WELLINGTON CITY EVENTS Join us at Wellington City Libraries for Beyond the Page, a literary festival for children Friday 13 July Tuesday 17 July Thursday 19 July and their whānau. Create Your Book The Magic Marble Maker with Animal Storytime All events are FREE. Events marked with a require booking. with Ben Spies Sacha Cotter & Josh Morgan with Bark NZ 11am Cummings Park Library 11am Newtown Library For more information and to book in, visit www.beyondthepage.nz 11am Kilbirnie Library Rainbow Storytime Let’s Go Lego Animal Storytime 1pm Kilbirnie Library 11am-1pm Churton Park with Bark NZ Community Centre 2pm Johnsonville Library Saturday 7 July Tuesday 10 July Thursday 12 July Let’s Go Lego 3:30pm Johnsonville Boxes, Blankets & Books Tales from the Royal Comics with Sarah Laing Animal Storytime Let’s Go Lego 2pm-3:30pm Newlands 3pm Miramar New Zealand Ballet 11am Central Library with Animal Services Saturday 14 July Community Centre 11am Cummings Park Library 11am Miramar Library Animal Storytime The Tree Friends Flicks @ Six Chinese Calligraphy 6pm-8pm Tawa Library Let’s Go Lego with Animal Services Meet the Robots (String Bean Puppets) with Stan Chan 2pm Karori Library 2pm Brooklyn Library 11am Khandallah 11am Miramar Library 3pm Karori Library Friday 20 July Tales from the Royal Happy Birthday Harry Potter The Tree Friends Rainbow Storytime Unleash Your Inner New Zealand Ballet 2pm-3:30pm Newlands (String Bean Puppets) 11am Brooklyn Library Wednesday 18 July 3pm Central Library Community Centre 2pm Island Bay Library Monster with Paul Beavis The Tree Friends 11am Kilbirnie Library Monday 16 July Wednesday 11 July Let’s Go Lego (String Bean Puppets) Sunday 8 July 3:30pm Tawa Library Animal Storytime 11am Newlands Community The Secret Life of Pens with Animal Services Saturday 21 July Doll Storytime Centre With Geraldine Brophy 11am Cummings Park Library 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm From Here to There 1pm Central Library Writing with Mandy Hager Katherine Mansfield House Cable Car Rainbow 2pm Central Library with Moira Wairama Storytime & Tony Hopkins Monday 9 July 11am ?? Cable Car? 11am Karori Library Zine Machine Zine Machine Rainbow Storytime 1pm Central Library 2:30pm Karori Library The Beyond Amazing Race 12pm Newtown Library Percussion Workshop Get your friends or whānau together Rainbow Storytime Meet the Robots with Andreas Lepper and take on our regional challenge! 1pm Johnsonville Library 2pm Newtown Library 3pm Central Library Download an entry form at Let’s Go Lego The Tree Friends Meet the Robots www.beyondthepage.nz or pick 3:30pm Cummings Park Library (String Bean Puppets) 3pm Tawa Library 6pm Miramar Library one up from your local library. Tales from the RNZB Let’s Go Lego Doll Storytime Zine Machine Percussion Workshop Meet the Robots Legendary dancer and Your creative skills will be Bring your favourite doll or Have an idea or story you Take part in a rhythmical Meet Blue the humanoid performer Sir Jon Trimmer, put to the test as you use teddy for a special storytime! want to tell or show? Fancy warm-up with Andreas robot. Blue responds to your will introduce some of the the library’s Lego collections Be transported into the publishing your own book or Lepper, then be prepared questions, commands, and much-loved stories of the to design and build your world of doll stories and magazine? Come along and for a fun intro to percussion even dances! Plus make ballet. masterpieces. then explore Katherine find out about zines, then instruments and a some tracks for our mBots to navigate! Ages 4-8 Ages 5+. Mansfield House. Free entry express yourself by making spontaneous jam session! for adults with a child your very own handcrafted Ages 7-10 Ages 6+. (children free). zine. All ages Ages 6+ Comics With Sarah Laing Animal Storytimes Happy Birthday Harry Potter The Secret Life of Pens The Tree Friends From Here to There Whether you’re new to Enjoy stories and learn how Get sorted in your House, Examine the origin of Join Anna Bailey from Moira Wairama & Tony comics or an expert, explore to care for and stay safe test your knowledge with a writing implements with String Bean Puppets for Hopkins will present their the joys of sequential art around dogs with Bark NZ quiz, discover your Patronus, Geraldine Brophy and create a puppet show about the bi-lingual retelling of the with Sarah Laing. and Animal Services create spells, make a magic alternative hand writing tools struggle of native plant Māori myth The Battle of Ages 10-13 Wellington & Hutt Valley. wand and come dressed as culminating in a written work! species against invasive the Birds, teach a short All ages your favourite character for Ages 10-13 weeds. waiata, and share the tale the costume parade. Prizes All ages of Leelee Goro, an African to be won! myth from Sierra Leone. Ages 6+ All ages Rainbow Storytime Cable Car Storytime The Magic Marble Makers Boxes, Blankets & Books Flicks @ Six Writing with Mandy Hager Celebrate diversity and Celebrate diversity and Join the dream team behind Plan, build and play in your Come in your pyjamas, bring Love writing? Learn how to rainbow families with rainbow families with stories award winning picture own box fort with your a cushion and a blanket, shape a powerful piece of stories in the library featuring on the Cable Car read by books, Keys and The Marble friends. Bring old blankets, and relax at our fun family writing and find the unique Wellington’s Kings and Queen Olivia St Redfern! Maker, Sacha Cotter and towels or sheets for the fort movie night - the perfect character voice to express Queens! All ages Josh Morgan for an hour of - these will be donated to cozy winter outing! Movies it with New Zealand writer All ages wild and wacky storytelling. the Wellington SPCA at the chosen have a G rating, and and author Mandy Hager. Ages 4-7 end of the school holidays. are suitable for families with Ages 10-13 Ages 5+ young children. All ages Chinese Calligraphy Unleash Your Inner Monster Create Your Book Try your hand at Chinese Join author/illustrator Paul Hear young author Ben Spies All events are FREE. Events marked with a require booking. calligraphy with Stan Chan Beavis for an illustration talk about his journey to from the Confucius Institute workshop like no other! publish books independently. For more informationand to book in visit www.beyondthepage.nz at Victoria University of Learn how to draw Mrs Mo’s Then he’ll teach you how Wellington. Monster as well as your own to create, publish, and bind Ages 5+ unique creation. your own book! Ages 7-10 Ages 7-12.