Summertime Reading Club 2018 - 2019.
Podcast – Period poverty
Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton. Period poverty occurs when women and girls are unable to afford menstrual products. Join advocates Julie Chapman (KidsCan), Dani Barrington (Leeds University), Olie Body (Wā Collective) and Laura O'Dwyer…
Ky’s top 2019 Pride picks
Welcome to Pride 2019! Christchurch City Libraries is hosting different Pride events at Tūranga this year – check out Zines, Book Speed Dating, and a panel discussion with QTopia, or bring the whānau along for rainbow stories. In celebration of the season, I’d like to share my top picks for rainbow books for kids and…
Alison Comfort with the The Merrie-Midgets puppet troop: Picturing Canterbury
The Merrie-Midgets were a puppet show hand-crafted, built and performed by the Comfort family of Christchurch from the mid 1950s until 1965. The show travelled the length of the South Island, along with appearances in Auckland and Wellington, and was a regular feature on Hays Roof during school holidays. Alison Comfort with characters from The…
Keen: Ockham poets read at Scorpio Books
As I take my seat in a full house at Scorpio Books a man is bouncing around taking photos. As he pops out from behind the stacks, taking a shot of the crowd, I consider asking him for a link as my phone is bung (which is, in fact, how there came to be photos…
Just the facts: The Dewey Book Group
Book groups are the perfect way to meet new people and they're not just for lovers of fiction.
Mac the dog pulling a sulky, Colombo Street: Picturing Canterbury
Mac the dog waiting at traffic lights whilst a bus goes past along Colombo Street. Mac is pulling a sulky carrying Jenny-Lee Barnes, aged 2 1/2 whilst passers-by watch. 21 May 1966. Do you have any photographs of Colombo Street in the 1960s? If so, feel free to contribute to our collection. The Discovery Wall is a large interactive exhibition which…
International Mother Language Day
Kia Ora! Talofa! Aloha! Ave! Bonjour! Cześć! Fakaalofa atu! Guten tag! Halo! Hola! Namaste! Nǐ hǎo! Salâm! Shalom! 你好 สวัสดี سلام നമസ്തേ 안녕하십니까 नमस्ते 今日は Γειά! These are just some of the ways that the many people of world say “hello” in their own language – or their 'mother tongue’. Many languages are under threat…
Sound and Vision – The Christchurch Town Hall to reopen Saturday 23 February
The The. Bjork. Supergrass. WORD Christchurch. Rufus Wainwright. Primary Schools Music Festival. We all have memories of things we saw and heard at the Christchurch Town Hall. The Christchurch Town Hall will be officially reopened by Mayor Lianne Dalziel at noon this Saturday 23 February 2019. There are Public open days on Saturday 23 February and Sunday…
Goodbye Gloucester Street West: The Rink Stables
The first in a series of posts uncovering the history of the city block that the new Christchurch convention centre, Te Pae is being built on. Te Pae, the new Christchurch convention centre is currently under construction and due to open in 2020. At 28,000 square metres Te Pae is going to be a big, curvy…
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