Public Talks

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We play public talks from around Whanganui-a-Tara. These include artist talks, lectures and poetry readings.

​Every Tuesday 2:00-3:00pm

From 14 March we'll be playing talks from Te Pātaka Toi | Adam Art Gallery.

Bridging Worlds Ep3 | Jim McAloon - The Life & Times of Gerald O'Brien

O’Brien held many roles during his long life – he had been a radar operator in the airforce, a businessman, a city councillor, and eventually the president of the World Peace Council. As a prominent politician he was elected during a time of change within both the Labour Party and within Aotearoa as a whole. In this lunchtime talk political historian, Jim McAloon, offers compelling insights into the social and political context in which Gerald O’Brien lived and worked.

Jim McAloon is a professor of history at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. He has a wide range of interests in the economic and social history of New Zealand and other places. For some years he’s taught a second year course in New Zealand political history, and has published a number of works in the field, including (with Peter Franks) Labour: The New Zealand Labour Party 1916-2016 (2016).

This is from our lunchtime talk series Bridging Worlds that ran alongside Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery’s exhibitions Lucien Rizo's 'Everything' and Megan Dunn's 'the Mermaid Chronicles'. These talks explore private obsessions in real world contexts and the ways imaginative personas enable slippage between identity categories.

Click on this link to learn more about what's happening at Te Pātaka Toi | Adam Art Gallery 

Past talks include:

Bridging Worlds Ep4 | Mermaid Metaphors & Other Tales - Megan Dunn & Jess Hinerangi Thompson-Carr - Thank you Te Pātaka Toi | Adam Art Gallery 

Radical Possibilities of the Mind, Body and Senses: A Poetry Showcase​

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