A fifties classroom, windows each side, neon lights, a veranda outside, a crowd of chairs, a sound system and a small dais, two people talking, sometimes three, about writing and life and projects, men and women, gay and hetero, Pākeha and Māori, words and laughter, occasional despair or puzzlement, politics and justice, in between dashes through rain for tea and cake, soup and croissant and a pee; snow threatens on the Pass but tomorrow is another day and tonight we will eat together and plot a future in these uncertain times.

The writers: Bill Nage;kerke, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Nic Low, Jane Carswell, Sam Duckor-Jones, Paul Maunder and Paddy Richardson (absent: Jane Kelsey).

The readers: Kai at the Club