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Sunday 22 May

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Register: Learning and support for new school library staff 2022

Tuesday 1 February 2022 to Thursday 15 December 2022

Online

New to your school library? If you're just getting started providing library services for your school, register to join our online learning community. You'll attend regular Zoom meetings and webinars, build your skills, receive support from National Library experts and connect with other library people.

Part of: Learning and support for new school library staff — 2022

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Writers in Bronze The Anthony Stones Portrait Busts of New Zealand writers

Tuesday 22 March 2022 to Saturday 25 June 2022

Turnbull Gallery, National Library Wellington

The Writers in Bronze exhibition showcases the sequence of cast bronze portrait heads of New Zealand writers by sculptor Anthony Stones (1934-2016) in the Alexander Turnbull Library collection.

Saturday 21 May 2022
Monday 23 May 2022
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    • Parihaka: Remembering November 5, 1881
    • E oho! He Whakaputanga and He Puapua
    • Te Pūtake o te Riri, He Rā Maumahara — How a petition led to a day remembering New Zealand Wars
    • E oho! Captain Cook: The beginning of what?
    • Knowledge is a blessing on your mind: Whakapapa, science and history
    • Tapu 2019: Te Awa Atua and the reclamation of Mana Wāhine
    • Into native seas: Europeans encounters an Indigenous ocean
    • He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni: The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand
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E oho! Waitangi 2022

10 January - 23 December
E oho! Waitangi Series 2022 aims to lay the foundation for all people living in Aotearoa by exploring key events that shaped the nation we ca ... Read more

School holidays 2022

10 January - 23 December
While we won’t have any in person school holiday programmes this summer, you can join us online from anywhere in the country. We’ll help you ... Read more

Friends of the Turnbull Public Programme — 2022

1 February - 23 December
The Friends of the Turnbull Library, Nga Hoa o te Whare Pukapuka Turnbull, offers a monthly programme of public talks that are free to all. T ... Read more

Learning and support for new school library staff — 2022

1 February - 15 December
Attend regular Zoom meetings, build your skills, receive support from National Library experts and connect with other library people.

Connecting to collections 2022

15 February - 20 December
Come and hear about ways you can connect and use the collections at the Library. Talks will usually be held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month Februrary to November.

Oral history workshops — 2022

19 February - 31 December
The Alexander Turnbull Library introduction to oral history workshops. These workshops will introduce you to basics of oral history and are f ... Read more

Public History Talk — 2022

2 March - 2 November
Free public history talks are a collaboration between the National Library of New Zealand and Manatū Taonga/Ministry for Culture and Heritage ... Read more

The breathing sea

2 May - 30 June
Events held as part of ‘The breathing sea: Three short films’ exhibition. This exhibition is three artistic responses to the global effects o ... Read more

Pacific Language Weeks 2022

8 May - 29 October
Celebrating Pacific languages at the Library. More information is available about the Pacific Language Weeks at the Ministry of Pacific Peoples website.
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