Events and programmes cancelled today

All afternoon and evening events across our sites are cancelled due to extreme weather conditions, including the Capital Crimes: Karori Mystery in the Library event originally planned for tonight.

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The Prehistoric Earth | School Holidays Wrap-Up!

By WCL librarians

As term 2 begins, let's look back at all the pter-riffic creations and dino-mite experiences from our April school holiday programme.

Two librarians in inflatable dinosaur costumes working at the front desk at Brooklyn Library

The school holidays are over, and wow, what a great time we had celebrating The Prehistoric Earth and Joan Wiffen's fantastic achievements over the last two weeks!

Thank you so very much to everyone who came along, made a dinosaur noise, tried out a new craft, stuck your hands into some clay, learned a new dinosaur fact, completed our time travel quest throughout the library, or joined in a workshop with our fantastic friends from GNS Science | Te Pū Ao.

Now that we're back in term-time we've tidied up all our Parasaurolophus nests and all the dinosaurs have been put back to work behind the issues desk.

To continue the celebration though, we've put together some of our favourite photos from across the holidays. Maybe you'll spot yourself?

Events with GNS Science | Te Pū Ao

We are incredibly grateful to the team at GNS Science | Te Pū Ao for generously donating their time and expertise to bring the geology and animals of ancient Aotearoa to life in our libraries. Their fantastic team of earth scientists ran a series of five workshops across four of our libraries, bringing geology, volcanology, seismology, and palaeontology to the tamariki of Wellington over the school holidays.

These workshops looked like so much fun! To get a peek at what went on, check out the gallery below.

Dinochorus

Over the holidays we held two Dinochorus workshops, one at Waitohi Johnsonville Library and the other at Motu-kairangi Miramar Library.

At these workshops our librarians and the attending rangatahi learned up some of the current theories of dinosaur vocalisation – how dinosaurs made noise and what that might have sounded like – before bringing out the recording equipment and getting to record and edit their own dinosaur-like vocalisations.

Each session created their own prehistoric soundscape, and we're very excited to be able to share the soundscape created at Waitohi Johnsonville Library with you all!

Enjoy the sounds of prehistoric Johnsonville, as interpreted by tamariki during our April school holiday programme, The Prehistoric Earth.

Other events with your librarians

This last photo album is full of photos from all the other events we held over the holidays.

Did you attend a CRAFTosaurus session? Maybe you played our Greek and Latin flashcard game at a Build-A-Dinosaur workshop, got your hands into some clay at a Fossil Footprint Workshop, or created a hatching dinosaur at a Dinosaur Egg Bath Bombs session?

Thank you to everyone who came along to our events, we hope you had a wonderful time!