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Story Worlds is an invitation to experience storytelling as something we live, carry and co-create.

It’s a celebration of connection between people, places, and ideas.

Presented by Puke Ariki and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre this festival invites you to listen deeply, speak honestly and imagine boldly.

Join us on September 11 - 14, tickets available now. Link in bio to learn more. taken in New Plymouth, New Zealand by @puke_ariki

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Story Worlds invites you to see storytelling not only as something we tell or hear but as something we live, carry and co-create.

How do stories grow when many voices shape them?

What does it mean to make meaning together?

Join us on September 11 - 14 in exploring these questions – listen deeply, speak honestly, and imagine boldly.

Link in bio to learn more about this event. taken in New Plymouth, New Zealand by @puke_ariki

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Story Worlds 2025 unfolds across three iconic venues in New Plymouth.
👉 Puke Ariki Museum
👉 Puke Ariki Library
👉 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre

A major celebration between Puke Ariki and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre to bring you a festival that celebrates storytelling in all its forms and honours the way stories help us make sense of ourselves, each other, and the world we share.

Join us on September 11 - 14 and explore the spaces where stories come to life - link in bio to discover the full program. taken in New Plymouth, New Zealand by @puke_ariki

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That’s a wrap on Story Worlds! ✨

Last Thursday through Sunday, we explored the power of language, imagination, and connection through workshops, performances, and shared stories that brought our spaces to life.

Thank you to everyone who joined us, participated, and helped shape this beautiful celebration of storytelling 💬📚

Until next time, keep creating, keep listening, and keep sharing your story. by @puke_ariki

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He Inu mō te Pō Tuatahi i te taha o te Hunga Auaha

We invite you to celebrate the official opening of our inaugural Story Worlds festival with an evening of storytelling, music, and creative connection. Join us from 7pm on Friday 12 September in the Puke Ariki Foyer as we transform the space into a vibrant, collaborative hub.

Experience the Story Worlds themes in action - Language as Living, Ecology as Becoming, and Participation as Creation - brought to life through a live reading by Holly Shanahan, a performance by the Lalaga Youth Ambassadors, and original music by local group Hamish Cameron and Friends.

Enjoy drinks, nibbles, and the shared joy of story, song, and community.

Spend Opening Night immersed in the arts on Friday the 12th of September with a special deal – purchase a bundle ticket for both the Opening Night Drinks with the Creatives and Writing the Trail: Northbound with Naomi Arnold for only $45 (save $10).

Or book with a friend group of four and get another ticket free (limited availability).

📍 Puke Ariki | Friday 12 September
🎟️ Tickets: $35
🔗 Link in bio to purchase your ticket. by @puke_ariki

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Te Atamai Hangahanga e Mahi nei: He akoranga Hangarau i Ahu Mai ai i James Bridle

Inspired by James Bridle’s keynote, this in-person tech-shop offers a playful, hands-on encounter with machine intelligence. Facilitated by technologist Ankit Mishra, participants will experiment with tools like ChatGPT and open-access AI platforms to explore storytelling, code, language, logic, and the boundaries of intelligence.

Rooted in the festival theme Participation as Creation, this session invites you to learn through doing—whether through writing, coding, prompting, or provoking. It is a space to test ideas, ask big questions, and co-create with the machine as both mirror and material.

📍 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Sunday 14 September
🎟️ Tickets: $10
🔗 Link in bio to reserve your seat. by @puke_ariki

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Kōrero Paki mō te Puta ki te Ora: Horanga Pūrākau i te Wā o te Tairaru Hauropi

How do you weave the impact of climate change into fiction without losing your reader to despair?

What does it mean to write stories that reflect our changing world while still holding space for hope, resilience, and action?

In this timely conversation, authors Clare Moleta, Mikaela Nyman, and Tim Jones join facilitator Cassie Hart (Kāi Tahu / Kāti Māmoe) to explore the responsibilities of writing climate change fiction.

