Ninety people or so piled in through the door to attend a New Zealand-themed ukulele story-time recently during NZ Music Month.  Marg, Odette, Ellie and Monty performed, read and improvised their way through 30 minutes of great fun!

The Cosmodome will be at Central Library very soon – Rebecca in this video shows what it will look like and gives further information about the event:

Meet Ada Nally, our Multicultural Community Customer Specialist at Wellington City Libraries – and organiser of Earth People ‘09.

2005 Amanda Golding launched the Earth people concept, a Wellington wide celebration for Race Relations day, at Newtown Library. This was supported by Desigin Thulkanam from the Human Rights Commission and Joris de Bres attended the event.

There was plenty of discussion while making the figurines about acceptance of people of all ethnicities, and how we may look different from one another but in essence we are all the same, needing food, water and family, we are one people!

Here is a slideshow of some wonderful clay figurines from Earth People events since 2005. Check out the list of participating libraries on our Earth People Event page and come and join us at an Earth People Event in 2009!

If you’re wanting distraction for the younger ones in your family (or you want to be entertained yourself), why don’t you check out our new online stories? Donkeys and Selma, both read by Thomas La Hood, are now available to view (our grateful thanks to Gecko Press for allowing us to use these books).

These videos join the other online storytimes on our Kids Downloads page.

The big bad wolf thinks he is the most handsomest creature in the woods, so he goes for a stroll to get everyone to admire him… Listen to I am so handsome by Mario Ramos, read by Thomas La Hood, on our kids’ downloads page.

(Video produced by Wellington City Libraries in association with Gecko Press. Illustration © Mario Ramos.)