Moata reports back from feminist writer Clementine Ford's appearance at WORD Christchurch Autumn Season 2019.
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific
Moata reviews Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific, a highly readable history of Pacific exploration.
NZ Music Month 2019
Christchurch City Libraries celebrates NZ Music Month during May every year. Find out more about this month-long celebration, and our music resources. View gigs in our events calendar. NZ Music Month 2019 Live at the Library - Tūranga Live performances by local musicians and school groups throughout the month on Hononga | Connect, Ground level. Fridays, 12-1pm…
Why you should listen to Clementine Ford
Moata explains why more men (or anyone) should see author Clementine Ford at WORD Christchurch.
A place for us
Sarah Jessica Parker from Sex and the City fame is not someone you would necessarily equate with reading, but she has created a new imprint called SJP for Hogarth. Expecting a celebrity cookbook, a memoir, or a title outling how she still eats burgers but maintains her weight, I was surprised and delighted to learn…
Books on screen: Artemis Fowl, Good omens, and young adult romance
A whole clutch of novels have been turned into movies and TV series, or are due for release soon. Here's what to read, either in advance of watching on screen, or as a tasty, more fleshed-out mains to the movie or TV appetiser. Comedy Catch-22 - Joseph Heller's classic WWII satire is now a 6…
Cycling cinematically
It's nearly that time again. Time to get on yer bike for the Aotearoa Bike Challenge. During February workplaces, organisations and teams of all sizes will be competing to see who can get the most cycling in, and rack up the mileage (or kilometrage?). There are also some great prizes up for grabs. For stalwart…
Kā Huru Manu: Mapping, memories, meaning
Christchurch City Libraries are proud to be hosting a very special exhibition in Te Pito Huarewa/Southbase Gallery, Tūranga. From 4pm Saturday 26 January, visitors to our new central library, Tūranga, will be able to explore the history, landscape and names of Canterbury and Banks Peninsula through an exhibition of the Ngāi Tahu Cultural Mapping Project…
Ready, steady…relax
If you're like me then the prelude to Christmas is a hectic blur of to-do lists, gift-wrap flapping, and sugar. Yes, I have started to hoe into the Christmas treats already but I need to keep my strength up. But it's good to know that after this last flurry of activity there will be a…
Before Tūranga – The Coachman Inn
The fourth in a series of posts that looks at the history of the central Christchurch sites on which your new library, Tūranga, has been built. If you were standing in front of the spot now taken up by Tūranga's Goods Entrance on Gloucester Street on the evening of 6 November 1872 you would have been looking across…
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