Revolutions Per Minute: The counterculture in New Zealand, 1960-1975

Wellington writer, critic and broadcaster Nick Bollinger has been a music columnist for The Listener and presenter of the music review programme The Sampler on RNZ National. He is the author of How To Listen To Pop Music, 100 Essential New Zealand Albums and Goneville, which won the Adam Prize for Creative Writing in 2015. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Stout Research Centre and working on a history of the counterculture in New Zealand.

Nick is an excellent writer and a lively speaker. While research will take him from one end of the country to the other, certain events in Auckland are pivotal to the story. Among other things, he will look at the 1969 ‘liberation of Albert Park’ and the origins of the ‘Jumping Sundays’ that took place there.

Join us at the Takapuna Library on The Strand has for this entertaining, free public talk.