Tō Tātou Karere - Wellington City Libraries Newsletter - November 2020

NOVEMBER 2020 | VOL. VII

Tō Tātou Karere WELLINGTON CITY LIBRARIES NEWS

content tamariki / rangatahi children and youth

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pakeke adults

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highlights

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the hive

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most wanted books

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recent picks from our collections

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do more with your library card

Baby Rock and Rhyme A fun and educational programme for parents and carers to interact with their babies through songs and stories.

Recommended for children aged 0 - 2 years with their caregivers.

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Cummings Park Island Bay Johnsonville Karori

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Kilbirnie Miramar Tawa Te Awe

CRAFTerschool Free arts and crafts for school-aged children. Get stuck into activities such as drawing, beading, origami, mask-making and much more while making friends with other crafty kids. Registrations required; runs weekly during term-time.

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Johnsonville Miramar Tawa

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Calling all adventurers — seasoned questers and fresh-faced recruits alike — for Dungeons and Dragons campaigns at your local library.

We’ll provide the Dungeon Master, dice, books and gear; you provide the imagination. Registrations required. Recommended for ages 9 - 19.

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tamariki / rangatahi

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Dungeons and Dragons

Johnsonville Karori → waiting for a new Dungeons Master

Family Movie Nights Come in your pyjamas, bring a cushion and a blanket, and relax at our fun family movie nights. A different G-rated movie is selected from our library collections each month. Check with the library to find out which movie is showing.

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Karori Newtown Tawa

Preschool Storytime

Kōhunga Kōrero Pakiwaitara i roto i te reo Māori. E 30 meneti

Fun and interactive stories, songs and rhymes to

pakiwaitara, rotarota, waiata hoki i roto i te reo Māori

inspire your preschooler and help grow a love of

mō ngā kōhungahunga me ō rātou mātua kaitiaki.

literacy.

Stories, rhymes and songs in te reo Māori for preschoolers and their caregivers. These sessions are open to anyone, and are recommended for children aged 2 - 6 years.

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Johnsonville Karori Miramar Newtown

Recommended for children aged 2 - 4 with their caregivers.

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LEGO® Time

Brooklyn Cummings Park Island Bay Johnsonville Karori Khandallah

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Kilbirnie Miramar Newtown Tawa Te Awe Wadestown

Youth Nights

Come down to the library and get creative in these

Come to our after-hours Youth Nights to find a space

free-build sessions with our extensive LEGO®

to be yourself and meet other like-minded teens.

collections. Recommended for ages 5 - 105.

Check out the cool tech in the HIVE, record music, play games, watch movies, read a book, or just hang

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Te Awe

out -- our space is yours! Pizza provided. Suitable for ages 14+.

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Johnsonville

Let’s Go LEGO® Let’s build -- let’s explore -- let’s create -- Let’s Go LEGO®! Join us for these themed building sessions, where you will use the library’s LEGO® collections to create your masterpiece. Recommended for children aged 5+ with their caregivers.

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Cummings Park Johnsonville Karori Khandallah

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Miramar Newtown Tawa

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Tea and Tales

Movie Nights Join us for free films screening

Join us for Tea and Tales at the

every month. Movies are selected

library. Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee

from the library’s collections and are

and lively book discussions with

suitable for adults. Check with the

like-minded people, while sharing

library to find out which movie is

poems, excerpts and anecdotes

showing.

with others for an hour at the library.

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Te Awe Wadestown

Bring along something to share with the group.

New members are always welcome; just pop along.

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Johnsonville Tawa

Tea and Tales

Social English

Chinese

Come along to our free English conversation groups. We meet

Join us for Chinese Tea and Tales

every week to chat and improve our

to get to know other Mandarin-

English conversation skills. All levels

speaking migrants in the

are welcome!

community, practice your English,

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Karori Kilbirnie Newtown

share your stories, and much more.

Mandarin-learning speakers of other languages are also welcome. 如果您喜欢阅读, 喜欢结交有共同爱好的 新朋友, 海阔天空的侃聊人生故事……或 是想学习如何运用图书馆内的设施; 学习 简单的生活实用英语, 那就来乔森威尔图 书馆吧, <<悠雅书舍>>欢迎您的加入.

Stepping Up

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These are practical sessions on library computers covering the

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computing. A different topic is covered at each session, so check

adults

pakeke

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basics of digital technology and

with the library to find out more information. Registrations are required.

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Kilbirnie

Zine Make n’ Swap Spend some time making zines and socialising with other local zinemakers.

We’ll supply plenty of materials, but feel free to bring your own as well.

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Movie Night

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TUESDAYS 5.45 - 7.15pm

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Tūhura HIVE is our makerspace located inside the Johnsonville Library at the Waitohi Community Hub. Giving our customers the oportunity to play with new technology and creative tools Tūhura HIVE offers 3D printing, VR experiences, sewing machines, laser cut, a compact music studio and so much more.