Together, they’ll discuss how storytelling can confront ecological crisis while offering readers space to think, feel, and imagine collective futures grounded in care, courage, and urgency.

📍 Puke Ariki Library | Sunday 14 September
🎟️ Free Admission
🔗 Link in bio to reserve your seat. taken in Puke Ariki by @puke_ariki

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Michael Bennett: He aha e Kōrero Pūrākau ai te Kaipūrākau?

A compulsion, a career, a ripping open of the soul… the desire to create stories can come from many different places. In this session, author, and filmmaker Michael Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hinerangi) considers the fundamental question of why writers write or at least why he does.

Michael’s debut book, In Dark Places, the result of his decade-long work on the fight for justice for Teina Pora, won Best Non-Fiction at the Ngaio Marsh Awards. His debut novel, Better the Blood is the only crime thriller to be finalist for the Jann Medlicott Fiction Award at the Ockhams. It won the Ngaio for Best First Novel, making Michael the only author to win for both fiction and non-fiction. His third novel, Carved In Blood was published in April this year.

Don’t miss this personal insight into what influences one of New Zealand’s most compelling crime writers to create stories.

📍 Puke Ariki Library | Sunday 14 September
🎟️ Free Admission
🔗 Link in bio to reserve your seat. by @puke_ariki

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Kōrero Matua: Ka Whakaarotia Anōtia ngā Atamai Hauropi i te taha o James Bridle (pāhotanga mataora)

What if intelligence is not limited to humans—or even machines?

In this thought-provoking keynote, artist, writer, and technologist James Bridle explores the shifting boundaries of knowledge and perception, asking what we might learn from the rich intelligences of animals, plants, and natural systems. As artificial intelligence reveals its own strange logics, Bridle turns our attention toward other, often-overlooked forms of sentience—inviting us to listen differently to the world around us.

Responding to the festival theme Ecology as Becoming, this keynote is a meditation on wonder, entanglement, and the urgent need to rethink our place within a more-than-human planet.

📍 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Cinema | Sunday 14 September
🎟️ Tickets: $15
🔗 Link in bio to reserve your seat. taken in Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre by @puke_ariki

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He Inu Tī i te taha o tētehi Tauhou

We invite you to take part in Cup of Tea with a Stranger - a gentle, meaningful experience of connection.

Enjoy a warm drink and a conversation with someone you may never have met otherwise. Whether free-flowing or supported by thoughtful prompts, each exchange invites deep listening and honest reflection.

Throughout the session, you’ll have the opportunity to speak with multiple people, creating space for unexpected insight and everyday magic.

📍 Puke Ariki Library | Sunday 14 September
🎟️ Free Admission
🔗 Link in bio to reserve your seat. by @puke_ariki

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Kōrero Matua: He Pō i te taha o Catherine Chidgey

Step into the brilliant world of Catherine Chidgey, a rockstar of New Zealand literature.

Her work is known for its rich language, unforgettable characters, and gripping plots. In this special keynote event, she reflects on her writing life and the haunting, often humorous world of The Book of Guilt.

📍 Puke Ariki Foyer | Saturday 13 September
🎟️ Tickets: $20
🔗 Link in bio to reserve your seat. by @puke_ariki

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Te Whakataketake i te Tauwāhi: Te Whakamānawa Mōhio, te Noho me te Waihanga i te taha o ngāi Iwi Taketake

How do we shape environments in ways that honour Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and making? What does it mean to Indigenise public space, not only through built forms, but through story, protocol, ecology, and whakapapa?

Together, our speakers will explore how Indigenous placemaking can foster relational, regenerative futures. Where space is shaped not just by structures, but by story, responsibility, and deep connection to land.

Click the link in bio to learn more and reserve your seat.

📍 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Cinema | Saturday 13 September
🎟️ Tickets: $15
🔗 Link in bio to purchase your ticket. by @puke_ariki

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