Paula Rigby is a weaver and fibre artist. In this brief piece she describes three of the garments on display at libraries during Matariki 2011. Listen to the full audio of the interview [4:23min 4.1MB] The text below is a transcript of Paula's description of the cloaks. Cloaks a commentary on the role of women…
Lyttelton Harbour Festival of Lights 2014
The Lyttelton Harbour Festival of Lights is an annual event celebrating the Lyttelton community. The festival ran over four days from 19 to 22 June 2014. The programme features a wearable arts parade, music, kapa haka, food and wine, live poetry performances, art exhibitions and fireworks. Lyttelton Harbour Festival of Lights also celebrates Matariki, the…
Anti-Ugly and Mindless Dreaming
People who need people: Explore our biographical resources
We like to watch other people. We like to hear about other people. There are entire industries based around writing and photographing people who we will never need to meet. It is all probably based on an evolutionary need to distinguish friend from foe but it continues to this day in our everyday habits and…
Did you know… Z is for Moose?
Z is for Moose is the best children's alphabet book I have come across in a long while. It is clever, inventive, cheeky, and very funny. It cries out to be read aloud by any member of the whanau and will be enjoyed by both adults and children, ours included. The story begins with a…
Volunteering for community duty
The closest Nigel used to get to a real fire was a training exercise at Christchurch City Council. That all changed in 2003 when the library’s technical project manager joined the Diamond Harbour Volunteer Fire Brigade. In this interview he shares some of the challenges and rewards of his time with the crew. What motivated…
Bloomsday
James Joyce is an author I regard with equal amounts of admiration and guilt. Admiration? His statue in Dublin and the jaunty angle of his cigarette holder in photographs. And I love a man (or a woman) with an eye-patch. Guilt? Ulysses languishing on my list of books I know I should have read but haven’t. Way…
Governors Bay : Picturing Canterbury
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The People’s Poet – Rik Mayall RIP
The wonderful Rik Mayall - comedian, actor, writer - has died. He was in Drop Dead Fred, Bottom, Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman, Lord Flashheart in a brilliantly memorable Blackadder cameo, but for me (and lots of others) Rik in The Young Ones was his finest creation. I loved anarcho-socialist Trotsky-loving people's poet-student Rick…
Happy birthday Caxton Press
The Caxton Press was launched on 10 June 1935 by John Drew and poet/typographer Denis Glover to publish New Zealand literature. Leo Bensemann had a long and fruitful association as a designer and illustrator with Caxton. Most of the decade’s best writers were first published by the company. Caxton Press tells the story on its…
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