NOVEMBER 2020 | VOL. VII
Tō Tātou Karere WELLINGTON CITY LIBRARIES NEWS
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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
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Kilbirnie Miramar Tawa Te Awe
CRAFTerschool 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
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Calling all adventurers — seasoned questers and fresh-faced recruits alike — for Dungeons and Dragons campaigns at your local library. We’ll provide the Dungeon Master, dice, books and gear; you provide the imagination. Registrations required. Recommended for ages 9 - 19. • •
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Dungeons and Dragons
Johnsonville Karori → waiting for a new Dungeons Master
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. • • •
Karori Newtown Tawa
Preschool Storytime
Kōhunga Kōrero Pakiwaitara i roto i te reo Māori. E 30 meneti
Fun and interactive stories, songs and rhymes to
pakiwaitara, rotarota, waiata hoki i roto i te reo Māori
inspire your preschooler and help grow a love of
mō ngā kōhungahunga me ō rātou mātua kaitiaki.
literacy.
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. • • • •
Johnsonville Karori Miramar Newtown
Recommended for children aged 2 - 4 with their caregivers. • • • • • •
LEGO® Time
Brooklyn Cummings Park Island Bay Johnsonville Karori Khandallah
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Kilbirnie Miramar Newtown Tawa Te Awe Wadestown
Youth Nights
Come down to the library and get creative in these
Come to our after-hours Youth Nights to find a space
free-build sessions with our extensive LEGO®
to be yourself and meet other like-minded teens.
collections. Recommended for ages 5 - 105.
Check out the cool tech in the HIVE, record music, play games, watch movies, read a book, or just hang
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Te Awe
out -- our space is yours! Pizza provided. Suitable for ages 14+. •
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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. • • • •
Cummings Park Johnsonville Karori Khandallah
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Miramar Newtown Tawa
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Tea and Tales
Movie Nights Join us for free films screening
Join us for Tea and Tales at the
every month. Movies are selected
library. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee
from the library’s collections and are
and lively book discussions with
suitable for adults. Check with the
like-minded people, while sharing
library to find out which movie is
poems, excerpts and anecdotes
showing.
with others for an hour at the library.
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Te Awe Wadestown
Bring along something to share with the group. New members are always welcome; just pop along. • •
Johnsonville Tawa
Tea and Tales
Social English
Chinese
Come along to our free English conversation groups. We meet
Join us for Chinese Tea and Tales
every week to chat and improve our
to get to know other Mandarin-
English conversation skills. All levels
speaking migrants in the
are welcome!
community, practice your English,
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Karori Kilbirnie Newtown
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.
Stepping Up
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These are practical sessions on library computers covering the
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computing. A different topic is covered at each session, so check
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basics of digital technology and
with the library to find out more information. Registrations are required. •
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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. •
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TUESDAYS 5.45 - 7.15pm
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Tūhura HIVE is our makerspace located inside the Johnsonville Library at the Waitohi Community Hub. Giving our customers the oportunity to play with new technology and creative tools Tūhura HIVE offers 3D printing, VR experiences, sewing machines, laser cut, a compact music studio and so much more. For the full information on days and times visit The HIVE Event Calendar.
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Code Club level 1
Tinker Time
Code Club Level 1 is a free coding
Come to the HIVE after storytime
club for children at the beginning of
for these hands-on sessions for little
their coding journey. Students will
makers. From simple crafts and
work their way through a range of
messy play to fun robots and more,
fun coding projects supported by
there will be something different
coding experts. Registrations are
to delight your little ones at each
required. Recommended for coders
session. Recommended for ages 2 -
aged 9 - 13.
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Code Club level 2
HIVE 101: Cut & Etch
Code Club Level 2 is a free coding
Come along to the HIVE and work
club for children who have some
on your own ideas and projects,
coding experience under their belts.
focussing on laser cutting, etching,
Students will select stimulating
and papercrafts. These sessions are
projects to work through supported
self-guided, but staff will be on hand
by coding experts. Registrations are
to assist if needed. Suitable for ages
required. Recommended for coders
14 - 140. Children with supervising
aged 9 - 13.
adults welcome.
Family Maker Saturday General Interest
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Tūhura hive - johnsonville library at the waitohi hub
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Updated times from November 2020.
HIVE 101: Fibrecraft
Come along to the HIVE and work
Come along to the HIVE and work
on your own ideas and projects
on your own ideas and projects,
using our wide range of creative
focussing on fibrecrafts including
technologies and tools. These
weaving, sewing and knitting. These
sessions are self-guided, but staff
sessions are self-guided, but staff
will be on hand to assist if needed.
will be on hand to assist if needed.
Suitable for ages 14 - 140; children
Suitable for ages 14 - 140. Children
with supervising adults welcome.
with supervising adults welcome.
recent picks from our
collections
Starborn and godsons: New science fiction and fantasy fiction by Neil J
“The dinosaurs became extinct because Steven Barnes the long awaited conclusion they didn’t have a space program. And if (twenty five years to be precise) to the we become extinct because we don’t have Heorot series. And Sarah J. Maas first a space program, it’ll serve us right!”
adult fantasy work House of Earth and
― Larry Niven
Blood. Sarah will be better known to some readers for
If there was any doubt that Science Fiction her exceptional and Fantasy is one of the most dynamic, young
adult
interesting and relevant genres in fiction fantasy
fiction
at the moment then a quick look at some works. Enjoy! of the recent and upcoming releases will lay that doubt to rest.
Read article.
Indeed this month’s releases proves this fact including three of the most eagerly anticipated Science Fiction titles of the year. Namely The relentless moon by Mary Robinette Kowal which continues her Nebula and
Hugo
award-winning
Lady
Astronaut series. Starborn & godsons by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and 10
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Debut novelist Rachel Kerr’s NaNoWriMo tips! by Neil J
NaNoWriMo celebrates the power of
unpromising. That is
creativity, and is the ideal way of firing
until the mysterious
up your writing neurons. It also connects
Bridget moves in to
you to fellow writers, focuses your writing
the
efforts by setting milestones and is a
with her unexpected
fantastic way to help budding writers
friendship, glamour
create new worlds and stories!
and wild dreams. But
flats,
bringing
is all as it seems? To help you begin, we asked various authors to share their tips, hints and Rachel said that when she heard that general advice for new writers. First up: Victory Park had arrived from the printer, debut novelist Rachel Kerr, who shares she grabbed a carry bag and jumped on her advice on both the writing process a bus and came straight down. “Nothing and also how to get published.
like holding your first novel in your hands and realising the words you sweated over
Rachel’s book Victory Park revolves for years are there, locked in, ready for round a young mum who lives in council others to read”. flats with her young son. The truth of her daily existence is that it is threadbare and Read the full article.
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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 28 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
