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Tag: creativity
Posts tagged with creativity
The word on our literary partnerships and events programme
By Zoe Roland
6 December 2023
Our partnerships with the literary community.
Events
Off the record | A welcome home
By Paul Diamond and Seán McMahon
11 August 2023
About the typed manuscript of ‘the bone people’.
Collections
Literary papers | Witi Ihimaera’s ‘The Whale Rider’
By Lindsay Bilodeau
27 June 2023
An annotated copy of the award-winning novel reveals the author's personal connections to the story.
Collections
Interning with the Public Engagement team
By Ella Ayto
17 May 2023
Celebrating Waitangi Day and a programme for older adults.
Events
Literary papers | Notes in the margin
By Lindsay Bilodeau
28 April 2023
Eleanor Catton's annotated edition of her award-winning novel 'The Luminaries'.
Collections
Reflecting on 30 years of the Cartoon Archive
By Ian F. Grant
22 September 2022
Cartoon Archive founder, Ian F. Grant, reflects on the Archive’s evolution.
Collections
Gaming with the National Library
By Richard Busby
20 September 2022
An overview of esports and introduction to our new Takaroa | Gaming event series.
Events
Poems and Papers Past
By Melanie Lovell-Smith
19 August 2022
Poems in 19th- and early 20th-century newspapers.
Collections
Planning in a pandemic — ComicFest
By Sam Orchard
14 July 2022
Highlights from the annual comics festival delivered online this year for the first time.
Events
Encountering Mīharo | Never storm
By Phoebe Wright
3 September 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
Collections
Encountering Mīharo | Apropos of distraction
By Jonathan McLeod
13 August 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
Collections
Encountering Mīharo | ‘Patched gang members in the Māori Affairs Committee Room’, 1979
By Leah Dodd
6 August 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
Collections
Encountering Mīharo | Travel light
By Joe Parker
30 July 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
Collections
Encountering Mīharo | from ‘Mr Eagle among the portraits’
By Eva Wyles
23 July 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
Collections
Encountering Mīharo | Panoramic view of the Aratiatia Rapids
By Jiaqiao Liu
9 July 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
Collections
From Mīharo Wonder — He Mahi Kupenga by Matthew McIntyre-Wilson
By Mary Hay
27 April 2021
A letter about a new artwork created for the Mīharo Wonder exhibition.
Collections
Never work with pets and children?
By Tanja Schubert-McArthur
13 October 2020
Creating an exhibition of what's precious to the children of Aotearoa.
Behind the scenes
GIF IT UP 2015 challenge winners announced
By Jo Buchan
14 December 2015
The GIF IT UP 2015 challenge winners have been announced.
Libraries and learning
Nooks for books
By carolinebouffard
7 November 2014
When I was learning to read I had a cardboard playhouse from the Swiss Miss Cocoa Company that looked like a tiny chalet. I dragged in some cushions and spent many happy hours in there, sometimes reading aloud to the dog.
Create readers
Libraries, adventures, games and puzzles in one book
By Jeannie Skinner
12 June 2014
Libraries, adventures, games and puzzles – Escape from Mr Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein has them all!
Create readers
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