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Tō Tātou Karere WELLINGTON CITY LIBRARIES NEWS
content tamariki / rangatahi children and youth
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Preschool Storytime
Family Movie Nights
Fun and interactive stories,
Come in your pyjamas, bring a
songs and rhymes to inspire your
cushion and a blanket, and relax
preschooler and help grow a love of
at our fun family movie nights. A
literacy.
different G-rated movie is selected
Recommended for children aged 2 -
from our library collections each
4 with their caregivers.
month. Check with the library to find
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Arapaki Brooklyn CPK He Matapihi Island Bay Johnsonville Karori
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Khandallah Kilbirnie
out which movie is showing.
• Newtown
Miramar Newtown Tawa Te Awe
Chinese Mandarin Storytime
Wadestown Join us on a special event with stories, songs and activities in
Baby Rock and Rhyme A fun and educational programme
Chinese Mandarin!
• Johnsonville
for parents and carers to interact with their babies through songs and stories. Recommended for children aged 0 -
4
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CPK Island Bay Johnsonville Karori
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Come down and enjoy our fun family movie time. A different G-rated
Kilbirnie
movie is selected from our library
Miramar
collections. Check with the library to
Tawa
find out which movie is showing.
Te Awe
CRAFTerschool
children and youth
tamariki / rangatahi
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2 years with their caregivers.
Movies at the Hub
• Johnsonville
Youth Nights
Free arts and crafts for school-aged
Come to our after-hours Youth
children. Get stuck into activities
Nights to find a space to be yourself
such as drawing, beading, origami,
and meet other like-minded teens.
mask-making and much more while
Check out the cool tech in the HIVE,
making friends with other crafty kids. record music, play games, watch Registrations required; runs weekly
movies, read a book, or just hang out
during term-time.
-- our space is yours! Pizza provided.
• Johnsonville • Miramar • Tawa
Suitable for ages 14+.
• Johnsonville
Dungeons and Dragons
Kōhunga Kōrero Pakiwaitara i roto i te reo Māori. E 30 meneti
Calling all adventurers — seasoned questers and
pakiwaitara, rotarota, waiata hoki i roto i te reo Māori
fresh-faced recruits alike — for Dungeons and
mō ngā kōhungahunga me ō rātou mātua kaitiaki.
Dragons campaigns at your local library. We’ll
Stories, rhymes and songs in te reo Māori for preschoolers and their caregivers. These sessions are open to anyone, and are recommended for children aged 2 - 6 years.
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provide the Dungeon Master, dice, books and gear; you provide the imagination. Registrations required. Recommended for ages 9 - 19.
• Johnsonville • Karori
Cummings Park
• Tawa
Johnsonville Karori
Code Club
Miramar Newtown
Free coding clubs for children at the beginning of their coding journeys! This syllabus covers coding in
LEGO® Time
Scratch 3.0. Registrations are required, and children enrol by default for two consecutive school terms:
Come down to the library and get creative in these
visit codeclub.nz to register. Recommended for
free-build sessions with our extensive LEGO®
coders aged 9 - 13.
collections. Recommended for ages 5 - 105.
• Te Awe
• He Matapihi • Johnsonville • Karori
• Newtown • Tawa
Let’s Go LEGO® Let’s build -- let’s explore -- let’s create -- Let’s Go LEGO®! Join us for these themed building sessions, where you will use the library’s LEGO® collections to create your masterpiece. Recommended for children aged 5+ with their caregivers.
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Cummings Park Johnsonville Karori
• Miramar • Newtown • Tawa
Khandallah
Social Saturdays Join us for a relaxed hour of arts, crafts, and skill swaps. Enjoyed by people of all ages.
• Newtown
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Movie Nights
Write Night
Join us for free films screening every
Come along to our very own Write
month. Movies are selected from the
Night! This is a fantastic opportunity
library’s collections and are suitable
for budding and professional writers
for adults. Check with the library to
alike to come together and enjoy
find out which movie is showing.
a space to pursue new and old
• Te Awe • Wadestown
writing projects. There will be fun themed events and other fun writing activities to get your writing juices flowing! All age groups welcome.
Social English Come along to our free English conversation groups. We meet every week to chat and improve our English conversation skills. All levels are welcome!
• Karori • Kilbirnie • Newtown
Zine Make n’ Swap Spend some time making zines and socialising with other local zinemakers. We’ll supply plenty of materials, but feel free to bring your own as well.
• Arapaki
If you enjoyed the “Queen’s gambit”
adults
pakeke
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Chess Nights
Games Night Join us for a night of boardgame fun! People of all age groups are welcome, and you can come along as an individual or with a group.
• Arapaki • Johnsonville
Book club Some of our libraries host social book groups for adults. Come along and share what you’ve been reading, and get recommendations from other keen readers.
• Island Bay • Kilbirnie
• Miramar
Silent Book Club
come along to our Chess Nights.
Silent Book Club is a space for you
We have two chess sets available,
to read alongside fellow book lovers,
or you are welcome to bring your
followed by a conversation about
own. People of all age groups are
your latest reads.
welcome.
