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WOMAD NZ 2023 Announce The World Of Words Programme

Chris Cudby / Image credit: Charlotte Curd / Thursday 3rd November, 2022 1:54PM

The universe of multi-cultural activity that is WOMAD NZ 2023 has expanded with today's announcement of the official World Of Words programme. Taking place in Pukekura Park's idyllic Kunming Garden as part of the New Plymouth festival's wide range of music and arts programmes from 7th to Sunday 19th March — including performances by Youssou N’Dour, Mdou Moctar, Sampa The Great and Avantdale Bowling Club among many more — WOMAD's World Of Words stage will host "novelists, poets, comedians, critical thinkers, entrepreneurs and more from around Aotearoa." Here's the official word direct from the organisers...

"The WOMAD NZ 2023 World Of Words speakers in alphabetical order are journalist and author of "The Great Successor" Anna Fifield, New Zealand's poet laureate Chris Tse, poet and multi-disciplinary artist Daren Kamali, one of New Zealand's best-known painters, Dick Frizzell (MNZM), multi-award-winning comedian James Nokise, author Lil O'Brien, poets and cabaret performers Mad Doggerel Cabaret, award-winning New Zealand screenwriter, director and author Michael Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue), Poetry Slam host Penny Ashton, lawyer, author and keen adventurer Rose Carlyle and independent researcher and writer Dr Susette Goldsmith."

WOMAD New Zealand 2023
Friday 17th March to Sunday 19th March - Bowl of Brooklands and Brooklands Park, New Plymouth (all ages)

Featuring... Acapollinations (Aotearoa), ADG7 (South Korea), Avantdale Bowling Club (Aotearoa), Bab L’ Bluz (Morocco/France), Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (USA), Cimafunk (Cuba), Constantinople (Canada), Deva Mahal (Aotearoa), Fly My Pretties (Aotearoa), Professor Hinke Osinga (Aotearoa), Justin Adams & Mauro Durante (UK/Italy), Kefaya and Elaha Soroor (Afghanistan/UK), Kita (Aotearoa), Lil O'Brien (Aotearoa), MazbouQ (Aotearoa), Mdou Moctar (Niger), Mudra Dance Company (Aotearoa), Pandit Ronu Majumdar & Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh (India), Rizwan Muazzam Qawwals (Pakistan), Rubi Du ( Aotearoa), Sampa The Great (Zambia), San Salvador (France), The Garifuna Collective (Belize), The Langan Band (Scotland), Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar (Senegal)

World Of Words speakers: Anna Fifield, Chris Tse, Daren Kamali, Dick Frizzell, James Nokise, Lil O'Brien, Mad Doggerel Cabaret, Michael Bennett, Penny Ashton, Rose Carlyle, Dr Susette Goldsmith

Full info on artists and speakers + tickets to the three-day camping festival are available now from womad.co.nz

Press release:

WOMAD's World Of Words is a series of spoken sessions featuring novelists, poets, comedians, critical thinkers, entrepreneurs and more from around Aotearoa.

The traditional Kunming garden is one of the most peaceful and serene areas within Pukekura Park and is the idyllic home of The World Of Words stage. It invites WOMAD attendees to sit back and relax as the eleven diverse and thought-provoking 2023 World Of Words speakers set out to educate and entertain.

Links

womad.co.nz/