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Friday 20 March 2026

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Friday 20 March 2026

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Wednesday 18 March 2026

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Thursday 12 March 2026

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Wednesday 11 March 2026

Guitar Lessons

Tuesday 10 March 2026

He Kakano

Monday 2 February 2026

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Sunday 1 February 2026
Librarian Recommended Reads
The Age of Melt
by Lisa Baril
A thought-provoking scientific narrative investigating ice patch archaeology and the role of glaciers in the development of human culture. In The Age of Melt, environmental journalist Lisa Baril explores the deep-rooted cultural connection between humans and ice through time.
Ngā Kūaha
by Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush and David Epston
Following on from the successful Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy, the authors explore the specific topic of voices, visions and other experiences in Māori and indigenous mental health therapy. The book looks at why this is topic is of particular importance in mental health care with indigenous peoples.
Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group and Braille Collective Story
by Daniel Beban
Future Jaw-Clap tells the story of a highly influential movement in New Zealand music: the self-made musicians of pioneering free jazz ensemble Primitive Art Group, who carved out their own radical musical language in the cold, hard reality of 1980s Wellington, and have gone on to richly diverse careers in music.
Wild Fictions: Essays
by Amitav Ghosh
Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection.