(mostly) Free Events / talks at the National Library - Molesworth St - November

The Team from Alexander Turnbull Library

Hi everyone
Below is a list of the (mostly) free talks and events held at the National Library.
Please come along, and bring a friend :-)

Date: Saturday 7 November | Time: 6.00 to 7.30pm | Cost : $18 to $30. Tickets available events.humanitix.com... | Venue: Taiwhanga Kauhau Auditorium Lower Ground Floor
Verb Festival 2020
Come to the National Library between 10am to 3pm to celebrate ‘Verb Festival 2020’. Immerse yourself in stimulating and entertaining conversation about books and ideas with writers from all over Aotearoa.


Date: Wednesday 11 November | Time: 5.30 to 6.30pm | Cost : Free. Koha from non-members appreciated | Venue: Taiwhanga Kauhau Auditorium Lower Ground Floor
Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns that Saved New Zealand’s Native Forests
Friends of the Turnbull Public Programme.
Hear Paul Bensemann talk about the ‘Save Manoupori’ campaign. From small beginnings, a much larger movement grew. Bensemann’s book ‘Fight for the forests’ was a finalist in the 2019 Ockham NZ Book Awards.

Date: Thursday 12 November | Time: 10am to 11am | Cost: Free, but please RSVP to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz so that we whip up enough scones | Venue: Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor Foyer
Tea and tours
Come along to the National Library for tea and scones, chat with our Ako (learning) team, view a short film with Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, and enjoy a special highlights tour of our current exhibitions.

Date: Tuesday 17 November | Time: 12.10pm to 1pm | Cost: Free | Venue: Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor Foyer
Contribute your own images to DigitalNZ
There’s a fun new feature soon to be launched on www.digitalnz.org.... You’ll be able to upload your own images to DigitalNZ ‘stories’. This talk will demonstrate the new tool and how personal images can be shared alongside institutional collections.

Date: Tuesday 24 November | Time: 5.30 to 6.30pm | Cost: Free. Koha from non-members appreciated | Venue: Taiwhanga Kauhau Auditorium Lower Ground Floor
Jerningham
Friends of the Turnbull Public Programme
Cristina Sanders debut novel Jerningham tells the story of Wellington’s colonial beginnings and of a young man’s rise and inevitable fall.

Date: Thursday 26 November Time: 5.30pm to 7.15pm | Cost: Free | Venue: Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor
Xenitia – understandings of home, identity and belonging
Randell Cottage
Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with the 2020 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage writer in residence Michalia Arathimos. What is the meaning of home? For Michalia Arathimos notions of home are inextricably bound up with the notion of xenitia — a feeling common in the Greek diaspora, a feeling of being in exile, or of longing for ‘home’.

Date: Friday 27 November Time: 10am to 10.30pm and 2pm to 2.30pm | Cost: Free | Venue: Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor
The 127th anniversary of Pākehā women taking to the polls
It’s been 127 years since Pākehā women first voted in the general election! Celebrate with us with a tour of He Tohu, focussing on the Women’s Suffrage Petition and the people involved in this achievement.

Date: Friday 11 December | Time: 12pm to 1pm | Cost: Free | Venue: Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor
Māori women take the polls: 127 years on
Learn more about Māori women in politics in Annie Te One’s talk and go on a guided tour of the He Tohu exhibition with a focus on the 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitiangi and Te Petihana Whakamana Pōti Wahine, — The Treaty of Waitaingi and the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition.