What’s On

New Zealand Music Month 2016
In partnership with The Mentalist Collective, dunedinmusic.com, and with the support of Strawberry Sound, the Dunedin Public Libraries are bringing you a host of the best in Dunedin's talented musicians throughout the month. We launched the celebrations on 1st May with the amazing Nook & Cranny Music Festival featuring New Zealand music from over 45 different performers all over the Library, on stages, on tables and in nooks and crannies among the books. And you'll find music at the Libraries at gig nights and special performances every week. 

Pick up a copy of our programme at City Library, or visit our Music Month page for full details.  

Once Upon a Sunday: Matariki Tales

Celebrate Matariki with a host of star-filled stories by Kaitrin McMullan.
Make your own constellation, too!
For children of all ages.
FREE

Reed Gallery Exhibition: The Reed Association Collection

The next Reed Gallery exhibition features copies of texts which are known in the book collectors’ world as ‘association copies’.
Like many bibliophiles the donor of the Reed Collections, Alfred Hamish Reed, was interested in the lives of books, where they came from, and who owned them. In pursuing this interest, Reed amassed a collection of books with inscriptions by their authors, or which showed previous ownership by such writers as Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.
The upcoming exhibition thus comprises a selection of books highlighting some of the association copies in the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection, including Richard Knolles’ The Turkish history (1687), inscribed by Samuel Pepys; Charles Dickens’ own copy of Charles Waterton’s Essays on natural history; and Bibles once owned by African explorer and missionary, David Livingstone.

Culture & Cooking: Paella with Carmen
Join Carmen Aliberch and discover this great Spanish Tradition.
Carmen, originally from Spain, arrived in New Zealand 20 years ago, and had to learn how to make paella using local ingredients and delicious locally-caught seafood from Harbour Fish.
Come and learn how to make Carmen’s delicious paella in just 20 minutes – an easy and successful recipe that she is happy to share with our community.
FREE
Port Chalmers Library
Booking Essential: Max 20


Lunchtime Bites: Over the River & Through the Woods
Sample the lastest play of the season from the Fortune Theatre over a hot cuppa, and go into the draw to win tickets to the show!
Nick, a single American living in New Jersey, has dinner every Sunday with his two sets of doting – but annoying – grandparents. When he tells them that he has been offered a dream job in Seattle, his grandparents scheme to find ways to keep him in town, including introducing him to the lovely – and single – Caitlin O’Hare.


Chocolate Bard Poetry Competition
Write a sonnet to chocolate. Express how much you love chocolate through poetry and be in to win a prize pack choc-full of treats.
Competition opens Wednesday 22nd June

Closing date 6th July

Entry: FREE
For an entry form and full terms & conditions go to:
www.dunedinlibraries.govt.nz/chocolatebard   or www.chocolatecarnival.co.nz