He takunetaka | What's On
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Books of Mana – How Māori Writing Inspires Me: a talk by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Māori Jacinta Ruru
Wednesday, 19th November 2025 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Earlier this year, Jacinta’s co-edited book Books of Mana was published as a tribute to the significance of 200 years…Hocken Collections, 90 Anzac Avenue, North East Valley, Dunedin
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Continued Sense of Wonder: Tearjerkers
Wednesday, 19th November 2025 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Whether they’re sweet and touching or sad and traumatic, these are the books you’re guaranteed to shed a tear over.4th Floor, City Library
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Double Book Launch: Celebrating the life and work of Ruth Dallas
Saturday, 22nd November 2025 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Celebrating the release of Ruth Dallas: A writer’s life by Diana Morrow & This Moment, Every Moment: Ruth Dallas collected…Level 4, Dunningham Suite, Dunedin City Library
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Plaque unveiling: Vincent O’Sullivan
Tuesday, 25th November 2025 11:00 AM
Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature and Dunedin Athenaeum Library warmly invite you to join us in celebrating the unveiling of…Robbie Burns statue followed by refreshments at the Athenaeum Library, 23 The Octagon
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Visions for Dunedin: Our Heritage, Our Future
Wednesday, 26th November 2025 5:30 PM
Solving problems with practical history: an inventory of pre 1900 buildings in central DunedinSPEAKERS: Alison Breese and Sarah GallagherRecent legal…4th Floor | City Library
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Reading Allowed: Containment by Vanda Symon and Emma by Jane Austen
Wednesday, 26th November 2025 5:30 PM
Join Dunedin Public Libraries for the final session of Reading Allowed for 2025.The Cube, Ground Floor, City Library
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Mind over Manner Neurodiversity Workshop
Wednesday, 26th November 2025 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Mind Over Manner workshops use the power of theatre to introduce participants to an alternative way of understanding people who…Te Whare o Rukutia, 20 Princes Street, Dunedin
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Book Launch | Overland to the Island by Hannah Bulloch
Thursday, 27th November 2025 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
You are warmly invited to the book launch of Overland to the Island: New Zealand to Skye with six kids in…University Book Shop Otago, 378 Great King Street, Dunedin
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Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor David Ciccoricco: Screenshots from the Literary Apocalypse
Thursday, 27th November 2025 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
About Professor David Ciccoricco's researchDavid Ciccoricco’s research frames literature as a valuable mode of inquiry into the workings of cognition…University of Otago, Archway 1 Lecture Theatre, Dunedin
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Silent Book Club Dunedin
Tuesday, 2nd December 2025 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Happy hour for introverts! No assigned books, just a quiet nook to sit quietly and read in the company of…Steamer Basin, Tucked down No Name Alley
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Piano Stories with Cecelia Merritt Wyatt
Sunday, 7th December 2025 6:00 PM
Enjoy this hour of musical exploration, with a reception afterwards at Alexander Pianos in Mosgiel.Alexander Pianos, 8 Grant Dalton Street, Mosgiel
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Dunedin Writers' Workshop
Wednesday, 10th December 2025 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM
A friendly group with meetings held on the second Wednesday of each month, February to December.Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, Dunedin City Library