What treasures of theatre history reside in the riches of the Alexander Turnbull library? What should be preserved before it is lost forever? Theatre Archives New Zealand has been advocating and advising theatre practitioners and organisations for the past twenty years about keeping their records safe.

In this talk TANZ Trust Board members David Carnegie and Rowena Cullen share some of the achievements and challenges of preserving the history of New Zealand theatre and some delightful fragments of our theatre history.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

The former Walkabout coffee bar transformed into the Downstage Theatre Restaurant, 1967. Ref: PAColl-0854-1-01.

This talk is brought to you by the Turnbull Library and the Katherine Mansfield House and Garden for the Wellington City Council Spring Festival.

Emily Cumming Harris, Four native plants, detail. Ref: C-023-002; Ida Baker, Katherine Mansfield with parasol near the Villa Isola Bella, detail. Ref: 1/2-011912-F

Terry Pratchett’s Nomes trilogy tells the story of a race of 4-inch high nomes who are driven out of their cosy existence under the floorboards of a big English department store and forced to search for a new home.

First published as separate novels they were assembled in a single volume that Pratchett retitled The Bromeliad – a title which suggests its status as a comic epic. Geoff Miles believes the trilogy is based on one of the greatest classical epics, Virgil’s Aeneid, and he will explore how Pratchett is also responding, quite seriously, to some of Virgil’s epic themes.

Virgil, The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles, Penguin Classics, 2010; Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad, Corgi Childrens, 2008.

About the speaker

Dr Geoff Miles is a Senior Lecturer at the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His current research focuses on the classical tradition in English literature and in particular on the uses of classical mythology. He the co-author (with Paul Millar and John Davidson) of The snake-haired muse: James K Baxter and classical myth (VUP, 2011).

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Stan Chan practises and teaches traditional Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, and western oil and watercolour techniques. As well as teaching adults and children in his studio/gallery, Stan holds workshops for art groups, art classes for schools, and demonstrations of paintings.

He studied art in Hong Kong and came to New Zealand in 1972 where he worked as an art director for many corporations. In 1979 he set up his own studio as a full-time artist and freelance art director. He has participated in both group and solo exhibitions throughout New Zealand.

In the brush painting demonstration Stan Chan will talk a bit about the Chinese brushes, Xuan paper (rice paper), ink stick, ink stone and Chinese colours. He will demonstrate Chinese calligraphy and do brush painting of pandas, bamboo and some flowers in Chinese ink and colour. If time is permitting people may like to have a hands on experience with the artworks.

Celebrating Suffrage Day 2016

The Ministry for Women invites you to this special event in celebration of women's right to vote.

Join us for presentations by Lillian Grace, Chief Executive and founder of Figure NZ, and Anna Curzon, Managing Director at Xero, as well as an opening address from Hon Louise Upton, Minister for Women.

The three panellists discuss Downstage’s contribution to theatre in an evening hosted by the Friends of the Turnbull Library.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Exterior view of the Hannah Playhouse under construction, September 1972. Ref: EP/1972/4544/4A-F.

Chinese is now the predominant language of the Internet; this set of some 60,000 ideographs, first used in the 2nd millennium BCE, enters a fifth millennium of continuous development with its global stretch enhanced by both the return of China to a position of world economic strength and the spread of the diasporic Chinese-speaking population.

On the occasion of the Chinese Language Week of 2016, this illustrated talk will discuss the diversity of the spoken languages of China and the historical development of a single written script, focusing on the origins of the script as understood from both a mythological and historical perspective.

A family history monthly talk

To mark New Zealand Chinese Language Week our special guest this month is Richard Foy.

In this talk Richard will tell the unexpected and occasionally improbable tale of encountering his grandparents in the collections and holdings of the National Library and National Archives. It’s a tale of deeply personal, and sometimes emotional, connections with his Chinese past that brings him face-to-face with his cultural heritage, the sacrifices of his forebears, and what it means to be Chinese in New Zealand today.

Richard is the Director of Digital Strategy for the Information & Knowledge Services Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs.

Poll tax certificate issued under “The Chinese Immigrants Act”, to Jim Wong, Auckland. 29 July 1907. ArchivesNZ record page.

Celebrating Tonga Language Week from 4-10 September, with the theme Fakakoloa ‘a Aotearoa ‘aki ‘a e Loto’i Tonga (enriching Aotearoa with the Tongan spirit).

We are pleased to present a lunchtime talk on Tongan Culture and Traditions with speakers Tae Tu'inukuafe, Rev 'Amone Tongilava (God and Tonga are my inheritance) and Violani Wills (Tongan identity).

Following the talk there is an opportunity to view some of the Tongan treasures in the National Library’s collections.

Partly autobiographical, Roger Hall’s play Prisoners of Mother England, directed by Tony Taylor, is an exploration of British migrants arriving in New Zealand in 1957. An ensemble production, eight actors had named roles whilst four others and a pianist played a range of 40 other characters.

The production played to full capacity houses and moved from the Hannah Playhouse to the Opera House and back again. Roger Hall, David McKenzie, Prue Langbein and Dame Kate Harcourt will talk about their memories of the production, the appeal of the play and its place in Downstage history.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Prisoners of Mother England staged by Downstage Theatre, September 1979. Ref: PAColl-7704-11-3-01.

A New Zealand playwright of profound importance for our theatre, Bruce Mason was a founder of Downstage and founding editor of its Act Magazine.

John Smythe, author of The Plays of Bruce Mason – a survey, notes that Downstage, on several occasions and at short notice, called on Bruce to save the theatre from bankruptcy with a solo show. They did just do two of his many larger cast plays and all proved very popular, yet his most respected play – The Pohutukawa Tree – was not produced there until after his death.

John Smythe will spend this evening reflecting on Bruce Mason’s work, its quality, and its fate in the Downstage context and further afield.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Bruce Mason, 1961. Ref: 35mm-38340-16-F.

Join BWB Text authors Shaun Hendy, Mike Joy, and Jane Kelsey, and chair Megan Whelan.

Public science is facing a paradox. On the one hand, humankind has never known so much, nor had such easy access to knowledge. On the other hand, the status of knowledge seems increasingly precarious.

Experts are dismissed as vested interests. Some are even saying that we live in a ‘post-truth’ era, where politicians are no longer accountable to reality. Who cares anymore what the experts say?

About the panel

Shaun Hendy is Director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, University of Auckland, and author of Silencing science.

Mike Joy is Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science at Massey University, and author of Polluting inheritance.

Jane Kelsey is Professor of Law at the University of Auckland, and author of Hidden agendas and The FIRE economy.

Megan Whelan is a founding contributor to the award-winning programme The Wireless at Radio New Zealand.

The BWB Winter Series is supported by the National Library.

The poets will read their own work and poems by poets they like. Bring your lunch if you wish, and be early for a good seat.

New Zealand in the 1950s became the milieu for Colin McColl’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Whilst Ibsen did not see himself as a champion for a feminist perspective, this late 19th century play tangibly explores the snares and frustration of a bourgeois woman’s life. McColl, as director, found resonances of mid-20th century New Zealand, inverted the play to begin with Hedda’s suicide and carried audiences on a retrospection of her life.

Colin will be joined by Kate Harcourt and Catherine Wilkin for an exploration of the production and its profound impact on audiences across the world including the Ibsen Festival in Norway, Edinburgh and Covent Garden.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Detail of Catherine Wilkin as Hedda Gabler, 1990. Photographer unidentified. Ref: PAColl-9545-29.

In 1893 nearly 32,000 signatures were obtained on a petition calling for New Zealand woman to have the vote. The women’s suffrage petition is one of the iconic documents in the guardianship of Archives NZ that will make up a new permanent exhibition He Tohu at the National Library, alongside the 1835 He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga / Declaration of Independence and the 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi / Treaty of Waitangi.

To give context and interpretation to the documents there will be an accompanying exhibition, including information about the suffrage petition and the women who signed it. The objective is to have a biography of at least one woman from each of the 567 pages of the petition.

If you would like to contribute to the project to write short biographies (100 to 200 words) of these women, join Stef Lash of Archives NZ, and some of those who have already written biographies, to find out what is involved and learn about the resources that have proved most useful.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

See all this year's Family History Month events in Wellington

See who signed the petition on NZHistory

Page one of the Women’s Suffrage Petition 1893 (detail). Archives New Zealand.

The National Library of New Zealand and the Wellington Branches of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG) are collaborating with other groups to bring you a lively and informative programme of events during Family History Month in August 2016.

New to family history? Come to the National Library for a tour to introduce you to the many family history resources held in the collections. Margaret Hurst, Research Librarian Family History, and Research Librarian Fiona Gray, will be your guides.

See all this year's Family History Month events in Wellington

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

The Family History reference shelves at the Turnbull Library.

Wellington political analyst and researcher Ken Ross will share some insights from his research on former Prime Minister Helen Clark, now a contender for the top job at the United Nations in New York.

Tom Scott, "We knocked the bastard off!" 26 March 2009. Ref: DCDL-0010798.

Visit the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Please note that conservators are not able to provide valuations. Clinics are held every second month.

Vicki-Anne Heikell - Field Conservator, National Library.

Gerard has spent many years as both a print and radio journalist/story teller for such diverse media as Radio New Zealand, Radio Live, Fairfax Media and the New Zealand Listener, as well as being the author of five books published by Potton and Burton. His book Angelina: From Stromboli to D’Urville Island is a fictionalised account of his grandparents’ lives.

Gerard’s talk has been arranged with the kind support of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists.

See all this year's Family History Month events in Wellington

The Family History reference shelves at the Turnbull Library.

Join us for a talk by Bruce Russell.

Bruce Russell is an improvising sound artist, who since 1987 has been a member of the Dead C. This genre-dissolving New Zealand trio mixes rock, electro-acoustics and noise. He has also been active as a solo artist, and directed two independent labels, Xpressway and Corpus Hermeticum.

He writes essays and criticism for The Wire, artists’ catalogues, and other publications. In 2010 he published Left-handed blows: writing on sound 1993-2009 (Auckland: Clouds), and in 2012 edited Erewhon calling: experimental sound in New Zealand (Auckland: Audio Foundation/cmr). He has a doctorate in sound from the RMIT School of Art. During his spare time he manages the School of Art and Design at Ara Institute of Canterbury.

But what happens to our social content? Where will our memories be kept in 50 years? How will people (historians, researchers, genealogists) know what life was like in the early 21st century? How do we ensure the reproducibility and use/re-use of scientific output?

Come along for a conversation on the impact of these changes on how we play.

Watch Steven O’Donnell and Stephanie Bendixsen, Australian gamers and hosts of Good Game, give their take on this changing world. Geographer and data enthusiast Dr Chris McDowall will then discuss these ideas and give some local context.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing borndigital.events@dia.govt.nz

Chaired by Morgan Godfrey

Panel: BWB Texts writers Max Rashbrooke (Wealth and New Zealand), Philippa Howden-Chapman (Home Truths), Holly Walker (contributor to The Interregnum).

Are we standing at the edge of a crisis? Everyone agrees that housing is no longer affordable, but very few agree on the right solutions; more and more New Zealanders are graduating with world class degrees, yet secure jobs are becoming scarce; parents and grandparents worry that the New Zealand they knew is no more.

In this BWB Winter Series panel, three leading commentators discuss how economic and social changes are reshaping – and perhaps replacing – the old order. Could Trump happen here? Is New Zealand waiting for its Brexit moment? If the interregnum is the space between the old, established ways of doing things, what comes next?

Political commentator Morgan Godfery is the editor of BWB Text The Interregnum.

The BWB Winter Series is supported by the National Library.

But what happens to our social content? Where will our memories be kept in 50 years? How will people (historians, researchers, genealogists) know what life was like in the early 21st century? How do we ensure the reproducibility and use/re-use of scientific output?

Come along for a conversation on the impact of these changes on how we live digitally.

Watch Dr Rebecca Huntley, social researcher and commentator, give her take on this changing world. Geographer and data enthusiast Dr Chris McDowall will then discuss these ideas and give some local context.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing borndigital.events@dia.govt.nz

Imbogodom - “Unseen Ticket”

Set in and around the fictional town of Kapua in 1948, Ngati is the story of a Māori community. The film comprises three narrative threads: a boy, Ropata, is dying of leukaemia; the return of a young Australian doctor, Greg, and his discovery that he has Māori heritage; and the fight to keep the local freezing works open.

But what happens to our social content? Where will our memories be kept in 50 years? How will people (historians, researchers, genealogists) know what life was like in the early 21st century? How do we ensure the reproducibility and use/re-use of scientific output?

Join Rachael Ka’ai-Mahuta, Senior Researcher at Te Ipukarea, for a discussion on the effects this change has on the expression, dissemination, and amplification of indigenous voices.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing borndigital.events@dia.govt.nz

But what happens to our social content? Where will our memories be kept in 50 years? How will people (historians, researchers, genealogists) know what life was like in the early 21st century? How do we ensure the reproducibility and use/re-use of scientific output?

Come along for a conversation on the impact of these changes on how we work with science and space.

Watch Dr Alan Duffy, research fellow at the Centre of Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology, give his take on this changing world. Science writer and broadcaster Veronika Meduna will then discuss these ideas and give some local context.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing borndigital.events@dia.govt.nz

Featuring Blake Johnston, Jason Long, Peter O’Dowd, and Laurence Olsen Smith.

The National Library of New Zealand and the Wellington Branches of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG) are collaborating with other groups to bring you a lively and informative programme of events during Family History Month in August 2016.

New to family history? Come to the National Library for a tour to introduce you to the many family history resources held in the collections. Margaret Hurst, Research Librarian Family History, and Research Librarian Fiona Gray, will be your guides.

See all this year's Family History Month events in Wellington

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

The Family History reference shelves at the Turnbull Library.

Reverend Robert Robati-Mani is a Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa NZ presently serving the Cook Islands Presbyterian Church Wellington Region, Newlands.

As volunteers to this project, Robert (Co-ordinator NZ) and his wife Marina Robati-Mani (Administrator NZ) accepted the challenge on behalf of the nation’s faith communities, to digitise the one and only edition available to the Cook Islands, acceded by both United Bible Societies Australia and Cook Islands Christian Church. In the presentation, they will share reflections on discoveries - historical, linguistic and theological: the journey thus far.

Robert and Marina are first generation Cook Islanders and have 3 children – Adem, Katrina and TeAriki.

Mapping for improved environmental management

Join Jonathan Gardner (VUW), Arne Pallentin (NIWA), Geoffroy Lamarche (NIWA), and Shane Geange (DOC).

Our team has just completed a substantial survey of the seafloor environment around Kapiti Island, including inside and outside the marine reserve.

In this talk we will discuss the range of mapping technics that have been used, and provide examples of the work undertaken, as e.g. acquisition of seafloor topography using multibeam echosounders, collection of sediment samples and underwater video footage.

We will show how the data acquired are used to generate a variety of maps such as seafloor morphology, habitat types and biological species’ distributions, and discuss how such maps can help in the management of the marine environment, by promoting a greater awareness of the diversity and complexity of the seafloor environment and the role it plays in supporting and regulating ecosystem processes.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About the speakers

• Prof. Jonathan Gardner (Victoria University) is a marine biologist with wide-ranging interests in marine science,
• Mr. Arne Pallentin (NIWA) is principal technician in the Marine Geology group at NIWA Wellington.
• Dr. Geoffroy Lamarche (NIWA) is Principal Scientist in the Marine Geology group and also Programme Leader for Marine Physical Resources at NIWA Wellington.
• Dr. Shane Geange (DOC) is Science Advisor in the Marine Ecosystems Team at the Department of Conservation in Wellington.

The VUW/NIWA/DOC team has worked together for a number of years on mapping projects, including at Taputeranga Marine Reserve and more recently at Barrett Reef on Wellington’s south coast. Our present project focusses on mapping the marine environment around Kapiti Island, in conjunction with Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).

Reuben Jelleyman, George Johnston, and Tom Sutton present new works.

Drawing on her evocative memoir, Being Chinese: A New Zealander’s Story, Helene speaks about her journey to discover her Chinese ancestry – and about New Zealand’s growing cultural diversity.

Chairs Emma Ng (writer and curator at Enjoy Gallery) and Barbara Brookes (Professor of History at Otago University) will extend the narrative in discussion with Helene after the lectures.

The BWB Winter Series is supported by the National Library.

Drawing on her evocative memoir, Being Chinese: A New Zealander’s Story, Helene speaks about her journey to discover her Chinese ancestry – and about New Zealand’s growing cultural diversity.

Chairs Emma Ng (writer and curator at Enjoy Gallery) and Barbara Brookes (Professor of History at Otago University) will extend the narrative in discussion with Helene after the lectures.

The BWB Winter Series is supported by the National Library.

Paul Dunham, George Aitken, and Morgan Utting present new fixed media electroacoustic works.

Measuring the ANZACs brings together an international team of researchers, community connections, and the power of the Zooniverse community to transcribe, explore, and analyse digitised original World War I personnel files from Archives New Zealand. The personnel files were created for the needs of the military at the time. They contain a wealth of information about social connections, economic attainment, and demographic behaviour and experiences, which make them internationally significant for research.

Lead researcher New Zealander Evan Roberts (now at the University of Minnesota) will talk about the project and how you can join family historians and scholars from around the world in the Measuring the ANZACs project.

New Zealand troops crossing the Ypres Canal towards the front line, 1918. Ref: 1/2-012929-G

This event is now fully booked!

Land Information New Zealand has been mapping our landscape for decades, and its topographic maps cover every inch of the country as well as parts of the Pacific and even Antarctica. Over this time, the process for producing these maps has changed dramatically. The time it takes to update maps has gone from months to minutes, and specialist computer software and satellite technology has replaced hand scribing and the disappearing art of photogrammetry.

Two maps of roughly the same area: 1943 Mt Egmont map, and 2001 Opunake.

Chris Kinzett, Technical Leader in Land Information New Zealand’s Topography Team, has seen much of this change first hand. Come along to hear him talk about the history of our national maps and show images of how this has evolved over time.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About the speaker

Chris Kinzett, Technical Leader – Topography at Land Information New Zealand, has been working on maps for almost fifty years, and started work when manual techniques still dominated map production. As a tramper, he has also been a map user. Chris has previously spoken about his mapping work and map history on Radio New Zealand National.

Last November we previewed the future of Papers Past – now we’ll look at where we’ve ended up – new formats and functionality.

Join Sam Minchin, National Library Online Manager, and Tracy Powell, Digitisation Advisor, to learn more about the new Papers Past site.

Her performance/lecture will utilise the materiality of the sound archives' collections.

Collected Huia Notations

What would a history of New Zealand look like that shifted the angle of vision, and looked at the past through the eyes of women?

Barbara Brookes, Professor of History at Otago University, offers some powerful answers as she outlines the transformational changes that have taken place in women’s lives throughout New Zealand’s history.

Journalist Megan Whelan, from Radio New Zealand and the award-winning Radio New Zealand site The Wireless, brings a contemporary perspective to question time.

The BWB Winter Series is supported by the National Library.

In this performance Jonny will combine his love for the malleable sonics of the voice and the Synthi AKS with his love for the formless unknown.

Jonny Marks and Gamelan Taniwha Jaya

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Erika with Orchestra of Spheres live

There is a limit of 8 participants for this course.

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Please email atloutreach@dia.govt.nz to register your interest for an abstracting workshop in Auckland.

This lecture considers how music historiography in New Zealand has developed as a series of silos despite evidence of interconnections among musicians and musical styles. Lilburn’s work stands as a prominent example of a more widespread pattern of musical cross-pollination.

About the speaker

Dr Michael Brown is the Curator Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. His Master’s and Doctoral theses explored various aspects of New Zealand Music, including folk music, Māori performing arts, and issues in music historiography. As a musician, Michael has performed various musical styles from classical piano to folk-rock and kapa haka. He previously worked in the Turnbull’s Arrangement & Description team.

Brought to you with the Friends of the Turnbull Library and Auckland Libraries.

For this performance Simon will be presenting an interpretation of Douglas Lilburn’s composition Cicadas, Oscillators and Treefrogs.

Simon Cuming / Sean Kerr / Sean O'Reilly

Using some examples from the Dorothy Neal White Collection, Mary Skarott builds on research she did for the Turnbull Gallery exhibition A child’s war in 2014. She became aware that many schools stopped giving prizes to students and instead donated the money to various war funds. However, some schools did still give out prizes, and she has examined why prizes were given, what books were chosen as prizes, and what they were about.

Mary Skarott is the Research Librarian, Children’s Literature at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Following Mary’s presentation the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection will hold their Annual General Meeting 2016.

A Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection event

Outdoor rural studies' class, Stratford District High School, ca. 1910. Photographed by James McAllister. Ref: 1/1-012529-G

From recording place names to their aesthetic appeal, maps are a powerful record of our history and our encounters within Aotearoa New Zealand. However we can also glean mountains of family history from maps. Where did your ancestor live? What was the size and scope of their section? What was the town or landscape like at the time? And how do you find that treasured map in our collections?

Jared Davidson is a Research Archivist at Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga.

Mark Bagnall is the Cartographic Curator at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

No booking necessary.

Plan of subdivision of part of Gracefield estate, surveyed by Thomas Ward. 1917. Ref: MapColl 832.4794gbbd 1917 9261.

Please note that conservators are not able to provide valuations. Clinics are held every second month.

Vicki-Anne Heikell - Field Conservator, National Library.

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Maps are becoming more common place but the skills and knowledge to work with spatial data isn’t as obvious as it first appears. This public lecture will explore the benefits of using maps and spatial analysis to explore problems. The talk will investigate some aspects of spatial thinking and discover the place for spatial data, mapping and analysis in today’s New Zealand.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About the speaker

Mairead de Roiste lectures in Geographic Information Science, cartography and all things map related at Victoria University in Wellington. She's passionate about geospatial education and currently heads the national masters in GIS programme across Victoria University, AUT and the University of Canterbury. Her research interests focus on usability, pedagogy and spatial econometric modelling.

Jointly presented by the National Library and Victoria University of Wellington.

The State Highways of New Zealand, by Andrew Douglas Clifford.

Drink Violin explores the interface between violin and voice for solo performer.

Simon O'Rorke and Chris Prosser

Wellington writer, biographer and historian Rachel Barrowman will discuss her research for the acclaimed biographies of RAK Mason and Maurice Gee. Rachel Barrowman is also the author of The Turnbull: a library and its world.

The Friends of the Turnbull Library 2016 Founder Lecture

L-R: Photographer unknown. RAK Mason, 1962. Ref: PAColl-8267-1; Photograph by R K Graham, Maurice Gee, 1990s. Ref: PAColl-6458-1-08.

Jeff, Phill, and Chris performing with Dreamville

This lecture discusses the history of the Gutenberg Bible from the context surrounding its creation to its status after Gutenberg’s death, including some of the remarkable stories of ownership, theft and sales connected to several surviving copies.

About the speaker

Anthony Tedeschi is the Curator Rare Books and Fine Printing at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. Previously he held the position of Deputy Curator of Special Collections and then Curator of Rare Books at the University of Melbourne. Previously, he was Rare Books Librarian at Dunedin City Library. Anthony holds a Master’s degree in Library Science with a specialisation in rare books and manuscripts librarianship, and a MA in English Literature.

Brought to you with the Friends of the Turnbull Library and Auckland Libraries.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About the speaker

Jane Stafford is professor in the English Programme of Victoria University. She is the co-author of Maoriland: New Zealand Literature, 1872-1914 (2006), the co-editor of The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2012), the co-editor of volume 9 of The Oxford History of the Novel, The World Novel to 1950 (2016), and the author of Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire (forthcoming, 2016). This talk uses material originally appearing in a chapter for a book in the Palgrave Macmillan series Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, on spatiality and popular fiction.

Building one knowledge network for New Zealand

The National Library of New Zealand hosts this panel discussion on the relationship between innovation and sharing knowledge. This session explores the concept of “one big library” as an interface across a multitude of public and school library systems, and the benefits we stand to gain as a nation if we can provide better access to publicly held collections and research.

Nathan Torkington facilitates a discussion with three outstanding speakers to tackle the thorny issues of copyright, moral rights, access fees, open data and internet provision, and to consider how we might create one knowledge network for New Zealand.

• Shaun Hendy: Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland
• Jane Cowell: Director Engagement & Partnerships, State Library of Queensland
• Paula Browning: Chair, WeCreate and Chief Executive,Copyright Licensing New Zealand

This is the final session in a three-part series on New Zealand knowledge and identity, hosted by the National Library.

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The captain of ocean-going waka Okeanos will talk about celestial navigation and how nature guided early navigators. Ranginui was one part of a complex “map” which allowed the people of the Pacific to venture beyond the horizon over 4000 years ago. He will talk about how these ancestors used stars, for example zenith stars, and other natural signs.

Sorry, this event is now fully booked.

About the speaker

Reuben Raihania Tipoki, Ngati Kahungunu, Captain, Trainee Navigator, Waka Advocate, Educator, Business Man, Farmer BA Māori, BSc Ecology.

Reuben worked in formal education for 3 years following his degrees, and started sailing in 2010. He has since sailed over 40,000 miles throughout the Pacific, including 12,000 as captain. He captained Okeanos through Micronesia for 7 months for the pilot of the "Sustainable Sea Transport" project now operating in Vanuatu and the Cook Islands.

Reuben is now home (Wairarapa Moana) promoting sustainable living, holistic education, and of course waka!

Talofa lava! Ever wanted to visit the National Library collections? We invite you to a tour of the Library’s basement and straight after Roger Swanson, Research Librarian Pacific, will bring out some of our Samoan treasures from the Alexander Turnbull Library Collections. Fa’afetai lava.

Space in the basement is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

This free, one-day interdisciplinary symposium will provide a platform for discussion about various expressions of art, literature, science, and thought during the ‘year without a summer’. There will be an opportunity to see some of the 1816 treasures from the Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book Collection, curated by Anthony Tedeschi, Curator of Rare Books and Fine Printing.

This event is associated with Romantic Bicentennials.

Our keynote speaker is Dr Clara Tuite, from the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (2002) and Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity (2015). She is currently working on a book on literary Romanticism and the media of romantic love, and, with Gillian Russell, an ARC-funded project on Regency Romanticism: Ireland, Britain, and Australia, 1788-1848. Dr Tuite’s travel is funded by the Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.

Our other speakers include experts about catastrophic volcano eruptions, colonial journals, extreme weather, Romantic travelers, and climate change. In addition: the 2016 class of ENGL 427 ‘Jane Austen: Body and Mind’ will give micro-talks about the research they have undertaken during the course.

Programme

Glen Downie: Cepheid

Samoan Language Week is being held on the 29th May – 4th June. To celebrate this, we are inviting you to attend a free lunch time talk on the 1st June. This coincides with the Samoan Independence day, when on June 1st, 1962 Samoa achieved Independence from New Zealand.

Sadat Muaiava will present a 60 minute talk on Samoan Language change. Motivated by the desire to evangelise and to expand political empires to the ‘South Seas’, the arrival of missionaries and consuls to Samoa in the mid-18th and early 19th centuries amplified Samoan language and cultural contact with Western Civilisation.

At a time when Samoa’s political independence is being celebrated, this seminar discusses the lexical outcomes of language contact in the Samoa – missionary- consul relationship. Sadat will be highlighting strong influences on the Samoan language during the year of 1906, through analyzing the Sāvali (a government newspaper), and the Sulu Sāmoa (a church newsletter).

Le’ausālilō Lupematasila Fata Auafa Sadat Muaiava.

About the speaker

Sadat is currently a Lecturer in the Samoan Studies programme at Va’aomanū Pasifika, Victoria University of Wellington. Currently completing his PhD in Pacific Studies, his thesis examines text-based changes to the Samoan language between 1906-2014. Sadat holds the chief title Lupematasila from his grandfather’s village of Falelatai, the orator titles Le’ausālilō from his mother’s village of Falease’ela, the Fata title of Afega and the orator title ‘Au’afa of Lotofaga, Aleipata, from his wife’s family. A member of FAGASA (Association for the Teaching of the Samoan Language in Aotearoa), Wellington branch, New Zealand, Sadat is a deacon of the EFKAS (Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa), Wainuiomata.

Roger Swanson, Pacific Specialist at the Alexander Turnbull Library, and Shaun McGuire, of the Archives NZ research team, will give you tips on navigating finding aids and collection material held in the two institutions.

No booking necessary.

Roger Swanson has worked in the research services of both the National Library and the Alexander Turnbull Library since 1989 and has held a specialist role relating to the Pacific since 2011.

Shaun McGuire has worked in Alexander Turnbull Library and Archives New Zealand for over a decade helping researchers locate information.

Arthur Mahaffy's picnic party, Samoa, 1886. Ref: PA1-o-545-08.

This course is now fully subscribed. Please email atloutreach@dia.govt.nz to put your name on a waiting list.

Go to the The Essentials of Oral History Research: Introduction (Day 1 of 2, Wellington)

Download the Oral History Workshops enrolment form for Wellington 2016 (pdf, 273KB)

This interactive talk explores how the world of digital humanities compels us to think anew about the purpose and scope of the cartographic enterprise. It also showcases how we can tell old stories using new forms of digital mapping.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Place de la république, Lille, by Alexandre Duret-Lutz. CC-BY-SA, from Flickr.

About the speaker

Dr Sydney Shep is Reader in Book History at Victoria University of Wellington and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press. Bitten by the map bug at an early age, she studied cartography at secondary school and continues to probe map-based digital storytelling through several Marsden-funded projects on nineteenth-century printing, polymaths, and global networks.

This lecture looks at how images in Nan Kivell’s collections have continued to inspire new interest in post-colonial and indigenous studies in New Zealand and Australia while at the same time becoming more popular and accessible through digital initiatives.

About the speaker

Dr Oliver Stead is the Curator Drawings Paintings and Prints at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. He is the author of a number of books on New Zealand art. Oliver has previously held senior and specialist roles in several collecting institutions including Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Auckland War Memorial Museum, National Library of Australia and the James Wallace Art Trust. Nan Kivell was the subject of his PhD thesis in art history.

Brought to you with the Friends of the Turnbull Library and Auckland Libraries.

The A&D Team is pleased to invite you to our talk for New Zealand Music Month 2016.

In this presentation, the A&D team will showcase descriptive work for five archival collections which give an insight into the spectrum of practitioners, teachers, and organisations who make up the New Zealand soundscape.

Book your spot by emailing Dolores.Hoy@dia.govt.nz

The collections

Wendy Collings' band and musician photographs: Tymar Lighting is a stage lighting company based in Wellington established by Nic Cave-Lynch and Wendy Collings. They took photographs of performances of bands at various venues, mainly in Wellington, to showcase their stage lighting work to potential customers. Taken December 2009 to March 2014.

Judith Ann Clark's photographs: Clark left New Zealand in 1955 to study music in London, Geneva, Paris, Salzburg and Rome. She returned in 1963 to establish a private teaching practice in Wellington, was appointed lecturer in piano performance at Victoria University in 1976, and worked with the Society, later Institute, of Registered Music Teachers.

Peter Downes' music history collection: This collection mainly relates to Peter Downes' research into New Zealand musical and theatre history and New Zealand musicians, including John Amadio, flautist, singers Noel Mangin and Rosina Buckman, Gladys Watkins, music teacher, pianist and carillonist, and soprano Adelaide Van Staveren.

Radio Active 89FM recordings: Comprises cassettes of music recordings collected by Radio Active between 1980-1997. Contains demo tapes, pre-release, and live recordings from New Zealand bands and performers.

Pearl Martin's papers on Inia Te Wiata and other singers: Pearl Martin was an English fan of Māori singer and actor Inia Te Wiata (Ngāti Raukawa). She corresponded with him from 1955 until his death in 1971, primarily about his music and acting career, but also other matters, such as Māori culture and language, and his family.

In 1967, when New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn expressed his apprehension about the ‘zombie on the horizon’, he was referring specifically to the introduction of electronic music into our compositional landscape. What Lilburn may or may not have considered was that the rise of electronic music was part of an overall movement towards musical innovation that has since become a significant presence. Over the past 50 years, Lilburn’s lone zombie has multiplied into a sprawling horde that, for better or worse, has come to be known as experimental music.

