Events celebrating the library, reading and literature are organised regularly. Fundraising events are also regular features of our year.
Book Launch - Sunday 7 February 2021
Moira Siobhan's new children's book is called 'Dilly Cooper Hat-astrophe!' and is a short, funny chapter book about eight year old Dilly Cooper and her adventures at school.
Come along and meet Moira who will read from the book.
Free entry - members and non-members all welcome.
Signed copies available for purchase.
Read more at
https://www.facebook.com/Moira-Siobhan-Author-108416724422214
or
https://www.austinmacauley.com/author/siobhan-moira
Moira Siobhan's new children's book is called 'Dilly Cooper Hat-astrophe!' and is a short, funny chapter book about eight year old Dilly Cooper and her adventures at school.
Come along and meet Moira who will read from the book.
Free entry - members and non-members all welcome.
Signed copies available for purchase.
Read more at
https://www.facebook.com/Moira-Siobhan-Author-108416724422214
or
https://www.austinmacauley.com/author/siobhan-moira
Summer Book Sale - January 2020
This year the sale will run for the month of January during opening hours. Your pre-loved bargains will be on display in the foyer. Bring some coins and stock up on holiday reading.
This year the sale will run for the month of January during opening hours. Your pre-loved bargains will be on display in the foyer. Bring some coins and stock up on holiday reading.
Photography Exhibition
Tim David
19th Oct to the 27th November
Tim started photography in the early 70’s. He worked most in black and white through the eighties whilst at University and pursuing his academic career. For the last five years he has concentrated on colour work using a Sony Alpha 7 and manipulating images using both Photoshop and Lightroom.
The exhibition is essentially in two parts. Those in colour taken from his “From the Land” and “Unnatural Nature” portfolios (see tim-david.format.com) and in black and white from his earlier work in “ A Walk in the World”.
All the images are for sale - contact timbonzld@gmail.com for prices (both framed and unframed).
Lit Fest Quiz Night 2019 - 20 September at Mapua Hall
Test your brains, wit and cunning at this year’s Quiz Night.
Quiz Master for the night is writer Ro Cambridge, columnist for the Nelson Mail, co-creator of the popular live storytelling show Couch Stories, and
editor of Mudcakes and Roses, a magazine for the over-60s.
Ro, who is also an avid reader and autodidact, will bring her trademark wit and irreverence to the role of Quiz Master, so be prepared to be entertained and tested in equal measure.
Roll up and join a team on the night, or come prepared with a team of up to eight members.
Quiz Master for the night is writer Ro Cambridge, columnist for the Nelson Mail, co-creator of the popular live storytelling show Couch Stories, and
editor of Mudcakes and Roses, a magazine for the over-60s.
Ro, who is also an avid reader and autodidact, will bring her trademark wit and irreverence to the role of Quiz Master, so be prepared to be entertained and tested in equal measure.
Roll up and join a team on the night, or come prepared with a team of up to eight members.
QUIZ EVENING
Fundraiser for the Mapua Community Library
Friday
20 September
7:00
$20 includes nibbles
Cash sales only at Volume or the library
Cash bar
Fundraiser for the Mapua Community Library
Friday
20 September
7:00
$20 includes nibbles
Cash sales only at Volume or the library
Cash bar
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The literary festival programme is now available. Click the link to download your copy!
Bookings at: www.volume.nz
books@volume.nz Volume, 15 Church St, Nelson |
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Short Story Competition - Entries are open!
Click below for the information and entry form.
Click below for the information and entry form.
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SAVE THE DATE: 20-22 September 2019
We are delighted to announce the 2019 VOLUME MAPUA LITERARY FESTIVAL, a boutique literary festival featuring some of New Zealand’s most interesting writers will be held in Mapua on the weekend of 20-22 September. You will hear from authors whose books you have enjoyed and discover authors whose books you will go on to enjoy. The intimate scale of the festival will enable you to meet and talk with authors and other literary enthusiasts. |
Writers attending the festival this year will include LLOYD JONES, who was short-listed for the 2007 Booker Prize for 'Mister Pip', and whose novel 'The Cage' is a finalist for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize in the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ASHLEIGH YOUNG, whose essay collection 'Can You Tolerate This?' won the prestigious 2017 Windham–Campbell Prize, will be appearing, along with CARL SHUKER, whose new novel, 'A Mistake', explores the impact of a medical misadventure on the life of a Wellington surgeon. Novelist and essayist PAULA MORRIS will return from her stint as the Katherine Mansfield fellow in Menton in time to attend the festival, and ANNETTE LEES will speak about her book 'Swim', which records her year of daily wild swimming as well as being a history of New Zealand outdoor swimming. Renowned poet and art writer GREGORY O'BRIEN will be attending, along with poet JENNY BORNHOLDT, and THOMASIN SLEIGH will speak about her novel 'Women in the Field, One and Two', which looks at the Modernist moment in the establishment of the New Zealand National Art Gallery from a feminist perspective. LYNN JENNER will discuss the relationship between words and land, and EIRLYS HUNTER, whose adventure novel 'The Mapmaker’s Race' has delighted many children, will hold a session, as well as participating in one of the community events organised around the festival by the Mapua Community Library.
A 'literary' quiz evening will be held as a fundraiser for the library. The programme will be released in May.
SAVE THE DATE: 20-22 September 2019
A 'literary' quiz evening will be held as a fundraiser for the library. The programme will be released in May.
SAVE THE DATE: 20-22 September 2019
