A blast of an event and back by popular demand! Get ready to laugh your pants off at our Giggles and Gases and Poos and Farts Storytime, where our fabulous local librarian Penny Griffin reads stories like Poo Bum, No One ...
When was the last time you wrote a love letter? Be guided through the process of writing a sparkly, poetic and spunky letter from start to finish on an old school typewriter by artist Katja Starke. Choose your favourite ...
When floods devastated Hawke’s Bay, Catherine Robertson was taken by the story of a cat called Pearl who survived the destruction of her family home. She got illustrator Fifi Colston and Penguin Random House on ...
New Zealand has had a long and storied love affair with beer, the world’s oldest drink. In Continuous Ferment, Greg Ryan charts that story – why we love it, why we love so much of it and how our tastes have ...
It has been said the New Zealand Wars were more significant in shaping our country than Te Tiriti o Waitangi. This session seeks to explore whether that is true, and to dig deeper into a troubled time in our history. ...
Kate Mahony’s novel Secrets of the Land was the top pick by Featherston Booktown supporters for a new readers’ choice event. Set in Taranaki, Ireland and Australia, Secrets of the Land is an engrossing story ...
Book collecting is variously described as a passion, an obsession and even a disease. Bookselling the same. Bookseller Ruth Shaw (Bookshop Dogs) and book collector Tony Eyre (The Book Collector) talk about the ...
Tāme Iti (Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato, Te Arawa) is known as many things – activist, artist, actor, author, terrorist and cyclist. He rose to prominence as a member of the protest group Ngā Tamatoa more than 40 years ...
What does it mean to be a modern All Black, expected to perform at a mental and physical peak when player body mass has increased by 30% since the 1960s and new research is showing the horrifying impact of head injuries ...
