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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi

September 2024

 

Welcome to our Heritage newsletter.

Find out about interesting library events and resources related to local history, whakapapa/family history and heritage of all kinds.

 

Website

Christchurch Heritage Festival: 11 to 27 October 2025

Explore the interesting and fun local history events, exhibitions, and activities on at the Christchurch Heritage Festival.

The Great Stash Swap

Nov 26th | 9:00am - 11:00am

Aranui Library

Bring along your unwanted fabric, haberdashery, buttons, wool, lace, trims, paints, brushes, zips etc then choose what you want to take away

The Great Stash Swap

Aug 5th | 9:00am - 11:00am

Aranui Library

Bring along your unwanted fabric, haberdashery, buttons, wool, lace, trims, paints, brushes, zips etc then choose what you want to take away

More Heritage festival events
 

Website

Christchurch Photo Hunt: 1 to 31 October 2025

The annual Christchurch Photo Hunt is on from 1 to 31 October. Share your photos old and new - and win Riverside Market vouchers!

We hope you are looking forward to the Christchurch Photo Hunt as much as we are! Don’t forget to enter by attending one of our digitisation events or submitting online - take a look at some of the highlights from 2023’s competition.

 

Te Ao Māori

Shared Reading at Shirley Library
Series

Mar 18th | 10:30am - 11:30am

Shirley Library

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Listen to a short story and a poem as a group and then break it down and discuss it. Discover interesting and thought-provoking reading.

Saturday Storytimes
Series

Apr 4th | 10:30am - 11:00am

Shirley Library

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Have you missed our normal Wā Kōrero-Storytimes? Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, crafts, and fun on Saturdays!

 

Canterbury Stories: Digitised and transcribed

Did you know we have a growing number of resources in Canterbury Stories that have been transcribed? Digitising historical documents is an important way of making them accessible to the public but transcribing them means that the contents, like names of people and places, become searchable. This also makes things easier for people who struggle to read 19th century handwriting!

Have a read and find out more about what life was like on board a ship bound for Aotearoa, or for early colonists who arrived here.

Ship's log of the S.S. Somersetshire from Plymouth to Melbourne, 1 July-30 August 1869, sheet 03 of 87, No known copyright, CCL-Arch489-003

 

Blog Post

A quick introduction to the Archives

Amy, one of our library archivists, gives us a look at a part of the library most people don't get to see - the treasures in our Archives.

 

Courses: Family and Local history

Event

Shared Reading at Shirley Library
Series

Mar 18th | 10:30am - 11:30am

Shirley Library

View all dates

Listen to a short story and a poem as a group and then break it down and discuss it. Discover interesting and thought-provoking reading.

Event

Saturday Storytimes
Series

Apr 4th | 10:30am - 11:00am

Shirley Library

View all dates

Have you missed our normal Wā Kōrero-Storytimes? Join us for stories, songs, rhymes, crafts, and fun on Saturdays!

 
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