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1906 days ago

The Voting Climate: A Stuff survey of every council candidate

Stacey Reporter from Stuff

Hi Neighbours,

As part of Stuff's Quick! Save the Planet project, we are contacting every candidate in every council race to ask a series of questions about climate change. We're also asking them all for a short position statement on climate change issues.

We'll publish the … View more
Hi Neighbours,

As part of Stuff's Quick! Save the Planet project, we are contacting every candidate in every council race to ask a series of questions about climate change. We're also asking them all for a short position statement on climate change issues.

We'll publish the results of our survey on a special section, in time for when ballot papers start arriving in mailboxes at the end of next week.

If you're standing as a council candidate, please answer Stuff's climate change survey.

To find out more, click here

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1906 days ago

AN INVITATION

Mary Taylor from Karori Floral Design Club

Karori Floral design Club invites you to "A SPRING COLLECTION" . Floral Artists Gill Mackersy and Elsie Bramley will be entertaining us as they create beautiful and amazing designs. A time to enjoy our wonderful spring flowers in a new way.
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 1.00 FOR 1.30PM, ST … View more
Karori Floral design Club invites you to "A SPRING COLLECTION" . Floral Artists Gill Mackersy and Elsie Bramley will be entertaining us as they create beautiful and amazing designs. A time to enjoy our wonderful spring flowers in a new way.
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 1.00 FOR 1.30PM, ST NINIANS CHURCH crn Karori Road and Newcombe cres, Cost $15.00 includes afternoon tea and raffles.

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1906 days ago

School holiday art classes (age 3- teens)

Margaret Taylor from Karori Arts & Crafts Centre Inc

We've got some fun, creative, hands on Kids Art classes coming up in the school holidays for kids of all ages:
- Zentangles, Folkstyle Watercolours, Clay Sculpture, Coat of Arts and Heraldry Banners, Castle making, Art for kids 3-5, Digital Art and Printmaking

1906 days ago

Poi E! Make your own poi.

The Team from Alexander Turnbull Library

Tuesday 1 October 2019
A School Holiday activitiy.
10am - 10.20 whānau 'Pūkana' exhibition tour.
10.30am - 12pm Poi making workshop.


Be inspired by a tour through the ‘Pūkana: moments in Māori performance’ exhibition and make your own poi to take home. Watch kapa haka … View more
Tuesday 1 October 2019
A School Holiday activitiy.
10am - 10.20 whānau 'Pūkana' exhibition tour.
10.30am - 12pm Poi making workshop.


Be inspired by a tour through the ‘Pūkana: moments in Māori performance’ exhibition and make your own poi to take home. Watch kapa haka tutor Moana Ormsby demonstrate poi and learn how to swirl them.
Bring the tamariki for a family-friendly tour by the learning team of the exhibition ‘Pūkana: moments in Maori performance’ at 10am. All ages with supervising adult welcome. The duration of the tour is 20 minutes.

Come along to a poi making workshop at 10.30am. This workshop is best suited for children 8 years and older. Caregivers can grab a coffee but are expected to supervise their children during the programme. We will make our own poi from t-shirts (bring an old t-shirt, if you can) and wool, then learn from Moana how to make them swirl. Please book in to secure a spot in this free programme. bookings@hetohu.org.nz
Moana Ormsby is the Kaiwhakaako at the National Library and kapa haka tutor. The learning team will make the Pūkana tour fun for tamariki.

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1907 days ago

Trade Agreement Consultation

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Find out what the European Union – New Zealand free trade agreement means for Wellington and where negotiations are at.

Ask questions, share your views, and hear what others are thinking.

Attend the event for free on Wednesday 18 September, 4pm-6pm, at Level 7, Jackson Stone House, 3-11 … View more
Find out what the European Union – New Zealand free trade agreement means for Wellington and where negotiations are at.

Ask questions, share your views, and hear what others are thinking.

Attend the event for free on Wednesday 18 September, 4pm-6pm, at Level 7, Jackson Stone House, 3-11 Hunter Street
Find out more

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1907 days ago

Wadestown Toy Library - new members welcome!

The Team from Wadestown Toy Library

Great article about the benefits of a toy library membership 👍

Come and see us at Wadestown Toy Library! We're open every Saturday during term time 10am to 12pm.

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1907 days ago

Wadestown Playgroup - new members welcome!

The Team from Wadestown Playgroup

Have you been thinking about coming along to Playgroup but wondering how much work it is?

Good news, not much at all!

Our aim is to provide a safe supportive environment for children to play and adults to meet friends in our community. Many hands make light work and we try to keep it simple.

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Have you been thinking about coming along to Playgroup but wondering how much work it is?

Good news, not much at all!

Our aim is to provide a safe supportive environment for children to play and adults to meet friends in our community. Many hands make light work and we try to keep it simple.

When you sign up to attend a session for the term (e.g. Tuesdays) you go on the roster, which means you’ll get 2-3 duties per ten week term where you do either ‘Kids morning tea’ or ‘Adults morning tea’.

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Kids morning tea involves bringing some fresh fruit and putting it out with other food that playgroup provides. Setting out the children’s plates, water, cups. Then tidying it up (but others help too).

Adults morning tea means bringing some milk from home and then preparing coffee and tea pots. And tidying it up. ☕️

We all chip in to set up activities for the children at the start and then pack up at the end. 🎨 🚗 🖍 🧸 🚂

If you need to leave early or arrive late that’s totally fine, everyone helps out as they can. We all have lives and naps to work around! 😴

Come along and check Playgroup out, first two sessions are free!

If you have any questions please email WadestownPlaygroup@gmail.com or ask the key contact at a session.

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1907 days ago

DCM's 50th Birthday Photo Exhibition

The Team from DCM

14-28 September 2019
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm
Photospace Gallery, 1st Floor, 37 Courtenay Place

This year, DCM is celebrating 50 years of working in the city of Wellington to “focus on the needs of, and to help empower, those marginalised in the city.” (DCM Constitution, 1969). For the last 15 … View more
14-28 September 2019
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm
Photospace Gallery, 1st Floor, 37 Courtenay Place

This year, DCM is celebrating 50 years of working in the city of Wellington to “focus on the needs of, and to help empower, those marginalised in the city.” (DCM Constitution, 1969). For the last 15 years, DCM has adopted the by-line “together we can end homelessness in Wellington” which reflects:

- our current focus on the needs of this key marginalised group – people experiencing homelessness, or who are at risk of homelessness, supporting them on a journey towards sustainable housing and wellbeing. DCM has supported literally hundreds of people to successfully exit homelessness and sustain housing.
- “together” – the many individuals and groups within our city who are very much part of our work. Here are just a few examples:
- the dentists who volunteer their time at the DCM Dental Service
- the local food (for example, Pandoro, Kaibosh) and coffee (for example, Mojo’s) businesses and chefs (for example Rex Morgan, Wellington Chefs Association, Good Bitches Baking and Press Hall food-court) who make it possible for us to offer kai and hospitality to those we work with
- the creative professionals (designers, writers and photographers)
- many Wellington faith communities, who donate money, food for our foodbank and their time and skills as volunteers
- other health professionals (audiologist, eye doctor and physiotherapist)
- the people of Wellington who are involved in so, so many ways (they volunteer, donate and buy books at the iconic annual DCM Bookfair, become regular donors, offer their time and skills, bring in food donations, etc).

All of these individuals and groups have found practical ways to be part of our work.

We experience Wellington as a place where people genuinely want to be part of the solution to homelessness.

Our 50th birthday celebrations are focussed on this “together” and lifting up the people and communities who are part of the response to homelessness in our city. A high point will be our 50th birthday photo exhibition in September 2019. This will feature 50 different images each reflecting the contribution of one kaitautoko (supporter) group, business or individual. A number of different Wellington photographers will contribute these images, and the celebration will again be a coming together of the people of Wellington to acknowledge and reconfirm our collective commitment to ending homelessness in our city.

Make a note in your diaries – plan to head down to Photospace to see the beautiful images and learn more about the amazing people in your community who are part of this vision. And have a think about how you might like to be involved too. Because TOGETHER, we CAN end homelessness in our city.

Nāku te rourou, nāu te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi. With your basket and my basket, the people will thrive.

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1909 days ago

Three-minute power te reo Māori lesson: Five words every Kiwi should know

Stacey Reporter from Stuff

Hi Neighbours,

You don't need to learn how to speak perfect, formal te reo Māori to help normalise the language of Aotearoa - you can do it one word at a time.

At the end of this three-minute power te reo Māori lesson you'll know five key words and how to use them.

On Friday … View more
Hi Neighbours,

You don't need to learn how to speak perfect, formal te reo Māori to help normalise the language of Aotearoa - you can do it one word at a time.

At the end of this three-minute power te reo Māori lesson you'll know five key words and how to use them.

On Friday our tutor, Anton Matthews, will be live on Stuff at 12.30pm to answer any questions from this week's lessons.

For more lessons, click here

1907 days ago

Kia ora lovely people of Aotearoa!

Women's Refuge New Zealand

We are seeking to understand what people’s experiences have been of trying to find support for family violence in New Zealand.

If you've been impacted by family violence – including being harmed, causing harm, thinking about causing harm, or supporting others in these situations, … View more
We are seeking to understand what people’s experiences have been of trying to find support for family violence in New Zealand.

If you've been impacted by family violence – including being harmed, causing harm, thinking about causing harm, or supporting others in these situations, we'd love you to complete our anonymous survey and go into the draw to win one of three $50 Prezzy cards.

Your experiences will help us to assist others who are seeking support in the future, therefore we will be very grateful for your thoughts.

Ngā mihi nui.

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1908 days ago

Will you paint it blue?

Resene

Over 3000 New Zealand men are diagnosed with Prostate Cancer each year. Paint it blue for our boys by buying a *blue* Resene testpot. We'll donate $1 to The Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand with every blue 60ml testpot sold between 10-25 September 2019. It's that simple! Find out more

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