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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi

July 2025

 

Welcome to our Arts & Entertainment newsletter.

We'll be letting you know about movies and music, and library resources focused on the arts.

 

All about movies

From book adaptations to our favourite watches of the year so far.

Blog Post

Read It Before You See It: Reboots, murder club and more

Hayley breaks down the films and TV series based on books due to hit screens in the coming months.

Staff List

Best watches of 2025 - so far!: Moata's picks

Favourite movies (and the occasional TV series) from the first six months of the 2025, listed alphabetically.

 

WORD Christchurch events at Tūranga

Period pieces on Kanopy

Watch movies and TV series set in a range of historical periods on Kanopy with your library card.

Spotlight on: How to create your family story

Jul 30th | 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Tūranga

This 2-week course is designed to help and encourage family history researchers to write the story of their ancestors. Free, bookings needed

 

Featured magazine: Guitar World

Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World's famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

 

New titles

 

Books about films

"Making Mary Poppins" by Pierce, Todd James, 1965-
"Hitchcockian Thrillers" by Rebello, Stephen, 1949-
"The James Bond Archives" by Duncan, Paul, 1964-
"Martin Scorsese All the Films" by Bousquet, Olivier (Film journalist)
"Eiga ja naindakara umaku ikanakutemo daijōbu" by Jēn sū
"The Making of Avatar" by Fordham, Joe
"Hitchcockian Thrillers" by Rebello, Stephen, 1949-

Books about musicians

"Love Like This" by Bassingthwaighte, Natalie, 1975-
"Ornette Coleman" by Golia, Maria
"Cosmic Music" by Beta, Andy
"Bowie Odyssey 76" by Goddard, Simon
"Unmasked" by Halperin, Ian
"Kocham, Freddie" by Jones, Lesley-Ann
"Ornette Coleman" by Golia, Maria

Books about art

"Rayguns & Rocketships"
"Introduction to Art Therapy Research" by Kapitan, Lynn
"Assessment in Art Therapy"
"Contemporary Practice in Studio Art Therapy"
"The Symbols of Art" by Hodge, Susie, 1960-
"Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy" by Levine, Stephen K.
"Introduction to Art Therapy Research" by Kapitan, Lynn
 

Blog Post

National Poetry Day competition 2025

Enter our National Poetry Day competition between 18 and 31 August 2025. Winners will have their poem printed on a tote bag!

 
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