Verb Showcase: If This Finds You

Part of VERB Readers and Writers Festival 2026

Tomorrow arrives quickly. A hundred years from now takes its time.

Seven writers write a letter to a reader they will never meet, sending their words into the future in the hope they’ll find someone waiting on the other side. Through curiosity and speculation, they contemplate the future, our place within it and who is ahead of us.

Featuring Witi Ihimaera Smiler (Te Whānau A Kai, Te Aitanga A Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Ira, Ngāti Porou), Elizabeth Knox, Tīhema Baker (Raukawa te Au ki te Tonga, Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira), Terri Te Tau (Rangitāne, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa), Pip adam, Mia Farlane and Shariff Burke.

Expect big ideas, peculiar predictions, reasons to look forward, and a few things we’d rather not leave behind. Hosted by Melody Thomas.

6:30pm Friday 25 September 2026

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