For the full information on days and times visit The HIVE Event Calendar.

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Code Club level 1

Tinker Time

Code Club Level 1 is a free coding

Come to the HIVE after storytime

club for children at the beginning of

for these hands-on sessions for little

their coding journey. Students will

makers. From simple crafts and

work their way through a range of

messy play to fun robots and more,

fun coding projects supported by

there will be something different

coding experts. Registrations are

to delight your little ones at each

required. Recommended for coders

session. Recommended for ages 2 -

aged 9 - 13.

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Code Club level 2

HIVE 101: Cut & Etch

Code Club Level 2 is a free coding

Come along to the HIVE and work

club for children who have some

on your own ideas and projects,

coding experience under their belts.

focussing on laser cutting, etching,

Students will select stimulating

and papercrafts. These sessions are

projects to work through supported

self-guided, but staff will be on hand

by coding experts. Registrations are

to assist if needed. Suitable for ages

required. Recommended for coders

14 - 140. Children with supervising

aged 9 - 13.

adults welcome.

Family Maker Saturday General Interest

the hive

Tūhura hive - johnsonville library at the waitohi hub

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Updated times from November 2020.

HIVE 101: Fibrecraft

Come along to the HIVE and work

Come along to the HIVE and work

on your own ideas and projects

on your own ideas and projects,

using our wide range of creative

focussing on fibrecrafts including

technologies and tools. These

weaving, sewing and knitting. These

sessions are self-guided, but staff

sessions are self-guided, but staff

will be on hand to assist if needed.

will be on hand to assist if needed.

Suitable for ages 14 - 140; children

Suitable for ages 14 - 140. Children

with supervising adults welcome.

with supervising adults welcome.

recent picks from our

collections

Starborn and godsons: New science fiction and fantasy fiction

by Neil J

“The dinosaurs became extinct because Steven Barnes the long awaited conclusion they didn’t have a space program. And if (twenty five years to be precise) to the we become extinct because we don’t have Heorot series. And Sarah J. Maas first a space program, it’ll serve us right!”

adult fantasy work House of Earth and

― Larry Niven

Blood. Sarah will be better known to some readers for

If there was any doubt that Science Fiction her exceptional and Fantasy is one of the most dynamic, young

adult

interesting and relevant genres in fiction fantasy

fiction

at the moment then a quick look at some works. Enjoy! of the recent and upcoming releases will lay that doubt to rest.

Read article.

Indeed this month’s releases proves this fact including three of the most eagerly anticipated Science Fiction titles of the year. Namely The relentless moon by Mary Robinette Kowal which continues her Nebula and

Hugo

award-winning

Lady

Astronaut series. Starborn & godsons

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and 10

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Debut novelist Rachel Kerr’s NaNoWriMo tips!

by Neil J

NaNoWriMo celebrates the power of

unpromising. That is

creativity, and is the ideal way of firing

until the mysterious

up your writing neurons. It also connects

Bridget moves in to

you to fellow writers, focuses your writing

the

efforts by setting milestones and is a

with her unexpected

fantastic way to help budding writers

friendship, glamour

create new worlds and stories!

and wild dreams. But

flats,

bringing

is all as it seems?

To help you begin, we asked various authors to share their tips, hints and Rachel said that when she heard that general advice for new writers. First up: Victory Park had arrived from the printer, debut novelist Rachel Kerr, who shares she grabbed a carry bag and jumped on her advice on both the writing process a bus and came straight down. “Nothing and also how to get published.

like holding your first novel in your hands and realising the words you sweated over

Rachel’s book Victory Park revolves for years are there, locked in, ready for round a young mum who lives in council others to read”. flats with her young son. The truth of her daily existence is that it is threadbare and Read the full article.

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contact us Arapaki Manners library 12 Manners Street 803 8303

Brooklyn Library Cnr of Harrison & Cleveland Streets, Brooklyn 384 6814

Cummings Park (ngaio) Library 1a Ottawa Road, Ngaio 479 2344

He Matapihi Molesworth Library National Library of New Zealand 70 Molesworth Street 801 4122

Island Bay library 167 The Parade, island bay 383 7216

Miramar library 68 Miramar Avenue, Miramar 388 8005

Newtown library 13 Constable Street, Newtown 389 2830

Ruth Gotlieb (Kilbirnie) library 101 Kilbirnie Crescent, Kilbirnie 387 1480

te awe 28 brandon street 801 3529

Wadestown library Corner of Moorhouse Street and Lennel Road, Wadestown 473 5211

Johnsonville library 34 Moorefield Road, Johnsonville 477 6151

Karori library 247 Karori Road, Karori 476 8413

Khandallah library 8 Ganges Road, khandallah 479 7535

Mervyn Kemp (Tawa) library 158 Main Road (Cnr Cambridge Street & Main Road), Tawa 232 1690

general enquiries enquiries@wcl.govt.nz 801 3065