Aotearoa celebrates itself as nation of pioneers, adventurers, inventors and explorers, and in the world of music it is no different: we have a lineage of sound explorers, instrument inventors, sonic adventurers and audio pioneers who have ventured beyond the confines of musical form and genre to explore what happens when you break the rules. Whether it’s Douglas Lilburn playing farm equipment in a barn in Wiltshire or the Orchestra of Spheres wailing on a biscuit-tin banjo, Zombies on the horizon explores the rich culture of experimental music in Aotearoa, showcasing many of the seldom-heard musical taonga held in the Alexander Turnbull Library.

He gifted this collection – about 4,300 books and 5,500 other historical items – to the University of Otago in 1910. The Hocken Collections continue to grow with ongoing acquisition of historical and contemporary material.

Dr Donald Kerr is the Special Collections Librarian at Otago University. In 2015 his biography of Hocken Hocken: Prince of Collectors was published by Otago University Press. 

In this presentation he will talk about his research, and the relationship between Dr Thomas Hocken and his contemporary Alexander Turnbull. 

This is event is being run in association with the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Dr Thomas Morland Hocken - Date:ca 1890s Ref:1/2-004542-F

Over 200 songs were published, including the hits ‘Good Old New Zealand’ and ‘Sons of New Zealand’. But they were almost forgotten the moment the war ended. It is the "soldiers' songs" and especially songs written by Māori during the war period that have lasted.

About the speaker

Chris Bourke, the 2015 Douglas Lilburn research fellow at the Alexander Turnbull Library, is currently writing a book about New Zealand music during World War One. He is the author of Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 (AUP, 2010).

Good-bye Maoriland, words and music by Raymond Hope. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1914. Record page

Early weather maps were drawn by hand, making use of sparse networks of weather stations. Modern weather maps are drawn by supercomputers, based on millions of observations daily from satellites, radars, balloons and ground stations.

This presentation will also include historic events such as the 1936 cyclone, possibly the worst storm to hit New Zealand, and the D-Day invasion of France in June 1944 when two New Zealand forecasters were involved.

This event is now fully booked.

This talk is jointly presented by the National Library, Victoria University of Wellington, and MetService.

A map created by pirate William Dampier.

About the speakers

James Renwick has over 30 years’ experience in weather and climate research. He began his career in weather prediction and research at the Met Service and moved on to seasonal prediction and climate change at NIWA, then to his present teaching and research role at VUW. His main field is large-scale climate dynamics and his current interests include Southern Hemisphere climate variability (such as the El Niño/La Niña cycle and the mid-latitude westerly winds) and the impacts of climate variability and change on New Zealand and the Antarctic. James was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report, in Working Group I (physical science), and was also a lead author for the 4th Assessment Report published in 2007. He is a member of the World Climate Research Programme Joint Scientific Committee, and was the chair of the Royal Society of New Zealand Climate Expert Panel.

Erick Brenstrum has been working as a weather forecaster for MetService for forty years. He is the author of The New Zealand Weather Book and writes a regular column on the weather for New Zealand Geographic magazine. He is regularly interviewed about world weather by Bryan Crump on Radio New Zealand’s nights program.

Bring a recorder if you have one you intend to use for recording. Exercises to be completed before Day 2 will be discussed.

Go to the The Essentials of Oral History Research: Recording Seriously (Day 2 of 2, Auckland)

Download the Oral History Workshops enrolment form for Auckland (pdf, 272KB)

Aaron will talk about the future of maps in an age of satnavs and map apps. Land Information New Zealand has been making maps of New Zealand for over a century, but more and more it’s looking at what new technology means for maps.

Aaron and his team are responsible for producing authoritative maps of New Zealand and its off shore territories. These are sold as paper maps, but the team has also embraced open data and making the data that it uses to create maps, freely available for others to reuse and innovate.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Please note: this event is now fully booked. Thank you for your interest.

Auckland city.

These advances have largely been driven by changes in scientific approaches which have led us towards the modern field of geomorphology, the study of change at Earth’s surface. Throughout its long history, maps have been at the centre of geomorphology. 

In this talk I will discuss how revolutions in cartography, geology, chemistry, and physics have led to major advances in our understanding of New Zealand’s landscapes.

Please note: this event is now fully booked. Thank you for your interest.

Deep canyons are cut into gentle slopes as river incision outpaces hillslope - by Val Lumnezia, Switzerland

The National Library of New Zealand hosts this panel discussion facilitated by Courtney Johnston, Director of Hutt City Museums, on the importance of telling New Zealand stories and experiencing New Zealand heritage.

Three outstanding speakers share their expertise in publishing, storytelling, artifacts, cultural events, digital displays and the mana of the 'real thing’:

• Robyn Bargh - Founder of Huia Publishers 
• Kate Hunter - Associate Professor in History, Victoria University of Wellington 
• Bridget Williams - Publisher, Bridget Williams Books

This is the second of a three-part series on New Zealand knowledge and identity hosted by the National Library between April and June 2016. 

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Bring a recorder if you have one you intend to use for recording. Exercises to be completed before Day 2 will be discussed.

This course is now fully subscribed. Please email atloutreach@dia.govt.nz to put your name on a waiting list.

Go to the The Essentials of Oral History Research: Recording Seriously (Day 2 of 2, Wellington)

Download the Oral History Workshops enrolment form for Wellington 2016 (pdf, 273KB)

This service, a collaboration between the Library, the NZ Society of Genealogists and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, began at the Library in 2007. 

Jenny Martin has been a volunteer with the service since its inception and will explain how you can make the most of what is on offer.

Jenny Martin is a member of New Zealand Society of Genealogists and has been for almost twenty years. She also runs the ‘NZSG Irish Interest Group Lower North Island’. For the past 18 months she has been part of the organising team for the FamilySearch Microfilm Affiliate Library and handles the ordering and returns of the microfilms.

Jenny will be available after the talk for those interested to visit the desk and see how it operates.

Mapping forced migration in the Asia-Pacific in the 21st century

In this talk Dr Kate McMillan of the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University will use a series of interactive maps to look at the drivers of forced migration in the 21st century Asia-Pacific.

Humanity on the move: mapping refugees’ journeys 

This talk by Dr Simone Gigliotti senior lecturer at School of History at Victoria University examines different institutional approaches to mapping the displacement of refugees in 1945/46 and 2015/16, focusing on the movements of post war displaced persons within and from Europe, and those of Syrian refugees to Europe via Mediterranean islands and the Balkans. To what extent can maps, with their humanitarian, mobile, and visual geo-narratives, inspire empathy and coalesce political interventions across time and place?

About the speakers

Dr Kate McMillan is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Victoria University of Wellington. 

She has published on a range of immigration, citizenship and media topics, particularly those relating to New Zealand. Current research projects include a study of the electoral participation of immigrants in New Zealand (with Fiona Barker); the electoral participation of New Zealanders living in Australia; and people movements from the ASEAN countries to New Zealand.

Dr Simone Gigliotti is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington.

Research Interests include Geographies of Displacement in 20th-century and contemporary Europe; Testimony of Transmigration; European Refugee worlds in SE Asia and the Caribbean; Children, Youth and Genocide. Editor of The Memorialization of Genocide (London: Routledge, 2016)

Two of them, Archibald Nicoll and John Weeks, had an important influence on post-war NZ artists as they taught at art schools in Christchurch and Auckland. 

Very few of the paintings used in the book are on public display – some do appear occasionally in exhibitions but most war paintings are in the storerooms of National Archives or in the Auckland War Memorial Museum. 

This is a book that poses numerous questions about soldiers as artists, and about New Zealanders and their attitudes and roles in the war.

This talk will focus on some of the soldiers who were from Wellington, such as the commissioned war artist Nugent Welch, as well as other significant artists, including Horace Moore-Jones and John Weeks.

Jennifer Haworth of Christchurch is well-known as both a writer of fiction and non-fiction who was granted the Auckland Museum National Research Grant for 2014 to assist her research for this, her latest book. 

Who were they? Where did they come from and where did they go to? What was the garrison culture they carried across the wide span of the 19th-century world? A world in which the distinctive figure of the redcoat was everywhere recognised as a sign of British authority.

Professor Charlotte Macdonald is leading a Marsden-funded research project that aims to put a face to the British army and navy presence in New Zealand. 

In doing so they aim to link the service of men in this part of the world to the wider British empire, focusing on the ways in which war takes people, goods, ideas and habits around the world. 

Engaged to suppress resistance to British expansion, the armed forces also served as vectors of empire. The project looks at the world beyond the battlefields.

For more about the project see the Soldiers of Empire website http://www.soldiersofempire.nz/the-project.html

This is event is being run in association with the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Album of an officer. Enjoying a pipe and a book, South Taranaki or Wanganui? 1865 Ref: A-277-030.

Writer Edna Shemesh talks about impact that being Second Generation to Holocaust survivors has had on her writing and her life in general, in particular her latest novel Hotel Malta, published July 2015.

She will also talk in short about the essence of the memory of the Holocaust now that Holocaust survivors are dying; soon none of them will have been left as witnesses. Edna will raise questions such as: What is our role as their children, now that we are in the forefront? How should the memory of the Holocaust be kept?

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Edna Shemesh

Edna Shemesh is an award winning writer, literary reviewer and translator from Israel.

Her publications include the novels Hotel Malta and The Sand Dunes of Paris, and Amstel, a collection of short stories.

She translated Barack Obama's Dreams of My Father into Hebrew.

Read Edna's story Amstel

Edna has kindly supplied a copy of her short story Amstel which was shortlisted for the prestigious Israeli Sapir Literary Priza in 2008.

You can read the short story 'Amstel' here.

In this free public event, educational and theatrical practitioners will discuss what value they see in teaching Shakespeare’s works in our schools. How should this best be approached?

Join us for a lively discussion and debate.

Speakers

Chairman: Ray Henwood ONZM – is well known as one of New Zealand’s most accomplished actors who will be performing as King Lear at Circa this May.

Dawn Sanders ONZM, QSM – is a theatre arts prelector, mentor and manager, and founder and CEO of Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand

Patrick Carroll - was a member of the 2010 Young Shakespeare Company and graduated from Toi Whakaari in 2014. He has since appeared in both Shakespeare and contemporary drama

Rachel Wikaira - is Lead Advisor on the Secondary Curriculum, Teaching and Learning and Student Achievement at The Ministry
of Education.

To help us plan, it’s helpful if you let us know you’re coming.

The National Library of New Zealand joins with the New Zealand Book Council to host this panel session on the unrealised power of reading for pleasure, with special guest Miranda McKearney OBE.

Founder of The Reading Agency and EmpathyLab, Miranda has inspired millions of new readers in the UK. Here she joins Peter Biggs, Chair of the Book Council, Professor Stuart McNaughton, Chief Education Scientific Advisor for the Ministry of Education, and National Librarian Bill Macnaught for a conversation about the very real capacity of books and reading to improve our wellbeing and to bolster our economic, social and cultural lives.

This is the first of a three-part series on New Zealand knowledge and identity hosted by the National Library between April and June 2016. For bookings or enquiries please email natlibfuture@dia.govt.nz or call Barbara Lemon on 04 819 8905.

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You can see the two maps on display on the Lower Ground floor of the National Library of New Zealand, Aitken Street entrance. The larger one is over 4 metres long – a massive and beautiful work.

2016 is the centenary of the death of Charlie Douglas so it is particularly pertinent timing for this talk.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

This is event is being run in association with the Friends of the Turnbull Library.

1903 Okarito to Big Bay Charles Edward Douglas (1840 – 1916) Manuscript Map Archives NZ R15007619

Between 1916 and 1919 approximately 500 men passed through its doors. With the aid of photographs from the time, and the Taumaru Trifler – the magazine the men published while recuperating – a picture emerges of their daily lives as they were nursed back to the point at which they could either return to active service or civilian life.

This presentation outlines how the home operated; the mutual admiration that developed between the patients and the staff; and the men's reflections on their time at the front, their journey home and the haven that Taumaru provided away from the realities of war.

ANDREW FRANCIS is a historian specializing in the home front during the First World War. His 2012 book, ‘To Be Truly British We Must Be Anti-German’: New Zealand, Enemy Aliens and the Great War Experience, 1914-1919, is a study of the treatment of New Zealand’s enemy alien population during the First World War. 

Other research interests include the role of wartime juvenile literature, and British imperial advertising up to 1920. He lives in Wellington.

Amy Watling (Online Research Services Leader) will take you through the changes to description and requesting of unpublished collections, and show the ways that we expect Tiaki to improve our services. 

She will be focusing on Family History techniques and interest areas, and how to give feedback! 

In this session there is also the chance to hear about Old Friends. Recently the popular Old Friends site was closed down by Trade Me. The National Library has been making a copy of the site for the Library’s collections using a web harvester. 

Gillian Lee (Coordinator, Web Archives) will explain what will be collected (and what won’t be) and how this will be made available to researchers once the copy is complete.

No booking necessary.

Carol Canvin and Paul Anderson of Data General New Zealand Ltd, operating computers Reference no: EP/1978/2479/20-F.

Book your ticket through festival.co.nz

Supported by Te Mata Estate Winery

New Zealand Poet Laureate C.K. Stead.

Diversity is a word that is trendy; it is used over and over again in the contemporary discourse. It’s obvious that people know what it is and seem to understand the benefits. Yet, you log onto the websites of commercial enterprises and you keep seeing a very strong dominance of white, male, western people representing these companies, across all levels, mid management, all the way up to governance and leadership.

Natalia Albert will talk about how this can change. How to make these efforts for diversity more proactive and deliberate. She will share her personal experience as a young, Mexican immigrant trying to break into the New Zealand market and how in an attempt to do this she has found a passion for diversity, gender topics and has got involved in a variety of programmes that she will also talk about.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About Natalie Albert

Natalia Albert was born in Mexico City and lived there for most of her life. As the daughter of a Mexican diplomat, she had the opportunity to travel around the world, and grow up in a very multicultural way. She arrived in Wellington in 2011 and currently is Chief Operations Officer for Inspiring Stories Trust. Natalia also runs the biggest TEDxWomen event in New Zealand from Wellington. She started a non-profit in 2013 which raised $40,000 for Oxfam New Zealand, which won her an award for having been the single individual that has enrolled the most amount of people into Oxfam Trailwalker 100km. Natalia will finish her second BA (politics) this year.

Runs from 29 February – 20 May | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

The events of the First World War were well documented, not least by those who experienced first-hand the reality of the battlefields. Official photographers such as Henry Armytage Sanders and war artists such as Nugent Welch were employed to capture a particular view of war that could be shown to an audience without compromising public sensitivities.

Francis William Weatherall, "A worm's eye view", 1917-1918. Ref: A-451-020-009.

However, soldiers often used whatever materials they had to hand – pencils and diaries or scraps of note-paper – to draw what they saw or record their experiences in writing, in an attempt to convey what was really happening.

The expression ‘a worm’s eye view’ is taken from a collection of pencil sketches by Private William Francis Weatherall, displayed in this exhibition. His sketches, like the other works here, are common soldiers’ perspectives of war shown through their own candid portrayals, wrought with grit and humour.

Come and see this unique group of works, which represents the Turnbull’s significant collection of unofficial pictorial accounts of the war. Many of them have never previously been shown.

Francis William Weatherall, "As I appeared last night", 1917-1918. Ref: A-451-020-004.

This lecture explores these ideas through case studies of innovative collaboration between artists and the archive. By discussing the fetish of the archive in a contemporary art space, this presentation argues that the boundaries of our collecting institutions can be challenged and their agency extended to serve as a forum for public art, where visitors can engage, co-create and conceptualize a new archival record.

For the first time, New Zealand children were learning to read from materials that reflected their own Southern Hemisphere worlds. “where the sun shines from the north and Christmas Day is in summer, where the farm looms larger than the factory, whose flora and fauna are foreign to the European textbook writer …” (Clarence Beeby, 1957).

Kay will share what she has discovered about the depiction of New Zealand within these fondly remembered Ready to Read materials. In addition to her slide presentation, Kay will bring along copies of the books. Browsing and reminiscing will be strongly encouraged.

Illustration By Ian Jackson From Sliding And Flying By Helen A. Cutten

The tour will be led by guides from Walk Wellington together with the Alexander Turnbull Library’s Cartographic Curator, Mark Bagnall.

Walk Wellington has been running guided walking tours in Wellington City since November 1999. Mark has curated the exhibition 'Measured works: Surveyors’ views of early European settlement in Wellington' currently showing in the Turnbull Gallery.

The first tour will be Saturday 20 February at 3.00 PM.
There will be second tour on Wednesday 24 February at 12.30 PM.

Numbers are limited so bookings are essential! Please contact ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz to reserve your space.

For more information about the exhibition see: http://natlib.govt.nz/visiting/wellington/the-turnbull-gallery

Date: 1842 - 1847 By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870 Ref: A-109-027

The exhibition explores the beginnings of the city of Wellington, through the plans, artworks and writings of early surveyors from 1840 onwards.

For more information about the exhibition see: http://natlib.govt.nz/events/measured-works-opens

Map Of Porirua Harbour, Paramata, Plimmerton And Pukerua Districts With Mana Island. Ref:B-031-036.

Honiana Love, ko Te Ātiawa, ko Taranaki Iwi, ko Ngāti Ruanui, ko Ngā Ruahinerangi ngā iwi, is currently on secondment to Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision from her position as Senior Adviser, Māori at Manatū Taonga, Ministry for Culture and Heritage. She has over 20 years experience working in libraries, archives and with iwi. Honiana is passionate about connecting people with their tūpuna and taonga.

For more information about the exhibition see http://natlib.govt.nz/visiting/wellington/the-turnbull-gallery

L-R: Details of Te Wharepouri in 1839, by Charles Heaphy. Ref: PUBL-0011-02-1; Te-Puni in 1839, by Heaphy. Ref: PUBL-0011-02-2; Wi Tako in 1873, by Batt & Richards. Ref: PA2-1576.

In this lecture I explore the history of the Gutenberg Bible from the context surrounding its creation to its status after Gutenberg’s death, including some of the remarkable stories of ownership, theft and sales connected to several surviving copies.

Listen to Anthony discuss the Gutenberg Bible on Radio NZ

Anthony Tedeschi

Prior to taking up the reins as Curator of Rare Books and Fine Printing I worked for the University of Melbourne, first as Deputy Curator of Special Collections and then Curator of Rare Books. Previous to that I spent six years as Rare Books Librarian in the heritage collections of Dunedin City Library. I hold a Master’s degree in Library Science from Indiana University, with a specialisation in rare books and manuscripts librarianship, and an MA in English Literature from the University of Otago.

Since 2013 I have served as vice-president and a member of the editorial board of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. My research interests cover various aspects of book history, focusing primarily on pre-1801 British and Continental imprints, and I have published on such topics as provenance evidence, book collecting, late-medieval manuscripts and early-printed books. What attracted me to the Turnbull Library was its world-class collections, its strong reputation as a research library, and the desire to carry on the fine work of maintaining and developing the rare book collections for current and future readers.

L to R: Dr Michael Brown, Dr Shannon Wellington, Dr Oliver Stead and Anthony Tedeschi

While especially aimed at those exploring their family histories they will also be of interest to other researchers.

No booking necessary.

Unidentified family group, probably in the Christchurch region, 1910s.

Dr Kemaloğlu will talk about the exhibition, which draws on narratives and diaries of soldiers to bring together personal accounts of Gallipoli from ten Turkish and ten ANZAC soldiers.

Through focusing on ordinary soldier narratives (rather than military records), the exhibition invites exploration of the notions of ‘enemy’, of national identity (forged in war) and of reconciliation as the narratives bring out the human voice.

At this talk the speakers will start with some brief comments and then open up to the floor for questions. You are very welcome, of course, to come in early and view the exhibition before the talk. The exhibition is on the ground floor of the Library.

Dr Azer Banu Kemaloğlu is Assistant Professor at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey. She is also the Deputy Chair of the Turkish-Australian Culture Centre and teaches in the English Literature Department.

Dr Ian McGibbon ONZM was formerly General Editor (War History) at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and is currently employed by the ministry to complete a book on New Zealand’s role on the Western Front in the First World War as part of the Centenary History series.

This is a free public talk but please RSVP to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz with 'From Hostility to Lasting Friendship' in the subject line, to let us know you are coming.

Find out more about the exhibition 'From Hostility to Lasting Friendship'.

Through focusing on ordinary soldier narratives (rather than military records), the exhibition invites exploration of the notions of ‘enemy’, of national identity (forged in war) and of reconciliation as the narratives bring out the human voice.

Included in the exhibition is an image of New Zealand soldier Claude Lennan Comyn’s diary, which contained a picture of Atatürk (then Turkish military officer Mustafa Kemal Pasha).

Dr Kemaloğlu says, “When Turkish people discover Atatürk’s picture in a New Zealand soldier’s diary they feel respect towards the former enemy. Similarly, New Zealanders feel for the Turkish veterans who refused the veteran pay, claiming that it was their duty to fight for their country. In this way, the human voice eventually establishes an empathy and enables an understanding transgressing the hostility felt in 1915.”

Dr Kemaloğlu says New Zealanders who attend the exhibition can expect to learn more about ANZAC soldiers who kept flowers and leaves from Gallipoli peninsula, described Gallipoli sunsets and told humorous stories in their diaries. They will also realize how similar the experiences and feelings of Turkish and ANZACs were.”

The exhibition is presented in Turkish and English. It was shown in Turkey and Australia last year and is being brought to New Zealand by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as part of the First World War centenary commemorations.

In this lecture, drawing from my research into local informal music practices, I explore some examples of overlap and cross-influence. The discussion centres on the life and music our most celebrated composer, Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), whose papers comprise an important collection at the Alexander Turnbull Library. Lilburn sometimes maintained that he grew up with little music, whether on the family farm in the Turakina Valley or later living in Whānganui. Scholarly work on the composer has rarely considered the impact of the array of domestic, school, and church music he was in fact exposed to and participated in. The Scottish traditions of Lilburn’s parents left a subtle but pervasive mark on his work, and are of particular interest. His work stands as a prominent example of a more widespread pattern of musical cross-pollination.

In the early 1950s there was a very real possibility that the Nan Kivell Collection might come to Wellington as a donation, with the Alexander Turnbull Library as the likely recipient. However negotiations with New Zealand broke down and in 1959 the collection was purchased by the Australian Commonwealth, although at least one major item from it did eventually find its way into the Turnbull collections.

This lecture looks at how images in Nan Kivell’s collections have continued to inspire new interest in post-colonial and indigenous studies in New Zealand and Australia, while at the same time becoming ever more popular and accessible through digital initiatives.

Oliver Stead

I was inspired to start following Nan Kivell’s tracks by my predecessor in my current role, Marian Minson. We first met in the 1980s when I was studying paintings by William Fox in the Alexander Turnbull Library for my MA research in art history. Nan Kivell became the subject of my PhD thesis in art history (University of Otago, 2004).

I joined the Turnbull as Curator, Drawings, Paintings and Prints in October 2015. Previously I worked variously as a registrar, collection manager and curator in a variety of collecting organisations including the University of Auckland Library, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Auckland War Memorial Museum, National Library of Australia, and the James Wallace Arts Trust.

These and other special items will be available to view in the Katherine Mansfield Reading Room* at the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Please RSVP to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz letting us know which session you wish to attend.

We look forward to seeing you.

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Travel and Exploration at the National Library

There will be an opportunity during the day to view items from the collections. Alexander Turnbull Library curators have chosen some great stuff relating to exploration and travel. This one’s more for the adults but young people are also welcome.

Find out more about Travel and Exploration at the National Library

Tech stuff

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Elf Eldridge and John Barrow from Victoria University will be offering three days of techie stuff.

Come use working robots, Google Cardboard, and Raspberry Pi microcontrollers. Older kids can learn how to set up home severs and media players.

3D printing

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As part of Tech stuff we will be demonstrating the boundless possibilities of new and free-to-access digital making tools that can be used by young and old alike. Bring in your family heirlooms and artefacts to have them 3D scanned! (No need to book for the 3D printing.)

Making your own map

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Daniel Reeve, calligrapher, map-maker and graphic artist for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings films, will guide you through making your own map, demonstrating techniques and tools used for centuries. As for the place we will map – that's for you to discover...

Balloon powered vehicles

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Come and investigate how air stored in balloons can be used to move different types of vehicles with Sarah Underwood. Test different designs and build some yourselves.

Spin art and chromatography

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Sarah Underwood introduces you to a unique artform. The only thing that can be guaranteed with spin art is that no two artworks will be identical. Come and experiment with where to put the paint, how much to put on and spin it at the fastest speed you can to make some original art. We'll also use chromatography to investigate the colours that make up the ink in felt-tips pens.

Join the committee for festive drinks and nibbles followed by FDNW committee members reading their favourite children’s stories.

Studio portrait of unidentified girl dressed as Christmas tree with ornaments, probably Christchurch, ca 1905-1926. Ref: 1/2-185181-G.

Runs from 7 December – 26 February | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the driving force behind the New Zealand Company, made the following exhortation at a meeting of investors in London on 20 March 1839. He was urging the purchase of land before new Crown legislation made it impossible.

Send off your expedition immediately [to New Zealand]... acquire all the land you can... possess yourselves of the soil & you are secure...

The Company created high expectations about the new settlement and handed themselves and surveyors a difficult task. They promised a modern commercial centre and 110, 000 acres of country sections. However, in the rush to start, they still had little detailed knowledge of the topography of the final location and the existing Maori settlements, and set an impossibly short timeframe.

Come along to the Turnbull Gallery and learn stories of the people, troubles, and compromises that gave us the streets of Wellington we know today.

Surveying stories

A taste of what you'll find in the exhibition...

Māori settlements in Te Whanganui a Tara

L-R: Details of Te Wharepouri in 1839, by Charles Heaphy. Ref: PUBL-0011-02-1; Te-Puni in 1839, by Heaphy. Ref: PUBL-0011-02-2; Wi Tako in 1873, by Batt & Richards. Ref: PA2-1576.

In September 1839, when the Tory arrived in Te Whanganui a Tara, Port Nicholson, peoples from Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Tama and other iwi from Taranaki were already settled.

Te Wharepouri, Honiana Te-Puni and Wi Tako negotiated with William Wakefield, who was the New Zealand Company’s Principal Agent, and received payment from the New Zealand Company for the Port Nicholson purchase. Before leaving Port Nicholson on 4 October 1839 and sailing to the Marlborough Sounds, Kapiti, Wanganui and Kaipara, William Wakefield left instructions for the survey team on the Cuba to locate the commercial centre on the Lambton Harbour side – the country sections were to be laid out separately.

Instructions for settlement

Meanwhile, the newly appointed Surveyor General for the New Zealand Company, Captain Smith, had been given different instructions by John Ward, Secretary to the New Zealand Company. Thus, when he arrived on the Cuba at Port Nicholson, he chose Pito-one (Petone) as better suited location to establishing a single settlement with an urban centre adjacent to country sections.

New Zealand Land
Company Offices
1 Adam Street Adelphi
1st August 1839

Sir [Captain Mein Smith],

Your first object should be to meet with Col Wakefield... in Cook's Straits... If you find that Col. Wakefield has selected the spot which he considers most eligible for the first and principal settlement, you will proceed thither with the Cuba in order to complete the Survey as soon as possible...

In laying out the Plan of the Town... every holder of a Land Order obtains one full acre of Land within the Town... [I]n framing the Plan of the Town, you should make ample reserves for all public purposes, such as a Cemetery, a Market Place, Wharfage, and probable public buildings, Botanical Garden, a Park and extensive boulevards. It is indeed desirable that the whole outside of the Town, inland, should be separated from the Country sections by a broad belt of land... to be public property, on condition that buildings be [n]ever erected upon it...

I am, Sir, Your very obedient Servant
John Ward

(Extract from letter from John Ward [Secretary to New Zealand Company] to William Mein Smith, 1 August 1839. Ref: MS-papers-11606.)

A proposed plan of the city of Wellington in the first settlement in New Zealand, founded 1839-40. Ref: MapColl-832.4796a 1839 15647.

Long talked about as the plan for the principal urban settlement, there is evidence to suggest that Captain William Mein Smith stepped ashore at Petone with only John Ward's written instructions and not Cobham’s plan.

Firstly, the Company directors hadn’t chosen the name 'Wellington' until mid-1840, well after William Mein Smith had left London. Secondly, when the Cuba set sail in August 1839, William Wakefield had only just arrived in the Marlborough Sounds and begun his reconnaissance to select the principal commercial settlement.

Known as the 'Cobham plan', this plan reflected urban planning ideals of the day that had been used in various other new world settlements. Grid-like plans were commonly imposed rather than being in sympathy with the topography. This approach is apparent in the following Mein Smith plan.

The Aglionby Arms in Lower Hutt after a flood, ca 1842, by Robert Park. Ref: A-032-024.

After the Hutt River flooding in March 1840 brought about relocation of the main European settlement, Wakefield instructed Mein Smith to survey all Lambton Harbour land, including Māori Pa, kianga, and cultivations, and produce a plan for the new settlement.

Plan of the town of Wellington, Port Nicholson, by William Mein Smith. Ref: MapColl 832.4799gbbd 1840 317.

The above plan for the layout of Wellington showed was published after the lotteries for selection of the land blocks had been held, around mid-year 1840. The New Zealand Company directors prescribed this system for the layout. It was low cost but inappropriate, and despite Mein Smith's protestations, William Wakefield didn't allow the surveyors to use a better system.

Running the New Zealand Company Survey Office

The achievements of the New Zealand Company survey office were exceptional given the circumstances that they worked in. Over the short space of 10 years between 1840 and 1850, 5 changes were made to the leadership of the Survey Office mainly due to William Wakefield's continual interference in the office's administration and resourcing. They were Captain Mein Smith, from January 1840 to February 1842, Samuel Charles Brees, March 1842 to May 1845, Alfred Wills for 6 months, then David Lewis looked after the daily running of the office, and William Seed looked after the surveying duties.

After William Wakefield died in 1848, William Fox was appointed his replacement. He attempted to revitalise the survey office and appointed Robert Park in late 1849. However, the position only lasted until September 1850 when the Company went into liquidation.

Leaders of the Survey Office. L-R: William Mein Smith; Samuel Charles Brees; Alfred Wills; William Seed; Robert Park.

Roads

Roads were crucial to establishing a commercial centre, connecting it to rural productive land, to other centres and enabling further development of the hinterland. Several early surveyor feedbooks and notebooks record investigations of existing Maori tracks particularly in the western hills of Wellington. In his fieldbook, Robert Stokes surveyed a track that started at the top of The Terrace and traversed the hills over towards Karori.

Survey of Maori Path from Wellington Terrace to Karori, 1843, by Robert Stokes. Archives New Zealand. Ref: R23195399.

The old Porirua Road or North Road was constructed on a route following a Māori path from Johnsonville to Jackson's Ferry (Porirua), then a road was built via Pauatahanui to Paekakariki. As reported by Captain Russell, who oversaw the construction of the road, until this last section was completed

...travellers could reach the northern settlements [from Jackson's Ferry] by swimming their horses across the mouth of the harbour, and proceedings through Pakerua [sic] [bush] to the coast and beyond.

North Road, 1849, by Thomas Henry Fitzgerald. Ref: vMapColl 832.47gmbd [1849] 460 (click to see this map fullsize).

Even after the road was upgraded between 1846 to 1849, travel remained slow going and required overnight stays at public houses on-route.

Topographic representations

The surveyors' cartography was focused on urban planning and subdivision plans. But their eye for depicting topography and vegetation and observation of events in sketches and paintings informs us about the changing geography.

Ngauranga gorge and stream, 1843, by Samuel Charles Brees. Ref: B-031-008; A road through bush; probably the Hutt Valley, 1840-1850, by William Mein Smith. Ref: B-009-013.

