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With Pride Month, Sea Week, and Easter this month, things are looking busy for the Library Calendar! There's always something fun and free to do, see, read, or explore at the library!

Pride Month Events

Pride Month Crafternoon

Celebrate Pride Month with craft! Join us for a rainbow filled crafternoon and try your hand at making friendship bracelets, pompoms and tassels, Pride badges, Lego masterpieces, and so much more! All materials provided.

Ground Floor Puzzle Tables
Friday 8th March 3.30pm-5.30pm

Rainbow Storytime with Dunedin Pride

Welcome to Dunedin Pride's first Rainbow Story Time! Enjoy readings by local drag performer Ann Arkii on the 2nd Floor of City library.

2nd Floor, City Library
Sunday 10 March, 12pm

Pride Knitting

Natalia’s Pub Crafting Group meets every Friday to knit, craft, and chat on the Ground Floor. This Pride month, we’ve been invited to join them for some rainbow crafting fun! Bring your knitting and your needles, some materials will be provided, and try out some Creativebug patterns, or carry on with your project and join in the fun!

Ground Floor Puzzle Tables
Friday 15th March 4pm-6pm

Yotsume Toji Crafternoon

Learn the art of Yotsume Toji (Four-Hole Binding)! A simple form of Japanese stab-binding, Yotsume Toji became widely used after the system of book trading was established in the Edo period (1603-1867). This second session is to learn more interesting and complex stitching.

Come along and create some beautiful little books, all materials provided, suitable for teens and adults.

Friday 15 March | 4pm – 6pm
Ground Floor | City Library

CRAFTerschool @ Mosgiel Library

Love making things? Art and craft sessions for primary to intermediate ages. Join us for a different project each time! Come and do some CRAFTing! 
Monday 18 March – Finger knitting bunting

All materials supplied
Third Monday of the month | 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Children’s area | Mosgiel Library

Image by: Ella West

The Write Time

Join award-winning novelist, playwright and script writer Ella West for The Write Time!

A chance to pick the brains of a published children’s author, stop in for one-on-one help and advice or just sit and write in the company of a fellow writer – Ella will be busy working on her next novel!

Suitable for secondary school students.
Tuesday 12 March, 3.30pm – 4.30pm
2nd Floor, City Library

Image by: Melanie Dick

Visions for Dunedin: Our Heritage, Our Future

Explore solutions to Dunedin's housing crisis with Campbell McNeill, Director of AHHA Architects. Discover the plan for perpetually affordable housing and amenities, and learn more about the work the Ōtepoti Futures Trust are doing to make the city more affordable, liveable, and equitable.

Wednesday 27 March, 5:30pm
4th Floor, City Library
FREE- koha welcome

The Southern Heritage Trust’s regular monthly Visions talks 2023,in partnership with Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and Dunedin Public Libraries, are held on the last Wednesday of each month, March to November.