I've been exploring the CD collection available through Christchurch City Libraries this year and I've found some absolute gems! There's a mix of styles and eras in this list and quite a representation of New Zealand music - and it just so happens to be New Zealand Music Month. So sit back and get some…
Podcast – Youth suicide
Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from New Zealand's only specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton. The latest episode deals with youth suicide. New Zealand has high rates of youth suicide, especially among Māori and Pasifika populations. Part I: Sir Peter Gluckman (Prime…
NBA playoffs time
If you are an avid basketball fan you will know that it is playoffs time. I am extra excited because I am a Celtics fan (Boston Celtics), and they are playing Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern conference playoffs. Unfortunately Steve Adams' team (Oklahoma City Thunders) didn't make the Western conference playoffs this year so you…
Remembering Tom Wolfe – a personal view
It is, of course, with much sadness that I heard about the recent death of Tom Wolfe, who was without doubt a towering figure in literary circles for most of the second half of 20th century. Along with people like Hunter S. Thompson, and several other (mostly male) American writers of his generation, he turned…
National Simultaneous Storytime – Hickory Dickory Dash, Wednesday 23 May 1pm
14 of our libraries here in Christchurch are hosting National Simultaneous Storytime tomorrow - Wednesday 23 May - at 1pm. You are welcome to come and join in - our librarians will be reading Hickory Dickory Dash by Tony Wilson, illustrated by Laura Wood, and published by Scholastic. Here are our library staff having a…
Cavell Leitch New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival 2018
Frosty mornings, the threat of snow, and midwinter blues might be a couple of months away yet, but Christchurch is about to be hit by a different type of blues when the Cavell Leitch New Zealand International Jazz & Blues Festival comes to town later this week (May 23-27). Visit the Cavell Leitch New Zealand International Jazz…
Fun Holiday Programmes
Have a look back at our April Holiday Programmes in the Learning Centres: ‘Lego Animation’ is always a good way to kick start the holidays! We had our young movie buffs directing and producing their own short animated movies over at Te Hāpua: Halwell Centre. At Upper Riccarton, it was all about "reduce, reuse and…
The world’s most expensive piece of paper
Long before I was born, my dad worked briefly for a firm of a stamp auctioneers in London. Apparently he helped, in some small way, to sell King Farouk of Egypt's stamp collection! He had a small collection of his own and he used to take me to stamp fairs, mostly I think to catch…
The Hanmer bath-house buildings for the hot pools at Hanmer Springs built in 1904: Picturing Canterbury
Although known to Māori, and later used by local European settlers, a bathing facility at the hot springs in Hanmer Springs was not constructed until 1883 by the Government Lands Department. Ever since, the bathing facilities have featured in tourist promotions and guidebooks for Canterbury. Do you have any photographs of Hanmer Springs? If…
Robert Webb – How Not to be a Boy: WORD Christchurch
On Tuesday evening I attended the WORD Christchurch event where the English comedian and author, Robert Webb, conversed with Michele A'Court about his book How Not to be a Boy. A'Court suggested How not to be a boy is a "feminist memoir written by a man". Webb demurred at that description and joked that the "F word…
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