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Just Over 1 Week To Go Before The Big Pablos Art Auction
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 10:17 am | National Library Of New Zealand
Art lovers and art enthusiasts, get ready, there’s just over 1 week to go. The countdown to Pablos Art Studios Annual Art Auction is on. We are excited and ready to welcome our guests next Wednesday 23rd November to The National Library of New ... More >>
Tōku Reo, Tōko Ohooho: Māori Language Petition 50th Anniversary Exhibition
Wednesday, 14 September 2022, 10:10 am | National Library Of New Zealand
An exhibition featuring the entire Te Petihana Reo Māori (the Māori language petition), presented to Parliament 50 years ago today, has opened at Te Puna Foundation Gallery in the National Library, Wellington. On 14 September 1972, Te Petihana Reo Māori ... More >>
New Poet Laureate Announced On National Poetry Day
Friday, 26 August 2022, 10:59 am | National Library Of New Zealand
National Library is delighted to celebrate National Poetry Day by announcing Chris Tse of Wellington is the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2022-2024. Te Pouhuaki National Librarian Rachel Esson described Chris’s appointment as recognition of “a poet ... More >>
Come And Celebrate Papers Past Turning 21
Monday, 15 August 2022, 10:30 am | National Library Of New Zealand
Visitors are invited to pull the lever on a Poetry Machine and take home an unexpected story to celebrate the 21st birthday of National Library’s popular Papers Past website. The Poetry Machine, built for the event, holds more than 100 poems curated ... More >>
Digital Dimension Sure To Delight At New Portrait Exhibition
Monday, 23 May 2022, 11:42 am | National Library Of New Zealand
An innovative digital dimension to one of the most significant photographic collections in Aotearoa New Zealand will feature in a new exhibition at the National Library in Wellington. Between skin & shirt: The photographic portraits of William ... More >>
He Tohu Exhibition Attracts 100,000 Visitors In Five Years
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 10:18 am | National Library Of New Zealand
Nearly 100,000 people have learned about the three documents that helped shape New Zealand’s history by visiting National Library’s He Tohu exhibition in the last five years. Since 19 May 2017, almost 20,000 school students have had the chance ... More >>
Sky’s The Limit For New Zealand And Pacific Music
Friday, 1 April 2022, 11:41 am | National Library Of New Zealand
As New Zealanders return to the international departure gates, they can listen to a fresh taste of Kiwi and Pacific music while cruising at 11,000 metres thanks to a playlist featuring homegrown artists. The ‘In The Vault’ tracks are ... More >>
Audio And Sign Language Guides Bring He Tohu To Life For Tamariki And Young Adults
Friday, 26 November 2021, 8:45 am | National Library Of New Zealand
Audio and Sign Language Guides, in seven languages including sign, will enhance the experience for visitors to National Library’s He Tohu exhibition. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2111/58e27b3574ae67b3b01e.jpeg" ... More >>
‘Trouble In Paradise’: Exhibition To Shine Spotlight On Climate Change In The Pacific
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 9:15 am | National Library Of New Zealand
A new exhibition revealing the impacts of climate change on Pacific communities will be unveiled at the National Library this November. ‘Trouble in Paradise’ will present the sixty winning photographs of a competition run by the UK Government ... More >>
National Library Announces New National Librarian – Te Pouhuaki
Wednesday, 11 November 2020, 12:27 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
Rachel Esson has been appointed as New Zealand’s National Librarian Te Pouhuaki. Rachel takes up the role from within the National Library, where she currently serves as Director for Content Services. Te Tari Taiwhenua| Internal Affairs Deputy Chief ... More >>
One More Year For The Poet Laureate
Saturday, 10 October 2020, 2:31 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand is extending the term of the New Zealand Poet Laureate, David Eggleton, by an extra year due to COVID-19. “Usually we appoint a Poet Laureate for a two-year term where they perform at live ... More >>
New Poet Laureate announced
Friday, 23 August 2019, 9:45 am | National Library Of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand is delighted to announce that David Eggleton of Dunedin is the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2019 – 2021. More >>
The Lilburn Lecture 2017: The Twin Passions of Charles Royal
Wednesday, 25 October 2017, 11:49 am | National Library Of New Zealand
Acclaimed musician and composer Charles Royal (Marutūahu, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngā Puhi) will give the annual Lilburn Lecture for 2017 at the National Library of New Zealand on 2 November. More >>
Inaugural Curatorial Lectures
Thursday, 28 January 2016, 4:35 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The expertise of curators, librarians and specialists lies at the heart of any great research library. Recently four new curators joined the Alexander Turnbull Library. During February we introduce them to you in a series of inaugural public lectures. ... More >>
National Library 50th Anniversary Show and Tell
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 2:22 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The National Library is hosting a special day of ‘show-and-tell on the 28th of November to celebrate its 50th birthday. More >>
Help digitise New Zealand’s news history
Friday, 24 April 2015, 4:26 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
The National Library is inviting groups and individuals from throughout New Zealand to apply to have their historic newspapers digitised and made available online on the Papers Past website ( www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz ) through the 2015 edition ... More >>
Notes from the Front
Monday, 18 August 2014, 10:41 am | National Library Of New Zealand
The premiere of a World War 1 song cycle by Ross Harris and New Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Vincent O’Sullivan will be performed at Wellington’s historic Old St Paul’s this month as part of the National Library’s Poet Laureate Programme. More >>
Poet Laureate To Be Honoured
Monday, 10 March 2014, 9:56 am | National Library Of New Zealand
Vincent O’Sullivan, the New Zealand Poet Laureate will be officially honoured at Poets’ Night Out, at the Havelock North Function Centre, 7.30pm on Saturday 5 April. More >>
Borderland: The world of James Cowan
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 2:27 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
A new exhibition in the Turnbull Gallery showcases newly acquired papers and photos from the writer whose work inspired Geoff Murphy's acclaimed 1983 film, Utu. James Cowan (1870-1943) grew up on a farm in the Waikato, on land confiscated from Māori ... More >>
Historian Beaglehole’s letters now available
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 3:58 pm | National Library Of New Zealand
A wonderful insight into New Zealand’s cultural life in the middle decades of last century is revealed in Professor John Cawte Beaglehole’s letters now available at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. More >>