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Book clubs
Come
along to the karapu panui te reo group and have a discussion with other
adults who are learning the language. It's a great place to practice your
reading comprehension while exploring the library's te reo collection
together.
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Chinese events
Last Saturday of the month //
Northcote Library
Share what you’re reading with other Chiwi
tweens, discover new books and hear book recommendations.
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Classes & workshops
Creative Writing Workshop
Saturday 3 June // Highland Park Library Want to learn more about the discipline of writing? Want to turn those story ideas into reality? Take the next step and come along.  |
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Community events
Arabic Playgroup
Tuesday 6 June, Tuesday 20 June // Glenfield Library Bring your child along on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month and socialise with other Arab-speaking parents. Ramadan (25 May- 24 June) is an excellent occasion to investigate the Arab language collections at Botany and Glenfield libraries.  |
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Crafts
First
Wednesday of the month // Wellsford Library
Once a month,
straight after storytime we break out the glitter, glue and tinfoil for a bit
of hands-on crafty fun! Come for the stories and stay for the craft!
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Exhibitions
Friday 2 June - Thursday
15 June // Takapuna Library
This exhibition of
gripping socio-political images features Christopher Morris, Linda Bournane
Engelberth and Danny Wilcox Frazier. Subjects include Brexit, pro-Trump
election rallies and rural decline in the US.
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Family history
The
Maori Maps online tribal marae project is a portal to the country's
750 marae and serves as a starting point for visitors and descendants. This
promises to be a fascinating talk for both Maori looking for tribal
connections and interested non-Maori.
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First World War
Saturday
10 June // Glenfield Library
Tying
in with Glenfield Library's live stream of the commemoration on 7 June,
author and historian Matt Elliott will present an assortment of
eye-witness accounts, poems, paintings and photos.
An
unmissable insight into the Battle for Messines Ridge.
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Also on in June, though not at the library, instead in a pub on the red-light area of K Rd, is Auckland's annual Bloomsday show, Friday June 16, at the Thirsty Dog in Karangahape Rd, one night only.
It starts at 7.30pm and runs for three hours.
This year’s show has Lucy Lawless returning as Gerty MacDowell, Jennifer Ward-Lealand reading from Molly Bloom’s notorious monologue, Michael Hurst as a British squaddie (and singing Finnegan’s Wake) and Lord of the Rings' Bruce Hopkins as a transvestite dominatrix.
Others in the show are Linn Lorkin and the Jews Brothers Band, the QED Barbershop Quartet, mezzo-soprano Yuko Takahashi, Hershal Herscher, Farrell Cleary, Brian Keegan, Jean McAllister and Unite Union organiser Joe Carolan as the apoplectic patriot The Citizen.
Bloomsday is the recreation of that single day in 1904 in which Irish writer James Joyce set his 20th century comic masterpiece, Ulysses.
On that that long, lingering, legendary date, Leopold Bloom, wandering Jew and melancholic hero of Joyce’s book, set about a droll odyssey round Dublin.
In Dublin-Paris-Rome-Trieste, in London-New York-Beijing-Sydney, there’ll be readings and chamber music remembering the fictional event.
In Auckland, a bawdy Bloomsday vaudeville has been celebrated every year on June 16 to packed houses at the Thirsty Dog Tavern, Karangahape Rd.
This year’s show will feature Irish ballads, Jewish klezmer, Catholic hymns, Leon Redbone, Guiseppe Verdi, Tinpan Alley, Brecht/Weill, Leon Redone, and Edith Piaf.
And The Supremes.
And boisterous dramatizations from Ulysses.
When it first appeared in 1922, Joyce’s 900-page whopper had a bit of a mixed reception.
In his home town the Dublin Sunday Express boldly pronounced: “The obscenity of Rabelais is innocent compared with the leprous and scabrous horrors of Joyce’s book… All the secret sewers of vice are canalised in its flood of unimaginable thoughts, images and pornographic words.”
See every unimaginable thought, image and pornographic word brought to life on K Rd!
Thirsty Dog, Friday night June 16, 7.30pm
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