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Villainous Newtown event: Now available to view on YouTube
- Wellington City Libraries
- Recently at Newtown Library we had the rare opportunity to hear four fabulous crime writers in full flow talking about their… Continue reading Villainous Newtown event: Now available to view on YouTube →
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Katūīvei: Pasifika Poetry Event at Newtown Library!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Join us at Te Puna Waiora Newtown Library on Friday 19 April, 6-7pm to launch the new book Katūīvei: Contemporary… Continue reading Katūīvei: Pasifika Poetry Event at Newtown Library! →
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Villainous Newtown: crime writers author talk 22 March
- Wellington City Libraries
- The Ngaio Marsh Awards, in association with Wellington City Libraries, invites booklovers to an unmissable crime and thriller event coming… Continue reading Villainous Newtown: crime writers author talk 22 March →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Muslim Migrant Experiences – Event at Newtown!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Haere mai, Salaam and Soo dhawoow! Join us at Te Puna Waiora Newtown Library on February 7th, 5pm for the… Continue reading Muslim Migrant Experiences – Event at Newtown! →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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We are going cashless
- Wellington City Libraries
- Wellington City Libraries (with the exception of Newtown) will be cashless from the start of 2024. We continue to offer… Continue reading We are going cashless →
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The spirit of Diwali at Newtown Library
- Wellington City Libraries
- Happy Diwali! To celebrate Diwali, Newtown Library recently hosted a fun-filled family storytelling event, where guest author Rajorshi Chakraborti treated… Continue reading The spirit of Diwali at Newtown Library →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Diwali Celebration at Newtown Library! Wednesday 1 November
- Wellington City Libraries
- Join us for a special Diwali celebration at Newtown Library! We’re hosting a family storytelling event, with guest authors Sudha… Continue reading Diwali Celebration at Newtown Library! Wednesday 1 November →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: Event video
- Wellington City Libraries
- Recently at our Newtown Library, in conjunction with Massey University Press, we staged a very special launch event celebrating the… Continue reading A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: Event video →
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Culprits in the Capital: Newtown Mystery in the Library event video
- Wellington City Libraries
- Recently at Newtown Library we had the second of our two crime-writing events, run in conjunction with and celebrating the… Continue reading Culprits in the Capital: Newtown Mystery in the Library event video →
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Meet the panel: Kirsten McDougall
- Wellington City Libraries
- Coming this Friday June 9th to Newtown Library in conjunction with the Ngaio Marsh awards, we have a very special… Continue reading Meet the panel: Kirsten McDougall →
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Meet the panel: Brannavan Gnanalingam
- Wellington City Libraries
- Coming this Friday June 9th to Newtown Library in conjunction with the Ngaio Marsh awards, we have a very special… Continue reading Meet the panel: Brannavan Gnanalingam →
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Meet the panel: Michelle Elvy
- Wellington City Libraries
- Coming soon to Newtown Library we have a very special launch event for the new anthology, A Kind of Shelter… Continue reading Meet the panel: Michelle Elvy →
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Loafer’s Lodge fire
- Eye of the Fish
- It is a pretty sad day to be writing – and we all know what about. Just over 36 hours ago, a building in Newtown...
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Loafers Lodge, 160, Adelaide Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha launch event
- Wellington City Libraries
- A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha Book launch event Friday 26th of May at Newtown Library, 6-7pm with Witi Ihimaera, Michelle… Continue reading A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha launch event →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bestselling Fantasy author H.G. Parry at Newtown Library: The Magician’s Daughter
- Wellington City Libraries
- We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a launch event with acclaimed bestselling historical fantasy fiction… Continue reading Bestselling Fantasy author H.G. Parry at Newtown Library: The Magician’s Daughter →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Nefarious Novels at Newtown: Now available on YouTube
- Wellington City Libraries
- Recently at our Newtown Library we had the rare opportunity to hear three of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most outstanding crime… Continue reading Nefarious Novels at Newtown: Now available on YouTube →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Newtown Artist Basia Smolnicki’s Studio Q+A for ‘Proof’
- Wellington City Libraries
- In the lead up to our ‘Proof’ Book Launch + Artist Talk, we chatted to some of the Wellington based… Continue reading Newtown Artist Basia Smolnicki’s Studio Q+A for ‘Proof’ →
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Karori Library, Karori Road, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Author Talk and Book Launch: Renée, Jennifer Lane & Anne Harré
- Wellington City Libraries
- Nefarious Novels at Newtown A rare opportunity to hear three of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most outstanding crime writers: Renée, Jennifer… Continue reading Author Talk and Book Launch: Renée, Jennifer Lane & Anne Harré →
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Newtown Library, Constable Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Thomas Kirk’s new species of Veronica from Newtown Park, Wellington in 1896
- Te Papa's blog
- Recently the Botany team at Te Papa dedicated a week to curating several boxes of plant specimens – we called it the Botany Blitz! Our aim was to crack open boxes that have been patiently waiting – months, years, or in some cases decades – to be processed and databased.
