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Wā Kōrero Reorua - Bilingual Storytime @ City Library
Silent Book Club Dunedin
Dunedin Writers' Workshop
Continued Sense of Wonder: Cover Attraction
Visions for Dunedin: Our Heritage, Our Future
Reading Allowed: Containment by Vanda Symon and Emma by Jane Austen
Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading
Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading
Author Talk: Meet Shalane Hopkins
Rare Public Appearance of Miss Georgette Heyer
Otago University World Book Day Lecture
Book Launch: Party Boy by Breton Dukes
The 14th Annual Ōtepoti Dunedin Theatre Awards
Dunedin Writers' Workshop
"The Titan Lurking": Bringing D.H. Lawrence Back to the Stage
DPAG Society Talk: Medieval Marvels (of Dunedin)
Dunedin Chinese Cultural Festival 2026
Colours of Pride Gallery Trail
Book Launch: The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner
The Only Way Is Up: On Foot to Rome
Preview Madeleine Child's 'Seven Long Planks'
A poetry reading: What if the Gold needs to Stay in the Ground?
Installation: What if the Gold needs to Stay in the Ground?
Waikouaiti Library 30th Birthday
Jenny and Kay On the Road Again
Continued Sense of Wonder: Water, Water Everywhere
Pyjamarama - Once Upon a Time
Book Launch: Every Second Counts by Charlotte Glennie
Drag Storytime - Pride Month
Taking Off: A Celebration of Brian Turner
Half-forgotten Globetrotter Bohumil Pospisil
Reece King’s exhibition, The Ogee & Manaia
Book Launch - The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul
Daughter of Two Cultures, Stories and Poems by Eva Wong Ng
Wild Dunedin NZ Festival of Nature
Book Launch and Exhibition opening: Te Ahikāroa
Book Launch: Kiwis in Climate – Voices for Climate Solutions in Aotearoa New Zealand
NZSA Otago Southland Salon Reading Series
Gallery installation opening: The Wild Edge
Poetry Workshop - Found and Lost: Shape, Shadow and Light in Poetry and Sand
University of Otago Centre for Medical Humanities Launch Events
Dunedin Repertory Children’s Theatre: The Red Dragon
Book Launch: Documentary and Verbatim Theatre: Tracing Methodologies and Practitioners by Stuart Young
Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading
DPAG Society Talk: Warming the Stories within Te Ahikāroa
Moana Nui Festival
Landfall Tauraka 250: Curator-led Exhibition Tour
Wild Dunedin: SQUAWK!
Seminar presentation by Cecilia Novero: Sibylle Bergemann & Fashion Photography in the GDR
Getting Closer - Photography Talk
Book Launch: The Kindling by Daniel Cromar
The Globe Theatre presents Romeo and Juliet
Our Arboretum - Solo Exhibition: Joanna Abraham Joseph
The Translated Biography of Vera Moore by Vivienne Sands
Lola Veronica live at Moons
Informal Community Book Event: What I Got at the Regent
Small Art Project – Sustainability and Scale: Group Exhibition opening
Small Art Project – Sustainability and Scale: Group Exhibition opening
An evening with Trent Dalton:
Sir David's 100th Birthday Bash
Book Launch: Layers of Identity
Downtime Activities D&D livegame
'dark and light water' a selection of works by Marilynn Webb
Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading
Artist Talk with John Vea: Staying Power opening weekend
Regent Theatre Music & Entertainment Sale
Social Animal
Author Talk: Robert W. Fisk
Book Launch: The Calling by Niki Harré
An ANZAC Song for My Father: Public talk with Dr Ian Chapman
Ōtepoti Dunedin Poetry Circle
Book event: 'Biology Field Trip' with Poet Jenny Powell
An evening with Emma Neale, author of 'Maybe Baby'
Light Up the Library
Showcasing Diverse Game Development Pathways in Ōtepoti
techweek
Friends of the library talk series: Adventures in Astronomy
Retro Tech Week Exhibit
Storytime & Creative Fun with Author Sonya McArthur
The Grand Old Playhouse Music Hall
Artist Talk with Nick Austin
Exhibition: Set TXTS: The not-so-secret reading habits of Uni students
Mystery in the Library: Deadly in Dunedin
Mid-Winter Dark Tales
Writers Workshops
Downtime Activities - D&D live game
Beginning a memoir: guidance and friendly discussion on putting your life into words
In conversation with Colm Tóibín
Inked Interludes - Graphic Novel Book Group
Coming to town: the first chapter tour with author James Russell
Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading
Reading Allowed: Storytime for all ages
Meet local author Greg MacLeod
The Dunedin Repertory Society Children's Theatre Presents The Sleeping Beauty
National Flash Fiction Day Ōtepoti
Sparks of Light Poetry & Music
A Day Like No Other - Celebrating James Norcliffe
Once Upon a Time Art + Science Exhibition 2026
Shell Poems
Micros, Music and Movement
ESSEntials: A Poetry Reading
Puaka Matariki Festival
Nicola Cheeseman is Back
Nano Fest 2026: Art and Science Panel
Nano Fest 2026
Centre for Medical Humanities Prestigious Roundtable Kōrero
Helen Keller Day
Free Online Poetry Workshop: Poetry for sailors, from armchair to open water
Otago Medical School Alumni Association Lecture
Show You're Working Out: Poet Dr Liz Breslin talks about their poetry, zines and PhD thesis
School Holiday Fun - Matariki Search: Find the Whetū
Matariki Storytime and Craft
Matariki Reading Allowed
Tūhura Birthday Party
New Zealand International Film Festival
Writing for Wellness
Puaka Matariki Waiata Session
William Mathew Hodgkins Memorial Lecture 2026 with Professor Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu)
Exhibition: And Then...
