Stories and tales from the remote corners of New Zealand with our panel. Authors Whitney Oliver, Chrissy Wickes, Peta Carey and Bill Morris will share words from their writing and reflections on their adventures, offering insights that both inform and challenge your knowledge—individually and collectively.

More about the panel:

Whitney Oliver

Whitney Oliver is a filmmaker and the director of the NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival based in Wānaka. She has a deep appreciation for the art of and environment of Otago, having also served four years as the Arts Coordinator for Wānaka Arts and being an avid trail runner. Originally from the USA, she has called the Wanaka area home for 8 years and now lives in Lake Hawea with her husband and young daughter.

Chrissy Wickes

A conservationist at heart, Chrissy has worked for the Department of Conservation on many island sanctuaries, with a raft of endangered species. She has been on most of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands, as well as Raoul, Solanders, the Hen and Chickens, the Chatham’s (Mangere and Southeast), Secretary and Resolution. These islands have had a huge impact on her art.

Bill Morris

Bill Morris is one of New Zealand’s most experienced subantarctic natural history filmmakers.

Peta Carey

Peta Carey spent the greater part of her working life as a documentary director and producer, here in Aotearoa New Zealand, but also as a one-person camera-operator in various corners of the globe, including the South Pacific. She moved into writing full time about 12 years ago, and by sheer dint of geography (and a lifetime of appreciation of our wild places, topside and underwater), was repeatedly drawn into stories of the New Zealand wilderness, particularly Fiordland (her first love) and most recently, the Subantarctic.