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Newtown Park, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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South Asian Voices: Diwali celebration at Newtown Library
- Wellington City Libraries
- To celebrate Diwali, Wellington City Libraries and The Cuba Press have brought together some of Aotearoa’s finest award-winning writers to… Continue reading South Asian Voices: Diwali celebration at Newtown Library →
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Smoother bussing and safer biking in Newtown? Now, or maybe not for a decade!
- Talk Wellington
- If you want a decently bikeable and more bus-friendly route between Newtown centre and the city, anytime within a decade, you need to give this a cheerful positive shove, now! Window closes this Wednesday! We have a partial separated cycleway and partial dedicated bus lanes in Newtown. Yes, you’ve probably submitted supportively on this before...
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Characterful medium density housing!
- Talk Wellington
- Who else is having conversations where someone goes “ooh but it’s all leaky soulless apartments, we don’t want that”? Here’s a feast for your eyes and balm for your worried soul Welcome to Talk Wellington’s random collection of neat medium-density examples to cheer you up, to show your friends, to tell the council you want … and to inspire density skeptics (presuming they’re in good faith, not just being awful). (Images’ links are in the image, caption or the text – click for more.) Enjoy! Characterful, “old”… medium density Montréal has a LOT of medium density residential neighbourhoods. They’re super liveable and beloved, and they are home to numbers of people that would sort out many of Wellington’s classic woes. Here’s some pretty historic-y medium density which has actual awesome neighbourhood vitality and character by the bucketload, for everyone. Medium density can be… no more than two storeys, with lots of mixed use and features like shop-top housing! No offence, Mt Vic / Khandallah / Thorndon / Woburn, but your neighbourhoods can’t hold a candle to the Castro for real liveable character, not just visual character. So leafy! Apartments you rent short-term: this is the Garden Wing of Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel. It was built in the 1970s! Lush az. This is all open air How ’bout indigenous character! The stunning medium-density Utukoia replaces two detached homes on traditional quarter-acre sections with 14 new terrace homes (53 bedrooms total), communal facilities and a range of private, shared and public spaces. Phwoar. Check out the Auckland Māori Design Hub for more delicious stuff There are some smart folks stimulating Māori design and innovation at the Āpōpō accelerator right here in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, run by the Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa / IDIA team. How about some modern character? Check out the beautiful high density of the Urban Habitat Collective, coming soon right in Newtown: Or the beautiful CoHaus (read their amazing story here) Even ol’ Kiwibuild is finally doing lovely stuff in Onehunga: How about the spaces in between the housing? Density done well brings your laneways to life as a part of people’s backyards, as in Queensland… Go large We really need comprehensive, multi-block developments to sort out whole areas of our cities. You can do ’em on something that’s underused space like… a golf course? Or even as a regeneration of… ooh, maybe a large area of detached housing, hello Kāinga Ora. So check out this thread on Vancouver’s Regent Park development. Hello #densitydonewell: a big uplift in density is helping fund all sorts of fantastic public amenities for the residents of the varied and accessible apartments: green space, schools, lovely public realm, community gardens, people-friendly street grid… That fourfold increase in density has helped to pay for generous public realm and community facilities including parks, athletic grounds, and an amazing aquatic centre #torontotweets #densitydonewell #citiesforall pic.twitter.com/cCy2dYq6V5 — Stuart (@HoughtonSd) September 11, 2018 Be still, our beating hearts…. And finally… DensityNOTdonewell While we tend to agree with Bernard Hickey that the battle over densifying suburbs is the battle of our generation, there’s plenty of reasonable property-owning folks who are genuinely, good-faith worried. They’re worried that crappy, ugly things will be built – and are vulnerable to being scaremongered by wild claims about housing values (hat tip Property Investors Federation). And let’s be honest: NZ has strong historical form in doing medium density badly – especially badly in construction, which means bad financially for those who bought in them. The cars seem to have the best of this bargain… And bad design is far from history: there’s still plenty of crap designs out there, thanks to our unfamiliarity with good-quality medium density. Here’s one example of rubbish medium density that appears to deny its residents most of the benefits of density done well like access to green space and social connection. So let’s also be clear: nobody wants crap design or construction, and we absolutely don’t have to accept it “because housing crisis”. So let’s get more and more people on the bandwagon for good medium density, #densitydonewell! What other examples of great (or grotty) medium density do you know? How do they make you feel and why?
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Four Writers writing about Newtown….Now exclusively online
- Wellington City Libraries
- We recently had the great pleasure of staging an event with Rachel Kerr author of Victory Park, Carl Shuker author of A Mistake, Michalia Arathimos author of Aukati and poet Jackson Nieuwland reading their poem from their collection I am a human being in conversation with Mary McCallum at our Newtown library.
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Four writers writing about Newtown
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- Rachel Kerr author of Victory Park, Carl Shuker author of A Mistake and Michalia Arathimos author of Aukati in conversation with Mary McCallum about setting their fiction in Newtown.
