September 2017
- Learn ways to harness the power of children’s and YA books to engage students and help develop language, ideas and lasting memories. This seminar is the first in a series for school leaders, teachers and librarians supporting the role school communities can play in building a nation of readers.
- Time:
9:15am to 3:15pm
- Location:
National Library — Auckland Centre, 8 Stanley St, Parnell, Auckland
Designing and making ephemera today
1 September- A casual and collaborative workshop using the small things we hold on to, collect or cherish to help explain who we are as a brand.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi Programme Room (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Humble: the life of 100 small objects
- The film screening will be followed by a display of some items relating to Tongan language and history from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1.30pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi Programme Room (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Dr Malcolm McKinnon will deliver this month's public history talk.
- Time:
12.15pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Treaty of Waitangi Fellows
7 September
- Hear Nikki Hessell, Simon Perris, and Carwyn Jones speak about their Fellowship projects.
- Time:
5.30pm to 6.45pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- 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
Patrick Hickey (1882-1930): “A dangerous radical”
13 September- A talk by historian and researcher Peter Clayworth about one of the founders of the New Zealand Labour Party.
- Time:
5.30pm to 6.30pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
The heART of the matter
14 September- With an introduction by the filmmakers Luit and Jan Bieringa.
- Time:
5.30pm to 7pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- For Māori Language Week (11–17 September), come learn about Māori atua and their awesome powers through the creation myth Papatuanuku and Ranginui.
- Time:
10.30am to 12.30pm
- Location:
National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, Cnr Molesworth & Aitken Streets
Back to the future: A suffrage day celebration
19 September
- Bringing the suffrage story to life and giving you a taste of New Zealand’s social and political history.
- Time:
5.45pm to 8pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
The Women’s Suffrage Petition – writing biographies
19 September
- Kate Potter will discuss the research that supported this project and look at ways you can get involved today.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi Programme Room (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explores the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance.
- Time:
6pm
- Location:
Scorpio Books, BNZ Centre, 120 Hereford Street
- Part of: The BWB Winter Series: The world ahead
- Dr Nicola Daly will discuss the separation between languages in picturebooks and in relation to bilingualism and translanguaging.
- Time:
5.30pm for drinks and nibbles, talk at 6.00pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Here today, gone today
22 September- Dr Sydney Shep illustrates how printers converted cash into some of the most ordinary and most flamboyant of print ephemera.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi Programme Room (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Part of: Humble: the life of 100 small objects
- Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explores the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance.
- Time:
5.30pm for 6pm start
- Location:
Royal Society, 11 Turnbull St, Thorndon
- Part of: The BWB Winter Series: The world ahead
Letters and the Landscape of our Lives: the pioneering women in the life of Sir John Hall
27 September- Kate Foster will demonstrate how her family's 19th century letters provide valuable details about the lives of women in colonial New Zealand.
- Time:
12.10pm to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
- Kate Foster will discuss Sir John Hall's family background, education, reasons for immigration and explore why he may have felt granting women the vote was important.
- Time:
12.10 to 1pm
- Location:
Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Becoming humble
29 September- How do you pick 100 objects for an exhibition?
- 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