Events at the National Library November - December 2020
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: Wednesday 2 December 2020, 12:10pm to 1pm| Cost: Free | Location: Taiwhanga Kauhau — Auditorium, National Library Wellington.
Restoring the mana of a manuscript: Tamihana Te Rauparaha’s life of Te Rauparaha
Part of the Public History Talk — 2020 series
‘He Pukapuka Tātaku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui’ is an account of Te Rauparaha’s life written in the late 1860s. In this talk, the book’s translator and editor Ross Calman will discuss some of the challenges he faced in interpreting the manuscript for a modern audience.
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.
Best way to use leftovers?
I'm sure you've got some excess ham at home or cold roast potatoes.
What are some of your favourite ways to use leftover food from Christmas day? Share below.
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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61.8% Summer
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36.7% Winter
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1.5% Other - I'll share below
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