Been to any of the following this year?
- Almost Amazing Race
- Urban Survival Series
- Twilight Trivia NightRead the teen blog?
Have feedback for us, or suggestions for 2010?
We would love to hear from you over some yummy food!
Thursday 3rd of December – Central Library staff room @ 4pm
Text 021 227 8222 or email Ella, ella.martin@wcc.govt.nz, to register (so she knows numbers)
Reminder: Beauty on a Budget is on this Thursday (15th) at Wadestown Library! Visit this post for more details (cost $5.00, but this includes a mini facial, so you’ll be beautiful without as well as within).
Registrations are now open for the Twilight Trivia Night (Friday 30 October, 6.30pm, Central Library). Enter your team (or yourself) here for your chance at glory and prizes.
What’s the Twilight Trivia Night? It’s like a pub quiz but without the pub, and focusing on facts and trivia to do with the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer (the books, the movies, the music, the hysteria, the sparkles). According to the posters it’s the quiz “you can really get your teeth into.” Ha ha ha. We know there are some Twilight experts out there and we want to find out who you are! Of course non-experts will have the opportunity to duke it out for a special tactical non-expert award, so don’t be put off! Register now!
But wait, there’s more! If you send in a team image we’ll turn it into a team badge for you. Email your image to teenblog@wcl.govt.nz. The badges are round and 5.5cm across. Here’s a poor diagram to help you visualise it. Anything is fine, pretty much.
See you there.
Quick update: for ages 13 to 18 (inclusive).
Think you know this book?
Coming soon: your chance to pit your knowledge against others in a battle of wits, intellect and fandom. Registrations open soon (maximum four in a team), so corral your gifted Twilight fanatic friends* and we’ll see you at the Central Library.
The Twilight Trivia Night
Friday 30 October 2009
* although if you’re not a fanatic or even strictly a fan don’t fear: there may well be a strategic prize in the offing that might prove more challenging to win than first place.
We’ve scrounged out some stuff that’s going on in the holidays that you might be interested in…
1. School of Rock Holiday Programme
4 Days of intensive rock training in downtown Wellington for 11-17 year olds.
Get tips from pro rockers. Prepare for rock competitions. Team up with other teen rockers. Polish your practice and rehearsal skills. Take to the stage and rev it up!
Vocals! Guitar! Bass! Keyboards! Drums! Orchestral! Its on at ZEAL- 18 Garrett Street, Wgn CBD. Email them to sign up.
2. Wellington School of Rock and ZEAL present… Holiday Splash! Featuring The Philosphers & The Tangle.
These guys are going to be hitting the stage at ZEAL (18 Garret St, Wgn CBD)tomorrow night July 3rd at 7.30pm. Also there- The Tommy Guns, Urban Legends, Rock ‘n’ Roll Camelot and Road Kill Inc. Best yet- It’s only $5! Get there! Visit the zeal site for more info.
Looking for some friday night fun? Head along to Karori Pool on Friday 26th June from 7pm for a pool party. Only $8! Sold!
Free sausage sizzle, a DJ, inflatable, a bomb competition, and zorb action. Like it says on the poster —>
Think you know how to cook? Or are you just keen to give it a go and get creative? 
Create a sumptuous recipe for us and the best entry will win Sam Stern’s cookbook Cooking up a Storm: The teen survival cookbook.
Entries close 5pm on August 7 2009 (you must be aged between 13 and 18 and have a Wellington City Libraries card to enter).
Entries have closed! Thanks.
Instructions
Pantry Contents
(Remember to use at least two of these)
Salt, Pepper, Sugar, Cooking oil, Butter, Flour, Water, Soup Mix, Weetbix, Marmite, Lemon juice, A can with no label (with food in it), Sultanas, Curry powder, Chilli flakes, Maple syrup
Competition rules
Entries close 5pm, July 22nd 2009
To be eligible for the prizes, entrants must be:
- Aged 13-18 years
- A member of Wellington City Libraries (Not a member? Go to your local library to join up!)
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Acceptance of prize gives permission to Wellington City Libraries to display winner’s details in the libraries or any media. No payment will be made in any such case.
Your information will be kept confidential by Wellington City Council and not disclosed or sold to any other party.
Want to discover how to cook something tasty and perhaps even stylish (that doesn’t cost the earth) and other important food-related things? Check out Food Glorious Food on July 23rd 4-5pm, the first seminar in the Urban Survival Series at the Wellington Central Library. Find out about the rest next week! Oh look, the pig.
Karori Pool is holding a party for you guys on Friday June 26th 7-10pm. For only 8 bucks (which you can pay on the night) you’ll get all the swimming you desire, a sausage sizzle, big inflatable pool toys, a bombing comp, some zorb action and there’ll even be a DJ working the sounds.
You can find the pool at 22 Donald Street. Grab your mates and get there!
It was a cold wintery night, but a small group of music fans braved the cold to see Brad Dring from Rapture Ruckus talk about his career path to becoming a famous musician at the Central Library on the 8th of May.
Don’t miss the next New Zealand Music Month session; Music Producer Lee Prebble, from The Surgery, and musician Age Pryor, from the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra and The Woolshed Sessions, will be at the Central Library on Tuesday 26th May at 4.30pm.
So what is The Almost Amazing Race then? Here’s a description of an interesting day out and about in Wellington, to be had on Saturday the 28th of March.
Teams of four will race (observing road rules and other laws of the land) around the city, solving puzzles, taking photos of landmarks (obscure or otherwise) and answering questions (trivial or otherwise) in order to accumulate as many points as possible in order to win The Almost Amazing Race.
What’s in it for you? The chance to get together with three of your friends and do some challenging things you wouldn’t otherwise and, just maybe, win prizes and, most likely, have an amazing time.
Check out Jack’s videos for a more moving description, plus visit us here very very soon to register.
Sample the tastes, sounds and sights of the Pacific this Saturday at Nui FM’s Positively Pasifika festival. Food, stuff to buy, and entertainment – it’s all go 9.30am-5.00pm, Waitangi Park.
The Almost Amazing Race is almost upon us. What is the Almost Amazing Race? I can’t tell you too much at this stage, only:
1. that there will be prizes
2. it is on the 28th of March
3. it’s only for teens
Keep your eyes peeled for more details. (I mean read this blog.)
Yup, we’ve been warned this summer’s going to be a hot one. And with the global economy making spending that little bit tighter, we all need to save our recessionary dollars for cooling ice cream and gelato. There are a couple of things one can do to keep it easy on the pocket while having a good time. There are, of course, loads of free or low cost stuff to get from the library – not to mention the fact that libraries have excellent air conditioning! But there is also Wellington’s famous Summer City festival, packed with free events. It kicks off on New Year’s eve with a massive party in Civic Square, and ends 29 March with (coincidentally) more kicking off in a ”mini world-cup” football match known as Culture Kicks. Libraries will soon have printed copies of the programme, but why wait? Check out the Summer City offerings online at wotzon.com.
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