Lucy and I spent the weekend up in Wellington for the NZ Arts Festival, in particular Neil Gaiman’s Town Hall Talk, as part of the Writers Week festivities. NZ Post, one of the festival sponsors, installed “inspiring words” in several locations around the city, some as giant installations (as pictured below on the side of the lovely Swonderful shop) and others at typical fridge magnet size, where the public could unleash their creativity and cross their fingers that the infamous Wellington winds didn’t whip them from their magnetic perch!
Word sets were also given away as part of the marketing, for creative types (such as ourselves) to try their hand at poetry, which is precisely what we did over a spot of breakfast…
And of course, my currently-most-coveted-possesion, “The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish” inscribed by Neil with “best fishes”! Neil was signing books for a total of three hours (!!!) after his talk, not wanting to disappoint a single fan… Legend.
Tags: Neil Gaiman, NZ Arts Festival