• Arapaki
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• Arapaki
• Arapaki • Wadestown
Movies at the Hub Come down and enjoy our fun family movie time. A different G-rated movie is selected from our library collections. Check with the library to find out which movie is showing.
• Johnsonville
Tea and Tales Chinese
Join us for Chinese Tea and Tales to get to know other Mandarin-speaking migrants in the community, practice your English, share your stories, and much more. Mandarin-learning speakers of other languages are also welcome. 如果您喜欢阅读, 喜欢结交有共同爱好的新朋友, 海阔天
Skinny JUMP Skinny Jump is for homes that currently don’t have a broadband connection because cost is a barrier. Your
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• Johnsonville
modem is free, easy to install, and the cost starts at $5 per 30GB per 30 days. Registrations essential -- register for your session here.
• Newtown
Better Digital Futures
for Seniors
Learn new digital skills in small classes using programmes specifically designed for those over 65.
• Arapaki • Kilbirnie • Te Awe
Tea and Tales Join us for Tea and Tales at the library. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and lively book discussions with like-minded people, while sharing poems, excerpts and anecdotes with others for an hour at the library. Bring along something to share with the group. New members are always welcome; just pop along.
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Tūhura HIVE is our makerspace and sound studio, located on the lower ground floor of Johnsonville Library at the Waitohi Community Hub. It is a community space where people of all ages can explore, create, innovate and engage with all kinds of maker technology. From 3D printing, audio recording, coding, robotics and electronics, to sewing, weaving and more, we offer endless opportunities for everyone to get inspired and create. Come
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What is available in the space? •
3D printing
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3D scanning
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Laser cutting
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Sewing — we also have an
How much does it cost?
Activity
Cost
3D printing
$0.10 per gram $4.00 per 500x300mm plywood sheet; machine use free Free Free for first two hours, then $17.90/ hour
3D scanning
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Audio recording studio
Sewing/overlocking Audio recording studio
opening hours
the hive
Tūhura hive - johnsonville library at the waitohi hub
visit us — we’d love to see you!
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
12pm-6.45pm 10am-6.45pm 12pm-6.45pm
Thursday
10am-6.45pm
Friday
10am-6.45pm
Saturday
10am-3.45pm
Sunday
10am-3.45pm
Check the detailed information on the equipment we have here.
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Vinyl Club
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Author Talk
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recent picks from our
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The 80s called and they’ve given their magazine back Wellington City Libraries is bringing the past back to the future with the popular 1980s Wellington City Magazine now accessible online.
end of Robert Muldoon’s final term as the National Government’s Prime Minister in 1984, and came to an end after 27 issues following the share market crash in 1987.
Not only will it showcase the big hair, shoulder pads and jazzercize of the era in the capital, but also the cool cats, clubs and cafes, and feature articles and columns from many still well-known contributors.
“Published by Henry Newrick, the magazine had an enormous variety of feature articles and regular columns. Its advertising content reflected a boom in the local economy as financial regulatory controls were dropped, the share market rose to new heights and a new generation of high-earning workers, investors and entrepreneurs opened their wallets. The magazine was also highly innovative in its graphic design, page layout and highquality photograph reproduction.
Wellington City Magazine offers a fascinating insight into Wellington’s culture in the mid-1980s during a time of considerable societal and economic change, says Wellington City Libraries Local Historian Gabor Toth.
Read the full article. “Its first edition was printed at the very
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New books in French! by Stephen
New children’s books in French have arrived! We are excited to announce the arrival of a flood of new French books for all our French-speaking families. All branches have some, but you will find larger collections at Karori, Johnsonville, Kilbirnie, and Newtown Libraries. Don’t forget that you can also order these French books through the online catalogue by searching for “French language readers” or “Children 448.6“. Read the full article | Read in french
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contact us Arapaki Manners library 12 Manners Street 803 8303
Brooklyn Library Cnr of Harrison & Cleveland Streets, Brooklyn 384 6814
Cummings Park (ngaio) Library 1a Ottawa Road, Ngaio 479 2344
He Matapihi Molesworth Library National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street 801 4122
Island Bay library 167 The Parade, island bay 383 7216
Miramar library 68 Miramar Avenue, Miramar 388 8005
Newtown library 13 Constable Street, Newtown 389 2830
Ruth Gotlieb (Kilbirnie) library 101 Kilbirnie Crescent, Kilbirnie 387 1480
te awe Library 29B brandon street 801 3529
Wadestown library Corner of Moorhouse Street and Lennel Road, Wadestown 473 5211
Johnsonville library 34 Moorefield Road, Johnsonville 477 6151
Karori library 247 Karori Road, Karori 476 8413
Khandallah library 8 Ganges Road, khandallah 479 7535
Mervyn Kemp (Tawa) library 158 Main Road (Cnr Cambridge Street & Main Road), Tawa 232 1690
general enquiries enquiries@wcl.govt.nz 801 3065