What's On
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A Voice from Manus Island: An Evening with Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian
Event Details23 June 2019
6:00pm — 7:30pm
WHEN: Sunday, June 23, 2019 from 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
WHERE: Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, City Library at 230 Moray Place Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 9016
FREE
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CONTACT: Dunedin Public Libraries | 03 474 3690 | library@dcc.govt.nz | Event website
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West Papua: The Pacific Crisis we can no longer ignore
Meet Rosa Moiwend, West Papuan activist, human rights defender, and researcherOur Pacific neighbour West Papua has the worst deforestation, mineral exploitation and human rights abuse problems in the region.New Zealand has ignored West Papua's struggle... Read more…24 June 2019
12:00pm — 1:00pm
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2019 Puaka Matariki Event | Teaching and Learning in the Dark
Please join us for a kōrero by Dr Karyn Paringatai from Te Tumu, School of Māori, Pacific & Indigenous Studies,on her innovative award-winning teaching pedagogy. Come along and learn a short waiata and experience learning in the dark... Read more…25 June 2019
6:00pm — 7:00pm
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The magic of Pop-up Globe - coming to the Regent Theatre this June!
After playing to over 600,000 people across Australasia in just three years, Auckland’s smash-hit sensation Pop-up Globe hits the road in New Zealand for the first time, taking their critically-acclaimed productions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and... Read more…27 - 29 June 2019
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2019 Puaka Matariki Event | TE TIAKI TAOKA PEPA WĀNAKA - CARING FOR YOUR WHĀNAU COLLECTIONS
Whānau are warmly invited to join Vicki-Anne Heikell (nō Te Whānau-a-Apanui) Field Conservator from the Alexander Turnbull Library, for a workshop on caring for your own iwi photographs and documents.Hosted at the Hocken Collections with... Read more…29 June 2019
9:30am — 4:30pm
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Alice Canton | OTHER [ōtepoti chinese]
Saturday 15 June – Saturday 13 July, 2019 Opening Preview: Friday 14 June, 5:30pm Free to attend, all are welcome.Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 16 Dowling Street, Dunedin Blue Oyster is pleased to present OTHER... Read more…14 June - 13 July 2019
5:30pm
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Mahika Kai | Southern Land, Southern People | Public Talk
For Māori, the best times for the cultivation and harvesting of food were marked by bodies visible in the night sky. The passing of years, seasons and months were signalled by prominent stars and the... Read more…29 June - 21 July 2019
2:00pm
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Making Midwinter Sparkle
This year we are making the bleak midwinter sparkle! We’d love it if you’d join us in the bright, warm bookshop after dark, every Friday night in June and July. Explore the bookshelves, discover... Read more…14 June - 26 July 2019
5:00pm — 8:00pm
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BOOKED OUT! Poetry Writing Workshop with poet Rhian Gallagher
Read more…27 June - 5 September 2019
7:00pm — 9:00pm
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Dare to be Wise | Special Exhibition
The University of Otago’s 150th anniversary exhibition, Dare To Be Wise, showcases the far-reaching benefits to both students and society of the University’s history.Articles, artefacts, stories and memorabilia from the first 150 years have been... Read more…1 June - 24 November 2019
(All Day)
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Literary Walking Tours
CITY LITERARY WALKING TOURJoin Beverly Martens (owner of Dunedin Literary Walking Tours) for a fascinating and entertaining guided central city walk. Hear stories about well-known New Zealand writers; discover key sites in Dunedin’s rich literary... Read more…25 January 2019 - 11 May 2020