In Brees's painting, he depicted Te Āti Awa's Ngauranga pa which was located on the flat land at the mouth of Waitohi stream, just at the entrance to the Ngauranga valley. The monument to Te Wharepouri who died in 1842, can clearly be seen. Brees wrote:

the natives of his Pa erected a monument to his memory at Nga Houranga... A large canoe having been sawed into three pieces transversely, the middle part was set up on six posts, and the two extremites placed together and raised up on their ends, a bunch of feathers being placed on the top.

Mein Smith's painting showed a road at an early stage of construction and the dense podocarp forest that stood around the Wellington area. The tracks which eventually formed the North Road became roads over several stages. Tracks were cut as bridal paths improving levels and lines as required for the final road. Beaches were used where practicable to reduce costs. Once a section of path was cut, it was widened, then metalled to enable heavier traffic.

Māori settlements, then alienation of land

Seeking trade opportunities and a safe haven from conflicts, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Tama and other iwi from Taranaki established ahi kā around Te Whanganui-a-Tara through a series of migrations, the last known as Tama-te-uaua. Pā and cultivations around the harbour were located on the shoreline, next to rivers and flat land, and on prominent land.

Edmund Norman, Pa, Te Aro, Wellington looking towards the Hutt River, ca 1842. Ref: A-049-001.

For instance, people of Ngāti Ruanui and Te Āti Awa lived at Te Aro pā when Wakefield and the New Zealand Company settlers arrived. At that stage the pā was extensive and probably well-populated. The southern end was located at present-day Te Aro Park on the intersection of Taranaki and Manners Streets, and the northern end on the corner of Taranaki and Wakefield Streets. Even after 10 years of European settlement, the pā had 36 huts and a population of 186, according to an 1850 survey by Native Secretary H. Tracey Kemp.

It was an ideal location on the shoreline, somewhat protected from southerlies, and next to a swamp and flat arable land.

Samuel Charles Brees, Makaenuku Pa; natives preparing to leave the Hutt, ca 1845. Ref: A-179-013.

Despite some guarantees that Maori could retain some pā and cultivations, the New Zealand Company, and later local and central governments, used various strategies to alienate Maori from their lands. By 1890s and 1900s, few Maori lived around Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Wellington, Port Nicholson, 1851, by Edmund Norman. Ref: B-009-007.

Edmund Norman's 1851 view of Wellington shown at the cusp of change. Still large gaps or unoccupied sections are visible in central township due to absentee owners and the large Te Aro Swamp which could not be built on until land in the area was partially drained by the 1855 earthquake. In the same year as Norman's sketch, a proposal for the first harbour reclamation was commissioned. The Port Nicholson natural waterfront was about to change to an industrial commercial centre.

Further reading

A.G. Bagnall et al. S.C. Brees: artist and surveyor. Alexander Turnbull Library Occasional publications, no. 2.

A. Ballara. "Te Whanganui-a-Tara: phases of Maori Occupation of Wellington Harbour c. 1800-1840." D. Hamer and R. Nicholls eds. The making of Wellington 1800-1914. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1990, pp. 9-34.

P. Burns. Fatal success: a history of the New Zealand Company. Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1989.

Dictionary of New Zealand biography, vol. 1., 1769-1869. Wellington: Allen & Unwin and Dept. Internal Affairs, 1990.

D. Hamer. "Wellington on the urban frontier." D. Hamer and R. Nicholls eds. The making of Wellington 1800-1914. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1990, pp. 227-254.

B. Maysmor. North road: revisiting the map of the road from Johnsonville to Paekakariki drawn by Thomas Henry Fitzgerald in 1849. Wellington: Pataka Museum, 2008.

R. Montgomery. "Absolutely positively not the first plan for Wellington: unravelling popular misconceptions about the process of planning New Zealand’s capital city." Australasian planning history conference held in Wellington, 5-7 Feb 2014.

B. Patterson. "‘A queer cantankerous lot...’: the human factor in the conduct of the New Zealand Company’s Wellington surveys." D. Hamer and R. Nicholls eds. The making of Wellington 1800-1914. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1990, pp. 61-88.

L.E. Ward. Early Wellington. Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs, [1928].

Feature image: Detail of William Mein Smith, The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington, 1842. Ref: G-653.

Te Matakite o Aotoearoa (1975), Geoff Steven’s powerful observational documentary of the 1975 Land March, screens alongside the 2012 documentary Ngā Tama Toa 40 Years On.

Not One More Acre

A season of films presented in partnership with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to coincide with the Turnbull Gallery exhibition, ‘Not One More Acre’: The Māori Land March 40 years on .

Turangawaewae, A Place to Stand (1974) is an episode from the ground-breaking series Tangata Whenua, in this episode the concept of marae is discussed, and we hear from young Māori groups such as Ngā Tama Toa. Accompanying the screening is the 2012 documentary Ngā Tama Toa 40 Years On.

Not One More Acre

A season of films presented in partnership with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to coincide with the Turnbull Gallery exhibition, ‘Not One More Acre’: The Māori Land March 40 years on .

The Spirits and Times will Teach is the first episode in the ground-breaking 1974 documentary series Tangata Whenua, the first of its kind to screen on New Zealand television. Also screening is Bastion Point Day 507 (1980).

Not One More Acre

A season of films presented in partnership with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to coincide with the Turnbull Gallery exhibition, ‘Not One More Acre’: The Māori Land March 40 years on .

Christian Heinegg is normally based in the United States, but will be talking about his photographs at the National Library on Thursday 3 December. Christian donated his collection of more than 300 colour photographs of the march to the Turnbull Library in 2008. Christian will be speaking with his wife Marcia, who also took part in the march, and wrote a memoir of the couple’s time in New Zealand from 1974-77 (An immigrant’s sojourn in the land of the long white cloud: a memoir of life in New Zealand). The discussion will be chaired by Paul Diamond, the Turnbull Library’s Māori Curator, who curated ‘Not one more acre’: The Māori Land March 40 years on.

'Chris’s photographic essay is housed at the New Zealand National Library in Wellington. His photos are published in many textbooks on Maori history. The acceptance of his photos into the National Archives gave Chris a great sense of pride and accomplishment. He felt it was an honour that his abilities as a photographer were acknowledged and that the essay would be a legacy left for perpetuity. At the outset of the March, he intended to photograph only for his own record, and had no expectations, but was grateful that he could contribute to a permanent record for future generations to learn from and appreciate. They are now available to book publishers and are digitised and used in videos, posters and other digital media. They will be seen in any anniversary or commemoration of the March.’ (An immigrant’s sojourn in the land of the long white cloud: a memoir of life in New Zealand, by Marcia Heinegg)

Christian and Marcia Heinegg in conversation is a free public event, and will take place in Te Ahumairangi, the ground floor of the National Library Building.

Māori Land March at James Smiths Corner, Wellington, 13 September 1975. Photograph by Christian Heinegg. Ref: 35mm-87564-17-F

A special screening of Te Matakite o Aotoearoa, Geoff Steven’s powerful observational documentary of the 1975 Land March. Please join us from 6pm for drinks and nibbles before the screening. Following the screening will be a panel discussion with the filmmaker, Geoff Stevens, and photographer, Christian Heinegg.

Watch the trailer on Te Ara's website for Te Matakite o Aotoearoa

Not One More Acre

A season of films presented in partnership with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to coincide with the Turnbull Gallery exhibition, ‘Not One More Acre’: The Māori Land March 40 years on .

Intended as a dramatic documentary highlighting the problems and successes of Māori urban migration, To Love A Maori (1972) centres on a love story between Tama and Penny, and their struggle against the intolerance they encounter.

Watch the trailer on Te Ara's website for To Love a Maori

Not One More Acre

A season of films presented in partnership with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to coincide with the Turnbull Gallery exhibition, ‘Not One More Acre’: The Māori Land March 40 years on .

Burbs is an anthology of dark comedies inspired by and infused with the quirks of our city’s charismatic little divisions, produced for distribution online. Each suburb is strip-mined for material, to imagine a story that pushes the boundaries of the possible while remaining recognisable. Each instalment is set in a different Wellington suburb and is between six and ten minutes long. Although each short is an isolated, stand-alone title, they're all united by a sense of humour that is specific to Aro Valley Hiking Club, to Wellington and to New Zealand.

This project offers the small Wellington communities a positive opportunity to meet each other, laugh, reflect and connect regarding where they live and how they are perceived.

Come to this lunchtime session to see the Newtown, Owhiro Bay and Strathmore instalments ahead of their release online, and have a coffee with the cast and crew of Burbs .

About the creators

The Aro Valley Hiking Club is a film production company with an interest in producing content for the web. Burbs is the project that brought them together.

Writers Owen Marshall and Lawrence Patchett will address these – and other – questions in in an evening of discussion and readings.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Timaru-based Owen Marshall is regarded as a master of the short story. He is currently writer in residence at the Randell Cottage in Thorndon. He is a prolific writer and editor of short stories, poetry and novels who has held fellowships at the universities of Canterbury and Otago and in Menton, France. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Canterbury, which awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in 2002. His work has seen him honoured with some of New Zealand’s top literary awards, including the 2013 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in fiction. In 2000 he became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and in 2012, a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Lawrence Patchett is the author of I Got His Blood On Me: Frontier Tales, a book of short stories. His fiction has been recognised in the New Zealand Post Awards (NZSA Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction), and the Long and the Short of It Short Story Competition (long section). His work has also appeared in Sport, Landfall, Dominion Post, Hue & Cry, Turbine, and on Radio New Zealand National. He has a PhD in creative writing from Victoria University, and lives in Raumati Beach. He is currently working on a dystopian adventure novel set in the North Island of New Zealand.

The event is being held under the auspices of the Friends of the Randell Cottage and the National Library of New Zealand, as part of the Library’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations.

The National Library’s 50th Anniversary Programme is made possible thanks to the Macklin Bequest.

These are unusual times.

Maps enable us to make statements about places as nothing else can. Some introduce us to the unknown; others make the familiar strange. This talk reflects on the varied and changing roles that maps play in our lives. Chris will make a case to continue exploring the possibilities of the medium balanced with a consideration of the ethics and perils of spatial technologies.

Auckland Home-Work Commute Patterns (Chris McDowall, from NZ Census 2013).

Dr Chris McDowall

Dr Chris McDowall trained as a geographer with a focus on human and computational geography. He has worked variously as a cartographer at the University of Auckland, a scientist at Landcare Research and development manager at Hapara. Chris currently works at the National Library of New Zealand as Manager of DigitalNZ Systems—a digital initiative to make New Zealand's digital content easier to find, share and use. His professional interests include information visualisation, digital humanities, metadata harvesting, automated text analysis, linked data and maps.

Especially maps.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

The National Library’s 50th Anniversary Programme is made possible thanks to the Macklin Bequest.

For the kids there will be storytelling, making pirate hats, and more.

What's happening?

The National Library’s 50th Anniversary Programme is made possible thanks to the Macklin Bequest.

Fresh from his stimulating, generous and hugely creative Poet Laureateship, Vincent O’Sullivan, who was a young lecturer in the glory days of Victoria University’s English faculty in the 1960s, will talk about the strong and talented personalities who in those years laid the foundations for the vibrant cultural life that so many Wellingtonians relish today.

Always a perceptive and sometimes irreverent commentator and critic, O’Sullivan will discuss the poets, writers, musicians, teachers, academics and artists of Wellington’s Bloomsbury years - including Victoria University’s first science Rhodes Scholar who was a fine, albeit unknown, writer of fiction, and a correspondent with the greatest poet of the 20th century. Also, as a foremost Katherine Mansfield scholar, O’Sullivan will explore Mansfield’s early Wellington life – those few years that infused some of the world’s greatest short stories.

As to what the intriguing title of the talk might mean – well, do come and find out!

Book your spot by emailing Colleen.Slater@dia.govt.nz or calling 04 462 3920

Pacific cultures have been, for centuries, highly literate cultures. The book, especially the Bible, and other forms of the written word are central to most contemporary Pacific cultures. But the connections between Pacific peoples and institutions like libraries, schools and the press have not played out as they have in many other places. Many of these differences are due to cultural specificities, while others express deeper inequalities.

The fiftieth anniversary of the National Library of New Zealand – one of the great Pacific libraries – is an occasion to reflect on these relationships between Pacific cultures and a wider set of literate and knowledge cultures. How will the current challenges facing libraries and the circulation of knowledge impact Pacific people and communities?

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Damon Salesa

Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa is a prizewinning scholar who specializes in the study of colonialism, empire, government and race. With a particular interest in the Pacific Islands, he also works on education, economics and development in the Pacific region, as well as in New Zealand and Australia. After studying at the University of Auckland, he completed his studies at Oxford University.

He is currently Associate Professor of Pacific Studies at the Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Auckland, where he is also head of Pacific Studies, and Co-Head of Te Wananga o Waipapa.

The National Library’s 50th Anniversary Programme is made possible thanks to the Macklin Bequest.

This presentation will both notice and ponder how the past is or could be framed. It will also reflect on the responsibility of guardians of Māori documentary heritage to take seriously their own role in shaping and framing public views of the Māori past.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Dr Aroha Harris

Dr Aroha Harris belongs to Te Rarawa and Ngapuhi. She is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. Prior to her university appointment, Aroha variously worked in both historical and social research for Government departments (including the Waitangi Tribunal Division), private organisations, and iwi. Aroha is a founding member of Te Pouhere Korero, the national organisation of Māori historians, and co-editor of their journal of the same name.

Her first book, Hikoi: Forty Years of Maori Protest, was published in 2004. Her most recent book, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (2014), was a collaborative effort with Professor Atholl Anderson and the late Dame Judith Binney. Aroha was appointed a member of the Waitangi Tribunal in 2008, and is currently a guardian Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library.

The National Library’s 50th Anniversary Programme is made possible thanks to the Macklin Bequest.

Jointly presented by the Confucius Institute at Victoria University of Wellington, the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation and the Alexander Turnbull Library

In 2008 the American-based photographer Christian Heinegg donated his collection of more than 300 photographs of the march to the Alexander Turnbull Library. Heinegg followed the march from Te Hāpua to Wellington, using his camera to create a visual essay. The images present a view of the hīkoi from the marchers’ perspective, quite unlike the more externally-focused visual record in contemporary media coverage.

Heinegg’s collection was the starting point for an exhibition in the Turnbull Gallery. Also featured in the exhibition are the collections of Matakite member Vivian Hutchinson (who suggested the idea of the march to Dame Whina), and Dame Whina's biographer Michael King.

Many of the young children in Christian’s photos are now middle-aged. The Library was conscious that these grown-up children, and others who can remember the march, all have stories they may be willing to share. As well as curating, presenting and interpreting archival collections for public display, the exhibition is designed as a vehicle for engaging the public, to encourage the sharing of memories and stories.

In this talk Paul will outline the strategies employed by the Library to reach out beyond the gallery walls, to record reactions to the exhibition – in person and online – and encompassing those who were there in 1975, as well as visitors too young to remember the hīkoi.

A Friends of the Turnbull Library event

Māori land march demonstrators on the motorway near Johnsonville, Wellington Christian F Heinegg: Photographs of the Māori Land March. Reference: PA7-15-08. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.

Papers Past: into the future

Papers Past is getting a makeover. Join Emerson Vandy, Papers Past Service Manager, and Tracy Powell, Digitisation Advisor, to reflect on Papers Past over the years, and to have a walk through the new beta Papers Past site.

Studio family portrait. Photo by Adam Henry Pearson Maclay. Ref: 1/1-026091-G.

Tutors: Judith Fyfe, lawyer and oral historian, and Lynette Shum, Oral History Adviser.

All equipment is provided and participants receive comprehensive resources.

Attendance at day one is a prerequisite. This is a two-day course, limited to 12 participants (first in first served!). Morning and afternoon tea will be supplied.

Day two: Recording seriously. This workshop will build on the introductory course, reviewing work completed and covering in more detail interview techniques, project planning and technical, ethical, and legal issues. Email Lynette.Shum@dia.govt.nz for more information.

Download the registration form (PDF, 456KB)

See day one of Essentials of Oral History

More about our oral history advice

Workshops elsewhere and Māori-English bilingual courses are also available. For the bilingual courses, please contact Taina Tangaere McGregor, the Oral History Adviser, Maori, on 04 462 3976.

Although libraries sit beyond the bounds of the formal education sector, they are intrinsically centres of learning where people of all ages can engage with knowledge and ideas, and acquire the literacy skills essential for active participation in society. They intersect with schools, museums, community organisations, research institutions and government.

How can libraries, schools and cultural institutions best equip and empower community members to be confident, capable and engaged citizens? With a series of panels, debates, lightning talks and workshops this seminar explores concepts of democracy, transparency, participation, identity, e-government, digital service delivery, and freedom of access to information and resources.

See nsla.org.au for more information and to book your spot

Full session and speaker details

Agnes ‘Nessie’ Moncrieff had an interesting life. She graduated MA from Victoria University College and represented NZ at a World Student Christian Federation Conference in Beijing in 1922. After three years as a Travelling Secretary for the NZ Student Christian Movement and four years teaching at Feilding Agricultural High School, she trained with the NZ YWCA to be a secretary in order to return to China in 1930 as an International Secretary with the YWCA of China until 1945. She wrote weekly letters to family and friends and monthly reports to the NZ YWCA during these 15 years in China, covering her involvement with the YWCA and her experiences in China.

Student movement committee, China, 1930s. Agnes Moncrieff: Album of photographs of China. Reference: PA1-o-1191-25-1. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.

A Friends of the Turnbull Library event

This activity will involve a lot of folding and some sticking. Some dexterity is required, or some helping hands. Suitable for ages 8 and up, but all families are welcome!

It’s helpful to know numbers, to RSVP please contact Laura.Jones@dia.govt.nz.

Limited to 8 participants.

Download the registration form (PDF, 287KB)

More Oral History workshops: Essentials of Oral History, day one and day two

More about our oral history advice

Workshops elsewhere and Māori-English bilingual courses are also available. For the bilingual courses, please contact Taina Tangaere McGregor, the Oral History Adviser, Maori, on 04 462 3976.

Lilburn was talking about art music and, in decades past, when musicologists considered New Zealand music, they usually concentrated on what Allan Thomas called the “monumental or innovative musical works, essentially ‘masterpieces’.” Art music, again – and, understandably, the work of one composer dominated this discourse: Douglas Lilburn.

However it is popular music that the public think of when considering New Zealand music. Yet only recently has popular music been given serious consideration; for decades, many gatekeepers such as broadcasters, cultural commentators, academics and historians either ignored New Zealand popular music or prevented it from achieving mainstream acceptance.

For this year’s Lilburn Lecture – marking the 100th anniversary of Lilburn’s birth – music historian Chris Bourke discusses the place of local popular music in New Zealand. He notes that when Lilburn was born, the local music scene was more inclusive. How did the split between “high art” and “low art” occur? Has the neglect of New Zealand popular music been rectified? What is the most useful way to study local popular music? Is it still necessary to look for a New Zealand sound? Bourke considers the ideas discussed by Lilburn in his celebrated talks A Search for Tradition and A Search for a Language: are they still relevant, and can they be answered by popular music?

Chris Bourke is the 2015 Lilburn Research Fellow at the Alexander Turnbull Library, where he is currently writing a book about New Zealand music during the First World War. His book Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964 won the Book of the Year prize at the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.

The annual Lilburn Lectures are a collaboration between the Lilburn Trust and the National Library of New Zealand. This year’s Lilburn Lecture will be the third in this series of open public talks. Refreshments will be served following the Lecture.

Music historian Chris Bourke.

Inspired by the centennial of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), we invite you to a one-day People’s History symposium about education in Aotearoa, past and present.

Bookings are required. Register by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

Stimulated by this quotation speakers will explore some of the many ways that New Zealanders have been educated. Speakers include:

• Pat Bolster marking the centenary of the WEA
• Conal McCarthy and Jim Traue on museums and early Mechanics’ institutes
• Cybele Locke, Rachelle Hautapu, Bronwyn Wood and Meegan Hall on formal education from early childhood to tertiary
• The Song Snatchers on the Music to Schools broadcasts
• Claire-Louise McCurdy, Graeme Whimp and Ross Teppett on workers’ education, and
• discussing the media, Jan Rivers, Jeremy Rose and ‘White Man Behind A Desk’.

There will also be a ‘History on Speed’ interactive session, and at the end of the symposium Paul Diamond will wrap up the day’s discussions.

See the full programme on the Labour History Project site

Karori Normal School children taking off for the holidays, 15 December 1977. Ref: EP/1977/5055/8-F.

The symposium is hosted by Wellington Museum, the Labour History Project and the Alexander Turnbull Library. For more information email Marie.Russell.nz@gmail.com or Joan.McCracken@dia.govt.nz.

In 2008 the American-based photographer Christian Heinegg donated his collection of more than 300 photographs of the march to the Alexander Turnbull Library. Heinegg followed the march from Te Hāpua to Wellington, using his camera to create a visual essay. The images present a view of the hīkoi from the marchers’ perspective, quite unlike the more externally-focused visual record in contemporary media coverage.

Heinegg’s collection was the starting point for an exhibition in the Turnbull Gallery, marking the 40th anniversary of the march, ‘Not one more acre’: The Māori Land March 40 Years On. Also featured in the exhibition were the collections of Matakite member Vivian Hutchinson (who suggested the idea of the march to Dame Whina), and Dame Whina's biographer Michael King.

Many of the young children in Christian’s photos are now middle-aged. The Library was conscious that these grown-up children, and others who can remember the march, all have stories they may be willing to share. As well as curating, presenting and interpreting archival collections for public display, the exhibition was designed as a vehicle for engaging the public, to encourage the sharing of memories and stories. This was achieved via public and online programmes run alongside the exhibition.

This talk will outline the strategies employed by the Library to reach out beyond the gallery walls, to record reactions to the exhibition – in person and online – and encompassing those who were there in 1975, as well as visitors too young to remember the hīkoi.

Photograph of protesters on the Maori Land March, College Hill, Auckland. Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March. Ref: PA7-15-17

Get into the stretchy interpretations of Alice in Wonderland.

Illustration from Alice in Wonderland by John Tenniel.

Come along for drinks and nibbles at 5.30pm, and the talk at 6.00pm.

A Wellington City Libraries talk, organised in partnership with the National Library, as part of the Turnbull Gallery exhibition, 'Not one more acre': The Māori Land March 40 years on .

Photographer John Miller with one of his photographs of the Māori Land March when it arrived in Wellington on October 13 1975. John was photographed at Te Unga Waka Marae in Auckland, at the commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the March in September 2015. Photo: John Miller

The Māori Land March on the Wellington motorway, October 13 1975. Photo: John Miller

Supported by LIANZA Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui regional group.

The National Preservation Office Field Conservator, Vicki-Anne Heikell, will be available to offer you preservation advice on the care, handling and storage of your treasured family items.

Book your spot by emailing preservation@dia.govt.nz

Please note that conservators are not able to provide valuations.

Come along early for October's family history talk!

Stick around for the conservation clinic

Postcard commemorating the sinking of the Marquette, from 'Papers relating to the sinking of TSS Marquette', ref: MS-Papers-11518-120.

Opens 16 October | 8.30 am – 5.00pm, Monday to Saturday | Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor | All ages

Strategy on paper

Detail of Godley's map of Gallipoli, reproduced by the Survey Dept., Egypt, 1915. Record page.

A personal perspective

Detail of a reproduction of Tuki Te Terenui Whare Pirau's map of New Zealand, originally created 1793. Ref: MapColl-CHA-2/1/9-Acc.36440.

Walking and water

Detail of WG Harding's map of the Tararua mountain system, 1936. Record page.

Data you can manipulate

Detail of the LINZ Data Service, 2014. Via YouTube.

Points and intensity of light

Detail of New Zealand lighthouse chart of general coast and principal harbour lights, 1900. Record page.

All the ways we map

Our maps guide us from place to place, but they also set our boundaries and show what we have decided is important. See the ever-changing art and science of map-making – and our changing perspectives – throughout our history and into the present day.

Unfolding the map brings together the fascinating maps of the Library's collections and stunning examples of the state of the art today.

A collaboration between the National Library, Land Information New Zealand, Eagle Technology, and Archives New Zealand.

Helen Riddiford is the author of A Blighted Fame: George S. Evans 1802-1868, A Life (Victoria University Press, 2014).

Dr George Samuel Evans, ca 1860s. Ref: 1/2-081508-F.

The talk will be followed by an opportunity to view historic collection items held by the Alexander Turnbull Library relating to Niue.

The marchers, headed by Whina Cooper, had walked the length of the North Island in just 30 days, to protest about the loss of Māori land.

To mark the 40th anniversary of their arrival in Wellington, four march veterans - Cyril Chapman, Joseph Cooper, Vivian Hutchinson and David Williams - will share their memories and reflect on the kaupapa of the historic march in a panel discussion, titled 30 days to Wellington. The discussion will be chaired by Paul Diamond, the curator of the Turnbull Gallery exhibition, ‘Not one more acre’: The Māori Land March 40 years on.

30 days to Wellington is a free public event, and will take place in Te Ahumairangi, the ground floor of the National Library Building.

Māori Land March at James Smiths Corner, Wellington, 13 September 1975. Photograph by Christian Heinegg. Ref: 35mm-87564-17-F

Supported by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust.

Tutors: Judith Fyfe, lawyer and oral historian, and Lynette Shum, Oral History Adviser.

All equipment is provided and participants receive comprehensive resources.

This is a two-day course, limited to 12 participants (first in first served!). Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.

Day one: An introduction to oral history methodology. How to plan an oral history project, choose the best equipment, achieve clear audio recordings, select informants, follow ethical procedures, develop questioning techniques, process oral history, and make the material available for use. Bring a recorder if you have one you intend to use for recording. Exercises to be completed before Day Two will be discussed. Email Lynette.Shum@dia.govt.nz for more information.

Download the registration form (PDF, 456KB)

See day two of Essentials of oral history

More about our oral history advice

Workshops elsewhere and Māori-English bilingual courses are also available. For the bilingual courses, please contact Taina Tangaere McGregor, the Oral History Adviser, Maori, on 04 462 3976.

A special event for Fijian Language Week 2015.

12.30pm: Performances by Kaifiji, Victoria University’s Fijian Association

12.45pm: Presentation by Sai Lealea on Fiji’s social structure

1.00pm: Show and tell display of Fijian items

Learn the basics of what makes a kite fly along with some additional simple 5 minute kites to make in the future when you want to get the kids outdoors.

All materials are provided.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing Laura.Jones@dia.govt.nz

The Library’s family history specialists will introduce the many resources the Library holds that support family history research. Learn more about the different parts of the Library’s collections that can help you to research your family history - on the web and at the Library.

Participants may wish to stay on for lunch at Library’s Home Café (or one of the many other eateries in the vicinity) or use the opportunity to pursue their own research in the Library’s collections.

Space is limited! Book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

A Wellington City Council Seniors Week event.

Unidentified family group outdoors against a fence, probably Christchurch district, ca 1905-1926. Photographer: Adam Henry Pearson Maclay. Ref: 1/1-029006-G.

This democratisation of knowledge is leading to rapid technological advancements, especially within the fields of biotechnology and medicine. What are the consequences of replacing bricks with molecules?

World War I: A Contemporary Conversation, in the National Library Gallery, profiles the rich World War I holdings of the Alexander Turnbull Library and Archives New Zealand. The exhibition sets the lives of individuals against the background of New Zealand and New Zealanders at war. It also gives emphasis to the links between WWI and conflict today. In this last week of this exhibition get insights into the selection of material from the exhibition curator, Peter Ireland, and hear about some of the reactions there have been to the stories told.

Also meet Paul Diamond, the curator of the Turnbull Gallery exhibition Not one more acre: the Māori Land March 40 years on. Taking as its starting point Christian Heinegg’s comprehensive photographic record of the march, this exhibition considers the impact of this important event in New Zealand’s recent history.

Participants may wish to stay on for lunch at Library’s Home Café (or one of the many other eateries in the vicinity) or use the opportunity to pursue their own research in the Library’s collections.

Space is limited! Book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

A Wellington City Council Seniors Week event.

Photograph of protesters on the Maori Land March, College Hill, 1975. Photographer: Christian Heinegg. Ref: PA7-15-17.

The ANZAC spirit remains a critical part of who we are. It is still defined by those common values that sustained our soldiers fighting in foreign lands 100 years ago: mate-ship, courage, equality, self-sacrifice, and loyalty.

– New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, speech at the Albany Convoy commemorations, 1st November 2014.

Young people are seldom encouraged to think critically about what Gallipoli and the ‘ANZAC spirit’ means to them in this day and age. The version of the ANZAC story that they are exposed to in schools (and in the popular media) is typically selective and minimalizes aspects that are controversial or contested. This has implications for how well young people are educated to make independent, reasoned judgments about the way significant historical events such as Gallipoli are aligned with present concerns.

How well prepared they are to be informed, critical thinkers who can participate constructively in conversations about the past, the present and the future. This talk draws on the first phase of a Victoria University research project that examines the extent to which 13/14 year olds share the underlying assumptions that underpin official initiatives to generate war remembrance about the First World War.

About the speaker

Dr Mark Sheehan is the Secondary Programme Director in the Victoria University Faculty of Education. He has been involved in teaching and learning history for almost 40 years as a teacher, lecturer, textbook writer, researcher, museum educator and curriculum designer.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

3D printing is becoming an ubiquitous technology as a method of prototyping. However, often ignored are the surrounding technologies that have developed alongside it. 3D scanning and digital making methods, when used in parallel with 3d printing can help us record, analyse and preserve the world around us. These technologies push 3D printing past being simply a tool for testing mass-manufactured objects.

The Turnbull's Senior Conservator of Photographs, Mark Strange, will take you through an intermediate level course for people who work in libraries, museums, archives, iwi and Māori organisations who are responsible for the care and management of cellulosic film materials.

Covered by this course:

• Common behaviours of cellulosic film materials
• Basic identification
• Recognising stages of deterioration including visual, physical & chemistry
• Understanding the difference between materials and different climate control required
• Includes a practical component on preparing materials for cold storage

The course is limited to 10 participants, so get in touch quickly with Vicki-Anne Heikell to get a registration form. Email preservation@dia.govt.nz or phone 04 474 3066.

Book your spot by emailing Colleen.Slater@dia.govt.nz or calling 04 462 3920

Chaired by Alan Smith

Alan Smith was Deputy National Librarian through the 1980s introduction of on-line networking, the shift to the new building and of state sector reforms. His MPP thesis topic at Victoria University – where he was the University Librarian until retiring in 2004 – was “The State and National Identity – the role of cultural institutions in fostering a distinctive New Zealand national identity”. Longtime member of both Friends of the Turnbull Library and the National Library Society, he was President of the latter 1998-2001.

Panellists

Don Hunn CNZM: Eminent New Zealand diplomat and senior public servant, Don Hunn is the immediate past Chair of the Library and Information Advisory Commission, the statutory body which advises the Minister responsible for the National Library.

Professor Charlotte Macdonald: Professor of History, Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Macdonald is an authority on the National Library’s role, especially that of the Alexander Turnbull Library, as the repository of national literary taonga and a vital source for research.

Professor Anne Goulding: Professor of Library and Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, Prof Goulding is the Research Degrees Programme Director. Her main focus is the management of public libraries. She is also Editor of The Journal of Librarianship and Information Science and has published widely on public library services.

Karen Clarke: Currently Library Manager, St Patrick’s College, Karen Clarke has worked in school libraries for 18 years. She is Wellington Chairperson of School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA) and the Wellington regional representative on the SLANZA National Executive.

Hamish McIntosh discusses his investigation into using multi-material 3D printing to create life-like soft tissue models for medical training and simulation.

Lionel Taito-Matamua's research explores ways of creating sustainable communities by using 3D printing as a method of combating waste plastic issues in Samoa.

The Ministry for Women is honoured to invite you to an event celebrating Suffrage Day 2015.

To celebrate the suffragists who achieved ground-breaking change, join us to hear from women who are leading peace and security initiatives in New Zealand and overseas.

