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What’s On
from February 2023
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2023 Chinese New Year Celebrations
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Nan Tien Temple’s events to mark the Year of the Rabbit started in Berkeley on January 21. Its Chinese New Year celebrations will end on Sunday, February 5 with a light offering ceremony. For more information, visit www.nantien.org.au
Lunar New Year At Crown St Markets
5.30-8.30pm, Thursday, 2 February. Celebrate
Lunar New Year at the Crown Street Night Markets, with free entertainment and your favourite street foods to welcome the Year of the Rabbit, and the Year of the Cat.
Wollongong Seniors Festival
1-12 February. Held at venues from Helensburgh to Dapto, the annual knees-up includes seniors aerobics, watercolour workshops, cards and games mornings, nature therapy walks, a quilt and craft expo, picnic and lawn games, a bush dance taster and the Lady Mayoress Afternoon Tea Dance. Programs are available at your local library and via Council’s website or call 4227 7111.
Bush Dance
Free lesson, live music, Sundays, Feb 5 & 19, March 5. No partner needed, beginners & families welcome. $5 includes afternoon tea. Easy, fun dances walked through & called. Doors open 1.10, lesson 1.30, dancing from 2-4pm. Heininger Hall, Heininger St, Dapto. Phone 0404 667 614.
Thirroul Village Committee – Election Forum
4pm, Sunday 26 February at TRIPS Hall, next to Thirroul Station. The Thirroul Village Committee is hosting a forum for all of the declared candidates for the electorate of Heathcote to address the community and take questions ahead of the March NSW State Election.
Helensburgh Library
Lego Club Tue, 7 Feb 3.30-4.30pm, free. Can you build the highest tower? An unbeatable maze? Or a dinosaur out of only orange bricks? There’s one way to find out. Parents required.
Grandparents Storytime Fri 10 Feb 10.30-11.15am
Special session, part of NSW Seniors Festival. Preschool Storytime Fri 17 Feb, 10.30-11.15am
Thirroul Library
The NSW Seniors Festival is on from February 1-12. Wollongong City Libraries will be participating and hosting a range of programs. At Thirroul Library, we will have a Card and Games morning, Knit, Stitch & Yarn, as well as a special Grandparents Story Time. Check out the website for details, www.wollongong.nsw.gov.au/library.
Regular preschool programming will resume at the library from 6th February. Join us at Story Time, Toddler Time and Baby Beats in the library with Stories, Rhymes, Songs and Craft.
Lego Club will also be restarting for year on February 8. It’s open to all primary school kids. Come and join us in the library on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month to tackle a new Lego-building challenge and see your work put up in our display cases.
Do you have a new year’s resolution to read more books but don’t know where to start?
Why don’t you come and join us at 10.30am on the first Thursday of every month and enjoy a morning of lively conversation about a range of book titles by contemporary authors. Share your favourite reads or discover something new and make some new friends.
