Blogs / January 2023
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Free CD loans for 2023!
- Wellington City Libraries
- You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up… Continue reading Free CD loans for 2023! →
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January’s New Music for Te Awe: Part 2
- Wellington City Libraries
- Here is part two of our new music picks for January. You can catch up with Part 1 here. Do… Continue reading January’s New Music for Te Awe: Part 2 →
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Te Awe Library, Brandon Street, Paekākā, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Staff Picks: The Best DVDs of 2022
- Wellington City Libraries
- Here we have the very best DVDs of 2022, as selected by our own WCL librarians. All of these titles… Continue reading Staff Picks: The Best DVDs of 2022 →
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A picture of how it feels
- Talk Wellington
- Here’s a little homage to a classic image that blew our minds when we saw it, and now we see things differently everywhere we go Artist Karl Jilg created this for the Swedish Road Administration decades ago, and it’s still super powerful today. It was part of the “battle for hearts and minds” angle of...
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January’s New Music for Te Awe: Part 1…
- Wellington City Libraries
- I’m Mark, the Music & Film Specialist at Wellington City Libraries (I also run the Libraries’ Wellington Music Facebook page).
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Te Awe Library, Brandon Street, Paekākā, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Big J: A New Legacy
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Nadia Freeman Jacob Dombroski is all heart in his performance of Big J A New Legacy. It is clear that he relives the feelings of every story he shares. This vulnerability is most evident during his dance pieces. From krump to graceful, emotive sections, his actions are deliberate. He can switch from raw […]
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The Ardern Years
- Eye of the Fish
- Although the news yesterday was full of journos saying that they had not expected Jacinda Ardern to announce her resignation first thing in the morning,...
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Play in your city! (And dance, and …)
- Talk Wellington
- Where do we play in our urban areas? Where would it be good to play more? Good weather is a good time to think about this – and exercise the power of play for people. From chess to kickabouts to making a miniature metropolis in the mud… from chasing games to dragon drama to pokémon...
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Staff Picks: CDs
- Wellington City Libraries
- Here are some music titles that library staff have recently been listening to and enjoying. Martin P’s Picks: Back home… Continue reading Staff Picks: CDs →
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What’s under our streets (and why does the digging cost so much)?
- Talk Wellington
- This summer there’ll be roadcones, diggers and safety fencing aplenty in all Wellington’s towns, as councils dig holes to get the water (and poo) going where they should. So, what’s down there? First off, it’s harder than you think to simply find where the pipes are. And that matters quite a lot (cos if the...
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Wellington Pasifika Festival: Recent Pasifika related books
- Wellington City Libraries
- The Wellington Pasifika Festival is coming up soon, on Saturday 11 February at Waitangi Park at the Wellington waterfront. Therefore,… Continue reading Wellington Pasifika Festival: Recent Pasifika related books →
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Designed to dominate
- Eye of the Fish
- Today’s post is a special one, contributed by regular reader Starkive By 1972 New Zealanders were questioning the environmental impact of humans and their engineering....
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Risk anything! Remembering Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death
- Wellington City Libraries
- Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for… Continue reading Risk anything! Remembering Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death →
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Risk anything! Remembering Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death
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- Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for… Continue reading Risk anything! Remembering Katherine Mansfield on the centenary of her death →
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