Opening address by Hon Louise Upston, Minister for Women, and presentations from:

• Wing Commander Michelle White, Acting Chief of Staff, Defence Logistics Command, New Zealand Defence Force
• Captain Maxine Lawes, Commanding Officer, HMNZS PHILOMEL, Royal New Zealand Navy
• Lucy Duncan, Deputy Secretary, Multilateral and Legal Affairs Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Light refreshments will follow the presentations.

Email events.natlib@dia.govt.nz to book your spot

Thomasin will give a taster of the different collections available on DigitalNZ, with a focus on materials of interest to family historians. Thomasin will also give a live demonstration of tips and tricks for refining your searches, and show how genealogists are using ‘sets’ to collect, curate, and share material.

Runs from 14 September – 4 December | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

Photograph of protesters on the Maori Land March, College Hill, 1975. Photographer: Christian Heinegg. Ref: PA7-15-17.

The 1975 Māori Land March, which travelled the length of the North Island, triggered a seismic shift in political consciousness about land, culture and identity – challenging Māori as well as Pākehā. It provided inspiration and support for subsequent struggles for the return of land, including the Raglan golf course in Whāingaroa and Bastion Point in Auckland. The exhibition title borrows from the marchers’ demand that not one more acre of Māori land be alienated.

Photographs by Christian Heinegg. L-R: Māori Land March in Hamilton, 24 September 1975, with Moka Puru, Tame Iti, and Whina Cooper (35mm-87527-2-F); Marchers crossing the Auckland Harbour Bridge, 23 September 1975 (35mm-87517-36-F); Hone Tuwhare during a rest stop for lunch in Northland, September 1975 (35mm-87503-7-F).

Four decades on, the historian Tiopira McDowell argues the march has become one of the most powerful and symbolic moments of modern New Zealand history, contributing to the moulding and reshaping of Māori and Pākehā culture, identity and race relations in the later decades of the 20th century.

The Alexander Turnbull Library holds Christian Heinegg’s photo essay of the march – more than 300 images, exhibited here for the first time.

Among those featured in Christian’s photos is Vivian Hutchinson, who suggested the idea of the march to Whina Cooper. This exhibition draws on Vivian’s papers at the Turnbull relating to Te Roopu o te Matakite (‘those with foresight’) – the group behind the march – and the papers of Whina Cooper’s biographer, Michael King.

At the 2004 foreshore and seabed hīkoi, a new generation of marchers carried the famous photo of Whina Cooper and her granddaughter Irene – a powerful statement of the enduring significance of the Land March.

Whānau from Panguru at the Foreshore and Seabed Hīkoi, Parliament grounds, Wellington, 5 May 2004. From left: Brother Brian Stanaway, Werehiko Hauiti (wearing beanie), Addonia Peita, Kamira Campbell (holding picture), Jah Peita (holding picture), Christina Te Wake, (wearing red tie) and Michael Jo Pomare (holding picture). Hinerangi Puru – Whina Cooper’s daughter – is standing behind the framed picture. Photographer: Dylan Owen. Ref: PADL-000075.

Further online resources

Follow the journey on Twitter

We're tracking the marcher's progress as they travel south to Wellington, posting images from the march, exactly forty years later to the day. You can follow along using the hashtag #landmarch1975.

Picasa web gallery

A collection of material relating to Te Roopu o Te Matakite and the Māori Land March, including photographs, video clips, poetry, newspaper articles and brochures. The photographs are by Christian Heinegg and other photographers, newspaper articles are from City News, brochures by Vivian Hutchinson, poems by Hone Tuwhare, newspaper articles from the New Zealand Herald by Stephanie Gray plus various other newspaper clippings and photographs / video clips from documentaries about Whina Cooper and the Land March. There's also a related YouTube channel.

Original documentation from Archives NZ

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Land March, Archives New Zealand has created an album on Flickr to highlight key documents that relate to the event. These include correspondence related to the planning that went on behind the scenes, a booklet issued by Te Rōpū O Te Matakite explaining why the Land March took place, the petition with 60,000 signatures presented by Dame Whina Cooper to Prime Minister Bill Rowling, and images of the Land March approaching Wellington City.

Te Matakite o Aotearoa – The Māori Land March on NZ on Screen

A copy of the 1975 documentary from director Geoff Steven, shot by Leon Narbey, sound by Phil Dodson, that includes interviews with many of those on the march, featuring Eva Rickard, Tama Poata and Whina Cooper, and stirring evidence of Cooper’s oratory skills.

Slideshow created by Melissa Bryant and Donald Gregory for the VUW Library

To commemorate the anniversary of the Land March the VUW Library is playing a slideshow of 25 ways to find out more about the Land March (including the Turnbull Gallery exhibition!) on big screens in the Library, with QR codes to help the students find items online so they can click the links.

You can find further information about the march on Te Ara and NZhistory.net.nz. The Wellington Museum is featuring an installation by Mary McFarlane, in memory of Dame Whina Cooper, called Hīkoi Iti.

Law firm Buddle Findlay has created a Māori law student scholarship to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Māori Land March. The scholarship will involve the payment of tuition fees for a third or fourth year Māori law student, who will also be welcomed into the Buddle Findlay summer clerk programme at the end of each year.

Conducted by design and medical researchers, this study focuses on turning CT, MRI and Angiogram scans of blood vessels and brain aneurysms into 3D printable files in order to improve preoperative planning for brain surgery and to help neurosurgeons in diagnosis and treatment.

Fergus is a literary commentator and is editor of the literary journal Sport, which he co-founded in 1988 with Elizabeth Knox, Damien Wilkins and Nigel Cox. Fergus was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to publishing in June 2014.

...a film about tiny islands and big ideas. It takes us to ‘Atenisi, a poor but vibrant university in the Kingdom of Tonga, where the veteran philosopher and opera buff Futa Helu and his talented but eccentric staff teach Greek philosophy alongside Polynesian dance, and advocate both freedom of thought and a concern for tradition.

Tongan Ark reviewed in the NZ Herald

Lucy's Shaping Tastes thesis composition proposes new approaches to culinary utensil design using traditional metals with modern 3d printing techniques.

Alex's Canopy project explores how consumers can get the most out of commercial 3d printing by building cost effective structures.

Discover Cuba Street's hidden history with a walking tour guided by Geoff Stahl, Victoria University lecturer and Cuba Street enthusiast.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing Amy.Hackett@dia.govt.nz

This workshop will:

• Teach you the basics of digital storytelling
• Teach you how to use online digital storytelling tools and apps
• Guide you in the creation of your own digital story
• Foster the "Tuakana/Teina" learning method
• Connect you to the tools, people and resources to create digital stories
• Be delivered within a Kaupapa Māori framework

This workshop is ideal for students, kaumātua and rangatahi, teachers, family historians, whakapapa enthusiasts, historians, researchers, librarians...

Book your spot by emailing Mereana.Taungapeau@dia.govt.nz or Kathleen.Tamaki@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Shows the method of weaving flax, and the finished effect, probably at Koroniti. Ref: PA1-q-257-45-2.

The editors of an upcoming book, United Nations Peacekeeping Challenge: The Importance of the Integrated Approach, which offers critical and innovative insights into the complexities of enhanced multilateral cooperation and integration will present their findings ranging from the challenges for land forces, duty of care for the peacekeepers, and the challenges of sharing the peace operations Space.

Email events.natlib@dia.govt.nz to book your spot

Reviews of the United Nations Peacekeeping Challenge

An accessible, hands-on guide to the changing strategic and tactical realities within peacekeeping deployments, this fascinating set of essays speaks to actual and potential troop contributors, everything you wanted to know about 21st-century peace operations but were afraid to ask.

– Thomas G. Weiss, The City University of New York, USA

Do more with less! Peacekeepers around the world are familiar with such instructions. But what are the consequences of such orders for the ability of missions to implement their mandates and for the UN to exercise its duty of care towards its peacekeepers? This volume provides a timely and useful analysis of these important issues.

– Paul D. Williams, George Washington University, USA

This presentation explores the roots of 3D printing and the way designers have employed this unique form of digital making. It illustrates creative endeavours from lights to houses and a variety of applications in between. Consideration is given to the new opportunities of co-design and mass customization and questions if 3D printing is starting to erode mass manufacture.

Come along and hear one or more of our excellent speakers, who will be covering the basics along with some great tips and tricks to help you find those elusive ancestors.

• 10:15am Getting started on your family history & an introduction to Ancestry.com.au, with New Zealand genealogist Christine Clement
• 11:30am Using the free website FamilySearch.org to research and build your family tree, with Garry Howard of FamilySearch
• 1:00pm 4 lightning talks to help you add detail, collaborate with others and self-publish your family story
• 2:30pm Digging deeper into New Zealand immigration and other records, with Christine Clement

Throughout the day there will be specialists in New Zealand, Māori, Pacific Islands, Australian, English, Irish and Scottish family history on hand to provide guidance and answer questions.

Experienced staff from the NZSG; Kiwi Collection; Hutt City Libraries; National and Alexander Turnbull Libraries; Archives New Zealand; Births, Deaths and Marriages; and New Zealand Defence Force Archives and Medals will also be there to help you.

See more information at RootsWeb

Family portrait outside a brick house, probably Christchurch region, ca 1905-1926. Ref: 1/1-028486-G.

Havana had its beginnings on the rooftop of Midnight Espresso but their coffee can now be found all over New Zealand. This is your chance to glimpse inside this Wellington institution with a tour and tasting at Havana Coffee Works.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing Amy.Hackett@dia.govt.nz

Some of these stand out as people you would like to spend time with. They grab you.

In this talk, three National Library staff members – Peter Ireland, Dylan Owen and Sascha Nolden talk about the some of the acquaintances they have made in the course of their research on World War One.

They include an inventor, largely unknown in New Zealand, who contributed significantly to the British war effort during the First World War, and an unusual East Coast labourer and how he got there. There are also two soldiers. One, William Clachan, left his home in Ohiro Road, eventually joining the King’s African Rifles in Nyasaland. The second, Frank Felix Reid, between April 1915 and October 1918 wrote 90 letters home to his family in Wellington, which provide a vivid account of the daily realities of military service through the eyes of a Wellingtonian reporting to his family in Wellington.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

The National Preservation Office Field Conservator, Vicki-Anne Heikell, will be available to offer you preservation advice on the care, handling and storage of your treasured family items.

Book your spot by emailing preservation@dia.govt.nz

Please note that conservators are not able to provide valuations.

Come along early for August's family history talk!

This time Jocelyn Chalmers, Manuscripts Specialist Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library, will explore some of those useful sources that may be forgotten now that everyone expects information to be found 'on the web'.

Green, Samuel Edwy, 1838-1935. Tapanui. ca 1881. Reference no: A-250-012. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Ref: A-250-012.

Runs from 17 August – 11 September | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

Back in 1860, when Wellington’s population was around 4,000, Cuba Street was then ‘only half its present length, and was very rough and badly lighted, with a footpath raised 3 feet above the roadway.’ (Evening Post, 1922)

Cuba Character on Tumblr | Twitter | Instagram | Victoria University

Then residences gave way to businesses, and Cuba Street became a destination. The street today has been transformed. It seems old, but is new, its identity constructed from elements of its colourful past.

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Throughout its history Cuba Street has never stayed the same, and in this exhibition we have avoided defining its elusive and changing character. Instead, these are impressionistic views. What does Cuba Street mean to you?

Cuba Character is the result of a joint project between Victoria University students of Museum and Heritage Studies and the National Library. We endeavoured to explore the familiar and the unknown as well – of exhibitions. In facing challenges and learning new skills, we have come to value the experience of developing an exhibition from start to finish. We hope you will share the same enthusiasm for this project.

The exhibition team was:

• Helena Botes
• Natasha Fernandez
• Rosie Goldsmith
• Amy Hackett
• Tracey Kearns
• Natalie Liverant
• Jordan McOnie
• Lizzie Murray
• Rebecca Nuttall
• Pip Steel
• Melissa Wells

Cuba Character on the blog

Always a smile and a wave and the best coffee in town: Deirdre Tarrant and the character of Cuba Street.

Stories from 201 Cuba Street: Memories of life at Orsini's.

Manic in the cafe: Cafe culture catches critical qualities of Cuba St's character.

Tutors: Megan Hutching, freelance oral historian, and Lynette Shum, Oral History Adviser.

All equipment is provided and participants receive comprehensive resources.

Attendance at day one is a prerequisite. This is a two-day course, limited to 12 participants (first in first served!). You will need to bring your own lunch, or there are limited opportunities close by.

Day two: Recording seriously. This workshop will build on the introductory course, reviewing work completed and covering in more detail interview techniques, project planning and technical, ethical, and legal issues. Email Lynette.Shum@dia.govt.nz for more information.

Download the registration form (PDF, 287KB)

See day one of Essentials of Oral History

See the abstracting oral history workshop

More about our oral history advice

Workshops elsewhere and Māori-English bilingual courses are also available. For the bilingual courses, please contact Taina Tangaere McGregor, the Oral History Adviser, Maori, on 04 462 3976.

The Turnbull's specialist imaging staff will talk about the process of digitising material in the collections and show you how this happens in the Library.

This is a free event but space is limited so please book ahead.

Mark Beatty prepares a manuscript for digitising

Llewelyn Jones shoots this fore-edge painting using the Phase 645DF+ camera and IQ180 digital back

Come along and view some of the Cook Islands material held in the Alexander Turnbull Library Collections and join us in marking 50 years of Cook Islands Independence.

Governor-General Lord Ranfurly reading the annexation proclamation to Queen Makea 8th October 1900. Ref: PAColl-4235.

This week

Douglas Lilburn’s strong connection to the natural environment is considered pivotal to New Zealand composition. In this concert, students of the New Zealand School of Music Sonic Arts programme continue this exploration through a series of soundscape inspired pieces. The concert will also feature a contemporary interpretation of Lilburn’s work Lines and Distances, spatialised through a mechatronic loudspeaker.

Composer Douglas Lilburn in the electronic music studio at Victoria University, 1969. Ref: EP/1969/3689/18-F.

As late as 1971, the Australian Cabinet agreed that Pacific Islanders were too ‘unsophisticated’ and ‘unsuited’ to settle freely in Australia. The election of the Whitlam Government in 1972, however, led to the abandonment of this and other final vestiges of the White Australia policy. But in the four decades since Australia has progressively curtailed the rights of New Zealand migrants entering the country. There is good cause to believe that Australian dissatisfaction with New Zealand’s more liberal rules of entry for Pacific Island migrants is one of the reasons behind this.'

Paul Hamer Paul Hamer is a Wellington historian and a research associate at Victoria University's School of Māori Studies, Te Kawa a Māui. He is studying for a PhD on aspects of Māori migration to Australia.

Please RSVP to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz with Pacific in the subject line.

Less than two years after KM’s arrival in London in 1908 to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, the enormous Japanese exhibition was held in London from May to October 1910.

There were Japanese allusions in both her fiction and her personal writing for the rest of her life. In addition, in 1922, Mansfield’s life was transformed by a book entitled Cosmic Anatomy and the Structure of the Ego, whose Eastern mystic philosophy she wholeheartedly embraced, and which drove her to seek a spiritual cure for her diseased body, since physical cures had proved worthless.

A Friends of the Turnbull Library event

Katherine Mansfield at her work table, Villa Isola, Menton, France, 1920. Ida Baker Collection. Ref: 1/2-011985-F.

Gerri Kimber, is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton, the Chair of the international Katherine Mansfield Society, and author or editor of a number of books relating to Mansfield including Katherine Mansfield: the view from France (2008), Katherine Mansfield and the art of the short story (2015) and Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012-16). Gerri is currently a Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2014-15, and is the recipient of the Friends of Turnbull Library Research Grant for 2015.

What was the “delicate matter” Rev Francis Hall raised with the CMS headquarters about the behaviour of Tuai and Titere in England? What do the missionaries’ letters and journals tell us about Maori clothing? How long did it take for Thomas Kendall to get a new wig? These questions – and more – will be answered in this presentation.

James Barry, The Rev Thomas Kendall and the Maori chiefs Hongi and Waikato, 1820. Ref: G-618.

Make a beautiful felt bag with an embroidered design inspired by our exhibition, ‘Tell Tails’. This whānau friendly craft activity is suitable for ages 8 and up, as participants will learn some simple sewing and stitching techniques. All are welcome and it’s free!

This week

Douglas Lilburn pioneered electronic music in New Zealand. In this concert, Sonic Arts students from the New Zealand School of Music pay homage to Lilburn’s work with analogue synthesisers. The concert will feature Lilburn’s Cicadas, Oscillators and Tree Frogs (1967) and new student compositions. A live interpretation of Lilburn’s piece will feature the technology that Lilburn himself used in composing his influential electronic works.

Composer Douglas Lilburn in the electronic music studio at Victoria University, 1969. Ref: EP/1969/3689/18-F.

Using a unique, little-used collection of censored letters at Archives New Zealand (the Army’s ‘Secret Registry’) this talk by Jared Davidson will offer a fascinating insight into postal censorship, state attitudes toward dissent, and the New Zealand home front during the First World War.

Jared Davidson is an archivist by day & labour historian by night. His works on the intersection of power, culture & class includes two books: Remains to Be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill's Ashes in New Zealand (2011), & Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism (2013).

Administration and Miscellaneous - Censorship - Regulations postal [AAYS 8638 Box 771 23/8, Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office]

On the weekend of July 25 and 26 the National Library will be open both days from 8.30am – 5.00pm with a wide range of free public events.

The Alexander Turnbull Library will be open on Saturday 10am – 5pm, and will also offer a white glove experience on both days.

HOME café will be open on both days from 9.00am.

Come on in to see:

• Short theatre pieces bringing the lives of Wellington characters to colourful life. These pieces have been especially written for this event and the lives dipped into include Te Rauparaha, Robyn Hyde, Carmen, James. K. Baxter and Nancy Wake.
• A chance to get a closer look at some of the treasures of the Alexander Turnbull Library, including cricket memorabilia and items from the last 150 years of Wellington’s history.
• Guided tours of the exhibition World War 100 - A Contemporary Conversation and a chance to view Tell Tales, an exhibition by Jo Torr, Maureen Lander and Christine Hellyar
• A futuristic glance at what Wellington might be like in years to come through an exhibition mounted by Victoria University, highlighting projects in 3D printing, architecture, science and design.

Timetable of events

Tutors: Megan Hutching, freelance oral historian, and Lynette Shum, Oral History Adviser.

All equipment is provided and participants receive comprehensive resources.

This is a two-day course, limited to 12 participants (first in first served!). You will need to bring your own lunch, or there are limited opportunities close by.

Day one: An introduction to oral history methodology. How to plan an oral history project, choose the best equipment, achieve clear audio recordings, select informants, follow ethical procedures, develop questioning techniques, process oral history, and make the material available for use. Bring a recorder if you have one you intend to use for recording. Exercises to be completed before Day Two will be discussed. Email Lynette.Shum@dia.govt.nz for more information.

Download the registration form (PDF, 287KB)

See day two of Essentials of oral history

See the abstracting oral history workshop

More about our oral history advice

Workshops elsewhere and Māori-English bilingual courses are also available. For the bilingual courses, please contact Taina Tangaere McGregor, the Oral History Adviser, Maori, on 04 462 3976.

In the wake of the Great War, Chinese intellectuals such as Liang Qichao (1873-1929) began to rethink their previous perception of the West, of modernity and of China’s future.

Liang travelled to Paris for the Peace Conference at the Palace of Versailles (along with other influential scholars of the time), and recorded his impressions of Europe after the Great War, which were a stark contrast to the image of the modern and superior civilization he previously conceived and hoped for China. In his re-evaluation of the West and China’s future, Liang particularly pondered on science, materialism, religion and cultural values.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About the speaker

Dr Limin Bai is a Senior Lecturer in the Chinese Programme in the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington. Her interests are Chinese history, society and culture, with particular interests in intelligentsia in late imperial China, and its influence on and contributions to education and culture.

This week

Douglas Lilburn’s electronic works melded electronic and instrumental approaches to create new sound worlds. In this concert, Sonic Arts students from the New Zealand School of Music explore relationships between electronic sounds and acoustic instruments. Lilburn's wonderful but little-known electroacoustic version of his celebrated composition Sings Harry will feature in the concert.

Composer Douglas Lilburn in the electronic music studio at Victoria University, 1969. Ref: EP/1969/3689/18-F.

Jock received the 2014 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Non-fiction. Looking back on the design and development of Te Ara, Jock offers insights into the editing challenges of this enormously successful website, www.TeAra.govt.nz.

Te Ara screen showing story on advertising by Jock Phillips. The advertisement for the refrigerator is held in the Turnbull’s Ephemera Collection Ref: Eph-A-HOUSEHOLD-1955-01

Using images from the Library’s collections Joan McCracken will be sharing the joys of looking very closely at photographs and what they can reveal – sometimes unexpectedly!

Joan McCracken is currently the Outreach Services Leader at the Alexander Turnbull Library, but for many years she worked in Turnbull Library Pictures assisting researchers to find material in the Library’s pictorial collections.

Unidentified couple, probably Canterbury area. Photo by Adam Henry Pearson Maclay. Ref: 1/1-026045-G.

The Sino-Indian rivalry has had two traditional dimensions – a rivalry over status in Asia and a bitter territorial dispute over their long unmarked Himalayan border. While these two features have remained constant in the Sino-Indian relationship, the intensity with which their rivalry has been played out has varied as a result of a number of other factors, especially the Tibet issue, China’s strategic and nuclear relationship with Pakistan, and China and India’s relations with the United States (and the Soviet Union during the Cold War).

In recent years, the Sino-Indian rivalry has somewhat escalated yet again as a consequence of their rapid economic growth and growing military power. Continued economic growth has the potential to add a commercial dimension to their already unresolved status and territorial issues as Asia’s rising powers compete for scarce energy and other natural resources to fuel their economies.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About the speaker

Manjeet S. Pardesi is a Lecturer in International Relations and an Asia Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He obtained his PhD in Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB). His research interests include causes of war, theories of foreign policymaking, the rise and fall of great powers, international relations in world history, Asian security, and Indian foreign/security policy.

He is a co-editor of India’s Military Modernization: Challenges and Prospects (Oxford, 2014).

French publishers Rouff issued a 'patriotic' series of short books based on real incidents of WWI, which appeared between 1917 and 1920. These featured such events as the bombing of Rheims, the death of Edith Cavell, and the sinking of the Lusitania, alongside representations of life at the front for stretcher-bearers, cooks, journalists and the like. The cover art was eye-catching, much of it by Alsatian-born artist Gil Baer (1863-1931).

This talk looks at his career as an Alsatian exile, with a focus on his contributions to this propagandistic series.

Book your space by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Cover of Vive La France, illustrated by Gil Baer.

These performances will take place every Thursday until the end of July 2015.

This week

Fist Kisser is,
finger fountains of improv precipitating 80`s cinematic pathos, in the mountain ranges of
his keyboard.

A Friends of the Turnbull Library event

Frederick John Owen Evans, HMS Acheron in Milford Sound ca 11th March 1851. Ref: D-008-002.

All equipment is provided and all participants receive comprehensive guides and resources.

Limited to 8 participants.

Please note this course will only be held if we have the required numbers.

Download the registration form (pdf, 287KB)

More Oral History workshops: Essentials of Oral History, day one and day two

More about our oral history advice

Workshops elsewhere and Māori-English bilingual courses are also available. For the bilingual courses, please contact Taina Tangaere McGregor, the Oral History Adviser, Maori, on 04 462 3976.

For other oral history advice and workshops, please call 04 462 3977.

These performances will take place every Thursday until the end of July 2015.

This week

ARA: Alistair Fraser, Rob Thorne, and Ariana Tikao.

Experience musical improv Aotearoa-style with this new taonga puoro ensemble playing traditional Maori instruments.

We ask people bringing their lunch to sit further back, as the instruments are not generally played around kai. Thanks!

ARA. Photo by Paul Moss.

You are invited to this free public talk by Dr Carwyn Jones, marking the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta and the 175th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Eight hundred years after its signing, Magna Carta continues to be invoked as a powerful symbol of liberty and fundamental rights. This is depite the fact that much of the Magna Carta relates specifically to the issues and institutions of medieval England.

In New Zealand, only one clause remains on the statute books. It concludes with the statement “we will not deny or defer to any man either justice or right.” This reflects the principle that everyone is protected by the law and no one or no institution is above the law.

This lecture examines some of the ways this principle plays an important role in the recognition and protection of human rights in New Zealand today, in particular in the context of rights enshrined in the Treaty of Waitangi.

This talk is part of the series on conflict jointly presented by the National Library and Victoria University of Wellington.

Book your space by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About Carwyn Jones

Dr Carwyn Jones ia senior lecturer at the Faculty of law at Victoria University of Wellington. He is of Ngāti Kahungunu and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki descent. His research interests relate to the Treaty of Waitangi and indigenous legal tradtions. He is co-editor of the Māori Law Review. He has a PhD from the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

This panel examines the experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe as they sought refuge in New Zealand, and New Zealand’s responses to their plight.

Moderated by David Zwartz, with panelists Dr Ann Beaglehole, Dr Oliver Sutherland, and Louisa Hormann.

What was the official government response to the European refugee crisis? What was the impact of the Christchurch Refugees’ Emergency Committee – which advocated on behalf of refugees in the face of a very reluctant government?

New Zealand accepted around 1,100 refugees Jewish refugees from Europe during between 1933-46. This panel also examines the economic and cultural arguments underpinning the government’s restrictions on German-Jewish refugee migration, and the experiences of Jewish refugees who made it to New Zealand and the challenges they faced.

Email events@holocaustcentre.org.nz to book your seat

About the panelists

Dr Ann Beaglehole is a historian who has published widely on the experiences of refugees from Europe during World War II, and other refugees in New Zealand. Dr Beaglehole’s latest book is Refuge New Zealand: A Nation’s Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers (2013).

Dr Oliver Sutherland is a retired scientist. He was a member of the Nelson Māori Committee, established the Nelson Race Relations Action Group and, in 1973, the Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination. He is the author of Paikea: The Life of I.L.G. Sutherland (2013).

Louisa Hormann is an MA student in the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focusses on the material culture of German-Jewish refugee migration. She received the Victoria Plus Award in 2014 for outstanding commitment to leadership, volunteering & professional development.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

The conference programme caters for both translators and interpreters, offering exciting presentations and opportunities for professional and business development for NZSTI members and non-members.

The keyword of ‘conflict’ is relevant in that translators and interpreters are often essential for international communication around external conflicts. As communicators, translators and interpreters are frequently a vital link.

They are not only the link between countries, but also business entities and individuals. In all of these areas, communication is essential to avoid or resolve conflict.

There is also conflict for translators and interpreters when faced with international competition, having to deal with a broad range of issues around rates and payment, machine translations and fuzzy matches, all the while defending their qualifications; conflicts when dealing with customers; conflicts when interpreting between opposing parties in court or elsewhere; conflict of cultures that leads to misunderstandings – the list is endless.

Join the conference to share knowledge and experiences, to network with other translators and interpreters, and to find out more about NZSTI.

For more information and registration, visit the NZSTI conference site

Alexander Turnbull Library Outreach Services is offering workshops for people considering using oral history in their work, community or personal projects. The workshops will be tutored by Hugo Manson, broadcaster and oral historian, and Lynette Shum, Oral History Adviser, Alexander Turnbull Library.

By the end of the workshop participants should have a basic understanding of how to tackle an oral history project from planning right through to archiving.

All equipment is provided and all participants receive comprehensive guides and resources.

The course is limited to 12 participants. The fee includes morning and afternoon tea.

Day two: Recording seriously. This workshop builds on Day One, reviewing work completed and covering in more detail interview techniques, project planning and technical, ethical, and legal issues. Attendance at Day One is a prerequisite.

Please note this course will only be held if we have the required numbers.

Download the registration form (pdf, 313KB)

See day one of Essentials of Oral History

More about our oral history advice

Workshops elsewhere and Māori-English bilingual courses are also available. For the bilingual courses, please contact Taina Tangaere McGregor, the Oral History Adviser, Maori, on 04 462 3976.

For other oral history advice and workshops, please call 04 462 3977.

These performances will take place every Thursday until the end of July 2015.

This week

Violinists Laura Barton and Matthew Cook perform.

Laura Barton and Matthew Cook.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

A whānau friendly craft activity as part of the Tell Tails exhibition to celebrate Matariki, the Māori new year. Come and craft your very own Manu aute to take home.

These performances will take place every Thursday until the end of July 2015.

This week

Lucy Gijsbers (cello) and Andrew Atkins (piano) perform a selection of solo and duo pieces by Lilburn, and some other repertoire.

Composer Douglas Lilburn in the electronic music studio at Victoria University, 1969. Ref: EP/1969/3689/18-F.

Ken Ross is writing a book evaluating New Zealand prime ministers’ engagement in global diplomacy since 1945. He has commented: “Our prime ministers are the most important players projecting New Zealand globally. I have watched them for the past five decades, usually from a vantage point of close proximity, in the role of informing them about current global developments”.

A Friends of the Turnbull Library event

Portrait of Prime Minister David Lange, 1986. Photo by Merv Griffiths. Ref: EP/1986/3948/17-F.

About Ken Ross

Ken was an analyst with the External Assessments Bureau, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, from 1976 until 2012. He has been a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Canberra.

The National Preservation Office Field Conservator, Vicki-Anne Heikell, will be available to offer you preservation advice on the care, handling and storage of your treasured family items.

Book your spot by emailing preservation@dia.govt.nz

Please note that conservators are not able to provide valuations.

Come along early for June's family history talk!

The speakers will be Jenni Chrisstoffels (Research Librarian, Pictorial), Rita Havell (Research Librarian), and Amy Watling (Online Research Services Leader)

Stick around for the conservation clinic

Willis Street, Wellington, 1863. Painting by William Howard Holmes. Ref: B-121-015.

The title of this talk comes from Some schools and schoolmasters of early Wellington: with an account of the provision made for education in later times, by George MacMorran. (Wellington; S. & W. Mackay, 1900.) From the preface: “Much interest always attaches in later times to the early chronicles of such a settlement as ours”.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Groups from Epsom Girls Grammar School (Auckland), Baradene College (Auckland), Nga Tawa College (Marton), Wellington College (Wellington) and St Margaret’s College (Christchurch) will showcase their productions and share the rich experience gained through a year and a half of collaborative work with their French counterparts, who will be streamed directly into the room.

The day will also include the launch of The Battle of Conscience (La Bataille de la Conscience), a book written by the students of Baradene College and Lycée Gay-Lussac as part of their joint project.

Spaces are limited, so book your spot through Eventbrite

About Shared Histories

Shared Histories is a France-New Zealand school collaboration and exchange programme initiated in partnership with the New Zealand and French Ministries of Education to commemorate the First World War. It aims to create a framework for New Zealand and French schools to form partnerships and collaborate on WW1 projects.

Since the beginning of 2014, more than twenty schools in New Zealand have been involved in joint projects with their French partners. By working together through distant exchanges on research or creative activities on the Great War, students of both countries have been able to deepen their understanding of this major historical event while gaining intercultural and language skills. Some projects include field trips to France where the students meet their partners and visit historical sites related to the war.

For more information, contact Patrick.Coustance@diplomatie.gouv.fr

Patriotism is most fervently displayed in times of war and impending war. Even during times of peace, patriotism is often expressed in commemorations of war and in ceremonies involving the military. Is patriotism, then, necessarily warlike? Does patriotism lust for violence? Or is there an achievable form of patriotism grounded in respect for humanity in general, and aimed at achieving peace?

In this talk Simon Keller traces a series of philosophical arguments about the connection between patriotism and war, asking along the way what values and beliefs characterise patriotism, how patriotism is cultivated and used, and how patriotism is manifested in New Zealand.

This talk is part of the series on conflict jointly presented by the National Library and Victoria University of Wellington.

Book your space by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About Simon Keller

Professor Simon Keller teaches ethics and political philosophy at Victoria University.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

This talk is part of the series on conflict jointly presented by the National Library and Victoria University of Wellington.