Reading for pleasure: More Important than ever with Te Awhi Rito NZ Reading Ambassador Kate De Goldi
Exhibition Opening: Spiral Collectives - celebrating Spiral's 50th anniversary
'Adapting the bone people' a Special Event
Character and Dialogue Workshop with Dominic Hoey
Book Launch: 'Walter and Wilma the Wandering Albatrosses' written and illustrated by Emma Heppell
Book Launch: 'Walter and Wilma the Wandering Albatrosses' written and illustrated by Emma Heppell
Babyface
Live Music Performance: Wildcards Aotearoa in collaboration with ŌPAC
Word Weaving: Writing workshop for students in Year 5-8 with Swapna Haddow
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: Whole-class reading instruction with Louise Dempsey
BWB Talk to celebrate the publication of 'Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire'
Tūmanako Words of Hope: An evening of poetry and music
Book Launch: The Body and the Blood by Molly Crighton
In Store Signing: Mao's Last Dancer with Li Cunxin
History of medicine talk: The history of leprosy in New Zealand
Book Launch: 'The Baby Sleeps' by Lisa Dick, Illustrated by Laura Bee
Spiral Collectives Exhibition - celebrating Spiral's 50th anniversary
NZIFF Whānau Mārama Sneak Peak
An Evening with Donald S Murray
Writers Workshop with Eliana Gray
Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading
Book Launch: Offshore Service and Other Stories by Craig Cliff
Poetry Poetry Poetry
Ōtepoti Youth Poetry Competition Prizegiving
Reading Allowed – An Hour Just for You
NZ Children's Book Week: National Read Along
Book Launch: 'Hometown' by Martinette Williams
JULIA by Joanna Murray-Smith
Wrap me warm with stories! @ City Library
Love Your Library Week
Research Seminar - Papyri and Manuscripts: Exploring Layers of Ages
Dunedin Youth Council POP-UP YOUTH HUB
A Brief History of the Development of Intravenous Anaesthesia
Q&A screening of MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT
Workshop with Gary Henderson
Poetry Reading & Book Launch
Gone to Seed
Stitched: A new play by Ellie Swann
Ian Chapman's book launch: Ka mua ka muri: 100 Years of Music at Otago University
A Hundred Years of Music
Poetry Picnic
Once Upon a Harbour: An illustrated talk
Tahi Ōtepoti - Dunedin's Festival of Solo Performance
Reading Allowed – An Hour Just for You
Continued Sense of Wonder: Nonhuman
Author Talk with Stephen Young
Peter Pan
2026 Michael King Lecture: The Storyteller's Challenge
NZYWF - Pou Kōrero, Pou Talanoa: Posts That Speak
NZYWF - Make a Zine: From First Draft to The Art Lens
NZYWF - Slam Poetry Workshop
NZYWF - Poetry as Community Care: Multilingual Collaborative Poetry
NZYWF - talking to the dark
NZYWF - Otago Poetry Slam Champs 2026
NZYWF: Ritual
NZYWF - Courage It Up
Asher Emanuel in conversation with Yasmin Olsen
Dunedin Pride Monthly Crafternoon
2026 History of Medicine and Science Lecture Series
Te wiki o te reo Māori waiata session
Poetry Open Mic
Writing Workshop - Putting the "me" in Memoir?
Speak to the Trees!
A River of Creativity: An Exhibition Celebrating 40 Years of Artsenta
MindJam 2026
Preview Peter Ransom's 'Le Grand Meaulnes'
Downtime Activities RPG Livegame Dunedin
Downtime Activities RPG Livegame Dunedin
Downtime Activities RPG Livegame Dunedin
Neurodiversity & Communication with Lyla's Story
Visions for Dunedin: Our Heritage, Our Future - Storytelling the past into the present
Book Launch: 'Storm' by Kirstie McKinnon
The Odyssey: The Myth Behind the Movie
NZSA Otago Southland Salon reading Series
Writers Workshop with Talia Marshall
McNaughton Performing Arts Studio Opening
Sea Lion Surprise Book Launch: Story and Art Activity
Winnie-the-Pooh's 100th Birthday Party
Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading
Centre for the Book Symposium - Books and Silence: Plenary address
Centre for the Book Symposium - Books and Silence
Solo Theatre Workshop
Book Launch: 'An Absence of Friends' by Philip Temple
Bookshop Day
Readings in the Spiral Collectives Exhibition: a closing event
Toi Piringa: Symposium on Creativity and Wellbeing
Master of Creative Writing Student Showcase
Reading Allowed: Storytime for all ages
Clue
New Zealand International Science Festival
Ōtepoti Zinefest
History of Medicine talk: Hyperuricaemia, Gout and Chronic Kidney Disease Across the Centuries
NZSA Otago Southland Springtime Salon
Burma's Peacock Film Festival in Dunedin
Writers Workshop with Rushi Vyas
Dunedin Launch of New Zealand Poetry Society 2026 Anthology
Documenting Protest: John Miller, photographer
FREE WORKSHOP and BOOK LAUNCH Planting Seeds for Critical Literacy!
Book Launch: a liminal gathering 2 - Edited by Iona Winter
Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival
Dear Stalker - Return Season
Reading Allowed: Storytime for All Ages
Talk by Sean Burns - Editor at Frieze magazine and freelance writer
Reading Allowed: Storytime for all ages
Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading
Stack Trek
Caselberg International Poetry Prize Awards Evening
Sunflowers in Bloom: Harmonies for Ukraine
Ōtepoti Dunedin Festival of Comedy
Celebrate the digitisation of biographies and portraits of NZ high court judges
Continued Sense of Wonder: Words and Music
Aotearoa Children's Book Week
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August 14th — 20th, 2027
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