notebook or paper for your
and unflinching look at the experience own note-taking.
of growing up gay and Aboriginal.
This event is at the Ellen Melville Centre.
This is an online event that you
can register for via our website
Further details about the festival contributors
and Facebook page.
and presenters can be found at:
www.samesamebutdifferent.co.nz
Sunday 14 February
1pm – 4pm
Interactive Workshop - ‘How to get
published’ with Elizabeth Heritage
Are you writing a pukapuka?
Want to get your book out there
but not sure where to start?Our sponsors
This programme sponsored by
UNITY
BOOKS
AUCKLAND
Our founder, the late Peter Wells, also left a bequest to ssbd to enable the festival to
continue into the future.
Become a ssbd Patron
Why not become a Patron of samesame but different? Our Patrons are the vital
supporters of New Zealand’s LGBTQI writers festival – a celebratory weekend of
writers, ideas and thinking. With your support we can continue to grow the festival
and bring our Aotearoa writers and exceptional international visitors to share their
writing and life experiences.
We are fabulously grateful to you as a Patron. For $250 you can become a Patron,
which will entitle you to acknowledgement at the festival opening (optional), a full
festival pass and invitations to future events and authors.
Become a ssbd Patron today – email samesamebutdifferentnz@gmail.com
Tickets
While the events are all free of charge, seating is limited. On 10 January tickets will
be available at www.eventbrite.co.nz (just search under samesame but different) to
ensure a place at all the sessions you want to attend.
www.samesamebutdifferent.co.nz | facebook.com/samesamebutdifferentnz
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The samesame but different festival was founded in 2016 by the late
Peter Wells. From the beginning, our festival has been supported by
the Auckland Writers Festival. The 2021 committee was chaired by
Jeremy Hansen, with committee members Joanne Drayton, Michael
Giacon, Sam Orchard (director), Simie Simpson, Julie Watson (event
producer) and Ian Watt.
Thanks to Sidney Ting for our festival logo and to Rodney Hazelden
for the programme design. Finally, we are grateful to Elephant
Publicity for promoting the festival.You can also read
