Episode 10 - November 2022

This episode was broadcast on Friday 4 November 9am, and aired again on Sunday 6 November at 3.30pm. Listen to So Many Stories on PlainsFM.

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Here's what you will hear in Episode 10:

Katie Brazil, Team Leader for Outreach and Learning provides an overview of how we provide services to a wide range of community groups and individuals as well as programming such as Shared Reading.

Library Assistant Toni Campion-Cusack talks to Marionette and Monique from Kilmarnock Enterprises about the Library van service and how the library supports their team.

Tokona te kaika, Homelink customer Joan Rendall shares her love of reading and how the Outreach library van and our new Tokona te kaika services allows her to continue to read despite limited mobility.

Teacher Nicki and two tamariki, Marley (4) and Nate (3) from Sydenham Community Preschool talk about their experience of our Pre-School Outreach Delivery Specialist Susan Dodd.

Jono from Housing First along with Dave and Michelle talk about the safe community gathering place The Commons has become each Wednesday where kai, music and art is shared. World Homeless Day Photovoice Exhibition.

Lis Rate-Smith from Drug Arm Art East tells us about the Recovery Garden exhibition coming to Tūranga on the 18th of November. The therapeutic potential of art and how libraries have provided opportunities to discover new mediums and technology that inspire further creativity.

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Ngapiu Tainui-Maclure (Pou Kohikohinga Māori) shares how she and her team provide iwi research guidance in groups and one to one.

Mataakiwi Wakefield (Kaitakawaenga) shares the significance of November 5^th and Parihaka.