PRESENTATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
FREE PUBLIC TALKS
L'DOR VA DOR (From generation to generation) Public Talks
L'DOR VA DOR (From generation to generation) Public Talks
These talks are free to HCNZ members and non-members.
Koha is appreciated, and your generosity enables us to deliver such programmes.
You can make a donation on the day, or by direct credit to account 03-0515-0507281-000
These talks are in person and on Zoom.
Koha is appreciated, and your generosity enables us to deliver such programmes.
You can make a donation on the day, or by direct credit to account 03-0515-0507281-000
These talks are in person and on Zoom.
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"Jewish communities started in New Zealand in 1840 with very small numbers. After 180 years – fateful years for the Jewish people as a whole - the total number of Aotearoa New Zealand Jews now is probably no more than about 8,000. (There is no exact figure.) What have we become? Have we developed a Jewish New Zealand identity? How do we see ourselves? Does it matter? What do you think?"
David Zwartz ONZM has long been involved in Jewish community activities, including editing the New Zealand Jewish Chronicle, and heading the NZ Jewish Council. He also assisted in the publication of Anne Frank's diary in te reo Māori and volunteers with the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand. Introduction by Mike Regan, long time community spokesperson and past editor of the New Zealand Jewish Chronicle for 10 years. |
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Gigi Fenster’s novel, A Good Winter, is driven by the voice of Olga, a lonely, bitter narrator whose spiky view of the world colours everything she tells the reader.
In this session, Gigi will discuss the concept of the unreliable narrator and ask whether this concept is a helpful one in considering fiction in general and the narrator in A Good Winter in particular. Gigi will also consider the first person point of view more generally, looking at how a writer might manipulate point of view so as to exploit gaps between the narrator’s experience and the reader’s understanding of that experience. She will discuss how the first person point of view informs the reader’s understanding of events, and also contributes to tone and mood, to pacing, character development – the world that the novel lives in. A Good Winter won the Michael Gifkins Award and was a finalist in the Ockham Fiction Awards. Gigi Fenster is the author of two novels (A Good Winter (2021) and the Intentions Book (2013)) both of which were finalists in the New Zealand Book Awards. Her memoir, Feverish (2018), was born out of her PhD in Creative Writing. Gigi teaches Creative Writing at Massey, having given up a career teaching law. |
TRAVELLING MEMORIAL & EXHIBITIONS
ANNE FRANK 'Let me be myself'
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UPCOMING VENUES
AUGUST 4, 2022
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The Children's Holocaust Memorial and accompanying exhibition is on hiatus at present. Watch this page for future exhibition openings.