This event is free but space is limited, so book your seat by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About Terence O'Brien

Terence O’Brien is the founding Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand (CSS:NZ) and currently is a Senior Fellow at the Centre.

He served as Ambassador to the UN (including on the Security Council), to the European Union (EU), and as Ambassador to WTO-GATT and European Office of UN.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Used by the Tulafale or Orator Chief, proverbs hint to the past and values of the people.

In celebration of Samoan Language Week, special guest speakers will discuss the meaning of service-themed proverbs and how they relate to Fa’a Samoa, the Samoan way of life.

Samoan talking chief Lauati, between 1891-1939. Ref: PAColl-3060-008.

“Tautua nei mo sou manuia a taeao – Serve now for a better tomorrow”

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Join the artists as they talk about their work and the collections they worked with.

Runs from 25 May – 14 August 2015 | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

Tell tails, the trailing feathered wind indicators known to Māori as puhi (on canoes) or pūhihi (on kites), are the inspiration for these artworks. They allude to the winds of change that swept Oceania following contact with other nations.

Three prominent New Zealand artists have come together in this exhibition, their remarkable works a response to original early paintings, drawings, letters and printed works held in the Turnbull.

Their artworks in flax, fabric and feathers represent the layered and textured cultural exchanges between Europeans and Oceanic peoples.

L-R: Christine Hellyar's Red cloud; Maureen Lander's Hariata’s War Garb; Jo Torr's Moemoeā (dreaming).

Christine Hellyar’s Red Cloud was inspired by her observation that in William Ellis’s portraits, he shows the Tahitian people wearing European neckerchiefs. Red Cloud is made of dozens of handkerchiefs, neckerchiefs, serviettes and ribbons, all used as items of exchange. Not all exchanges were beneficial, however. James Cook’s interpreter Omai was given several handkerchiefs and serviettes when he returned to Tahiti, perhaps contributing to his death and that of his two Māori servants from lung infections. The colour red is the most valuable dye in the Pacific – it is also the colour of spilt blood.

Maureen Lander’s Hariata’s War Garb re-creates the woven sash worn by Hongi’s daughter Hariata Rongo in Merrett’s The Warrior Chieftains of New Zealand. Lander draws on the manuscript letters of her great-great-grandfather J. J. Fergusson to enhance and illustrate Hariata’s ‘warrior chieftain’ status – and highlights her penchant for wearing a sash and bonnet when leading her troops.

Jo Torr’s coat in Moemoeā (dreaming) is similar in design to those worn by Tuai and Titere in their portraits, painted by James Barry in London in 1818. The young men were sponsored by Rev. Samuel Marsden to sail to England and help formulate a Māori–English grammar and vocabulary. It was thought both cultures would benefit from this exchange. The embroidered birdman kite is taken from a letter Titere wrote home, and suggests his yearning to travel back to his people.

Alexander Turnbull Library Outreach Services is offering workshops for people considering using oral history in their work, community or personal projects. The workshops will be tutored by Hugo Manson, broadcaster and oral historian, and Lynette Shum, Oral History Adviser, Alexander Turnbull Library.

By the end of the workshop participants should have a basic understanding of how to tackle an oral history project from planning right through to archiving.

All equipment is provided and all participants receive comprehensive guides and resources.

The course is limited to 12 participants. The fee includes morning and afternoon tea.

Day one: An introduction to oral history methodology. How to plan an oral history project, choose the best equipment, achieve clear audio recordings, select informants, follow ethical procedures, develop questioning techniques, process oral history, and make the material available for use. Bring a recorder if you have one you intend to use for recording. Exercises to be completed before Day Two will be discussed.

Please note this course will only be held if we have the required numbers.

Download the registration form (pdf, 313KB)

See day two of Essentials of Oral History

More about our oral history advice

Workshops elsewhere and Māori-English bilingual courses are also available. For the bilingual courses, please contact Taina Tangaere McGregor, the Oral History Adviser, Maori, on 04 462 3976.

For other oral history advice and workshops, please call 04 462 3977.

The speakers

• Al Gray, Senior Indexer for Index New Zealand
• Dave Small, Indexing Team leader
• Megan Scott, part-time indexer

In fact, the Asia-Pacific region has rarely been more peaceful than it has for the last three or four decades, and that state is likely to continue. Jim Rolfe, Director of the New Zealand Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, discusses the regional security environment and how New Zealand needs to respond to it.

Jim Rolfe is Director of the New Zealand Centre for Strategic Studies.

Please RSVP to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Jim Rolfe.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

• Vincent O'Sullivan
• Bernadette Hall
• James Norcliffe
• Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
• Kerrin P. Sharpe
• Marisa Cappetta
• Ciaran Fox
• Roger Hickin

Mark is digital collection strategy leader at the Turnbull.

A Friends of the Turnbull Library event

Man operating large computer, 1975. Ref: 1/2-216797-F.

And on Wednesday, 13 May, David will be at the National Library, Aitken Street, for a conversation about his writing, his travels, and the impressions and insights he has gained so far from his time in New Zealand and the wide range of Kiwis he has met.

RSVP by Monday 11 May to Robyn Skrzynska to book your spot

David takes an immersive approach to his writing: spending extended periods exploring a country and learning about its culture and people. Two years in Australia were the inspiration for his first novel, Nullarbor, (Hoëbeke, 2007), which won the Nicolas Bouvier Prize for Travel Writing. Mal tiempo (Fayard, 2009), which has a boxing theme and is set in Cuba, was awarded the Millepages Prize, the Prix des Hebdos en Région Prize and the City of Caen Prize. His most recent novel Manuel el Négro, published by Fayard in 2013, is the result of a long stay in the world of Andalucia’s flamenco gypsies.

Following the interview, the audience will have the opportunity to ask David questions about his experiences.

An audio recording will be made of the interview.

The evening is being held under the auspices of the Friends of the Randell Cottage, The Randell Cottage Writers Trust and the National Library.

Yet books and libraries have always been important as a subject and vehicle for art, now as much as ever before. Join Roger Blackley, from the Art History programme at Victoria University, for a long view of the art of the book.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

This presentation is part of the Author’s Voice series, an occasional series of talks by authors who have used the Alexander Turnbull Library for their research.

Group from Motueka outside a whare, circa 1860s. Photographer unidentified. Ref: PAColl-2145-2-1.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

The endeavour to comprehend the war extended beyond those in favour of the war. Those outside the wartime consensus crafted dissenting interpretations which referenced their own various touchstones.

Lastly, this phenomena is evident in New Zealand history past 1918 as society revisited and revalued the conflict to reflect contemporary circumstances and concerns. This talk offers an overview of some of the major meanings by which New Zealand society has comprehended the war and some of their historical implications.

Book your space by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Steven Loveridge

Steven Loveridge.

Steven Loveridge holds a PhD in history from Victoria University and has published and taught on various aspects of the First World War. His book Calls to Arms: New Zealand Society and Commitment to the Great War was published by Victoria University Press in 2014.

John is a Lecturer in Printmaking at Massey University College of Creative Arts.

Limited to 15 participants, so book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

Finding your way around Massey University

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

So began a troubled occupation of Samoa by New Zealand.

In this talk Damon Salesa considers the legacy of New Zealand’s involvement in Samoa.

Toeolesulusulu Damon Selasa is Associate Professor of Pacific Studies at University of Auckland. He was consultant historian for the Auckland War Museum’s 2014 exhibition Entangled Islands, exploring the taking of Samoa from the Germans in 1914 and the ensuing 50 years of colonial government.

A Friends of the Turnbull Library event

Email events.natlib@dia.govt.nz to book your spot

Hoisting the Union Jack, Courthouse, Apia, 1914. Ref: PA1-q-107-32-1.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

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Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngāiterangi, Ngāti Maniapoto) and Lee Timutimu (Ngāti Awa, Ngāiterangi, Tūhoe) have brought together an outstanding group of speakers who are passionate about the subject of Māori participation in war. Our people will share their extensive research experience and anecdotal evidence in this one-off session designed for a whānau audience.

Ultimately, war has played a significant part in the shaping of who we are as a people and culture, not to mention our reputation and standing on the world stage. It is but another thread in the fabric of our history. Join us in this special Anzac session to hear interesting accounts about the world war and other campaigns, from a Māori perspective, but with a universal appeal.

“Kei wareware tātou...lest we forget.”

This event is primarily an English language event for a family audience – both Māori and non-Māori. Potentially this means it will be a culturally diverse group and all ages audience. However, given the subject matter, some bilingual elements may be used when and where our speakers feel it is appropriate. Since it is a whānau affair, it will be a relaxed and informal environment.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Kaikorero (guest speakers)

Puawai Cairns (Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāiterangi)

“The Sons of Tūmatauenga – Telling the stories of the Māori soldiers at Gallipoli.”

Curator Māori Contemporary Culture, Puawai is one of the curators on the recently opened major exhibition ‘Gallipoli: the scale of our war’ at Te Papa. For the last few years, Puawai has focused her research attentions on the biographical histories of the Māori men who served at Gallipoli, several of whom will be featured in the exhibition. She also presented some of her research and works at TEDx Tauranga last year.

Leanne Tamaki (Tūhoe, Ngāti Maniapoto)

“Remembering War – Following in the footsteps of of the 28th Māori Battalion.”

Leanne is Administrator of the 28th Māori Battalion website at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Leanne travelled with an 80 strong tour party to Europe and North Africa in May 2014 to retrace the steps of our ancestors that fought in WWII.

Taina McGregor (Ngāti Porou)

“Nā tātau, mā rātau – The home effort 1915 – 1918.”

Taina is the Oral History Advisor, Māori, at the Alexander Turnbull Library. She was a principal interviewer on the C Company Oral History Project in 1994. This project went on to become one of the largest oral history projects in NZ. Taina is also a trustee of Nga Taonga a Nga Tama Toa trust, who are the kaitiaki (caretakers) of the C Company Oral History and Memorabilia Collection.

Tata Lawton (Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Paoa, Ngai Tai and Ngāti Mahanga)

“Demystifying research – a C Company experience.”

Tata is currently the Deputy Director-General Kahui Kaupapa Atawhai for the Department of Conservation. He's also lead researcher for the C Company Oral History Project, 28 Māori Battalion, which has been going since 1994. This project is a personal, social and military history of the Māori people who reside on the East Coast region of the North Island from the Hawkes Bay area to the Bay of Plenty.

Tata has a significant background in research, history (Māori, New Zealand and Pacific), indigenous rights and traditional knowledge. He has worked in the Treaty Settlements arena as a researcher for the Waitangi Tribunal.

Schedule

9.55am – 10.00am: Mihi whakatau / Welcome

10.00am – 10.30am: Session 1, Puawai Cairns

• “The Sons of Tūmatauenga – Telling the stories of the Māori soldiers at Gallipoli.”

10.30am – 10.35am: Break

10.35am – 11.05am: Session 2, Leanne Tamaki

• “Remembering War – Following in the footsteps of the 28th Māori Battalion.”

11.05am – 11.10am: Break

11.10am – 11.40am: Session 3, Taina McGregor

• “Nā tātau, mā rātau – The home effort 1915 – 1918.”

11.40am – 11.45am: Break

11.45am – 12.15am: Session 4, Tata Lawton

• “Demystifying research – a C Company experience.”

12.15am: Kua muru / End

Geoff Mew and Adrian Humphris are the authors of a study of Welllington’s suburban development - Ring Around The City and just recently Raupo to Deco: Wellington Styles and Architects 1840 - 1940, on sale at the event.

Thorndon is of one of New Zealand’s oldest suburbs and is of great national significance. Its buildings include some of the city’s oldest houses and intact Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes. No other suburb in Wellington contains such a range of residential and other buildings of undoubted heritage value.

RSVP by emailing Colleen.Slater@dia.govt.nz or calling 04 462 3920

A National Library Society event

Limited to 18 so book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

The National Preservation Office Field Conservator, Vicki-Anne Heikell, will be available to offer you preservation advice on the care, handling and storage of your treasured family items.

Book your spot by emailing preservation@dia.govt.nz

Please note that conservators are not able to provide valuations.

Come along early for April's family history talk!

The presentation, prepared by the Online Cenotaph Co-ordinator Victoria Passau, gives some background to the project and the changes made in the redevelopment. Learn how you can use the greater search capabilities of the new site, and add your own information and images for family members.

Stick around for the conservation clinic

Shrine to World War I soldiers, ca 1918. Photo by Cornall (Harrogate, Yorkshire, England). Ref: PAColl-9261.

This is a double launch with Steele Roberts for Let the writer stand: the work of Vincent O’Sullivan, edited by Judith Dell Panny.

Dame Fiona Kidman will launch both books at this event.

Copies will be available for purchase courtesy of Vic Books.

• Being here: Selected poems, hardback, $40.
• Let the writer stand, paperback, $30.

Morgan Bach

Harley Bell

Lynn Davidson

Catherine English

Margaret Moores

Claire Orchard

Carl remained in Kigali providing aid to groups of orphans trapped around the city, helping to save hundreds of lives.

They will share stories of courage, forgiveness, and resilience during the 1994 Genocide as well as Rwanda's remarkable journey of recovery and healing. Come join the conversation of how stories and service can counter identity-based violence.

Please RSVP to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

This event is part of our series Conflict: A Contemporary Conversation.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

A theatre performance that honours the often unacknowledged roles of women in the First World War.

Devised by six Wellington women under the direction of Voice Arts Trust, in a project funded by the British Council and the Goethe Institut, each woman explores her own personal, historical and emotional connections to the great war.

The performance is 25 minutes long followed by a Q & A with the cast.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Voice Arts Trust has received funding support from the Wellington City Council to stage this show in various Wellington venues.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Suitable for ages 5 and up!

Dr Joe Burton examines how cyberspace is affecting the way wars are being fought and examines the claim that the internet is becoming an influential tool in contemporary conflict.

He will focus on the growing militarisation of cyberspace, the ‘amplification’ effects of cyber-attacks in warfare, and the idea of cyberspace as the new ‘5th domain’ of warfare.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

About Dr Burton

Joe Burton is a lecturer in International Relations and International Security at Victoria University. His research is currently focused on US foreign policy, contemporary security issues, such as cyber security and energy security, and how states, non-state actors, international organisations and alliances are adapting to deal with new strategic challenges.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Ye know ek that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem, and yet thei spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Ek for to wynnen love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.

(Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, 2. 22-28)

Chaucer in the middle

One beautiful book in the current exhibition is The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones, and published by William Morris and his Kelmscott Press in 1896. Chronologically, Chaucer (1340?-1400) lived roughly half way between the earliest surviving written English and our own day.

In today’s talk Robert Easting will read some Anglo-Saxon (Old English), Chaucer (Middle English), and Shakespeare (Early Modern English) in their ‘original’ pronunciations, and consider briefly how the language of Chaucer fits amid the ‘chaunge / Withinne a thousand yeer’.

Old English (700-1100), Early Modern English (1500-1700), Middle English (1100-1500), Modern English (1700-today)

Emeritus Professor Robert Easting

Emeritus Professor Robert Easting, MA, DPhil (Oxon.), was born and grew up in the UK, then taught English Language and Literature at Victoria University of Wellington 1973-2010. His research publications focus on medieval European visionary literature in Latin and Middle English.

For 10 year olds to adults.

Limited to 20, so book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

Limited to 15 so book your spot by emailing wtapress@vuw.ac.nz

An address by Professor Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies at Victoria University

In announcing the Iraq deployment, Prime Minister Key recently told parliament that ‘New Zealand is a country that stands up for its values’. Does this explain why we make contributions to contemporary conflicts? What are the hazards and advantages of invoking values in our foreign policy decision-making? And are countries like New Zealand more likely to actually let their interests, rather than their values, shape their military deployment decisions? Or are reason and passion essentially two sides of the same coin? And what does this all mean for New Zealand's future international involvement?

Professor Ayson is Professor of Strategic Studies at Victoria University where he works in association with The Centre for Strategic Studies. He is also Adjunct Professor with the Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He has a particular interest in strategic competition and cooperation, including in relation to the management of armed conflict. His current writing includes a book on Asia's Security.

Book your spot by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Trish McCormack is not only an Archivist in the Research Services team at Archives NZ, she is also the author of two murder mysteries, Assigned to murder (2009) and Glacier murder (2013). Glenda Gale leads the Turnbull’s Reading Room team, and her forbears included a highwayman, a conwoman and a Sicilian burglar.

Portrait of Maria Loper from the Police Gazette.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Limited to 15 so book your spot by emailing wtapress@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Lucy Treep, recipient of the 2014 FoTL Research Grant, is an Auckland architect and literary researcher.

A Friends of the Turnbull Library event

Trooper Frank Reginald Corrie of Wellington Mounted Rifles, at Chunuk Bair, 1915. Ref: PAColl-0184-1-006.

Textual transmission is the passing of textual data and meta-data from the past to the present. This talk will give a short overview of the 5,000-year history of textual transmission, from ancient writings in cuneiform to textual information’s current (often) digital state. It will focus in particular on the book medium and the constant innovation and rethinking it inspired, concentrating on Western developments from late antiquity to modern times, demonstrating how changes of the different material, medium, editorial techniques, and letter-code influenced the success of textual transmission.

Cod. 179 Han. ONB Vienna and Open Philology Project, University of Leipzig.

The talk will close with a look into the future of the book medium. Recent research in areas such as Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Topic Modelling, and Text Mining has provided textual scholars with radically new methods by which to explore textual data and the history of textual transmission. While those new research methods generate more knowledge in and about the textual data, they also demand that the traditional book-format changes. Textual data now needs to be open, linkable, explorable, and machine actionable. In my closing remarks I will update the audience on current research by the Perseus Project Research Group of Tufts University and the University of Leipzig and our attempt to ‘think outside the books’.

Dr Thomas Köntges

Thomas Köntges is a trained classical philologist and lecturer in Computer Science. From May 2015 he will take up an Assistant Professorship in the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. He is currently in New Zealand working with Dr Shep at Victoria University, where he is Digital Humanities Advisor to the Marsden Project “Personal geographies and global networks: William Colenso and the Victorian Republic of Letters”.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Suitable for ages 5 and up.

Gladys Goodall, Autumn at Arrowtown, ca 1960. Ref: GG-12-0149.

For 10 year olds to adults.

Limited to 20, so book your spot by emailing ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz

The invention of printing with movable type was the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. But we do not know how the first printers printed - there were no printers' manuals at that time. In fact printing methods were often kept secret - printing was known as the 'black art'. This talk will look at the evidence that can be found within the pages of the first printed books that give clues about the first printing practices and help give us an understanding of how inked letters were first pressed onto paper. The talk will be accompanied by colourful images.

Dr Claire Bolton

Claire Bolton teaches printing, and this year tutored a course on understanding incunables, at the London Rare Book School. She also ran a letterpress printshop, The Alembic Press, for over 45 years, mainly producing books in limited editions on the historical aspects of paper printing and type. About ten years ago she decided to put her practice into theory and began to research fifteenth-century printing methods. An MA in the History of Printing at the University of Reading’s Department of Typography and Graphic Communications led on to research for her PhD in early printing practices – really an excuse to spend many happy hours in library collections looking at incunabula (15th century books).

She has had a number of academic papers published, and has taught numerous letterpress and bookbinding workshops In the UK, Europe, US and Australia. Her doctoral thesis about fifteenth-century printing practices will be published by Oxford Bibliographical Society.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Runs from 2 March – 22 May 2015 | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

Details of L-R: Brendan O’Brien, Magnolia tree, 2001; Historiated initial ‘I’[am] Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae ca. 1425–1450; Illuminated opening page, Sadi, Gulistan (1649)

Beautiful books are a joy to the beholder, whether for reading or just for looking at, and throughout history there have been people who have made them, people who have read them, and people who have collected them.

Come in for a rare glimpse of some stunning examples of the art of the book. Selected by Ruth Lightbourne, Curator of the Rare Book Collection, this beautiful and exquisite grouping includes medieval manuscripts, early hand-printed works from the 15th century, the finest examples of the 19th and early 20th century private press movement, embroidered and jewelled bookbindings, and more.

A New Zealand section features a specially commissioned work by Auckland printer Tara McLeod of the Pear Tree Press. This exhibition is also your chance to buy one of four copies from the limited run of 12 from the Library’s ground floor shop.

Elaborately decorated doublures on Eliot, Romola (1880). ‘Fazakerley Binder Liverpool’ is stamped in gold at the lower edge. The right-hand leaf is watered silk. Record page

The Book Beautiful celebrates the glory of the physical book, something which cannot be replicated in a digital environment. This exhibition is also a tribute to New Zealand’s earlier collectors who assembled much of this material.

Press mark of the Eragny Press, in P. de Ronsard, Choix de sonnets (Hammersmith: Eragny Press, 1902). Record page

Making a beautiful book

Some of the processes used in creating these beautiful objects.

See more:

• How parchment (vellum) is made (4 minutes)
• Making manuscripts (6 minutes)
• Painting an illuminated letter (5 minutes)

Read more

Blogs on the rare books held by the Turnbull

Greater than the sum of its parts
Combining text and form in fine printed books

The book beautiful
The many kinds of beauty found in rare books

Cloth, gold, ink, and style
Victorian publishers’ bindings

Opening up the covers
Elaborate endpapers

A fascinating art
Fore-edge painting

Uncover the mysteries of the black art
Fine printing in New Zealand

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Suitable for ages 8 and up.

Adam Maclay, studio portrait of an unidentified girl, ca 1925? Ref: 1/2-163470-G.

The National Preservation Office Field Conservator, Vicki-Anne Heikell, will be available to offer you preservation advice on the care, handling and storage of your treasured family items.

Book your spot by emailing preservation@dia.govt.nz

Please note that conservators are not able to provide valuations.

Come along early for February's family history talk!

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Come along and find out what you can get from:

• Ancestry Library Edition
• The British Newspaper Archive
• Find My Past

Stick around for the conservation clinic

Studio family portrait. Photo by Adam Henry Pearson Maclay. Ref: 1/1-026091-G.

A Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection event.

Boys and girls in a classroom at Eastern Hutt School, 1920. Ref: 1/2-062556-F.

The Turnbull's Senior Conservator of Photographs, Mark Strange, will take you through an intermediate level course for people who work in libraries, museums, archives, iwi and Māori organisations who are responsible for the care and management of cellulosic film materials.

Covered by this course:

• Common behaviours of cellulosic film materials
• “Lay” identification
• Recognising stages of deterioration including visual, physical & chemistry
• Understanding the difference between materials and different climate control required
• Includes a practical component on preparing materials for cold storage

The course is limited to 10 participants, so get in touch quickly with Vicki-Anne Heikell to get a registration form. Email preservation@dia.govt.nz or phone 04 474 3066.

Suitable for ages 5 and up!

Open on Waitangi Day from 10am to 4pm, you can come view all nine original sheets of the Treaty, see our new exhibition, and talk to Archives and National Library staff about the Treaty’s history and meaning.

No need to book – just come along with a keen interest in our heritage. You’ll be able to browse, chat, and consider the importance of Te Tiriti to our national identity and history.

We recommend coming in by public transport, as there’s not a lot of parking and the Sevens will be on! We’re just 5 minutes from the railway station and bus interchange.

The Cook Strait Sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi.

‘One of the most significant books on the Māori world ever written’, Sir Tipene O’Regan

'Important for all New Zealanders', Professor James Belich

With the Friends of the Turnbull Library, Bridget Williams Books, and Auckland War Memorial Museum.

On the day

Dr Matthew Palmer. Photo by Llewelyn Jones.

Listen to Dr Palmer's talk (42 min):

Download the text of Dr Palmer's talk (pdf, 132KB)

Matthew Palmer

Dr Palmer is a leading public law expert in New Zealand, practicing at Thorndon Chambers. He is a former Deputy Solicitor-General, Deputy Secretary for Justice and Dean of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. He has written numerous articles and chapters about New Zealand constitutional law, including the Treaty of Waitangi and has taught Comparative Indigenous Peoples' rights at Yale Law School and the University of Chicago. His book, The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand’s Law and Constitution (VUP, 2008) won the Legal Research Foundation’s JF Northey Prize for the best book by a New Zealand based author in 2008.

Suitable for ages 8 and up.

Traditionally IT-based approaches have largely relied on quantitative sources and have been of limited use to people wanting to analyse texts. Drawing on recent developments in both corpus linguistics and geographical information systems (GIS), this paper will show that this is no longer the case and that digital approaches have much to offer to researchers interested in the geographies that texts contain.

Corpus linguistics is concerned with study the language used in a large body of text. GIS is a database technology that is concerned with mapping and analysing spatially referenced data. Bringing these two technologies together allows us to ask questions about what places a corpus - potentially consisting of many billions of words - is talking about and, more importantly, to ask what it is saying about these places.

Part of the Australasian Rare Books Summer School programme

Part of the Australasian Rare Books Summer School programme

Three exciting courses are on offer, each of which runs for five full days.

History of Cartography/Maps

Tutor: Julie-Sweetkind Singer, Stanford University, USA

More about this course | Register for this course

Geographic Information Systems for Digital Humanities

Tutor: Ian Gregory, Lancaster University, UK

More about this course | Register for this course

Artistic Printing

Tutors: Marty Vreede, Quay School of the Arts, Whanganui and Sydney Shep, Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington

More about this course | Register for this course

The cost of each five-day course is NZD $800 + gst per person. Places are strictly limited.

Follow @rbss2015 for updates

Professor Gordon

Robert S. C. Gordon is Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge. He has published on a range of aspects of the cultural history of modern Italy and on the cultural memory of the Holocaust. His books include Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity (1996), Bicycle Thieves (2008) and Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th-century Italy (ed. 2002). He has written extensively on the work of Primo Levi (Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues, 2001) and on the legacy of the Holocaust in Italy (The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 2012).

Please RSVP to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz to book your spot.

Suitable for ages 5 and up.

Hanna Brenkley, Field poppies, 1960-1961. Ref: E-164-q-044.

For ages 5-13

Bookings

Each session is limited to 15 participants.

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. diary making), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

Book by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

For ages 5-13

Bookings

Each session is limited to 15 participants.

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. mask making), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

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Different techniques are used across all the formats from medieval books on parchment to modern paperbacks; historic newspapers printed on tapa cloth to yesterday's free paper; manuscripts like ships logs, war diaries and whakapapa scrolls; photograph panoramas on cellulose nitrate film; artists' sketchbooks, oil paintings, posters, sound recordings on lacquer discs, tapes, CDs and videos.

Conservator Peter Whitehead and Curator John Sullivan will be showcasing a selection of materials held by the Library and talking about some of the techniques that are used to preserve and make them accessible to readers.

Bookings

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. White gloves), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

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Come along to this session for a special opportunity to see some of the Turnbull Library’s Taonga Māori, chosen by the Chief Librarian and Curator, Māori.

Bookings

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. 10 Taonga), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

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Maggie & Bella, Rotorua guides, between 1901 and 1905. Ref: Curios-013-003-1.

Some New Zealand children’s reading during World War I did not go much beyond the School Journal and perhaps the newspaper. Others, though, read stories and informative books about the events of the war. The exhibition includes a selection of children’s books from the Dorothy Neal White Collection that were published during World War I.

Joan McCracken of the Library’s Outreach Services will give an introduction to this poignant and timely display.

More about this exhibition

Bookings

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. A Child's War), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

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L-R: A child's history of ANZAC; Munition Mary; The boy allies on the North Sea patrol

Barbara Lyon, Curator Ephemera, will show examples of books, cards, photographs, menus, programmes and advertising relating to the Christmas season.

Bookings

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. Christmas Past), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

Book by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, Cashel St, Christchurch, 1886. Ref: Eph-C-PRINTING-1886-01.

For ages 7-15.

Bookings

This activity is limited to 15 participants.

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. telephone and morse code), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

Book by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

For ages 7-15.

Bookings

This activity is limited to 20 participants.

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. scavenger hunt), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

Book by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

For ages 7-12.

Bookings

Each session is limited to 15 participants.

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. poppy making), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

Book by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

For ages 5-13

Bookings

Each session is limited to 15 participants.

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. diary making), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

Book by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

December 29: Legend of the Battle of the Birds(NZ) and Leelee Goro (African fire legend)

New Zealand native sea and land birds’ territorial battle; and an African legend of how different animals got their characteristics when battling a little girl called Leelee Goro for fire.

December 30: Papatūā-nuku and Rangi-nui (NZ) and Grandmother Spider (Cherokee creation legend)

Māori creation story which links with to the carved carving in the National Library; and a Cherokee legend about how Grandmother spider brought light to the animals.

December 31: The Patupaiarehe of Te Ahumairangi (NZ) and Anansi and his 6 Sons (traditional African tale)

Difference between Māori patupaiarehe who lived on Te Ahumairangi and English ‘fairies’ who arrived with settlers; and Anansi the spider, a traditional African trickster is saved by his 6 sons and in the process discovers the moon.

Bookings

Each session is limited to 50 participants.

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. storytelling), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

Book by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

For ages 11-18. No prior knowledge of programming or electronics is required – only an interest.

Bookings

Each workshop is limited to 20 participants.

When booking, please say which activity you are booking for (e.g. robotics), including the date and time you wish to attend, and how many places you want to book.

Book by emailing events.natlib@dia.govt.nz

Nota Bene is renowned for its innovative programming and high performance standards. The choir recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. To mark this achievement it produced a CD of its favourite pieces, recorded live in concert by Radio NZ Concert. These CDs will be for sale on the day in the ground floor shop.

Based on 19th century Christmas cards from the Alexander Turnbull collection, choose your own iconic New Zealand scene – or bring in your own – and then decorate with 3D NZ flowers and leaves. Suitable for ages 5 and up!

Archibald Duddington Willis, "Rangitikei River, N. Z. and Kohi. A happy Christmas". Ref: E-068-008-1.

Family portrait, boys dressed in World War I soldier's uniforms, ca 1905-1926. Ref: 1/2-184165-G.

Witi will discuss his book with Paul Diamond, the Turnbull Library's Curator Māori.

Books will be available for purchase, courtesy of Unity Books, and Witi will be delighted to sign your copy.

Space is limited, so please RSVP to Rejieli.Loon@dia.govt.nz

Learn about telling Māori stories, in Te Reo Māori, from Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Maniapoto) and Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal (Marutūahu, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngā Puhi).

Joe is Te Reo Wainene O Tua's Lead Storyteller, and arguably the most experienced and travelled Māori storyteller in the world today. He has been travelling the world and sharing our stories for the last several decades.

RSVP on the Te Reo Wainene o Tua site

More about Te Reo Wainene O Tua

Storytelling sessions

November 26 (morning) | November 26 (afternoon) | November 27 (morning) | November 27 (afternoon) | November 28

Familiar faces like Scotty and Stacey Morrison weave together purakau (legends) from their iwi, continuing the oral tradition of passing down stories through the generations.

The sessions, available for tamariki, rangatahi and the wider community will be led by Scotty (Ngāti Whakaue) & Stacey (Kai Tahu, Te Arawa) Morrison, Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Maniapoto), and Tamati Waaka (Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Pukeko, Tuhoe).

RSVP on the Te Reo Wainene o Tua site

More about Te Reo Wainene O Tua

Other sessions

November 26 (morning) | November 26 (afternoon) | November 27 (morning) | November 27 (afternoon)

November 29: Storytelling workshop with Joe Harawira

Tamati Waaka storytelling at Mangere Town Centre Library.

Familiar faces like Scotty and Stacey Morrison weave together purakau (legends) from their iwi, continuing the oral tradition of passing down stories through the generations.

The sessions, available for tamariki, rangatahi and the wider community will be led by Scotty (Ngāti Whakaue) & Stacey (Kai Tahu, Te Arawa) Morrison, Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Maniapoto), and Tamati Waaka (Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Pukeko, Tuhoe).

RSVP on the Te Reo Wainene o Tua site

More about Te Reo Wainene O Tua

Other sessions

November 26 (morning) | November 26 (afternoon) | November 27 (morning) | November 28

November 29: Storytelling workshop with Joe Harawira

Tamati Waaka storytelling at Mangere Town Centre Library.

