# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Lunchtime Author Talk: Ariana Tikao in conversation with Ruby Solly
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 26 Jun, 2026 at 12:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us, Ariana Tikao and Ruby Solly at Te Matapihi ki te ao Nui (Wellington Central Library) for a fantastic lunchtime conversation, discussing Ariana's latest pukapuka Pepeha Portal. 

About the pukapuka: 
Pepeha Portal is the keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from New Zealand Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao. Rooted in Kāi Tahu identity, the collection chronicles a homecoming and offers a moving account of memory, place and connection.

Born and raised in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Tikao left the city after the devastating earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. In 2023 she was awarded the Ursula Bethell Residency at the University of Canterbury and returned to live in a place that was both deeply familiar and astonishingly new. Written largely during this period, Pepeha Portal is shaped by stories embedded in the landscape – many long erased by colonialism and only recently exposed by cultural, as much as geological, shifts.

Responding to suburban landscapes and tīpuna places, personal memory and ancestral voice, Pepeha Portal considers how language, whakapapa and whenua act as portals to belonging.

‘There’s breathtaking scope and emotional depth in this collection, so much whakapapa wisdom, and finely hued poetry. He taoka toikupu.’ – Robert Sullivan, New Zealand Poet Laureate

All welcome, not to be missed!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/lunchtime-author-talk-ariana-tikao-in-conversation-with-ruby-solly/200030254476452
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 47

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Wellington
- **state**: WG
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Wellington City Libraries
- **lat**: -41.28813
- **long**: 174.77653
- **full address**: Wellington City Libraries, Public Library Building, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Wellington

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Lunchtime Author Talk: Ariana Tikao in conversation with Ruby Solly being held?
  - **A:** Lunchtime Author Talk: Ariana Tikao in conversation with Ruby Solly takes place on Fri, 26 Jun, 2026 at 12:30 pm to Fri, 26 Jun, 2026 at 12:30 pm at Wellington City Libraries, Public Library Building, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Wellington.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Lunchtime Author Talk: Ariana Tikao in conversation with Ruby Solly?
  - **A:** Lunchtime Author Talk: Ariana Tikao in conversation with Ruby Solly is organized by Unity Books Wellington.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Lunchtime Author Talk: Ariana Tikao in conversation with Ruby Solly is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Wellington, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Lunchtime Author Talk: Ariana Tikao in conversation with Ruby Solly sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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