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  • Edna Welthorpe, Happenings

    Gaiman on Gaiman

    04.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    Neil Gaiman, multi-award-winning über-author is going to be giving a talk at the next NZ International Arts Festival. He wrote Coraline and many other books and comics for kids, teens, and adults. There’s more information here. And! It’s only 15 bucks if you’re a kid, which seems pretty reasonable.

    (Here’s everything we have by him in the library.)


  • Happenings, Prudence, Wellington

    Wellington’s Cherry Blossom Festival

    18.09.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    The Cherry Blossom Festival is on this Sunday, the 20th of September at the St James Theatre and Te Papa.

    The Sakai Association (Sakai is Wellington’s Japanese Sister City) will be hosting a range of fun activities including: traditional kyudo (Japanese archery) demonstrations, shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and shamisen (three-stringed musical instrument) music, beautiful ikebana (flower arranging) and the peaceful tea ceremony.

    Handle the kyudo bows/arrows and the Japanese musical instruments, create ikebana, make tea, play with traditional Japanese toys and learn origami.

    Read more about it at this link, or download the .pdf brochure.


  • Events, Library Serf

    Next Week

    07.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    Is a busy one. Things to note:

    Tuesday 11 August – Urban Survival Series “Staying Sane” 7-8pm at the Central Library. This week’s session (”Work & Wage”) ended with a couple of job interviews for a couple of people, so we’re wondering what will come out of this next session? Email us your questions on life, relationships with parentals and friends and stuff to teenblog@wcl.govt.nz.

    Wednesday 12 August is Hoodie Day – you can find out more about this here and here. More trivia: Wikipedia says that hoodies are referred to as “bunnyhugs” in Saskatchewan (Canada).

    Most importantly, Thursday 13 August is International Lefthanders Day, so be nice to us (be nice to us anyway). Because we like lists, here’s a list of famous lefthanded people. The library’s also got a collection of books about being left-handed.

    That’s approximately everything at the moment.


  • Edna Welthorpe, Happenings

    Youth Week

    25.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    It’s Youth Week this week, which aims to create ‘a society that values young people and affirms their diversity. The week aims to highlight the amazing things young people (12-24 years) do.’ This year’s Youth Week is about relationships;

    During Youth Week we ask caregivers and parents to make time for their teenage and older children, and for young people to do the same for adults.

    You can read more about that here. We have a couple of events at the library – they (rather cleverly) mix Youth Week with NZ Music Month. Look.


  • Happenings, Library, Simon, Space: The Final Frontier

    Astrophotography

    13.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    If you’ve ever seen the sky at night – the moon rising over Lake Taupo, say, or maybe you can see what might be Venus –  and thought to yourself, “that looks awesome, I should take a photo of it”, and you do, but the photo just looks like toothpaste on your best black top and you can’t understand why, then hurry to the Central Library tonight. Hurry!

    Would you like to take photographs of the night sky? Not sure what to use or where to begin? John Field from the Wellington Astronomical Society will explore and explain how to use your Digital SLR camera and software to produce images that were previously beyond the scope of amateur photographers. Topics include what you need, how DSLR cameras work, what settings to use, how to polar align your mount using a DSLR, taking unguided images using a tripod, piggy-back and prime focus imaging through using a telescope, and image processing using freely available software. John will also include both the good, the bad and the ugly images he has taken to show what can go wrong and what you get when it all goes right

    That’s happening tonight (May the 13th) at 7pm on the second level of the Central Library.


  • Happenings, Simon, Space: The Final Frontier

    C-beams glitter in the darkness

    04.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    100 hours of Astronomy! Check out more details on another of the library’s blogs, the News Blog. Today’s events are;

    Saturday 4 April, 10am-10pm – 100 Hours of Astronomy, 24hr Global Star Party – 12 hours of music in Civic Square with the global star party starting here in Wellington at 7pm (then it continues around the world). You can be one of a million people looking through telescopes during this worldwide event! Local astronomers share their knowledge and passion for discovery. And weather permitting you will see the rings of Saturn and moon craters along with other fascinating sights in the night sky. (organiser Paul Moss in association with Wellington Astronomical Society and WCL)

    This has just begun. The weather’s lovely, so you’d better get down to the Civic Square.


  • Happenings, Sam, Sport

    Take your valentine to the skatepark

    13.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    This Saturday, 14 Februrary, is important for two reasons: romance and pro skating!  Yeah, we all know it’s Valentines Day -  the chocolates, the roses, the cards and sickly sweet P.D.A. (Public Displays of Affection) – but did you know that this Saturday a whole bunch of professional skaters will be competing at Waitangi Skatepark for the biggest prize purse in NZ skating history?  So make a date, take a date, to see the thrills’n spills of Bowl-o-Rama 2009.

    (9am – 6pm, Waitangi Skatepark, Waitangi Park.   Postponement date: 15 February )


  • Facebook, Internet, Jack, New

    We can haz teh facebooks?

    11.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

    The Wellington City Library Teen Page has gone all 2.0 with its new facebook profile. You can use it to keep up to date with all our happenings – things like upcoming events, new books and CDs will be posted. Become a fan of us (we know you are already …) and receive invitations and alerts first!


  • Happenings, Sam

    Happy Global Family Day!

    31.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    We all know that January 1 is New Years Day, but did you know that Jan 1 is also Global Family Day – “One Day of Peace and Sharing for all faiths, cultures, races, nationalities and economic classes”?

    Global Family Day (GFD) was first celebrated, with the dawn of the new millenium, between Israeli and Palestinian families in the refugee camp of Nablus.  Later, when it was noticed that the century had begun remarkably calmly despite widespread apprehension (fears of terrorism, the “Millenium Bug” and the like), the United States Congress unanimously voted to establish January 1 as a special time of peace and sharing.  In 2001 the United Nations General Assembly passed  UnRes. 56/2 recognising GFD and encouraged all its Member states to observe the holiday.  It’ll be interesting to see, with tensions running high in the Middle East, what impact GFD will have this year.

    So Happy New Year and Happy Global Family Day! Peace out.


  • Happenings, Sam

    Sizzlin’ Summer City

    22.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    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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