How to be a Good Ancestor

Free

Join the conversation with author Richard Shaw and Hastings District Councillor Heather Te Au-Skipworth as they discuss history, identity and our shared future. Richard recently published 'The Good Settler', the third in a trilogy of books on decolonisation. It continues his deep reckoning with his colonial past and Aotearoa's collective historical amnesia.

He writes: "Where once I saw a view as I drove around the Taranaki coast along State Highway 45, I now see confiscated land from an invasion road. The creation story I used to subscribe to, the one in which hard-working people came here and settled the land, now jars. Weirdly, even the lawn looks different."

"Growing numbers of Pākehā find themselves standing on restless ground these days: they, too, are seeing things differently, and in these pages you will also hear their voices as we reach — fitfully and painfully, individually and collectively — for an accommodation with our colonial past."

Richard Shaw is a professor of politics at Massey University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the author of The Forgotten Coast, The Unsettled and The Good Settler.

MC for the night is Hastings District Councillor Yvonne Lorkin.

Doors open at 6.30pm, korero starts at 7pm and the evening will wrap up by 9pm. The venue is the historic St Matthew's Anglican Church, the oldest portion of which dates to 1886.

It's a free event and koha is welcome.

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