Familiar faces like Scotty and Stacey Morrison weave together purakau (legends) from their iwi, continuing the oral tradition of passing down stories through the generations.

The sessions, available for tamariki, rangatahi and the wider community will be led by Scotty (Ngāti Whakaue) & Stacey (Kai Tahu, Te Arawa) Morrison, Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Maniapoto), and Tamati Waaka (Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Pukeko, Tuhoe).

RSVP on the Te Reo Wainene o Tua site

More about Te Reo Wainene O Tua

Other sessions

November 26 (morning) | November 26 (afternoon) | November 27 (afternoon) | November 28

November 29: Storytelling workshop with Joe Harawira

Tamati Waaka storytelling at Mangere Town Centre Library.

One of the world's greatest mathematicians and a gifted musician, Alexander Aitken from Dunedin served at Gallipoli and on the Somme where, amid the horrors of war, he often played the violin for his comrades in the trenches. He then took up university appointments in Scotland where, discovered to be a near-genius in the field, he had an illustrious career in mathematics. His violin rests back at his old school, Otago Boys High School.

The full and fascinating story of Aitken's life has been recently uncovered by two New Zealand academics, Professors Alexander Calder and Sarah Shieff.

Brought to you by the National Library Society.

Familiar faces like Scotty and Stacey Morrison weave together purakau (legends) from their iwi, continuing the oral tradition of passing down stories through the generations.

The sessions, available for tamariki, rangatahi and the wider community will be led by Scotty (Ngāti Whakaue) & Stacey (Kai Tahu, Te Arawa) Morrison, Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Maniapoto), and Tamati Waaka (Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Pukeko, Tuhoe).

RSVP on the Te Reo Wainene o Tua site

More about Te Reo Wainene O Tua

Other sessions

November 26 (morning) | November 27 (morning) | November 27 (afternoon) | November 28

November 29: Storytelling workshop with Joe Harawira

Tamati Waaka storytelling at Mangere Town Centre Library.

Familiar faces like Scotty and Stacey Morrison weave together purakau (legends) from their iwi, continuing the oral tradition of passing down stories through the generations.

The sessions, available for tamariki, rangatahi and the wider community will be led by Scotty (Ngāti Whakaue) & Stacey (Kai Tahu, Te Arawa) Morrison, Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngāti Maniapoto), and Tamati Waaka (Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāti Pukeko, Tuhoe).

RSVP on the Te Reo Wainene o Tua site

More about Te Reo Wainene O Tua

Other sessions

November 26 (afternoon) | November 27 (morning) | November 27 (afternoon) | November 28

November 29: Storytelling workshop with Joe Harawira

Tamati Waaka storytelling at Mangere Town Centre Library.

Dr Pushpa Wood

Dr Pushpa Wood is the Director of the Massey University School of Economics & Finance, Fin-Ed Centre in Wellington. She was previously the Education Manager at the Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income. She has worked across the school, tertiary, and industry sectors to improve adult literacy and financial literacy. Her research interests include identifying trigger points that motivate people to change their financial behaviour and testing culturally appropriate evaluation tools.

Dr Pushpa Wood, Director of the Fin-Ed Centre. Photograph courtesy of Massey University.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to restore, old damaged images
• how to manipulate or enhance dull photos
• how to composite a single image from multiple images (or 'Photoshop stuff in')

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Wayne’s fresh prints from the William Williams’ collection are a key component of a new exhibition at Mahara Gallery: Young country – poems by Kerry Hines in response to the photographs of William Williams.

The new prints have been produced using nineteenth century processes though utilising digital files from the negatives in the Turnbull Library. The final images are a product of egg white and pixels!

Man making walking sticks, and house, Leith, Dunedin, ca 1899. Ref: 1/2-140223-G.

About Wayne Barrer

Associate Professor Wayne Barrar is a photographic-based, visual arts researcher. His international exhibition and publication work principally investigates issues related to landscape change and the cultural redefinition of nature. He has exhibited widely – and his photographs were included in the National Library exhibition Manapouri: Art, Power, Protest in 2008. His research interests also encompass the history of New Zealand photography and documentary practices. Wayne teaches papers within the photography major of the BDes(Hons) programme and supervises within the MFA and PhD programmes at Massey University in Wellington.

About William Williams

Photographer William Williams was born in Cardiff in 1859. The family emigrated to New Zealand about 1881 and he married Lydia Devereux in Lower Hutt in 1887. William worked for the Railways Department and was a gifted amateur photographer, and a keen musician and mountaineer. His collection of several thousand glass-plate negatives was bequeathed to the Turnbull Library by his son, Edgar Richard Williams, himself an enthusiastic photographer.

About Kerry Hines

Kerry Hines has a PhD from Victoria University (2012) for her thesis ‘After the Fact: Poems, Photographs, and Regenerating Histories’, part of which forms the basis for just published book of poems Young Country (Auckland University Press, 2014) and the exhibition of the same name at Mahara Gallery, Waikanae, that runs until 14 December 2014.

Brewster Kahle, the dynamic founder of the Internet Archive, will headline this panel discussion looking ahead to where the internet is taking books, art, music, and video. What does the next 10 years hold for writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers? What are the big ideas, and are there new disruptions around the corner?

Joining the panel are Tom Rennie, who heads the digital developments at Bridget Williams Books, Rollo Wenlock, inspirational CEO of Wipster, a new media review platform, and Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, artist and PhD candidate with an interest in emerging technologies and submarine internet cables.

Spaces are limited, so please RSVP to events.natlib@dia.govt.nz.

Brought to you by the National Library of New Zealand, InternetNZ, and the National Digital Forum.

Runs from 24 November 2014 – 27 February 2015 | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

L-R: A child's history of ANZAC; Munition Mary; The boy allies on the North Sea patrol

Although geographically far removed from the war, children in New Zealand were profoundly affected. In a time of militarisation and commitment to the cause of Empire, children were the soldiers and citizens of the future.

Boys had no choice but to join the cadets or take part in compulsory military training. At school the progress of the war was followed closely in the School Journal, and students were expected to be patriotic and behave in a manner befitting a good citizen of the British Empire. Children were drawn into fundraising and war work in all manner of ways, including contributing their own pocket money.

Through all this, many lived in households where fathers, brothers or other close relatives had gone off to war. Nonetheless, they were told by the authorities to be good, helpful, and not to cause worry to their mothers. If their school hadn’t chosen to donate the end-of-year prize money to fundraising appeals, a child might be presented with a book telling a stirring story of heroism and victory.

Children had no invading forces to fight, but the adult world sought to win their hearts and hands to support and contribute to the war effort.

Group of school children, Waihi, ca 1916. Ref: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Magill-01.

Some New Zealand children’s reading during World War I did not go much beyond the School Journal and perhaps the newspaper. Others, though, read stories and informative books about the events of the war. The exhibition includes a selection of children’s books from the Dorothy Neal White Collection that were published during World War I.

Read the sources

Digital copies of some of the items now on show.

Some typical children’s stories from World War I, from the Internet Archive Children’s Library

Letters from Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone, including some to his children at home

A school song book containg the patriotic flag song Our flag, a typical way to start the day in school

Special prizes

More about the books children won as school prizes during the war.

Q & A

Philippa Werry interviews curator Mary Skarott about the exhibition.

Events

Fun and fascinating events for kids and adults.

24 January: Poppy art

31 January: Remembering the ANZACs

12 February: The classroom war

17 February: Looking back

21 February: Knitting for beginners

Get in touch

For more information, please contact Mary Skarott, Alexander Turnbull Library. Email Mary.Skarott@dia.govt.nz or phone 04 470 4488.

Dr Charlotte Macdonald

Dr Charlotte Macdonald is a historian with particular interests in the lives of women, including paid and unpaid domestic work in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is professor of history at Victoria University of Wellington/Te Whare Wananga o Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui. Her publications include A Woman of Good Character: single women as immigrant settlers in 19thC New Zealand, The Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma te Kaupapa (edited with Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams), 'My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates' (with Frances Porter), and Strong, Beautiful and Modern, a study of the 1930s-40s national fitness movements in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

Passenger ship RMS Makura at sea, 193[?]. Ref: 1/1-015799-F.

Her talk will include advice on setting up, lighting, equipment, file management, digital manipulation, storing and accessing your files. Based on the standards the Library uses for its imaging digitisation programmes; these principals can be applied to the process carried out by the family historian when making their personal family collection material and images digital.

Reproducing photographs using the half-tone process, 1949. Photo by W Wilson. Ref: 1/2-033721-F.

Originally given as a keynote address in August 1978 at the 23rd congress of the International Society for Education through Art (INSEA), the text was later printed as a booklet in 1987 with a bibliography and a catalogue of the artworks.

The lecture later became available as an audio-visual presentation with music composed and performed by Michelle Scullion, and principal narration by Grant Tilly. Offering insights into cultural diversity through visual expression of New Zealanders, Bill Renwick’s thoughtful perspective of more than 35 years ago still resonates today.

Brought to you by the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Augustus Earle, "Meeting of the artist and Hongi at the Bay of Islands", 1827. Ref: G-707.

Bill Renwick

Bill Renwick was Director General of Education from 1975 until his retirement in 1987, leading and helping formulate educational thought in New Zealand. In retirement he was based at Victoria University’s Stout Research Centre from where he researched on a range of subjects of interest to him. His publications included Sovereignty and indigenous rights; the Treaty of Waitangi in international contexts (1991), Creating a national spirit: celebrating New Zealand’s centennial (2004), and Scrim: the man with a mike (2011). Bill Renwick died in June 2013.

We'll get you familiar with using our iMacs and their software. By the end of the session, you'll understand how they work and how to do the most common tasks.

This two-hour introduction covers:

• how to cut and splice footage together into a sequence
• how to do basic colour correction and improve lighting and contrast
• how to use transitions between pieces of footage
• basic video transformation
• basic audio filtering

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing public.programmes@dia.govt.nz.

Dr Rebecca Lenihan

Rebecca is a graduate of Victoria University and recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Guelph, Ontario. This presentation is a snippet of her larger research project investigating various demographic patterns among Scottish immigrants arriving in New Zealand 1840 to 1920, the topic of From Alba to Aotearoa, due out with Otago University Press later this year.

Cover of The New Zealand Scot v.1, no.10, 30 October 1913, featuring Mr J Mackintosh, Chief of the Scottish Society of New Zealand.

Judi Altinkaya

Judi Altinkaya is the National Manager, Migrant Settlement at the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment.

Emigrants from Greece at work, 19 March 1963. Ref: EP/1963/0904-F.

William will be talking about the complexity of securing identity and individuality today. He will draw on historian E.H. McCormick’s essay from 1960, Distance Looks Our Way: The Effects of Remoteness on New Zealanders, and how, even in our time of instant global communication, his words still have resonances today.

Named in honour of New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn, the Lilburn Lecture is an annual event organised jointly by the Lilburn Trust and the Alexander Turnbull Library. In 1974 Douglas Lilburn instigated the Archive of New Zealand Music, a part of the Turnbull. Leading by example he deposited his collection of scores, papers and recordings in the archive and encouraged other composers to do the same. Ten years later he formed the Lilburn Trust to promote musical arts in New Zealand, advance musical knowledge and appreciation, and to preserve musical archives.

RSVP by October 31 to Keith.McEwing@dia.govt.nz

For more information, contact the Lilburn Trust on 04 470 4483.

William Dart. Photo by Studio Guidon.

In 1980, as the New Zealand Polish Association President, Eric Lepionka initiated and lead proactive support for the Polish Free Trade Union “Solidarność” with the help and support of Polish Association committee members, the Polish community the NZ Red Cross and many other New Zealanders. This was in response to the onset of the first labour strikes against the Soviet-backed regime in Poland which sparked the formation of the “Solidarność” free trade union. One of the intiatives was to lobby the New Zealand government to accept and resettle Polish refugees. Officially 300 Polish refugees were part of the three year resettlement programme which Eric negotiated with the National-led government at the time.

In September 1981, the first group of 102 Polish refugees arrived at Wellington airport and their journey of starting life in a new country had just begun.

Stan Manterys and Eric Lepionka

Stan Manterys and Eric (Zdzisław) Lepionka arrived in Wellington in 1944 with 733 other Polish child refugees and their 102 guardians from war torn Europe. They stayed on and lived, worked and raised families in Wellington, the city they now call home.

Children at the Polish refugee camp in Pahiatua, 1945. Photo by John Dobree Pascoe. Ref: 1/2-003659-F.

Space is limited, so book your spot by emailing Mary.Skarott@dia.govt.nz.

Brought to you by the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection.

Learn about the field of environmental history, and take a journey through the history and geography of the river that defined the region.

Dr Catherine Knight

Catherine Knight has long been fascinated by the interactions between people and the environment – what factors drive human behaviour, and how people’s attitudes and knowledge about the environment evolves.

In 2010, Catherine was awarded the New Zealand Research Trust Fund Award in History for this research, and in 2012, she was awarded the Claude McCarthy Research Fellowship. Catherine works in environmental policy, and lives in Kapiti with her young family.

A presentation in the Author’s Voice series: an occasional series of talks by authors who have used the Alexander Turnbull Library for their research.

Manawatu river and native bush, circa 1870s. Photograph by William James Harding. Ref: 1/1-000339-G.

Who were the immigrants to the Cook Strait settlements of Wellington and Nelson in the 1840s? The New Zealand Company founded both settlements, intending to replicate a stable and hierarchical slice of a mythologised England. The Company didn't recruit everyone who came to Cook Strait, though, and even those whom it did recruit often had diverse ideas about what sort of society New Zealand should become. This talk will look at these themes, with some emphasis on democracy and dissent.

Jim McAloon

Jim McAloon teaches history at Victoria University. He specialises in New Zealand’s social and economic history, and among other topics has written a history of the Nelson region and about Scottish immigrants and New Zealand. He has long been interested in radicals and dissenters in New Zealand’s political history.

Samuel Duncan Parnell, who initiated the eight hour working day, June 1890. Photo by Henry Wright. Ref: 1/1-020462-G.

Book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz or calling Cellia Joe on 04 462 3935.

Photograph collections housed in the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Closed October 2nd | 8.30 am – 5.00pm, Monday to Saturday | Te Ahumairangi

Talks and posts about the First World War

The real challenge of the centenary will be whether we take the opportunity provided by the controversies that the first world war still generates... If we can use this war to understand war better, to think through when we may – albeit reluctantly – have to fight and when we should not, we shall have given the commemoration of the first world war a purpose that will honour those who served in it.

Hew Strachan

Detail of Church service at a 10th Nelson Mounted Rifles camp in Tapawera, 1914. Ref: 1/1-009955-G.

A hundred years on, the effects of World War One continue to be felt in large parts of the world. A Contemporary Conversation looks at the period 1914 to 1918 and also considers the urgent subject of war today.

New Zealand desires me to acknowledge Your Majesty’s gracious message, and to say that come good or ill, she, in company with the dominions and other dependencies of the Crown, is prepared to make any sacrifice to maintain her heritage and her birthright.

Governor-General Lord Liverpool, 5 August 1914, declaring New Zealand’s support for Britain in the war against Germany.

Detail of Nurses in Apia, Samoa, during World War I, 1914. Ref: 1/2-148862-F.

World War One inflicted suffering on all sides, and while our account of this is non-partisan, the focus is on New Zealanders’ experience of the war. This is told through diaries, letters, and other documents drawn from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library and Archives New Zealand. These often poignant first-hand accounts provide a sense of what it was like to endure the vicissitudes of war.

Detail of Second Lieutenant P Scott addressing New Zealand Regiment troops and marines, ca 1955. Ref: M-3266-F.

We dedicate this exhibition and programme of related events to the untold millions of men, women, children, and animals who were killed or suffered in World War One, or in any war. There is no victory in this.

One day, a terrorist group put pressure on my mother to pay "protection" money threatening to take me away or kill me if she didn’t pay up every week. We lived under this threat for a while until they asked her to store some weapons in the restaurant. The same night she decided it was time for us to leave our country so we left our family, friends, possessions behind and escaped to Ecuador.

Daniel Gamboa, Colombian refugee

Daniel Gamboa.

Their focus for this period has been to continue to validate the initial assumptions they made about the market and technologies. We will have a few short presentations from the MATE students, and leave plenty of time for you to network and ask questions.

Drinks and nibbles will be provided.

Please RSVP by Friday 10 October by emailing David.Bibby@vuw.ac.nz.

More about the Master of Advanced Technology Enterprise

Margaret Pointer lives in Wellington where she works as an independent researcher/writer specialising in Pacific history. For the last five years she has been working on a contact history of the island of Niue, from James Cook's visit in 1774 to the granting of self-government in free association with NZ in 1974. The work is due to be published in May 2015 by Otago University Press.

Margaret's talk will be followed by a viewing of Niuean items from the Turnbull collections in the Douglas Lilburn room.

Richard Seddon and King Togia, Niue, 1900. Ref: 1/2-116301-F.

Book your spot by emailing Lynette.Tyrrell@dia.govt.nz.

Bringing on the equipment for a Kava drinking ceremony, 1969. Ref: PAColl-0199-129.

As readers we are not always aware of what a long journey the words of a translated text have made, to end up as a whole new book in our hands. We do not consider the effort a translator has had to make to transfer an author’s universe from one language into another. How do translators manage to find the special voice of a text? How do they know what to leave out and what to add? You can get an insight into this process on the 30th of September between 4 and 6 pm at the National Library Wellington. Come and watch John Jamieson and Ian Cormack translate a short story by German author Maike Wetzel into first English and then Te Reo Maori.

Initiated by Weltlesebühne, an association of literary translators from the German speaking region, events like this will be held from Argentina to India and in various other countries all over the world. Come along and celebrate with us the marvelous work translators do!

Brought to you by the Goethe Institute

In response to pressing needs from economic, social, and environmental pressures, social enterprises are emerging all over the world with dazzling speed. We will discuss examples of emerging solidarity economics and highlight their implications for social entrepreneurs and society at large.

Sign up and book your spot through Chalkle

Nicanor Perlas

Nicanor is a facilitator, environmentalist, business advisor, and was a presidential candidate in the Philippines. He has received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, and the UN Environmental Program Global 500 Award.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Mani Mitchell – 'A fire and rattlesnake year'

Human rights activist Mani Mitchell will talk about the year so far, ranging from the devastating effects of losing important papers to fire to managing life as an Intersex advocate.

Mark Hutchins-Pond

Mark is contemporary art curator at Pataka museum and will present a queer history of early to mid-20th Century New Zealand art illustrated with examples from the Alexander Turnbull Library and Te Papa collections.

Friends of LAGANZ and non-members very welcome. Light refreshments available.

RSVP by midday 24 September to events@laganz.org.nz.

Dame Janet Paul (1919-2004) was a remarkable presence among New Zealand publishers, writers and artists. She was widely respected for her artwork and writing, and is also remembered for her enduring association with the Alexander Turnbull Library, including her tenure as Art Librarian.

The Turnbull Library holds a wealth of material relating to Janet Paul, which has been drawn upon for an exhibition running from September 15 to November 21. No Less than Everything brings light to an extraordinary woman and her world.

Brought to you by the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Brendan O’Brien is the Exhibitions Co-ordinator (Conservation) and curator of No less than everything – The Art and Times of Janet Paul. Prior to joining the staff at the Alexander Turnbull Library in 2002 he was resident in the Rita Angus Cottage, Thorndon where he operated a hand press and embarked on many small book related projects. With the assistance of a grant from the Friends of the Turnbull Library in 2013 he has undertaken the hand printing of an edition of Janet Paul’s poems and drawings.

Portrait of Dame Janet Elaine Paul (1919-2004), 1984. Photograph by Kenneth Quinn. Ref: 1/4-089184-F.

To celebrate the innovative suffragists, join us to hear from innovative women today and how we can encourage more women and girls to innovate in the future.

Opening address by the Hon Jo Goodhew, Minister of Women's Affairs.

Presentations by:

• Dr Michelle Dickinson, Auckland University
• Dr Mary Quinn, Callaghan Innovation
• Victoria Crone, Xero
• Maru Nihoniho, Metia Interactive

Brought to you by the Ministry of Women's Affairs.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

The service offered by the collaboration between National Library of New Zealand, the New Zealand Society of Genealogists and Genealogical Society of Utah enables researchers to order and use microfilms to further their own genealogical research. This talk explains the holdings of familysearch.org and how to use and order microfilms.

Marlene Sayers

Marlene Sayers has been the NZSG appointed co-ordinator to run the service since May 2007.

John Booth and family, Stabler & Fries, ca 1880. Ref: PA1-q-708-02.

Part of Extreme South: Antarctica Imagined , on now at the Turnbull Gallery.

Gabby O’Connor

Gabby is a Wellington-based artist who produces large-scale installations, transforming everyday materials into beautiful and complex artworks.

Two of her installations currently feature in the Turnbull Library’s Extreme South exhibition. Her collaborations are a bridge between art and science,showing the imagination and research required of both worlds.

Right now Gabby’s building a 20-metre long ice shelf, called ‘Inland Ice’, for September’s NZ Icefest.

Gabby's blog | More of Gabby's work

Dr Craig Stevens

Dr Craig Stevens is an oceanographer with NIWA and the University of Auckland, and an amateur noise-maker. Scientific fieldwork in Antarctica has also inspired his hauntingly beautiful soundscapes. He’s passionate about environmental science, what it means and why we should keep doing it. His writing, speaking and sound all explore the notion that science is a creative industry too.

Craig's website

David will also talk about the importance of inherent beauty to his practice and design.

Book your spot by emailing Keith.Thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Tour 1-1.30pm
Meet Ground Floor foyer
Tongan Language Week Display 1.30-2.30pm
Douglas Lilburn Room, Level 1

A close-up portrait of local Tongan children with big smiles, 1939. Ref: WA-03395-F.

Featuring Richard Greagor, tenor; Bruce Greenfield, piano; Martin Risley, violin; Ross Harris, horn; Ray Henwood and Nelson Wattie, readers.

Book through Eventfinda or buy your ticket at the door. Tickets are expected to go fast!

A New Zealand Poet Laureate event

Detail of New Zealand troops in the support line at the Western Front, 1918. Ref: 1/2-013126-G.

Peter will discuss his book 'Journey to a Hanging', which looks at the events in an in-depth yet surprisingly personal way.

Millwood Gallery will have signed copies of the book available for purchase on the day.

About Peter Wells

Novelist, film maker, and biographer, Peter Wells uses these skills to summon up the ghosts of the past – to make them real, to allow them to speak to us in a personal, contemporary way. 'We need to enter the past as a vivid reality, recognising that people understood, and misunderstood things just as we grapple today with uncertainties and ambiguities, trying to make sense of only what makes sense many years later.

Genetics Otago, in association with Graduate Women Wellington and the National Library, is proud to present a free public lecture where six of New Zealand's leading genetic scientists will discuss their ground-breaking research.

Professor Vicky Cameron: Future perfect? The difficulty in predicting heart disease

Dr Anita Dunbier: Hype or hope? Exploring the genome to conquer cancer

Dr Elizabeth Duncan: More than just honey: what bees can tell us about our health and environment

Dr Julia Horsfield: How zebrafish help understand human disease

Dr Stephanie Hughes: Don't forget to put out the rubbish: lessons from genetic mutations in the cellular recycling system

Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith: From Africa to Aotearoa: using DNA to track human migrations and population origins

Book your spot by emailing Keith.Thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Space is limited so book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz or calling Cellia Joe on 04 462 3935.

Man in the back garden at the residence of Louis P Christeson, ca 1890s. Ref: 1/2-022240-G.

Please bring: 1/2 metre of material for background, 1/2 metre of material (preferably different colour), tacking and embroidery cotton.

Unidentified Cook Island women dancing, location unknown, 1958. Ref: EP/1958/3329-F.

We hope that we can also learn something from you – we have a number of photos that include unidentified Cook Islands people that we would like your help in identifying, many from the Crown Studios Collection.

Unidentified Cook Island women dancing, location unknown, 1958. Ref: EP/1958/3329-F.

A 2014 Family History Month event.

Photo by Vicki-Anne Heikell

Conservator Vicki-Anne Heikell will lead you through the making of a made-to-measure clam-shell box that will safely house a book or album.

Bring a book with a spine thickness of at least 50mm. There is a charge of $15 per participant to cover the cost of the board, payable on the day.

Spaces are limited, so book in by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz or phoning Cellia Joe on 462 3935.

Māori Maps provides a nationwide map of marae, with photos of each marae, contact and background information. In addition to map location and directions to the gateway of every tribal marae in Aotearoa, it is a digital gateway by which visitors can access sites or service run by marae.

There are also restricted access areas that marae themselves can use to store their data and photos.

Māori Maps helps to connect Māori descendants with their marae, in particular linking Māori youth with their ancestral identity. It also enables visitors to make appropriate contact with these centres of culture.

Paul Tapsell is Professor in Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago. He co-founded Te Potiki National Trust, which administers Māori Maps.

Book your spot by emailing Keith.Thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Harry Ricketts of Victoria University’s English Faculty is a prolific academic, author and poet, editor of New Zealand books, and a foremost international scholar of Kipling and of the great WW1 poets. He is a great cricket lover whose fine book How To Watch A Cricket Match is a delightful part of his oeuvre.

Julia Millen is a dedicated member of the National Library Society Committee. Biographer of Ronald Hugh Morrieson and author of many books on aspects New Zealand history, she has also a longstanding interest in New Zealand’s involvement in two world wars. Julia has accessed WW1 diaries of N.Z. soldiers and will read from them and discuss their significance.

As usual there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion during and after the talks.

A National Library Society event.

Bring your treasured item in and the Turnbull Library conservators will be available to offer you advice on the care, handling and storage of your item. Using the speed-dating format participants will have 5 minutes with a specialist conservator.

Please note that conservators are not able to provide valuations.

Photo by Joan McCracken.

Runs from 7 July – 12 September | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

Antarctica was invented long before it was discovered – and it continues to be re-invented long after it was explored. Since its earliest conception in myth and its first ‘scientific’ postulation in the third century BC, the icy continent has been fertile ground for the imagination.

Photo by Mark Bagnall.

This exhibition features some of the literary and visual responses to Antarctica from the 1500s to the present day. It draws a trajectory from early maps to literary utopias, fantastical theories, gothic horror, adventure stories, and on to the many-faceted approaches of the 20th century.

Fiona Oliver – Curator

Some Time by Gabby O'Connor

Antarctica is reinterpreted again by artist Gabby O'Connor through the iceburgs of her work Some Time. See how she made them:

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Matiu Te Huki.

Matiu “The Hook” Te Huki is known for his amazing vocal skills and energy, his ability to powerfully connect with, hold and lift a crowd whilst either fronting a band, or as a solo artist. Matiu intuitively nurtures a deep connection with his audience creating the energy that opens portals of paradise.

The music itself is soulful roots with grabbing grooves, deep dub with beautiful bass, funk and a bit of hip hop. His performing name “The Hook” relates to his ingeniously created melody hooks and crafted bass lines that stick with you long after the song finishes.

All of our current committee members are happy to stay on for another year, but we'd be delighted to hear from anyone else who's keen to join the committee. Please email Janet Blake at janetblake1@yahoo.co.nz if you're interested - we will also be taking nominations from the floor at the AGM.

This is a free event, which starts at 5.30pm for drinks and nibbles. At 6:00pm we'll introduce the 2014 Research Scholar, Nicola Daly, and the AGM begins at 6.30pm.

Frontispiece of Waihoura, the Māori girl, by W.H.G. Kingston. Record page.

Tawhana Chadwick on board Te Matau a Māui.

Morrie Love.

Waka tete/multi purpose canoes, waka taua/war canoes and waka hourua/voyaging waka have been on Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington Harbour from the earliest visit by Kupe on Matahourua many centuries ago. Waka were used in this bush clad country as a primary means of transport and were often seen as being safer than travelling on foot.

After many years absence traditional carved waka were seen again on the harbour in 1989. In Wellington the city had the waka Te Raukura which had made the trip to Waitangi in 1990 with a fleet of other waka from around the country. Today Wellington city has its own waka taua again, called Te Rerenga a Kotare, or the flight of the kingfisher, based at the Wharewaka Te Raukura on Taranaki Wharf. The waka is accompanied by two waka tete, Te Hononga and Poutu.

Te Hononga and Te Rerenga Kotare were carved under the supervision of the great canoe builder Hekenukumai Puhipi/Hector Busby. The story of the design, construction and launching of these waka will be recounted from getting kauri logs from Northland to their use on Wellington Harbour. The latest waka in the fleet is a waka tete made from fibreglass but with a carved prow and stern post.

Book your spot by emailing Keith.Thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Speakers

Professor Grant Guilford Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University of Wellington

A passionate advocate for the role Victoria plays in shaping national identity, celebrating creativity and leading thinking on the big questions facing society.

Professor Damien Wilkins

Award winning writer and director of the International Institute of Modern Letters, home of Victoria’s renowned creative writing programme.

Professor Simon Fraser

Associate Dean (Research) at Victoria’s Faculty of Architecture and Design and former Assistant Design Director at the Porsche Design Studio in Europe.

Professor Kate McGrath

Professor of Chemistry at Victoria University and Director of McDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

She is the author of a series of eight crime novels set in 17th-century Viet-Nam. Several of her novels have been translated into Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Russian and German.

She will talk about her reasons for writing historical crime fiction, her writing project involving New Zealand, as well as the impact that Wellington has had on her work.

To book your spot, RSVP to Keith.Thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Her website presents her books and her blog tells of her adventures in New Zealand since her arrival in January 2014.

What influence did their family backgrounds have on their decision to go, and on their subsequent success or failure? Come along and speculate!

Book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz or calling Cellia Joe on 04 462 3935

Rupert Julian (PA1-q-236); Isabel Wilford in Fair fighting (Eph-E-CINEMA-Wilford).

Tech people! Content people! You’re invited to join us at the National Library to spend a couple of days helping us to work on real problems and challenges facing preservation of digital heritage content.

This is a codejam/hackathon/unconference style event – no real timetable, just problems, content and space to work. We’ll have formal start to introduce the attendees and the collections/challenges, and a formal closing to share the produce of our collective effort.

We’ll be providing access to the New Zealand heritage web archive, a copy of Geocities, access to significant digital collections, older hardware, and a shopping list of digital preservation challenges.

Join in if:

• You're a technical / coder with an interest in the challenge of looking after digital stuff for the long haul. Or perhaps you just like working with the rich heritage collections New Zealand holds.
• You've got a pile of heritage (digital) content with preservation issues, and you'd love some help to get your collection into some shape.

Book your spot and get more info on Eventbrite.

Derived from Gear Meat Company Corned mutton label, 1900-1930. Ref: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-035.

So how's this going to work?

We're setting up shop for two days on the public side of the National Library, where we're going to spend the time working exclusively on some of the technical challenges we face in preserving digital content.

This is a two day event, and it would be great if you can attend both days, but its not mandatory. We hope that Friday attendance will be supported by employers, and you'll be able to come along for the day. Saturday is open for those who can't make the Friday, or if your project needs some more time.

The Digital Preservation team at the National Library have a whole heap of challenges that we'd love you to work on with us, but this being a hackfest, you're free to work on whatever fits your skill set. All we ask is that you work on something that’s focused on addressing a Digital Preservation challenge.

Aaaand, what's a Digital Preservation challenge?

To us, a Digital Preservation challenge is anything that causes us concern when we think about accessing content in the future:

• This could be related to knowing what format a binary object actually is – how can we ensure access tomorrow if we can't provide access today?
• It could be that we know what format content purports to be, but its technically not well constructed – what do we do about poorly formed objects?
• What if the content is a huge dump of binary things and has little structure? How can we ensure smart delivery of subsets/things from a hundred thousand files text files in a corpus or a multi-TB object store?
• How are we addressing the preservation of the Web? Can you help build a widget to that will help us collect New Zealand's online communities?

