NZ Premier of An Independent Mind

To mark Courage Day Hastings Library hosted the New Zealand premier of An Independent Mind, a 90 minutes documentary directed by Rex Bloomstein, featuring eight free speech heroes and villains from around the world, asserting their rights to express themselves. The telling of this documentary is designed to encourage people to reflect on the importance of freedom of expression with all its attendant complexities, challenges and limits.

Courage Day (15 November) marked the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer. See The New Zealand Society of Authors website http://www.authors.org.nz/