You're invited to my book launch
Downstream from Nowhere drops this Friday 29 August, 6.30pm at Trades Hall
Tēnā koe
You are invited to the launch of Downstream from Nowhere, the debut novella by Johnny Crawford!
Date: Friday 29 August
Time: Arrive from 6.30pm, formalities from 7pm, party until late
Venue: Trades Hall 128 Vivian Street, Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Kai, drinks, good vibes all free of charge :)
In the two centuries since the first Pākehā set foot in what would go on to be known as the Messines Valley, it has seen its fair share of history. Music festivals. Failed settlements. Paranormal phenomena. As the stolen land passed through the hands of church and state and capital, each left its mark. Downstream from Nowhere follows this course through the eyes of the valley’s least reputable visitors.
The program of festivities include:
- speeches and readings
- kai and refreshments by Sam Buchanan
- acoustic performance from Ollie Bunnie
- stand-up comedy by Anna Rzhevitskaya
- DJ set by DJ Oblong
- MC'd by no other than Renae "renizzly" Williams
“Downstream from Nowhere continues a new lineage of bracing and complex Aotearoa literary satire. Crawford sends us running straight into a tornado of intergenerational colonial mindsets, jingoistic historicism, and pop-cultural epochs, with a goat’s head in one hand and a kebab in the other. Probably the best thing to come out of Timaru since Phar Lap.”
-Jordan Hamel
Everyone is Everyone Except You
Available on the 5ever shop:
https://5everbooks.bigcartel.com/product/downstream-from-nowhere