You might want to work on one of the challenges presented below, or you might have a take on what we should be working on. Here's some suggestions:

• We have TBs of web harvested content spanning hundreds of thousands of websites, and millions of webpages including three discrete crawls of the publicly available .nz domain which need to index and provide avenues into (how do we do web scale?).
• We also have the most complete copy of GeoCities we can find. How can we find and extract the New Zealand content from this set? We're lacking tools to help us wrangle these things at scale.
• We have a collection of digital things that we can't pin down in the format space. We're lacking tools and knowledge to help us identify these things, and ascertain their heritage value.
• We have a collection of digital things have no "formal" format identification signature. We're lacking the time and expertise to make these signatures and give them to the international Digital Preservation community.
• We have collections of text that are beautifully rich in content, but woefully lacking in structure. We lack the tools and expertise to help process collections so researchers in the future are faced with well-structured objects, not just text streams.
• We cannot archive some social media websites. This is part of New Zealand's digital heritage. We lack the ability to collect social media websites, pages and groups (e.g. Twitter or Facebook).

How we run things

To help get the most out of this event, we've set up an email list service. Join the list, and help us to shape the event.

If you have any burning questions, email jay.gattuso@dia.govt.nz.

We'll be operating a pretty open policy with regard to content, and access to our collections and staff. In return, we will expect participants to operate in a similar way, working from good faith positions, and adhering to Wheaton's law and standard anti-harassment policies.

We will be working on some of New Zealand's taonga, its invaluable heritage content that is entrusted to the Library by various donors and benefactors, and as a record of that published by, for and about New Zealand and New Zealanders. We ask that you work with content with this in mind, and consider yourself bound by the sort of behavioural rules that you would expect any Library staff member to abide by in order to protect our collections.

Feel free to talk about what you're working on in your social media channels - we really want you to help expose some of the great collections and work that can be found in the National Library. The "official" event hashtag will be #HPNZ2014, you can reach the library on twitter: @NLNZ or the event organiser directly: @NDHA_NZ

In 2011 a group of Victoria University students designed and built the First Light house; a technically sophisticated, net-zero-energy home that produced all of its electrical energy and hot water from the sun.

The house, which was displayed on the Wellington waterfront, went on to win third place in the prestigious US Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition in 2011.

Now three years on, the same team has produced a series of new homes, specifically designed for the kiwi market. In this presentation, two of the team discuss how they have developed the original prototype First Light house into a series of energy-efficient homes.

Book your spot by emailing Keith.Thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

In addition to this, a final year Bachelor of Design (Stage & Screen) student is contributing to this unique work through a performance installation which weaves across the three individual pieces.

The fruit of extensive research, Iho is an evocative performance experience which is part of an ongoing partnership with the National Library. The site-responsive nature of this work gives our students the opportunity to engage with spaces and organizations in new, dynamic ways, creating exciting collaborations that can engage with audiences in new environments.

Book a ticket from Toi Whakaari.

L-R: Catherine Fitzgerald, Miranda Harcourt, and Tina Cleary.

"There are pieces of correspondence from Chiefs of villages and districts, written in the most beautiful script, that contain their reactions to local and international events... It's like a historical treasure trove, where digitisation is a tool, but the German and Samoan languages are the keys."

Come, listen, and discuss the potential of the Samoan language to unlock hidden histories.

Wax seal from a probate, c.1905, Apia. Reads 'Imperial Court of Samoa, Apia'.

A Samoan Language Week event.

Nicolas Barker has written or edited over 20 books on typography, calligraphy, art history and the history of books and libraries. He was first Head of Preservation at the British Library, and is long-time editor of the popular journal The Book Collector (UK) – taking over from James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Join us for wine and canapés at the National Library and hear from some of New Zealand's top innovators:

David Darling, CEO Pacific Edge, and Supreme New Zealand Innovator 2013

Rod Snodgrass, CEO Telecom Digital Ventures

Penelope Barr-Sellers, Strategic Business and Communications Consultant

Shona Grundy, Founder and CEO of Trigger Happy

Find out their tips for business success; What has helped them on their journey to build great kiwi businesses and talent?

Buy your ticket from the Innovation Council, or phone 0800 246 668.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Research Librarian, Pacific, Roger Swanson will look at what you can find out about your Pacific ancestors from the collections and resources located within the Turnbull and National Library.

Unidentified group, Samoa, ca. 1890s, photographed by A J Tattersall. Ref: 1/2-091589-F.

In 2014 we celebrate Movies – A Global Passion and we invite you to hear Michael Stephens, leading New Zealand film and entertainment lawyer and executive producer. Michael will share his stories about the New Zealand film and screen industry and IP issues encountered along the way.

We also invite you to hear Conan McKegg, a screenwriter involved with the Emerging Artists Trust. Conan is currently working on his first feature length film and will talk about the writer’s journey.

Please RSVP by emailing Keith.Thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Central amongst these continuities is the place of sound scholarship, the written word, and the communities of writers, librarians and archivists who maintain that flow of ideas to page and screen. The Alexander Turnbull Library stands at the heart of this ‘making of good books for New Zealand readers’.

Brought to you by the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Bridget Williams started publishing with OUP in the UK in the 1970s. In 1976, Bridget started her first independent publishing company, Port Nicholson Press, with Roy Parsons and Lindsay Missen, taking it to the British-Australian firm Allen & Unwin in 1984, and becoming managing director of Allen & Unwin New Zealand. When the Allen & Unwin group was sold to HarperCollins in 1990, Bridget purchased the New Zealand list to set up Bridget Williams Books, the independent firm publishing on history and contemporary issues today.

Bridget’s publishing includes major projects such as the Oxford History of New Zealand and the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, along with a wide range of books on history such as Judith Binney’s Encircled Lands and Claudia Orange’s Treaty of Waitangi, and contemporary issues such as Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis. The list includes many national book awards, and significant international co-publication. Her work has been acknowledged with an ONZM and MBE.

Alan will discuss this peculiar and proud little profession with examples of 'throwaway' drawings that have not only lasted the distance, but have forever encapsulated a piece of history.

'There is no blood on my hands...' by Alan Moir.

A Friends of LAGANZ event.

L-R: Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera (Wikipedia); Rupert Julian (PA1-q-236); Isabel Wilford in Fair fighting (Eph-E-CINEMA-Wilford).

A publican’s son from Whangaroa sings in variety shows in Auckland, and ends up directing Lon Chaney in Hollywood.

A Christchurch schoolteacher plays Joseph in the silent Ben-Hur.

The daughter of a Wellington mayor stars in American westerns, and later captures the hearts of London theatregoers.

These New Zealanders are amongst a handful of actors who followed the bright lights to the other side of the world, in the early twentieth century. The players include Rupert Julian, Winter Hall, Isabel Wilford, Shayle Gardner, Nola Luxford, Colin Tapley, Ronald Sinclair, and Inia Te Wiata, as well as a few who relished playing extras.

The exhibition uses material from the Alexander Turnbull Library to tell their stories – how they acted, wrote, directed and edited for the big screen in Hollywood and Britain.

The Library’s collections contain traces of their stellar trajectories; some mere vestiges, some more significant. We hope you enjoy rediscovering some of our early world screen actors.

Barbara Lyon – Curator, Ephemera

About Rupert Julian

Rupert Julian arrived in Hollywood in 1913, the same year as Cecil B DeMille, and was extraordinarily productive there as an actor, a writer and a director for some twenty years. He is now best remembered as the director of the 1925 "Phantom of the Opera", starring Lon Chaney.

Rupert Julian, ca. 1903-1909. Part of Theatrical album 4, ref: PA1-q-236.

The second came from Foreign Affairs, indicating that all African countries and some from Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific would boycott the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch if the tour went ahead. Kirk postponed the tour to the ire of rugby supporters, including some within his own party.

David will relate the sometime tortuous events that transpired which led Kirk to eventually call off the tour.

David Grant is a Wellington-based historian with a background in teaching and journalism. He has written several major books, as well as numerous essays for anthologies, encyclopaedia, journals and magazines. His latest biographical project, The mighty totara, is a life of Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of the Third Labour Government, who died in office on 31 August 1974.

Brought to you by the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Prime Minister Norman Kirk. Photographer: Ian McFarlane. Ref: 35mm-00277-b-F.

Part of Borderland: The World of James Cowan, on at the Turnbull Gallery

Part of Borderland: The World of James Cowan, on at the Turnbull Gallery

"Ake! Ake! Ake!" Rewi defying the British troops at Orakau, 1893. Ref: C-033-004.

Research Librarian Kevin Stewart will discuss how manuscripts, photographs, and art works can give context to your family history research.

Probably an Anzac Day commemoration service, Wellington, ca 1931. Ref: 1/1-019958-G.

Part of Borderland: The World of James Cowan, on at the Turnbull Gallery

"Ake! Ake! Ake!" Rewi defying the British troops at Orakau, 1893. Ref: C-033-004.

Recent research is showing that we could have a sustainable future by changing how we choose to live, without the need to knock down all our existing buildings or buy a lot of expensive new gadgets. At this event the audience can discuss the possibilities with a panel who have tried these changes.

Chair

Dr Robin Skinner, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Victoria University of Wellington.

Panelists

• Kah Chan, School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington
• Brenda and Robert Vale, School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington
• Jake Roos, Senior Advisor Climate Change and Energy, Kapiti Coast District Council
• One of the participants from a household in the “Greenest Neighbourhood” competition, run each year by Kapiti Coast District Council.

This is a free public event, but to help us prepare the venue, could you let us know if you are coming by sending an RSVP to keith.thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Part of Borderland: The World of James Cowan, on at the Turnbull Gallery

"Ake! Ake! Ake!" Rewi defying the British troops at Orakau, 1893. Ref: C-033-004.

Part of Borderland: The World of James Cowan, on at the Turnbull Gallery

"Ake! Ake! Ake!" Rewi defying the British troops at Orakau, 1893. Ref: C-033-004.

Part of Borderland: The World of James Cowan, on at the Turnbull Gallery

"Ake! Ake! Ake!" Rewi defying the British troops at Orakau, 1893. Ref: C-033-004.

Part of Borderland: The World of James Cowan, on at the Turnbull Gallery

"Ake! Ake! Ake!" Rewi defying the British troops at Orakau, 1893. Ref: C-033-004.

“The book offers an important addition to how we understand ‘the demon drink’ within New Zealand’s gender history... Wanted, A Beautiful Barmaid adds another dimension to the story of men, women and alcohol.” – Charlotte Macdonald at the book's launch, June 2013.

Brought to you by the Friends of the Turnbull Library

Ref: Observer, 12 September 1903, Page 1.

Alison Ainsworth will show you how easy it is to access information from www.bdmonline.dia.govt.nz.

The talk covers:

• the range of records available for searching and how the available records are determined
• what information the search results have
• how you can reorganise your search results
• advice on how to order records, which product to choose and the cost of each product

You'll also learn about the requirements for obtaining non historical records.

Members of NZ Eagle Club with babies, ca. WWII. Ref: PAColl-7688-01-17.

Awards’ Manager Amie Lightbourne talks about the awards from her behind the scenes view: from recruiting judges to staging the ceremony, and interesting facts about the awards and the process.

About the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection

About the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards

In their book Get Off The Grass, Shaun Hendy and the late Sir Paul Callaghan argued that "New Zealanders work harder and earn less than most other people in the developed world". In this free public event, Professor Shaun Hendy proposes ways to change things.

The seminar is based on the ideas in Get Off The Grass, in which Hendy and Callaghan advocate building nationwide communities of innovators, entrepreneurs, and businesses to grow New Zealand's economy more rapidly. It must get off the grass and diversify its economy beyond the primary sector.

This seminar will be of great value to anyone with an interest in New Zealand's future prosperity.

This is a free public event, but to help us prepare the venue, could you let us know if you are coming by sending an RSVP to keith.thorsen@dia.govt.nz.

Professor Shaun Hendy. Photo by Clive Ralph.

Professor Shaun Hendy FRSNZ is a physicist at the University of Auckland and holds an Industry and Outreach Fellowship from Callaghan Innovation. Shaun has won many accolades for his scientific research, including the New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal in 2010 and ANZIAM’s E. O. Tuck medal for applied mathematics in 2013. Shaun writes a blog, ‘A Measure of Science’, at Sciblogs.co.nz, has a monthly column in Unlimited Magazine and appears regularly on Radio New Zealand Nights as physics correspondent. In 2013 he was awarded the Royal Society’s Callaghan Medal and the Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize for his contributions to communicating science. He commissioned Order Structure Pattern #2, the work by Gabby O’Connor that is part of the Leading Edge exhibition at the National Library. The work refers to the interconnectivity that Hendy believes is necessary if we are to innovate successfully.

Part of the Leading Edge programme

Requiem to the Fallen is written to honour the memory of those soldiers who gave their lives in a war that changed the direction of human history. Many went with a sense of adventure to ‘see the world’ but the horror and futility of modern warfare was soon terribly apparent. Even though little of benefit came from the devastating conflict it is thought that (to quote New Zealand soldier and lifelong peace activist Ormond Burton) ‘somewhere between the landing at Anzac and the end of the battle of the Somme New Zealand very definitely became a nation.’

The work combines movements from the Requiem Mass in Latin with words by Vincent O’Sullivan. O’Sullivan’s words interweave with and comment on the Latin Mass extending the traditional context to reflect the horror and futility of war. The choral writing is mostly gentle and reflective while the string quartet and taonga paoro comment on the words and expand the context of the work to a broad meditation against all wars.

– Ross Harris

To write a new Requiem is to join a long and venerable tradition. In taking on Requiem for the Fallen to mark the centenary of World War I, Ross and I naturally came to it as New Zealanders, and with our shared certainty that we see nothing celebratory, nothing for easy sentimentality, in the event. We both find deeply unattractive the flag waving of conventional patriotism, and the easy rhetoric of ‘For King and Country’. What men die for is the love of those they defend, and the values they share. No commemoration is just, that does not bear as well the dreadful physical reality that deprives men finally of all that ‘Home’ entails. The form of the Requiem allows for that emphasis, as it does of course for traditional resonances of hope, the refusal to accept that the evil of war must always be the final dominant note.

– Vincent O'Sullivan

Part of the New Zealand Festival 2014

Taking cues from words both written and whispered you’ll find yourself burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books. The words on the page, the voice in your ear, and occasionally the companion at your table guide you through a journey that will shake up your understanding of the act of reading.

The Quiet Volume runs frequently throughout the Festival, on Feb 22, 25-28, March 1, 4-8, and 11-15. Sessions take place between 10.15am and 3.45pm.

Book tickets through Ticketek

The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and 'automatic' performance (Autoteatro) for two at a time, exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different peoples' experiences of reading unfold.

Two audience members / participants sit side-by-side. Taking cues from words both written and whispered they find themselves burrowing an unlikely path through a pile of books. The piece exposes the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience, allowing aspects of it we think of as deeply internal to lean out into the surrounding space, and to leak from one reader's sphere into another's.

Part of the New Zealand Festival 2014

The day-long event includes a keynote lecture from Chris Hilliard, discussion of Cowan's influence on school curricula and national storytelling, and his ongoing effect on film and other media.

See the draft programme

Book your ticket through the University of Otago

James Cowan at his desk, writing, 1940. Ref: PAColl-5877-5.

This event is part of Borderland: The World of James Cowan.

Do you use Papers Past? Did you know that the National Library makes a number of other newspaper databases available? Would you like to know how to use these valuable resources more effectively?

In our first talk for the year Research Librarian Fiona Gray will look at newspapers online (both subscription and free) for your family history research.

This is a free event, but space is limited. Book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz or calling Cellia Joe on 04 462 3935.

Sailors from HMS Leander, reading newspapers. Ref: 1/4-049238-G.

Borderland explores the life, work and legacy of the writer James Cowan (1870–1943).

Cowan grew up on a Waikato farm, on land confiscated from Māori who had fought against the Crown in the wars of the 1860s. The farm included part of the battlefield of Ōrākau, just north of the King Country – a region that remained in Māori control after the war. This environment gave rise to Cowan’s lifelong interest in Māori and colonial history, and to his fluency in te reo Māori.

James Cowan at his desk, writing, 1940. Ref: PAColl-5877-5.

My own interest in Cowan began with the book he wrote based in part on interviews with my great-grandfather, Hone Taare Tikao, called Māori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills (1923). This interest developed further when I arranged and described a large collection of Cowan’s research papers, acquired by the Turnbull Library in 2012.

Cowan wrote prolifically in popular magazines, newspapers and books, on many areas of New Zealand cultural life. In the first half of the twentieth century he was one of our most widely read authors. Some of his language can seem dated today, but he had a bicultural vision that challenged the thinking of many of his Pākehā contemporaries.

He is perhaps best remembered for his writing on the New Zealand Wars. Cowan was of the view that through the shared experience of these wars, Māori and Pākehā were brought closer together.

– Ariana Tikao, Curator

He taught the larger lesson of mutual understanding; he saw the two cultures, Maori and Pakeha, meet and clash; he had profound knowledge of the dignity and beauty of both, and his life work was dedicated to their fusion.
– Prime Minister Peter Fraser, 1944

An Assemblé event

From the many films of the Royal New Zealand Ballet at the New Zealand Film Archive a selection has been made for screening, including Aurora’s Wedding, Jon Trimmer – Dancer, and Prismatic Variations.

More information from The Film Archive

Places are limited, so book a spot by emailing ATLoutreach@dia.govt.nz.

Come in and visit Assemblé: The Royal New Zealand Ballet at Sixty at the Turnbull Gallery

An Assemblé event

A session for 4-10 year olds to experience a creative dance workshop with a Royal New Zealand Ballet Educator. These sessions will be fun, creative and physical so make sure you are wearing clothes that you can move around in!

Places are limited, so book a spot by emailing ATLoutreach@dia.govt.nz.

Come in and visit Assemblé: The Royal New Zealand Ballet at Sixty at the Turnbull Gallery

An Assemblé event

Andrew Pfieffer and Esther Lofley discuss costuming for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Come and see, feel and hear about costumes from the ballet company’s wardrobe.

Places are limited, so book a spot by emailing ATLoutreach@dia.govt.nz.

Come in and visit Assemblé: The Royal New Zealand Ballet at Sixty at the Turnbull Gallery

An Assemblé event

Nigel Boyes will lead a behind-the-scenes look at the wardrobe and studios of the ballet company.

Places are limited, so book a spot by emailing ATLoutreach@dia.govt.nz.

Come in and visit Assemblé: The Royal New Zealand Ballet at Sixty at the Turnbull Gallery

An Assemblé event

Current and former dancers from the Royal New Zealand Ballet, talking about dancing for a ballet company: their favourites, and memorable moments (good and bad).

Places are limited, so book a spot by emailing ATLoutreach@dia.govt.nz.

Come in and visit Assemblé: The Royal New Zealand Ballet at Sixty at the Turnbull Gallery

A Leading Edge innovation day for the family

Looking for something fun for your family to do after Christmas? Come down to the National Library for Innovation Day!

9am – 10.30am: Build a balloon-powered car
Create your own car from recycled bottles – race them and redesign to go even faster.

10.30am – 12 noon: Inventor quiz and badge making
We'll pick your brain on the invention stories in the exhibition.

1pm – 3pm: Creative cartoon workshop
Create your own new and innovative stories.

3pm – 4pm: Physical Angry Birds
Build and play your own real world Angry Birds level. Get them pigs!

Space is limited for some workshops, so it's first in first served. Email Hamish Timmins to book a spot.

More days of fun!

Friday 27 December: Digital Day

Saturday 28 December: Science Day

A Leading Edge science day for the family

Looking for something fun for your family to do after Christmas? Come down to the National Library for Science Day!

10am – 3pm: Science mini shows
Get your science on! Check out experiments showing how pressure, vacuum, balance, density, and more work.

10am – 3pm: Interactive exhibits
Try it out for yourself – from Whisper Dishes to Power Fencing to the Bernoulli Blower!

10am – 3pm: Frizz Whizzer making
It frizzes, it whizzes!

10am – 3pm: Mini hovercraft rides for kids
Scoot around with the power of SCIENCE!

Space is limited for some workshops, so it's first in first served. Email Hamish Timmins to book a spot.

More days of fun!

Friday 27 December: Digital Day

Monday 30 December: Innovation Day

A Leading Edge digital day for the family

Looking for something fun for your family to do after Christmas? Come down to the National Library for Digital Day!

10am – 12 noon: Video game making workshop
Use Gamefroot to make your own video game adventure. Learn tips and tricks from the master himself.

10am – 3pm: Lego robotics workshop
Build, alter, and programme a Mindstorms robot.

1pm – 3pm: Make a computer keyboard out of anything
Use Makey Makey to build your own working keyboard out of pen, fruit, play-doh, or anything else!

Space is limited for some workshops, so it's first in first served. Email Hamish Timmins to book a spot.

More days of fun!

Saturday 28 December: Science Day

Monday 30 December: Innovation Day

Runs from 9 December 2013 to 15 February 2014 | 10am – 5pm, Monday – Saturday | Level one

The Royal New Zealand Ballet celebrated its 60th anniversary in July 2013. Assemblé: The Royal New Zealand Ballet at sixty continues this celebration. Profiling four ballets frequently performed by the company – Petrouchka, Swan Lake, Peter Pan, and Romeo and Juliet – the exhibition brings together many collections within the Alexander Turnbull Library to illustrate the life and work of a full-time professional dance troupe.

Danish dancer Poul Gnatt moved to Australia and joined the Borovansky Ballet, which toured New Zealand in 1952. Many things about New Zealand impressed him – except for the fact it lacked a national ballet company. Moving here, he set about changing that.

Now, 60 years after its first performance, the Royal New Zealand Ballet has finished 2013 touring 48 venues the length and breadth of the country, as well as four venues in China. Gnatt’s vision of a permanent company taking professional dance to all of New Zealand continues to be honoured.

Poul Gnatt at Bethalls Beach. Ref: PH-2013-145.

Dance is an ephemeral art: each movement completed becomes the past. But records of the performance live on, in archives and libraries – and in our memories. While we can never fully capture the feel of experiencing live dance, mementos of such performances – posters, programmes, photographs, reviews, social media postings and personal accounts – help us to remember and to enjoy again.

As well as the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, greatly contributed to by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, there are personal records of the dancers and creative teams. When all of this material is brought together, it can reawaken each performance for the in-depth researcher or curious passerby.

Exhibition events

"Let’s make a ballet" – panel discussion

Monday 9 December 2013, 5-7pm (panel discussion starting at 5:30) | Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library building

A panel discussion chaired by the exhibition curator Keith McEwing, with a focus on putting on a ballet.

With Sir Jon Trimmer, Dr Raymond Boyce, Dr Philip Norman, and former Artistic Director Matz Skoog. More details

"To make a pointe" – panel discussion

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 5:30–6:30pm | Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library building

Current and former dancers from the Royal New Zealand ballet talk about dancing for a ballet company, their favourite pieces and memorable moments (good and bad). More details

Behind the scenes tour of the Royal New Zealand Ballet

Friday 24 January 2014, 10:30–1:30am | Royal New Zealand Ballet, 77-83 Courtenay Pl

Nigel Boyes will lead a behind-the-scenes look at the wardrobe and studios of the ballet company. More details

Opening the wardrobe door: Looking into the secrets behind the costumes

Saturday 25 January 2014, 11am–1pm | Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library building

Andrew Pfieffer and Esther Lofley discuss costuming for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Come see, feel, and hear about costumes from the ballet company’s wardrobe. More details

Playing with ballet: A fun workshop for kids and families

Saturday 8 February 2014, 11–11:45am, repeats at 12:15–1pm | Te Ahumairangi (ground floor), National Library building

A session for the young and young at heart to learn about dancing. More details

New Zealand Film Archive screening

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 7pm | NZ Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St

From the many films of the Royal New Zealand Ballet at the New Zealand Film Archive a selection have been made for screening, including Aurora’s Wedding, Jon Trimmer – Dancer, and Prismatic Variations. More details

An Assemblé event

A panel discussion chaired by the exhibition curator Keith McEwing, with a focus on putting on a ballet. Panellists are designer Dr Raymond Boyce, composer Dr Philip Norman, and former Artistic Director Matz Skoog.

Places are limited, so book a spot by emailing ATLoutreach@dia.govt.nz.

Come in and visit Assemblé: The Royal New Zealand Ballet at Sixty at the Turnbull Gallery

The Friends of Dorothy Neal White Collection have great pleasure in inviting you to our end of year event. Author Tania Connelly will be speaking about her newly launched picture book Over the Hill to Greytown.

Seasonal drinks and festive nibbles will be served.

Dr Walsh will talk about his work locating and identifying resources relevant to Australian languages within the collections of the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Dr Troy will be talking about her research into the language of the Sydney area and using archival material to reconstruct it.

Examples of Māori material will also be featured.

See information on Michael and Jakelin's recent presentations at the Hidden Gems Symposium in Sydney.

Media coverage of archival material discovered at the Mitchell Library as part of Dr Walsh’s research.

A Next in line event

Cory Mathis, winner of the Young Cartoonist Award 2013, will run fun, interactive workshops for 5- to 12-year-olds. Children can try their hand at cartooning and learn practical drawing tips to improve their pictures. Guiding the children through drawing a picture and faces, Cory will introduce the basic concepts of caricature.

Spaces are limited. Book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz. Children need to be accompanied by a caregiver.

Email the curator, Melinda Johnston, for more information.

Cory Mathis, Baby Kumra, 2013.

The Battle of Featherston Street, during the 1913 New Zealand Waterfront Strike. Ref: 1/2-160127-F.

1913: still relevant after all these years?

The Great Strike was about local and particular labour issues which are canvassed well in the collection, Revolution, The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand (Canterbury University Press in association with the Trade Union History Project, 2005), edited by Melanie Nolan. But the 1913 Great Strike was a battleground of democracy. Workers and others battled over the shape of New Zealand society and the role of unions in it. Professor Melanie Nolan will further explore how these issues are relevant today.

Melanie Nolan is Professor of History, Director of the National Centre of Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the School of History at the Australian National University (ANU). As general editor she has published the Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 18 (2012) and a history of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, The ADB’s Story (2013).

The New Zealand Waterfront in 2013: Back to the future?

The 1913 general strike was fought on and around the waterfront in Wellington and other ports. In the century since, maritime workers have remained a central part of New Zealand’s social and industrial history and class struggle, through key events such as the 1951 lockout and more recent struggles against casualization and insecure jobs.

After a sustained attack on workers rights for the last generation, have we come full circle and are maritime workers fighting the same battles today? Joe Fleetwood, National Secretary, Maritime Union of New Zealand will explore how have things changed and how have they stayed the same.

Joe Fleetwood was elected National Secretary of the Maritime Union of New Zealand in 2009. Joe has been a seafarer and a member of the New Zealand Seafarers Union and now the Maritime Union for over thirty two years. He previously served a term as National Vice President of the Maritime Union, and served as Secretary of the Wellington Seafarers Branch MUNZ. Previous to this Joe served as job delegate for around 25 years. Joe is a fifth generation seafarer and dock worker.

Solidarity on the waterfront since 1913

More information coming soon! The Rail and Maritime Transport Union will also discuss the development of solidarity on the waterfront since 1913.

Part of a series of talks for the centenery of the 1913 Great Strike. Presented by the Museum of Wellington City & Sea, the Labour History Project and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Supported by the Maritime Union of New Zealand and the Rail & Maritime Transport Union.

More talks

October 1: Songs of work and workers and Sites of struggle

October 5: Flashpoint of history

October 8: A century of remarkable women in the PSA

October 15: "Tatau tatau" vs "half-caste Maori" scabs

October 22: Reds & Wobblies

October 29: Dreadnoughts, Picture Palaces and Revolutionists

November 12: Savage, Fraser, Freyberg, Cullen

Do you create your family history on a computer? Save your research on a disk? Take digital photos? If the answer is yes then this session is for you!

In our last talk for the year, Leigh Rosin and Jessica Moran, the Library’s Digital Archivists, will give you practical advice on how to manage your digital files and media. Learn the basics about the care and handling of physical media like CDs and hard drives, as well as good practice in file naming, organisation and back ups.

Space is limited, so please book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz or phoning Cellia Joe on 04 462 3935

'The computer failed to understand Cecily's reasoning'. May, 2008. Ref: DCDL-0006458.

A Next in line event

What challenges face women cartoonists? How are women being represented in comics and cartoons? Who's working now to push these forms forward? Our Cartoon Colloquium is an opportunity to think about the reasons for the low profile of women cartoonists, discuss issues of gender identity and politics, and showcase those who are already there.

Practising cartoonists and academics will highlight women already making comics and cartoons, ponder the landscape they work in, and discuss the gaps that still need filling.

See the afternoon's programme

Spaces are limited. Book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz.

Email the curator, Melinda Johnston, for more information.

Sharon Murdoch, "Are you looking at me?", 13 April 2013. Ref: DCDL-0024808.

Colloquium programme

11:30

Introduction and welcome.

11.35 Dr Barbara Garrie, Lecturer in Art History, University of Canterbury

will introduce Linda Nochlin’s famous question, ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ How might the lessons learned in art history be applied to our understanding of women cartoonists and women in cartoons?

12.00 Dr Sondra Bacharach, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington

will consider the ethical implications of representations of women in cartoons. What is the moral dimension of comics and cartoons, and how do our prejudices and stereotypes inform our moral assessments?

12.25 Thomas Köntges, PhD candidate in Classics, University of Otago

will speak about the origin of satire versus women.

12.50

Short break.

12.55 Dr Tim Bollinger, comic artist and researcher

will offer a brief introduction to women's comics, and women in comics, in New Zealand.

1.15 Robyn Kennealy, comic artist

speaks about the intersection of feminism and neo-liberal ideas in her comics.

1.30 Valerie Love, Research Librarian, Digital Materials, Alexander Turnbull Library

will discuss portrayals of the LGBT community in New Zealand cartoons.

1.40

Afternoon tea break.

1.55 Sharon Murdoch, Wellington-based cartoonist

regularly publishes in major New Zealand papers and will speak about her experience as a woman cartoonist and the role of whimsy in her cartoons.

2.10 Dr Melinda Johnston, Research Librarian, Cartoons, Alexander Turnbull Library

asks whether cartoonists and historians in New Zealand have privileged a so-called ‘savage’ and ‘masculine’ style of comment, and how women cartoonists might negotiate a place within this context.

2.20 Hayley Heartbreak, entrant in the 2013 Young Cartoonist competition

“Don't scare the boys”: On the notion of influences, defending your corner and establishing yourself as a female artist when everyone is telling you you're a threat to the status quo.

2.35 Sarah Laing, comic blogger

will talk about her experience as a comic artist and blogger.

2.55 Jane Clifton, writer for the New Zealand Listener

shares her experience writing about politics

3.15

Discussion and wrap-up.

And librarians love zines with ISBNs even more. Join Amy Joseph (National Library), Monty Masseurs (Wellington City Libraries), and Claire Harris (zine-maker), for a chat about the library services zine-makers can use.

The panel will talk about ISBNs, pre-publication cataloguing, Legal Deposit, and the Public Lending Right, the zine collection at WCL, and the experience of a zine-maker using these.

Part of Wellington Zinefest 2013

Chaired by Marianne Elliott, with Helen Kelly, Mothla Majeed, Victoria Manning, and Chennoah Walford.

The National Library invites you to a free public panel discussion.

Tirohia Mai's final panel focuses on the future, on how this generation of women are responding to the opportunities and challenges they face and how they are contributing to shaping the future for all of us.

A Tirohia Mai / Look At Us Now event.

The panel

Chairperson: Marianne Elliott

Marianne grew up on a farm in Tokoroa and in Papua New Guinea. She is a human rights lawyer who has worked in Gaza, at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission and in Afghanistan. In Zen Under Fire she records and reflects on her experiences in Afghanistan. She has a flourishing yoga and mentoring consultancy and is co-owner of a Mexican restaurant in Wellington.

