October 2017
He Tohu children’s guided experience and free art activities
2 - 14 October- Bring the tamariki for special activities right through the school holiday.
- Time:
Art and reading: 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday. Guided experience: 11am Monday to Friday.
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
The e-Tangata storytellers
2 October- A discussion with Tapu Misa, Māmari Stephens, Gary Wilson, Nadine Millar and Morgan Godfery.
- Time:
6pm to 7.30pm (doors open at 5.30pm)
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Counting redcoats
4 October- Who were the imperial soldiers serving in New Zealand in the 1860s?
- Time:
12.15pm to 1.00pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Time & tide
5 October- Two special film screenings for Tuvalu Language Week.
- Time:
12.10pm and 1.10pm
- Location:
Lilburn room, level 1, National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- A documentary on this territorial dispute by Alexander Bukh and Nils Clauss.
- Time:
5.30pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Garage Project - The Art of Beer
6 October- Matt Sloan and Tim Gibson will talk about their work creating new can and label designs for breweries.
- Time:
12.10 to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Humble: the life of 100 small objects
- Learn how to plan, create, and save your own oral histories in this two-day workshop.
- Time:
8.45am to 4.30pm
- Location:
Palmerston North Central Library, 4 The Square, Palmerston North
Macawa ni Vosa Vakaviti
10 October- Come learn about Fiji's Deed of Cession to Great Britain.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
'A democratic game'
10 October- Rugby league, community identity and cultural pride in New Zealand between the war years.
- Time:
5.30pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Make your own ephemera
11 October- A workshop for kids.
- Time:
10.30am to 11.30am
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Humble: the life of 100 small objects
Passchendaele's 'Good sons'
12 October- Join Greg Hall for an author's talk about his new novel.
- Time:
5.30pm to 6.45pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Celebrate Fijian Language Week with this panel discussion facilitated by Adi Elisapeci Samanunu Waqanivala.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Tai Chi Chuan demonstration and instruction
16 October- See and join in on a display of key forms of this Chinese martial art.
- Time:
12.15pm to 12.45pm
- Location:
National Library forecourt (indoors if raining), corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Chinese language week
ArchivesNZ's online collections
17 October- Learn how to use them and how they can aid your research.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Seniors' week family history for beginners
17 October- Join Fiona Gray and Audrey Waugh and learn how to explore the Library collections.
- Time:
10am to midday
- Location:
Turnbull Library, Level 1, National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Reading Chinese
18 October- Duncan M Campbell talks about the book, the collection, and the library.
- Time:
12.10pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Chinese language week
Daughters of the Pacific
18 October- Join us for special screenings of this documentary for Niuean Language Week.
- Time:
12.10pm and 1.10pm
- Location:
Lilburn Room (Level 1), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Seniors' week family history workshop
19 October- Join Fiona Gray and Audrey Waugh and dig into the Library collections.
- Time:
10am to midday
- Location:
Turnbull Library, Level 1, National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Six o'clock: Poets under the influence
19 October- Iain Sharp presents a bevy of poets marking 50 years since the end of six o'clock closing.
- Time:
5.30pm light refreshments for 6pm start
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Chinese language and cultural competency
20 October- Rebecca Needham discusses language and New Zealand's relationship with China.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner of Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Chinese language week
- Get up close and personal with the objects of Humble, with curator Barbara Lyon.
- Time:
11am to 11.30am
- Location:
Level 1, National Library building, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Humble: the life of 100 small objects
- Find out how to locate and use reliable, credible and free digital resources to inform, ignite and inspire inquiry learning or research.
- Time:
9am to 3pm
- Location:
Whanganui Intermediate School, 90 Dublin St, Whanganui
- Get up close and personal with the objects of Humble, with curator Barbara Lyon.
- Time:
11am to 11.30am
- Location:
Level 1, National Library building, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Humble: the life of 100 small objects
Small but perfectly designed
27 October- Dr Polly Cantlon talks about the visual language of ephemera.
- Time:
12.30pm to 1.30pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Humble: the life of 100 small objects