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Celebrate Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa with a Fiafia Night at Newtown Library!
Tālofa Lava! We're celebrating Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa with a Fiafia Night at Newtown Library on Friday 30 May - all welcome! -
Flour Power: Interview with Maxine Scheckter, Pastry chef
Wellington pastry chef Maxine Scheckter, Sugar Flour, has just produced her first book. We talk to Maxine about her journey from student to author. -
New Zealand Music Month at WCL
A guide to the NZMM events happening across our network. All performances are free and open to all.
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- Wellington’s Café Culture: the Visual Guide
- Celebrate Friendly Cities: Dear Falasteen
- Shine bright like a diamond: Interview with Ian Douglas, Village Goldsmith
- New Zealand Railways and the Remutaka Deviation
- Being a Justice of the Peace: interview with Juping Zhou
- If it Weren't for your Gumboots: An interview with Bata
- One Hundred Years of Local Theatre
Kids featured stories
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Baby Rock and Rhyme comes to Brooklyn Library!
We're extremely excited to be bringing our popular Baby Rock and Rhyme programme for ages 0-2 to Moe-rā | Brooklyn Library for the very first time, starting on the 7th of May! -
The Prehistoric Earth | School Holidays Wrap-Up!
As term 2 begins, let's look back at all the pter-riffic creations and dino-mite experiences from our April school holiday programme. -
The Fish Doorbell: Help a fish on the other side of the world
Help the fish of Utrecht in their annual upstream migration and enjoy some kids' books about animal migration.
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- Consent and Body Autonomy for Kids and Teens!
- Top reviews from our Summer Reading Adventurers
- Our 2024 picks: Kids' fiction, comics, and more
- Summer Reading Adventure: How to create an acrostic poem
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- What’s on for tamariki at the library: In-person and online!
- Beyond the Page 2024: Week Two Round-up!
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The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... The Thunderbolts
Reading guides, like lightning, should always appear to few men’s ruin, but to all men’s cheer! It’s the WCL Guide to the Thunderbolts! -
G'Day, Kia ora, Hello! A Global Hangout for Rangatahi
11-15 years old? Sign up for our Global Hangout to meet other teens from overseas online, play games, and eat snacks! -
The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... Captain America
The star-spangled man with a plan... to help you read his adventures! It’s the Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to Captain America!
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- Our 2024 picks: Young Adult favourites of the year
- The Wellington Comic Lover's Guide to... The Joker and Harley Quinn
- Spooky YA reads to keep that Halloween 👻spirit👻 going
- Sign up for our Teen Newsletter Please
- Mental Health Awareness Week: A librarian's guide to big sad thoughts and other weird growing-up things
- The Wellington Comic Lover’s Guide to... Batman
- Queer Fantasy NOT for Pride Month! Because everyday is LGBTQ+!
Business featured stories
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Flour Power: Interview with Maxine Scheckter, Pastry chef
Wellington pastry chef Maxine Scheckter, Sugar Flour, has just produced her first book. We talk to Maxine about her journey from student to author. -
Guest post: Why do you want to be richer?
Personal finance author Mary Holm shares the opening chapter of her new book, Rich Enough? A laid-back guide for every kiwi, with us. -
Guest post: As it turns out, no one's got their sh*t together - learnings from inside the collective intelligence journey
Sharing his own life experiences in this guest post, Ian 'Harv' Harvey invites us to think differently and let go of the old rules.
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- Lead from behind: the art of managing up
- Shine bright like a diamond: Interview with Ian Douglas, Village Goldsmith
- Guest post: Unleashing the Improvement Mindset - a Game-Changer for Leaders
- Counting Sheep: the importance of a good night's sleep
- How To Be Wrong: A crash course in startup success
- More Than a Feeling: Emotional Intelligence in the workplace
- Bolt Bins - modernising skip bin service: an interview with founder Wade Keys
Local History featured stories
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New Zealand Railways and the Remutaka Deviation
Photographs from the New Zealand Railways Department capture the modernisation of train routes in the Wellington region, with a focus on the Upper Hutt to Wairarapa connection. -
Bringing History Into 2024: A Recap
This year our heritage team have digitised and uploaded over 1500 unique items to our platform Wellington City Recollect, including posters, photographs, books, documents, maps and more! -
Author Interview: Daniel Beban
Riki Gooch interviews author Daniel Beban about his new nonfiction book Future Jaw-Clap.
Recent stories
- RAD: Radio Active Digest now on Wellington City Recollect
- New online resource: the Wellington Provincial Council Gazette, 1854-1876
- The Spectacular Cinemas of Wellington
- The Rise of Vernacular Architecture in Wellington
- The Flowering of The Tulip
- New online genealogical resource: The Scholefield Papers
- ‘The Streets of My City’: the Legacy of Fanny Irvine-Smith
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Te Māori Exhibition: 40 Years On
10 September 1984. On this day, 40 years ago, Te Māori exhibition opened at MOMA in New York City. -
Rauemi Reo : a guide to resources to help strengthen your reo Māori
Wellington City Libraries staff have produced an online pamphlet of 'Rauemi Reo : a guide to resources to help strengthen your reo Māori'. -
Remembering Moana Jackson
He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata: of the people, by the people, for the people. He hōnore, he korōria ki te Atua he maungārongo ki te whenua. He whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa.