QUEENSTOWN CATALYST EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER

Sep 14, 2017 - Sep 27, 2017 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Election 2017: What Should Voters Expect …And What’s Actually Likely To Happen?

Thursday, September 14

With just nine days to go until New Zealand’s Election Day, University of Otago politics department head Professor Janine Hayward will discuss how our politicians and political leaders have shaped up on the campaign trail, the ever evolving party politics and what this might all mean for what actually happens on and after September 23.  Prof Hayward’s specialties include Treaty of Waitangi politics, New Zealand’s constitution, electoral politics, environmental politics and local government politics.

Thursday, September 14, 5.30 to 7 p.m., The Rees Hotel Queenstown conference room, please register at connect@catalystnz.org  More information at www.catalystnz.org Please car pool if you can. $5 koha at the door.


Mayhem and Mountain Scene

Friday, September 22

After three years at the helm of Queenstown's infamous weekly rag, how does David Williams read our town and its people? His most inspiring, sad, happy or poignant stories?  Trends as seen from the trenches...what might the future hold?  And at the end of his last day on the job, your chance to throw the Mountain Scream's editor some of your own curly questions.

Friday, September 22, 5.30-6.30pm, at Fluid, 10 Memorial St.  $5 koha at door. BYO seat. Space restricted, so please register at connect@catalystnz.org 


The Real Life of War Victims and Refugees

Wednesday, September 27

Dunedin journalist Steve Addison has been working on a project with New York freelance photographer Tim Eastman to bring the stories of war victims and refugees to life. During the past four years, they have visited the Syrian borders of Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, where they have found inhumane living conditions, accounts of torture and crimes against humanity.  Steve will speak of the lives of the displaced, showing Tim’s photos alongside.

Wednesday, September 27, 5:30-7 p.m., the Rees Hotel Queenstown conference room, please register at connect@catalystnz.org, more information available at www.catalystnz.org Please car pool if possible. $5 koha at the door.

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