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Four writers writing about Newtown
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- Rachel Kerr author of Victory Park, Carl Shuker author of A Mistake and Michalia Arathimos author of Aukati in conversation with Mary McCallum about setting their fiction in Newtown.
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Four Writers writing about Newtown
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- Rachel Kerr author of Victory Park, Carl Shuker author of A Mistake and Michalia Arathimos author of Aukati in conversation with Mary McCallum about setting their fiction in Newtown.
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We want your zines!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Are you a zinemaker? Or perhaps you got creative during lockdown and made a quaranzine? Here at Wellington City Libraries we have lending zine collections at three of our branches: Newtown, Arapaki on Manners, and He Matapihi Molesworth Library.
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Book Club eBooks now ready to read on Libby
- Wellington City Libraries
- I once facilitated a book group every month on a Friday afternoon at the wonderfully diverse Newtown library involving 8 book-loving, library users.
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Minutes of the March 2020 Meeting
- Newtown Residents' Association
- Minutes of the Newtown Residents’ Association meeting 16th March 2020 Present: Rhona Carson (Chair), Steve Cosgrove (Minutes), Leonie Walker, Jane Patterson, Jill Ford, Alison Borbelly, Keith Powell, Tom Law, Don McDonald, Warwick Taylor, Peter Frater, Effie Rankin, Faye Tohbyn, Lyn Morris, Sam Somers, Eileen Brown, Neville Carson, Kevin Lethbridge, Graeme Carroll, Merio Marsters, Marion Leighton. Apologies: Paul Eagle, Dom Shaheen, Steve Dunn, Martin Hanley, Anna Kemble Welch, Jan Gould + Marion Leighton(for lateness)Noted that Paul apologised because MPs have been advised to stay away from community meetings due to Covid-19 risks.. Rhona welcomed everyone to the meeting. Newtown Festival Rhona thanked all the marshalls and other volunteers for helping. The meeting made an enthusiastic vote of thanks and appreciation to the organisers for another very successful Festival.Sadly there was one violent event later in the evening; this seemed to be the result of a personal conflict between two visitors to Newtown. The Police and Community Patrol were involved. Don asked what the noise policy is, as he worries about how loud the Festival is. Tom Law outlined the Council policy. Wellington City Council Consultations Parking Policy. Consultation opened today and will run till April 14th. WCC had a traveling road show on the subject in Newtown Mall this morning. It wasn’t widely advertised and no one at the meeting knew it was going to be there, or attended.Rhona noted that the policy is very high-level at this stage. We recommend that people look at the material on the website. The questions on the web site are quite general so Newtown-specific concerns would need to be added in narrative form.Some general issues were discussed.We will consider different things we can agree on, such as further communication with WCC to develop a Newtown-specific plan, and sensible Residents’ Parking areas and fees. Planning for Growth The WCC Consultation Team were to have a Newtown Festival stall but cancelled because they were not quite ready to go. Next consultation meeting is on 26 March at Prefab – Jane and Rhona interested in going. No one had any further comment: Rhona suggested reading the web page and keeping up-to-date with progress on the development of a proposed spatial plan for the city.District Plan Review – this is beginning at the end of this year or early next. Water Warrick is concerned that water metres are coming back into discussion. This has resulted in some suggesting we ‘need’ water metres to pay for replacement of aged infrastructure.A number of views were expressed regarding the pros and cons of water metering. COVID-19 Eileen Brown is working for the Council of Trade Unions developing plans and consolidating ideas for “managing the risk and flattening the curve”.The current situation was outlined, along with common narratives being used to describe the situation and management options. Eileen described then distributed some information.Marion Leighton (Consultant Physician at Wellington Hospital) arrived during this discussion, having been at a hospital meeting on the same topic. She outlined the hospital’s plans for managing an influx of seriously ill patients and also answered questions. Most important thing is to wash hands frequently and thoroughly, cough and sneeze into your elbow or tissues, don’t touch your face, avoid physical contact with others and self-isolate at the first sign of any symptoms. We are in this for the long-term, so make sure you have a reasonable plan. Emergency Management Discussion Neville Carson outlined his background in Civil Defence (previous name for Emergency Management, and introduced “Wellington Conversations” – facilitated conversations on various topics which have been running in Newtown and elsewhere for several months.Neville is organising a meeting to discuss Emergency Management issues on 31 March, 7:30 to 9:30, at Newtown Hall, using a model based on Wellington Conversations. Circus Performers – Steve informed the meeting that on Wednesday evening (18th Mcaarch) in Carrara Park circus performers will be performing with LED Hula hoops. Meeting ended at 8:58
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Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Wellingtonista
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the perfect pick for Summer Shakespeare, traditionally held in the Dell in Wellington’s Botanical Gardens at night in the middle of summer, but then the production moved to the basement theatre at Te Whaea in Newtown, and things pivoted from the usual.
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