What’s on
Lego Clubs
Join our Lego leaders at your local library, and create whatever you want to - everything is awesome at Lego club!
Suitable ages 5 and up. All Lego bricks provided.
Mosgiel Library: Fridays 6pm -7pm
City Library
Waikouaiti Library
Blueskin Bay Library: Third Friday of every month, 3.30-4.30pm
Once Upon a Sunday
For
children of all ages.
Hoots, Toots, Polish My Boots!
A special Scottish storytime with local storyteller Kaitrin McMullan.
Bring along a bit of your own family tartan, or make a colourful kilt with us!
Sunday 3rd July, 2.00pm, Storypit, Children's Section
Lighthouse Larks
Bring your torch and join local storyteller Kaitrin McMullan celebrating the work of the Lighthouse keeper. Shine a light and see if you can find the treasure hidden in the Library!
Sunday 7th August, 2.00pm, Storypit, Children's Section
Maori Language Week
Te Reo Tautoko – Behind You All the Way
View our tribute to South Island Maori who inspire and ignite the imagination.
School Holiday Fun
New Zealand International Science Festival 9th-15th July
Great Big Dino Hunt
Help! There
are dinosaurs on the loose.
Join the hunt by following their tracks, then discover the science in a dinosaur footprint.
Super Inventors Discovery Trail
Uncover the
story of New Zealand’s science heroes.
Pick up a trail guide and follow the clues in your local library.
All Dunedin Public Libraries
Adventure of a Lifetime
Aidan Braid
is one of a small group of high school students who were selected to join the
Sir Peter Blake Trust voyage to the Sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands in January
2016.
Join Aidan as he talks about his experiences aboard the HMNZS Otago as the team carried out ground-breaking scientific research in one of the most remote and biodiverse spots on the planet.
Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, City Library
Cadburys Chocolate Carnival 16th -22nd July
Hop along to the Library with your family for a special chocolate-themed storytime session. Meet Freddo Frog and enjoy a chocolate treat!
Waikouaiti Library, Monday 18th July 2pm
Mosgiel LibraryCity LibraryPort Chalmers LibraryBlueskin Bay LibraryCity Library (4th Floor foyer), Friday 22nd July 10.30am
Chocolate Bard Poetry Competition
Send us your purple prose. Express how much you love
chocolate through poetry for the chance to win a prize pack choc-full of
treats, and have your poem published in the Otago Daily Times.
Child (age 10 and under)
All Dunedin Public Libraries
Delicious, decadent and delightful… Whose chocolate sonnet deserves to win a prize pack choc-full of treats?
The judges have made their selections of the best 9 poems from the competition for you to vote on. Tell us which of these 9 deserves to win the People’s Choice Award by casting your vote online or at your local library.
Poems will be available to view in the Otago Daily Times, or at your local Dunedin Public Library.
All Dunedin Public Libraries
Follow the trail of clues in your local library, or conduct some research to solve the questions. Bring your completed quiz to one of our Librarians to claim your reward.
All Dunedin Public Libraries
Talks
The Power of Food
With the bewildering array of information about what we should and shouldn’t eat, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to make the right choices about food.
* Our bodies - absorbing nutrients
* Research – berries and asthma
* Nutrient deficiencies in our population (Ministry of Health)
* Disease prevention by food
* Cabbage, free-range eggs, and mince
* Cellular control of zinc toxicity
* Meaningful package nutrients
* Beyond the Heart Foundation food pyramid
* Salt, hypertension and the weight of industry
* Other uses of the free government database
* Insulin as food glucose response and body hormone
* Energy-rich but nutrient-poor food choices
* Self-monitoring of food nutrients to reduce Diabetes 2 risk
* Vitamin D – metabolism, deficiency and the sun; supplements
* Fibre, vitamin C, cabbage and potatoes
* Fish oil and biology of omega-3 lipids
* Iron, calcium and vitamin A: nutrients are easy to find
Pick up a programme in your local library
FREE
Theatre
Lunchtime Bites:
Grounded
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!
When an unexpected pregnancy grounds an F16 fighter pilot, she finds herself repurposed to flying remote-controlled drones from an air-conditioned trailer in the Las Vegas desert, hunting terrorists on screen by day and being a wife and mother at night. The boundaries between the desert where she lives and the one she patrols virtually from half a world away soon begin to blur.
Winner of a Fringe First award in 2013, this is a haunting, extraordinary and topical play about war, family and empathy.
Ground Floor, City Library
Author Talks
Helene Wong: Inside Outside
Author of Being Chinese: A New Zealander’s Story, Helene Wong, presents a talk first given as the Michael King Lecture at the Auckland Writers’ Festival in May 2016.
In contemplation of the ambivalence many New Zealand Chinese feel about themselves and their place in Aotearoa, Helene considers what it means to be New Zealand born, yet placed somehow ‘outside’ of New Zealand culture.
Brought to you by University Book Shop Otago, in partnership with Dunedin Public Libraries and Bridget Williams Books, and introduced by Professor Barbara Brookes, Department of History and Art History of the University of Otago.
Join us for drinks and canapés from 5.30pm
Copies of Being Chinese: A New Zealander’s Story will be available for purchase, courtesy of University Book Shop (EFTPOS available)
Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, Dunedin City Library
FREE
Join us for an evening with original Masterchef NZ winner, Brett McGregor.
Since his win in 2010 Brett has been able to follow his dream of working with food. For him food isn’t just a meal, it’s an experience of culture, and his latest book Chop Chop: Asian-inspired family favourites is full of simple-yet-impressive, healthy meals that are easy to make on weeknights and chock full of flavour.
And with a new TV series Taste of a Traveler about to hit our screens, Brett has a lot to talk about!
Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, City Library
Booking Essential: Tickets are $2 and can be booked in person at Dunedin City Library, Moray Place
NATIONAL POETRY DAY
As a prelude to tomorrow's National Poetry Day, the New Zealand Society of Authors, in partnership with Dunedin Public Libraries, brings 10 acclaimed Otago poets together for an evening to celebrate the region's literary talent.
Guests include multiple award-winner Emma Neale, Lynley Edmeades whose debut collection was published in April, and distinguished Alexandra-based poet Michael Harlow.
Thursday 25th August, 6pm-8pm
4th Floor, Dunningham Suite, Dunedin City Library
(Reception at 5.30pm: light refreshments and laid-back jazz on the baby grand piano)
Tickets: $5
Booking Essential: Tickets are $5 and can be booked in person at Dunedin City Library, Moray Place
[There will be a 15 minute interval part-way through the programme]
Brought to you by the Storylines Festival of New Children’s Writers and Illustrators.
Meet your favourite children’s authors and illustrators Ella West, Diana Noonan, Elizabeth Pulford, Fifi Colston, Leonie Agnew, Jane Bloomfield, Scott Tulloch, Gillian Candler and Elena de Roo. Plus storytelling from Tahu Mackenzie and Kaitrin McMullan, special guests Orokonui Ecosanctuary, face-painting, spot prizes, art and craft activities, sausage sizzle, and the Family Day competitions prize-giving ceremony.
Saturday 27 August, 11am – 3pm
Dunedin City Library
Gold Coin Donation