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What's On at the National Library - December 2021

The Team from Alexander Turnbull Library

Kia ora
Below is our suite of free events for December 2021, and online events at the National Library, Thorndon. For more information visit our website: natlib.govt.nz
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Digital Pasifik live - Solomon Islands National Museum
Join on an online tour of the Solomon Islands National Museum with the Deputy Director Lawrence Kiko, who will be showing a selection of items from the Museum.

Date: Tuesday 30 November 2021 Time: 6pm to 7pm Cost: Free Venue: Online by Zoom please see the website
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Te pānui o Te Awhi Rito — Te hā, te kupu, te kōrero
Te Awhi Rito, Ben Brown, presents his pānui / inaugural address about the importance of reading to children and the way stories give us a deeper understanding of our relationships to each other and the world we live in.

Date: Thursday 2 December 2021 Time: 6pm to 7pm Cost: Free Register online before 29 November 2021 Venue: Online by Zoom please see the website
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Ngā Tānga Reo Māori: An introduction to the Books in Māori collection of printed Māori taonga.
The Library has begun to digitise its collection of printed Māori, and the first items will be made available on a new books portal in the Papers Past website. Join Māori Digitisation Advisor Clare Butler (Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa) and Curator, Māori Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) online, to take a closer look at part of the Library’s extensive collection of printed Māori language material, and this exciting development which will make them available beyond the Library’s walls.

Date: Tuesday 7 December 2021 Time: 1pm to 2pm Cost: Free Register online Venue: Online by Zoom please see the website
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Human Rights Day – ‘A Thousand Cuts’ documentary screening and panel discussion
Join the Netherlands Embassy and the High Commission of Canada in New Zealand for a screening of the multiple award-winning documentary A Thousand Cuts, which portrays the drive of Philippine journalist Maria Ressa to defend freedom of expression.

Date: Tuesday 7 December 2021 Time: 5.30pm to 8.30pm Cost: Free Booking from website
Venue: Taiwhanga Kauhau Auditorium Lower Ground Floor
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He Tohu Audio and Sign Language Guides
Discover the new He Tohu Audio and Sign Language Guides at the National Library of New Zealand.  Come and explore He Tohu in one of seven languages; English, Te Reo Māori, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, French, German and NZ Sign Language.

Date: Monday 29 November 2021 onwards  Time: 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday  9am to 1pm Saturdays Cost: Free  Venue: He Tohu, Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor
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Trouble in Paradise: Climate change in the Pacific
A photographic exhibition documenting the effects of the climate crisis in the Pacific, artworks by Sheyne Tuffery, and a selection of historical rare books from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Date: Thursday 4 November 2021 to Saturday 30 April 2022 Time: 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday  9am to 1pm Saturdays Cost: Free Venue: National Library Gallery, Ground Floor
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Imagining Dante exhibition
Imagining Dante showcases some of the illustrated editions of the Divine Comedy held by the Alexander Turnbull Library from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries.

Date: 1 November 2021 to 28 January 2022 Time: 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday  9am to 1pm Saturdays Cost: Free Venue: Turnbull Gallery, Level 1

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