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Tō Tātou Karere WELLINGTON CITY LIBRARIES NEWS
content tamariki / rangatahi children and youth
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pakeke adults
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tūhura hive the hive
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new kids books new teens books
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most wanted books
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do more with your library card
Preschool Storytime Fun and interactive stories, songs and rhymes to inspire your preschooler and help grow a love of literacy. Recommended for children aged 2 - 4 with their caregivers.
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Arapaki Brooklyn Cummings Park He Matapihi Island Bay
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Johnsonville Karori Khandallah Kilbirnie
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Newtown Tawa Te Awe Wadestown
Miramar
Baby Rock and Rhyme A fun and educational programme for parents and carers to interact with their babies through songs and stories. Recommended for children aged 0 - 2 years with their caregivers. Cummings Park Island Bay Johnsonville Karori Kilbirnie
Free arts and crafts for school-aged children. Get stuck into activities such as drawing, beading, origami, mask-making and much more while making friends with other crafty kids. Registrations required; runs weekly during term-time.
• Johnsonville • Miramar • Tawa
Family Movie Nights Come in your pyjamas, bring a cushion and a blanket, and relax at our fun family movie nights. A different G-rated movie is selected from our library collections each month. Check with the library to find out which movie is showing.
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• Miramar • Tawa • Te Awe
CRAFTerschool
children and youth
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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
Youth Nights
Miramar
Come to our after-hours Youth Nights to find a space
Newtown
to be yourself and meet other like-minded teens. Check out the cool tech in the HIVE, record music,
LEGO® Time
play games, watch movies, read a book, or just hang
Come down to the library and get creative in these free-build sessions with our extensive LEGO® collections. Recommended for ages 5 - 105.
• Te Awe
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.
Johnsonville Karori
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Free coding clubs for children at the beginning of
Let’s build -- let’s explore -- let’s create -- Let’s Go
Cummings Park
ages 14+.
Code Club
Let’s Go LEGO®
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out -- our space is yours! Pizza provided. Suitable for
• Miramar • Newtown • Tawa
Khandallah
Social Saturdays Join us for a relaxed hour of arts, crafts, and skill
their coding journeys! This syllabus covers coding in Scratch 3.0. Registrations are required, and children enrol by default for two consecutive school terms: visit codeclub.nz to register. Recommended for coders aged 9 - 13.
• He Matapihi • Johnsonville • Karori
• Newtown • Tawa
Movies at the Hub Come down and enjoy our fun family movie time. A different G-rated movie is selected from our library
swaps. Enjoyed by people of all ages.
collections. Check with the library to find out which
• Newtown
• Johnsonville
movie is showing.
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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.
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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.
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• 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.
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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
空的侃聊人生故事……或是想学习如何运用图书馆内的设 施; 学习简单的生活实用英语, 那就来乔森威尔图书馆吧, <<悠雅书舍>>欢迎您的加入.
• 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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SoundsWell Singers
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Harp Concert
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events highlight
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recent picks from our
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Vogue and the First World War by Paul V
The article begins with the headline “The New Declaration of Independence”. Over the following page it goes on to examine shifting global power dynamics, explaining that “the spirit that made it impossible for the thirteen American colonies to remain vassals of Great Britain, makes it equally impossible that our nearly fifty states rest under the perpetual threat involved in Prussian militarism and imperial Pan-Germanism.” This article isn’t from the New York Times; it won’t be found in Papers Past. Instead it comes from one of Wellington City Libraries’ most interesting online resources: the Vogue Archive. Vogue’s coverage of the First World War is significant for several reasons: for starters its variety. Just a brief search of the Archive using the keyword “War” between 1917 and 1918 brings up articles addressing everything from practical fashion advice (“Dressing on a War Income”) and the role of women in relief work (“The Woman’s Share of War”) to the importance of Liberty Loans (“If We Would Win This War”) and changes in mourning practices (“The Mode in Mourning”). Read the full article.
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Support Local: New Zealand Music Month 2021 by Stephen C
It’s May 2021, which means that New Zealand Music Month | Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa is upon us once again. We like music here on the Teen Blog, so we thought we’d share with you some of the cool stuff you can see, hear, or do to mark the occasion.
Find local music at the library The theme of NZMM21 is simple: ‘Support
A festive panoply of recent additions to our collection of Wellington music.
constant stream of local Wellington content
Local. Stream Local. Follow Local. Buy — interviews, videos and performances, Local.’ I’m not sure if there’s some kind anecdotes, new releases and more — well, of subliminal messaging at play here, but he definitely has you covered. Check out I think it’s possible that the kind folks at his exhaustive Artist Directory for lists of the New Zealand Music Commission are literally hundreds of Wellington musicians encouraging us to check out local artists. and bands going back to the 1940s, complete This is a message we at Wellington City with links to their material. It’s the best Libraries wholeheartedly support. Our place you could start if you’re wanting to Customer Specialist for Music and Film, explore the music of this place. Mark, runs the Wellington Music blog and Facebook page, and if what you’re after is a Read the full article.
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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
