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Celebrate the music from New Zealand

Posted on 05 May 2020

It’s May, which is NZ Music Month, a celebration of music from New Zealand, and the people who make it.

We’re celebrating Level 3 style with a Songs in Lockdown Contest and an opportunity to learn to sing through the Zoom event, Discover your Voice.

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Te Awamutu Cambridge Events

Mystery in the library

Posted on 11 March 2020

The 2020 Mystery in the library series is coming to Te Awamutu! This will be the first year the annual event has been held in the Te Awamutu Library.

Join four criminally minded storytellers from the Waikato and Bay of Plenty for an evening of mirth and mystery at 'Blood among the Blooms'.

Update (17 March): Event postponed until further notice.

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Te Awamutu Events

Art with books competition

Posted on 09 March 2020

Book art by Elizabeth Sagan has inspired our Art with Books competition which is being run during Author Month this March.

For more information on how to enter to access a selection of Sagan's inspiring work read on.

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Te Awamutu Cambridge Events Competitions

Author month continues

Posted on 09 March 2020

Author month opened with a bang with Get Published! by Ocean Reeve Publishing last week. The seminars on the book publishing industry were held in both Cambridge and Te Awamutu in front of highly appreciative audiences.

Next week younger audiences will be entertained by Sharon Holt and her Te Reo Singalong Show and in late March Trudi Caffell and Julie Thomas will be sharing their knowledge at events in Cambridge. There's also our 'Art with Books' competition.

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Cambridge Te Awamutu Events Family interest

What's on March!

Posted on 27 February 2020

Following a highly successful Heritage month, March focuses on authors and publishing.

Ocean Reeve Publishing is coming to Waipā prior to releasing Lisa Tamati's new book. Our libraries will be hosting the free 2 hour seminars in both locations.

Local authors will share their knowledge at two workshops and for younger audiences there will be a Te Reo Singalong Show!

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Events Cambridge & Te Awamutu Family interest

Plough of the Pakeha presentation to close Heritage Month

Posted on 21 February 2020

A successful month of Heritage related events will come to a conclusion next week with a presentation on the story of the first ten years of Cambridge as a township by Roger Gordon (Waipa District Councillor and Cambridge Historical Society) and Greg Gascoigne (farmer and Rotarian).

The presentation references Plough of the Pakeha, A Cambridge Regional History by Eric Beer and Alwyn Gascoigne (Greg's father).

All welcome Cambridge Library, Tuesday 25 February at 6.30pm.

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Cambridge Events

Heritage month launch

Posted on 04 February 2020

February 2020 is Heritage month for Waipā District Libraries.

We celebrate Waipā's rich heritage with a number of events scheduled throughout the month in both library locations.

Opening Heritage month is a presentation by Historians Alan Hall and Sandra Metcalfe about the development of Te Awamutu through some of the town's heritage commercial buildings (the result of three years' research).

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Te Awamutu Cambridge Events

Heritage Month

Posted on 16 January 2020

February 2020 is Heritage month for Waipa District Libraries.

Two highlights for Heritage Month will be the Cambridge Central Heritage Walk and the Te Awamutu Central Heritage Walk. Presentations will be made by Alan Hall, Roger Gordon and Greg Gascoigne, Te Awamutu Museum, Cambridge Museum and the NZ Remembrance Army.

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New library card designs

Posted on 14 November 2019

Library users will have four new library cards to choose from as we head into the New Year.

Waipa District Libraries ran a Library Design Competition in early November as part of Website Launch Week, which celebrated the libraries’ eagerly awaited new website.

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Celebrate the music from New Zealand

Mystery in the library

Art with books competition

Author month continues

What's on March!

Plough of the Pakeha presentation to close Heritage Month

Heritage month launch

Heritage Month

New library card designs

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