Helen Kelly

Helen is the first woman to hold the position of President, Council of Trade Unions. Unions have been crucial to making progress on equality for women, yet as a male dominated movement, unions have, in the past, also put up barriers to women workers' full and equal participation in the labour force. Labour force issues are at the heart of enduring inequalities experienced by women in Aotearoa New Zealand, in particular the low pay and precarious conditions in female intensive industries; and the continuing difficulties of combining paid work and family responsibilities. How are unions organising today to shape tomorrow?

Mothla Majeed

Mothla is an international cooperation analyst in the public service. An arts and law graduate from Victoria University, she has volunteered in the social justice sphere since moving to Wellington including assisting lawyers at Whitireia Community Law Centre in Porirua to provide legal advice and advocacy to those usually without access. She brings the perspective and experiences of a first generation New Zealand woman. Mothla, who calls herself an Algerian-Iraqi-via England-New Zealander, came here as a four year old. "I'm glad I live in Aotearoa" but "it's the constant allegation that I'm not 'from' here because of my name and features that hurts". Mothla views Te Tiriti, the Treaty of Waitangi as key to a better future for all in Aotearoa.

Victoria Manning

Victoria is a Policy Adviser with the Disabled People's Assembly. In the 1990s Victoria emerged as one of the leaders of young disabled people determined to claim their place as fully participating citizens. She helped organise disabled students at Victoria University and, with Kim Robinson, successfully took the complaint to the Human Rights Commission that led to the establishment of the text-voice relay service that enables hearing impaired people, and those with speech difficulties to use telephones. As a bi-lingual mother of two young children with many years’ experience in policy level advocacy Victoria is acutely aware of the challenges facing disabled women and the work needed to make New Zealand more inclusive of disabled women.

Chennoah Walford

Chennoah is a first year law student at Victoria University, studying politics, international relations and theatre. She is also an actor and dancer who this year helped found the Clitlective, a feminist theatre collective committed to equality for all genders. Chennoah is the youth member on the Board of Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand. An Amnesty activist since secondary school at Tauranga Girls, she is passionate about the Amnesty campaign My Body My Rights and about stopping sexual violence, including sexual violence against men.

Ruth has recently returned from a residency at AS220 arts organisation in Rhode Island, USA. She will share her insider's view of AS220's vibrant, experimental, and entrepreneurial culture, and reflect on how fostering creativity and providing space can transform communities.

More information from Te Papa

Space is limited, so email natserv@tepapa.govt.nz to book a spot.

These latest metadata initiatives come as part of the New Zealand national agreement with OCLC for supply of bibliographic records and are an exciting development.

You will be able to listen to Richard talk, then take part in a discussion about what this means for libraries and librarians.

You can read about Richard Wallis's background and current role You may also be interested in his recent presentation at IFLA

Members of the Labour cabinet in the foyer of Parliament Buildings, 1936. Ref 1/1-018218-F.

Mark Derby is a Wellington historian and writer working for Te Ara – the online encyclopedia of NZ. He is also a long-time committee member of the Labour History Project and has researched and published widely on the 1913 strike. This talk will draw partly on one of his books, The Prophet and the Policeman – the story of Rua Kenana and John Cullen, (Craig Potton, 2009).

Part of a series of talks for the centenery of the 1913 Great Strike. Presented by the Museum of Wellington City & Sea, the Labour History Project and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Supported by the Maritime Union of New Zealand and the Rail & Maritime Transport Union.

More talks

October 1: Songs of work and workers and Sites of struggle

October 5: Flashpoint of history

October 8: A century of remarkable women in the PSA

October 15: "Tatau tatau" vs "half-caste Maori" scabs

October 22: Reds & Wobblies

October 29: Dreadnoughts, Picture Palaces and Revolutionists

November 19: 1913: still relevant after all these years?

These latest metadata initiatives come as part of the New Zealand national agreement with OCLC for supply of bibliographic records and are an exciting development.

You will be able to listen to Richard talk, then take part in a discussion about what this means for libraries and librarians.

You can read about Richard Wallis's background and current role You may also be interested in his recent presentation at IFLA

These latest metadata initiatives come as part of the New Zealand national agreement with OCLC for supply of bibliographic records and are an exciting development.

You will be able to listen to Richard talk, then take part in a discussion about what this means for libraries and librarians.

You can read about Richard Wallis's background and current role You may also be interested in his recent presentation at IFLA

Chaired by Dr Judith Aitken, with Marianne Elliott, Serena Lemuela-Curtis, Dr. Nicola Gaston, Bianca Zander.

A lifetime of paid work is now expected as much of women as it is of men. The panel highlights young women making an impact in science, working in IT, creating and building new businesses and confronting the myriad of challenges that endure still, including combining motherhood and paid work.

The panel

Chairperson: Dr Judith Aitken

Judith has had a distinguished career as a public servant, author and community worker. She has been Chief Executive of the Ministry of Women's Affairs and Chief Review Officer at the Education Review Office (1992-2000). Judith has also published extensively, A Woman's Place: A Study of the Changing Roles of Women and Men in New Zealand being her first major publication. She is currently a member of the Wellington Regional Council and the Capital and Coast District Health Board.

Marianne Elliott

Human rights lawyer, with experience in Gaza and Afghanistan as well as New Zealand; author of Zen Under Fire; co-founder and owner of Wellington Mexican restaurant La Boca Loca. Marianne is an advocate for self-employment, for women as entrepreneurs building their own businesses.

Serena Curtis-Lemuelu

Director, SV8 Consulting Ltd. Serena specialises in project management, business and systems analysis. Her projects have included The Pacific Island Safety and Prevention Project for the development and implementation of Whānau Ora and project management of the World Bank, NZ Department of Labour review of the recognised seasonal workers schemes in six Pacific countries. Before setting up her own business Serena worked in the health sector. A highly successful rugby and rugby league player herself and still playing, she also currently coaches Poneke Poneke Colts (U21 grade).

Dr. Nicola Gaston

Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University & Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute. Before coming to Victoria University Nicola worked at the IRL (now Callaghan Institute) and in Dresden at the world renown Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems. She researches and publishes on the structural electronic and optical properties of nanoparticles and nanostructures.

Bianca Zander

Novelist, screenwriter, journalist and currently creative writing lecturer at AUT. Bianca has written for the NZ Listener, Sunday Star Times and DomPost. She has produced radio shows and written for film and television. Her first novel is The Girl Below and a second is on the way. she combines writing and lecturing with motherhood.

Four of Massey's Special Constables on horseback, 1913. Ref: 1/2-029096-F

The parade will feature six horses in period saddlery, six mounted Special Constables in period costume, and a number of ‘Strikers’ with placards, also in period dress who will travel onto Post office Square, turning right into Lower Willis Street, onto Jervois Quay then left onto Brandon Street, across Featherston Street to Lambton Quay and then across Whitmore Street to the front of Parliament and the parade will terminate in the open space in front of the Cenotaph.

More talks

October 1: Songs of work and workers and Sites of struggle

October 8: A century of remarkable women in the PSA

October 15: "Tatau tatau" vs "half-caste Maori" scabs

October 22: Reds & Wobblies

October 29: Dreadnoughts, Picture Palaces and Revolutionists

November 12: Savage, Fraser, Freyberg, Cullen

A Next in line event

One of the most original and authoritative voices on the New Zealand comic scene, Dylan Horrocks’s comics have been published around the world. In his talk, Horrocks will share some lessons he’s learned over the years from drawing comics, comic strips, political cartoons and graphic novels: lessons about cartooning, art and life.

Horrocks is the author of the celebrated graphic novel Hicksville, which has been published in five languages and nominated for awards in the US, France, Italy and Spain. He also produces the comic book series Pickle and Atlas, has worked as a writer for DC Comics, drawn political cartoons, illustrated books, and has written essays and prose fiction.

Dylan Horrocks's visit has been made possible with the support of the Guardians of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive.

Dylan Horrocks, Self-portrait, collection of the artist.

Crowd gathered in Post Office Square, Wellington, during the 1913 Waterfront Strike. Ref: 1/2-048787.

In 1913 the people of Wellington were embracing the new technologies of motor cars, aeroplanes, gramophones and the mass entertainment of the silent cinema. Newspapers reported on Scott’s death in Antarctica, civil war in Mexico, the Suffragette’s sabotage campaign in Britain, and bloody strikes in Dublin, Johannesberg and Colorado.

Thousands of Wellington citizens turned out in April to see HMS New Zealand, the warship the patriotic New Zealanders had paid for to help Britain’s arms race. Within five months patriots and ‘revolutionists’ were fighting in the streets. Wellington became a battleground between militant Red Fed strikers and ‘Massey’s Cossacks’, the special constables.

This talk gives a brief glimpse into the world behind the headlines in one the most eventful years in Wellington’s history.

Part of a series of talks for the centenery of the 1913 Great Strike. Presented by the Museum of Wellington City & Sea, the Labour History Project and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Supported by the Maritime Union of New Zealand and the Rail & Maritime Transport Union.

More talks

October 1: Songs of work and workers and Sites of struggle

October 5: Flashpoint of history

October 8: A century of remarkable women in the PSA

October 15: "Tatau tatau" vs "half-caste Maori" scabs

October 22: Reds & Wobblies

November 12: Savage, Fraser, Freyberg, Cullen

November 19: 1913: still relevant after all these years?

Cartoon from the Observer, 16 December 1916.

Jared will highlight the actions of a government fearful of social revolution in a time of worldwide turbulence, and discuss the working-class radicalism that caused such fears. From the ashes of union songwriter Joe Hill to Australian Seaman Noel Lyons, the repressive actions of the New Zealand government will be placed in an international context, challenging the notion of New Zealand as an egalitarian society free of despotic power.

Jared Davidson is a member of the Labour History Project with an interest in the intersections of power, culture and class. He is the author of two books: Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand Anarchism (2013), and Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill's Ashes in New Zealand (2011). Jared currently resides in Wellington, where he works as a research archivist at Archives New Zealand.

Part of a series of talks for the centenery of the 1913 Great Strike. Presented by the Museum of Wellington City & Sea, the Labour History Project and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Supported by the Maritime Union of New Zealand and the Rail & Maritime Transport Union.

More talks

October 1: Songs of work and workers and Sites of struggle

October 5: Flashpoint of history

October 8: A century of remarkable women in the PSA

October 15: "Tatau tatau" vs "half-caste Maori" scabs

October 29: Dreadnoughts, Picture Palaces and Revolutionists

November 12: Savage, Fraser, Freyberg, Cullen

November 19: 1913: still relevant after all these years?

Masthead of The Maoriland Worker .

Perusing the pages of the Maoriland Worker (the Federation of Labour newspaper) between 1910 and 1914, it appears Māori were subjects of political columns, union updates, and Red Fed organizing. Most striking is the figure of the half-caste Māori scab, who is demonized for endangering union organizing by their willingness to cross the picket line and join employer initiated arbitration unions.

Most regular in the pages of the Maoriland Worker is the Māori shearer, who unobtrusively is a member of the Shearers’ Union, has a Māori organizer, and is expected to become “one” with his or her Pakeha brothers and sisters in the “best interests” of the union. This talk analyses why there were such powerful differences between these two conceptions of Māori and focuses on shearing and mining work between 1910 and 1914.

Cybèle Locke is a history graduate of Otago and Auckland universities, who has published widely on labour history. Currently a lecturer in the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, she was a participant in the activist movements of the late twentieth century.

Part of a series of talks for the centenery of the 1913 Great Strike. Presented by the Museum of Wellington City & Sea, the Labour History Project and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Supported by the Maritime Union of New Zealand and the Rail & Maritime Transport Union.

More talks

October 1: Songs of work and workers and Sites of struggle

October 5: Flashpoint of history

October 8: A century of remarkable women in the PSA

October 22: Reds & Wobblies

October 29: Dreadnoughts, Picture Palaces and Revolutionists

November 12: Savage, Fraser, Freyberg, Cullen

November 19: 1913: still relevant after all these years?

Due to popular demand, Walter Cook, of the Alexander Turnbull Library’s Arrangement & Description team, will repeat his Family History Month talk on how 19th and early 20th century photographs can be dated through understanding changes in woman’s fashion and clothing.

Space is limited, so please book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz or phoning Cellia Joe on 04 462 3935

Unidentified women, ca 1860. Ref: 1/4-007066-G.

Facilitated by Dr Pushpa Wood, Director of the Financial Literacy Centre, Massey University.

The National Library invites you to a free public panel discussion.

Join us for a good discussion with plenty of audience participation. Entry is free, but please book a spot by emailing Jason Hansen by September 12.

Parking is in the streets surrounding the building. On Saturday there are usually plenty of parks. Entry to the National Library is either off Molesworth Street or off Aitken Street. If you come in from Aitken Street, which is on the Lower Ground Floor, you can catch a lift to the ground floor from the foyer.

A Tirohia Mai / Look At Us Now event.

The panel

Annie Coates, originally from Myanmar; teacher and community worker, winner of the Prime Minister Social Hero Award.

Elizabeth Chan, Kiwi Chinese; Deputy Convenor of the Young Lawyer’s Committee.

Anna Guenther, half American and half Kiwi; co-founder of PledgeMe, New Zealand first crowdfunding programme.

Sudha Thomas, radiographer who previously worked in India and the Middle East. Associated with the Hindu Council of New Zealand.

Co-organised by the National Library of New Zealand, the Office of Ethnic Affairs, the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origins – Wellington (GOPIO), and Wellington Graduate Women.

You'll learn about:

• Māori research methodologies
• best equipment
• agreement forms
• ownership and copyright issues
• ethical considerations
• developing questioning techniques
• abstracting, and
• preservation of tapes.

You will need to bring a video camera. Book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz or phoning Mereana Taungapeau on 09 365 8819.

Part of the 2013 Auckland Heritage Festival

A Next in line event

Cory Mathis, winner of the Young Cartoonist Award 2013, will run fun, interactive workshops for 5- to 12-year-olds. Children can try their hand at cartooning and learn practical drawing tips to improve their pictures. Guiding the children through drawing a picture and faces, Cory will introduce the basic concepts of caricature.

Spaces are limited. Book your spot by emailing atloutreach@dia.govt.nz. Children need to be accompanied by a caregiver.

Email the curator, Melinda Johnston, for more information.

Cory Mathis, Baby Kumra, 2013.

What followed this tragedy was a period of forgetting for most of the Chinese community involved, but unbeknownst to them, bones gradually washed ashore and have been cared for by the local iwi.

Lynette Shum (Oral History Adviser, Alexander Turnbull Library) will talk about the chartering and voyage of the Ventnor, from research using the Turnbull's collection, and of her experiences of being part of momentous events over 100 years later that brought the descendants of both the Chinese and Māori together and the memorials they have left.

More about the Ventnor from Radio New Zealand

Part of the 2013 Auckland Heritage Festival

Two lifeboats from the steamer "Ventnor" on Omapere Beach. Ref PAColl-5312.

The workshop will include a seminar on the fundamentals of preservation, information about how to assess your taonga and treasures, a Q&A session, and a practical exercise to make a protective box or folder.

Part of the 2013 Auckland Heritage Festival

Photo by Michael Hall. Ōmaio marae, Te Whānau-a-Apanui.

Dr Alumita Durutalo and Nina Nawalowalo both successful Fijian women in their careers and daughters of Chiefs from their own villages and districts in Fiji, speak about their experiences living in Aotearoa.

The speakers

Dr Alumita Durutalo is a native Fijian from the province of Tailevu on the main island of Viti Levu. She is currently a lecturer both in the Indigenous Studies and Pacific Islands Studies programmes at Otago University. Alumita gained her BA and MA at the University of the South Pacific in her native Fiji, before achieving her PhD at Australia National University. Before coming to Otago early this year, she was teaching at USP, lecturing in Politics and International Relations. She is currently teaching Indigenous Theory and Method, the core paper of the Master of Indigenous Study degree. She is a well-respected Pacific scholar in her area.

Nina Nawalowalo is a celebrated theatre director, whose Fijian father is a chief from the island of Kadavu in the Southern part of Fiji. She has directed many plays and movies and undertaken tours around the world. In 2007 Nina was awarded The Pacific Innovation and Excellence Award, recognising her contribution as a Pacific artist to the performing arts in New Zealand. Nawalowalo's innovative storytelling was evident in her company's first work, Vula, which had actors performing on a stage flooded with water as they told the story of Pacific women's connections to the sea. She is now undertaking a 2 year project in the Solomons funded by EU/British High Commission.

Vicki-Anne Heikell (ATL Field Conservator) and Margaret Morris (ATL Paper Conservator) will be on hand to fill you in on all the details.

Part of the 2013 Auckland Heritage Festival

This workshop will also highlight collection items of interest on the Auckland region.

Part of the 2013 Auckland Heritage Festival

Parnell, Auckland, 1904. Ref: 1/1-002838-G.

The thirteen-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English covers the whole history of the novel in the English language. Jane Stafford and Mark Williams of Victoria University and Ralph Crane of the University of Tasmania have been editing one of the volumes to be called ‘The World Novel to 1950’.

The volume has presented particular challenges and opportunities for editors and researchers. This is a study of the minor and the peripheral. ‘The world novel’ is a capacious category. How does one connect so many utterly different experiences of empire, settlement and nationalism? The editors will discuss the problems of research in areas where knowledge remains incomplete, new technologies for preserving historical memory of early literature, and the particular difficulties of editing a large volume by so many hands.

Jane Stafford is associate professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author with Mark Williams of Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872-1914 (VUP 2006) and editor with Anna Jackson of Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (VUP, 2009) and The AUP Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2012).

Mark Williams is professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington. His books include Post-Colonial Literatures in English: Southeast Asia, New Zealand and the Pacific (G.K. Hall, 1996) and Patrick White (St Martin’s Press, 1993). With Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O’Brien he edited the Montana Book Award-winning Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2012).

Local Fijian youth group Wellington Fijian Wesley Youth Group, accompanied by elders, will demonstrate the yaqona (kava) Ceremony. This ancient customary practice involves the mixing of the yaqona and formal speeches citing traditional lineages. The yaqona ceremony will be followed by meke, Fijian traditional dance.

For more than half a century women in the public sector were paid less than men and had few opportunities to progress in their careers.

Delegates to the first PSA Women's Conference, 1955. Photo News Limited photograph. Courtesy of the Public Service Association.

It was thanks to a small band of spirited and determined women campaigners that the Government Equal Pay Act was passed in 1960. They were supported by many male trade unionists committed to the principle of equality.

The struggle for pay and employment equity, however, was far from over. But the PSA’s remarkable women were up to the challenge.

Part of a series of talks for the centenery of the 1913 Great Strike. Presented by the Museum of Wellington City & Sea, the Labour History Project and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Supported by the Maritime Union of New Zealand and the Rail & Maritime Transport Union.

More talks

October 1: Songs of work and workers and Sites of struggle

October 5: Flashpoint of history

October 15: "Tatau tatau" vs "half-caste Maori" scabs

October 22: Reds & Wobblies

October 29: Dreadnoughts, Picture Palaces and Revolutionists

November 12: Savage, Fraser, Freyberg, Cullen

November 19: 1913: still relevant after all these years?

Songs in English, Filipino and Maori and some fabulous ukulele playing by young Filipino children. After the performance audience members will be invited to try playing ukulele under the guidance of the orchestra's ukulele mentor.

A great free Saturday activity for adults and children.

A Tirohia Mai / Look At Us Now event.

‘Without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn’, wrote Ralph Chaplin in his famous song ‘Solidarity Forever’, calling to attention the singular contribution we make as workers. Many songs have been written about the struggles, pain, enjoyment, humour and dignity of work, so join the Song Snatchers for a session of songs from New Zealand and international worker history.

Woman washing the dishes, 1958. Ref: EP/1958/0939-F.

The songs will include some sung by workers during work, such as sea shanties, or about particular jobs, including on the farm or at sea (whaling, sealing, fishing), or at home (housework). Union and solidarity songs get a good look in; along with some very famous songs about strikes and workers’ struggle for a fair go.

Many of the songs are well-known, but a few more obscure numbers will be introduced. The Song Snatchers have researched the songs and invite you to raise your voices and join in. Words supplied!

The Song Snatchers is a group of friends who like singing together, and searching out the history and meaning of songs. For Songs of work and workers, the group includes Robin Brew, David Johnstone, Anne Russell, Marie Russell and Garry Smith.

Part of a series of talks for the centenery of the 1913 Great Strike. Presented by the Museum of Wellington City & Sea, the Labour History Project and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Supported by the Maritime Union of New Zealand and the Rail & Maritime Transport Union.

More talks

October 5: Flashpoint of history

October 8: A century of remarkable women in the PSA

October 15: "Tatau tatau" vs "half-caste Maori" scabs

October 22: Reds & Wobblies

October 29: Dreadnoughts, Picture Palaces and Revolutionists

November 12: Savage, Fraser, Freyberg, Cullen

Next in line: The young cartoonist award opens

Runs from 30 September to 7 December 2013 | 10am – 5pm, Monday to Saturday | Level one

You are invited to take a close look at New Zealand’s social and political landscape through the eyes of up-and-coming cartoonists. Showcasing entries in the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and the New Zealand Listener Young Cartoonist Award, Next in Line includes a range of competition entries, as well as original drawings and cartoons by competition winner Cory Mathis, and cartoons by runners-up Jeff Bell and Toby Morris.

Teachers, bring your secondary class in for our specially-tailored exhibition tour and workshop

Come along to one of our events, including a talk by Dylan Horrocks

Toby Morris, House prices, 2013. Ref: DCDL-0025755.

Schools programme

Free Next in Line workshops for schools

Offered Tuesday to Thursday
Approximately 60 minutes
Designed for years 9 to 13 for up to 15 students. Groups of up to 30 can be accommodated in a 90 minute class

Book for the Next in Line workshop, or combine it with a Schools tour or visit to Tirohia Mai

Cartoons are a popular part of the school curriculum, and the workshops aim to bring this form of social commentary alive by making it relevant to today’s high-school students. The Next in Line workshops and exhibition tour features cartoons produced by young cartoonists (ages 18–35), and considers issues that speak to young people. In order to build students’ confidence to use cartoons in their wider study, participants are encouraged to ‘read’ the cartoons, learning some of the ways that cartoonists shed new light on contemporary issues.

For more information, email atloutreach@dia.govt.nz

Events programme

Get in line! (October)

Saturday 12 October, 10am – midday
A cartoon workshop for 5–12 year olds with Cory Mathis.

Dylan Horrocks – Looking for the magic pen

Thursday 31 October, Midday – 1pm
"A few things I’ve learned by drawing far too many comics & cartoons."

Cartoon colloquium: Looking at women and cartoons today

Friday 15 November, 11.30am – 3.30pm
Practicing cartoonists and academics will consider issues around women and cartoons

Get in line! (November)

Saturday 23 November, 10am – midday
A cartoon workshop for 5–12 year olds with Cory Mathis.

Chaired by Rosslyn Noonan, with Robyn Hunt, Sara Georgeson, Darcey Jane, and Huhana Hickey.

The National Library invites you to a free public panel discussion about the issues facing disabled people, particularly women, in New Zealand.

Join us for a good discussion with the plenty of audience participation. Entry is free, but please book a spot by emailing Jason Hansen by September 12.

Sign language interpretation will be provided. There will be a sound system.

Parking is in the streets surrounding the building. On Saturday there are usually plenty of parks. Entry to the National Library is either off Molesworth Street or off Aitken Street. If you come in from Aitken Street, which is on the Lower Ground Floor, you can catch a lift to the ground floor from the foyer.

A Tirohia Mai / Look At Us Now event.

The panel

Robyn Hunt

Robyn has many years experience in the disability field. She was a founder of New Zealand's first disability TV series and has taken a variety of leadership roles, including DPA. Robyn served for eight years as a human rights commissioner with responsibility for disability and participated in negotiations for the CRPD. She consults on disability, information, communication and engagement accessibility through her consultancy AccEase and is a regular commentator on these and related issues on her blog Low Visionary. She has won several awards, and been honoured for her disability work and advocacy.

Dr Huhana Hickey

Huhana (Ngāti Tahinga) is a lawyer and Lecturer/Research Fellow at Auckland University of Technology and has worked at Auckland Disability Law Services. She is passionate about teaching disabled people about the law so they can advocate for themselves. Dr Hickey is a member of the Human Rights Review Tribunal. Her consultancy researches indigenous disabled human rights and social justice advocacy. She is the first Māori woman, and first disabled person to get a PhD in law from Waikato University.

Sara Georgeson

Sara is from Wellington. Physical access has always been critical for life opportunities, beginning with education. She lived for 10 years at Pukeora, Sara was one of the first residents at Ryder-Cheshire where she moved to study for a degree in social work at Massey University. There she became involved in disability rights as one of the founders of Massey University Disability Action Group. She taught disability subjects at UCOL and became the disability services co-ordinator. Sara has worked for many years in health including disabled women’s health. She has had a long involvement with DPA.

Darcey Jane

Darcey received a psychiatric diagnosis in her twenties, after seeking help for the sake of herself and her children, and consequently experienced the disabling effects of systemic discrimination. Darcey has since been dedicated to the transformation of society based on the empowerment of the individual in accordance with the principles of human rights inspired by her practice of Nichiren Buddhism. Darcey lives in Karori with her teenage sons and Burmese cat.

Were you there, witnessing a time of turmoil, or were you even born?

The events of those years are now part of our history, and affected profoundly the way we live our lives today.

The National Library of New Zealand invites you to a free panel discussion on the enduring issues for women in New Zealand today.

Chaired by Dr Judith Aitken, and with panellists Ripeka Evans, Mary O’Regan, Di Cleary and Prue Hyman, the panel will look back to the achievements of the women’s movement in the 1970s and the persistent challenges facing women in New Zealand today.

Join us for a good discussion with the plenty of audience participation. Entry is free, but please book a spot by emailing Keith Thorsen by September 12.

A Tirohia Mai / Look At Us Now event.

The panel

Judith Aitken

Judith has had a distinguished career as a public servant, author and community worker. She has been Chief Executive of the Ministry of Women's Affairs and Chief Review Officer at the Education Review Office (1992-2000). Judith has also published extensively since her first major publication, A Woman's Place: A Study of the Changing Roles of Women and Men in New Zealand. She is currently a member of the Wellington Regional Council and the Capital and Coast District Health Board.

Ripeka Evans

Iwi affiliations: Ngāpuhi, Te Aupouri, Ngāti Kahu and Ngāti Porou. Ripeka was a member of the pioneering activist organisation Ngā Tamatoa in the 1970s and 80s, and a change agent who established Māori leadership units in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and other state sector entities. She was the inaugural chief executive of Te Māngai Pāho – the Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency from 1993-96. Her current post is as Pou Ārahi Whakahaere at the Ministry of Culture and Heritage.

Mary O’Regan

Mary was the first chief executive of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, after being active in the women’s movement in Nelson (where she lived for a few years) and nationally. Since then she has been national president of the YWCA, and worked for many years as a gender specialist in the Pacific Islands working with government women’s organisations and NGOs.

Di Cleary

Di was the only woman in her law class at Otago University in 1958 – fed up with the hostile environment, she studied for an MA in History instead. She has been active in abortion law reform since 1971. In 1975 she was a national coordinator of WONAAC (Women's National Abortion Action Campaign). She is horrified by New Zealand today: uneven spread of income, levels of unemployment, social problems, banking idiocy, mountain of private debt – fed up with the middle class and toffs and sense of self-entitlement. Her large garden saves Di’s sanity.

Prue Hyman

Prue is the author of Women and Economics: A New Zealand Feminist Perspective. Her research and publications cover labour force participation, earnings, industrial relations, income maintenance, housing, the position of older women, and international issues. She is a former Associate Professor of Economics and Gender and Women’s Studies at Victoria University. She describes herself as an ageing lesbian feminist green lefty activist – and alternative economist.

No hea koe? Where are you from? If you are of Maori descent and want to find out (more) about your Iwi, Hapu, Maunga, Awa, Moana or Marae, we can help.

In this kōrero, Trish will attempt to shed some light on the (often) complex process of researching one's whakapapa/ancestral roots/Māori heritage, utilising the official government records, guides and unpublished collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. She only has 45 minutes to start you on your journey, so book your place now!

Grab your spot by emailing Outreach Services or phoning 04 474 3056.

Maori group portrait, outdoors; occasion, and location, unidentified, ca 1920. Ref: 1/2-057236-F.

Katrina Young-Drew, and Linda Forbes are National Library school library advisers. Dylan Owen is a development specialist who also works for Services to Schools.

Part of the exhibition Logs to Blogs: Diaries from the Turnbull Library.

Peter Holland is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Otago and author of the recently published book Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand.

For this evening he will be taking a Celtic focus, mainly Scottish, to celebrate his family roots, as we are now in the Family History month. He is a wonderful teller of tales which can be enjoyed by young and old, so all are welcome.

Sarah is the 2013 Michael King Writers Centre/University of Auckland Writer-in-residence, where she is writing a graphic novel about Katherine Mansfield. Sarah will be using Mansfield’s diaries as source material for her comics, interwoven with her own experiences as a writer in the 21st century. Her second novel, The Fall of Light, was published in July.

Part of the exhibition Logs to Blogs: Diaries from the Turnbull Library.

Diaries from six-week crossings by ship. Letters from the trench in World War One. Scribblings or copperplate handwriting. Your ancestors – and people just like them – will have created all kinds of amazing documents you can find and use in your research.

Jocelyn Chalmers, Research Librarian Manuscripts, will give an illustrated talk showing how manuscripts from the Turnbull collections can add richness to how you tell your family's story.

Bookings are essential! Grab your spot by emailing Outreach Services or phoning 04 474 3056.

What might they have to say for themselves? Family portrait under gum trees, probably Christchurch region. Ref: 1/1-026255-G

More from Family History Month

There are plenty more events being held by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, Kapiti Genealogy, and others. Take a look!

NZSG branch events

The New Zealand Society of Genealogists has branches throughout the Wellington region. Branches extend a warm welcome to anyone interested in family history – especially during August.

Kilbirnie Branch

Wednesday 7 August, 10am (coffee, chat & research from 9.30am)

Paul Jarvis from the Salvation Army will give guidance on Rellies in the Sallies.

Venue: Park Bowling Club rooms. Access is through the carpark off Kilbirnie Crescent or down the drive from Evans Bay Parade.

Hutt Valley Branch

Thursday 8 August, 7.30pm

Hutt Valley local historian Warwick Johnston will talk, based on his new book, about the history of the Gear Meat Company.

Venue: Petone Public Library, 7-11 Britannia Street, Petone

Check out the other Family History Month events at Petone Public Library

Thursday 15 August, 7.30pm

Linda Fordyce speaking on the History of Titahi Bay.

Venue: Helen Smith Community Meeting Room, Pataka, Cnr Norrie & Parumoana Streets, Porirua

Wellington Branch

Wednesday 28 August, 7.30pm

Carved in stone – grave guide Nick Perrin will talk about Wellington’s historic Bolton Street cemetery.

Venue: Connolly Hall, Guilford Terrace, Wellington

Branch library open 4 August 2.00 – 4.00pm, St Giles Church, Kilbirnie

An afternoon at the movies

Saturday 17 August

Session 1: 1.00pm – 2.30pm, followed by afternoon tea

Session 2: 3.00pm – 4.30pm, preceded by afternoon tea

Films (all four films shown at both sessions):

• Alexander Turnbull Library (NFU, 1972) – a day in the life of the library, its staff and users and its history.
• The Years Back – The Twenties (NFU 1972) – a compilation of archival clips including the growth of trade unions and the Labour Party, the 1926 Exhibition in Dunedin, and Royal Tours.
• Around Port Nicholson (Television Films NZ, 1950) – Wellington over 60 years ago, its streets, the harbour, the wharves.
• The Years Back – The Twentieth Century (NFU 1972) – newsreel extracts from the turn of the century until the beginning of WW1, including the 1906 Christchurch exhibition, the first train ride to Auckland, Pearse’s monoplane, and the waterfront strike.

Venue: Time Cinema, 191 Sutherland Rd, Lyall Bay, Wellington