NZ Sign Language Children’s Book Club

Learn some signs out of your favourite storybook and play signing games. To celebrate New Zealand Sign Language Week 2023, come along to the library and learn some NZ Sign Language signs with fun signing games. Bring along your favourite storybook to be read and signed.

NZSL Storytime

Please join us for a special Storytime celebrating NZSL! We will have an interpreter alongside our children’s librarian reading stories and singing songs! This event is aimed at children aged three to five, though all ages are welcome!

NZSL Tour at Waikato Museum

14 May 2023 2.00pm – 3.30pm Free – Booking Required To celebrate NZSL week 2023, we are excited to begin our regular NZSL interpreted tours of the museum. In this interpreted tour you will learn about the famous waka, Te Winika. You will also learn about the ‘Tongue of the Dog’ sculpture outside and some …

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NZSL Tour at Waikato Museum

To celebrate NZSL week 2023, we are excited to begin our regular NZSL interpreted tours of the museum. In this interpreted tour you will learn about the famous waka, Te Winika. You will also learn about the ‘Tongue of the Dog’ sculpture outside and some of the other exhibitions inside the museum. You can also …

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Wellington Writers Walk 21st Anniversary Event

The Wellington Writers Walk is 21 years old this year! To celebrate this auspicious occasion, we are holding a very special event with two of New Zealand’s most celebrated authors, Elizabeth Knox and Dame Fiona Kidman. These writers, along with Tanya Ashcroft (author, broadcaster and Writers Walk committee member), will talk about the creation, history …

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Sign with Sara Pivac Alexander and Pollyanna Ferguson

Celebrate Deaf culture and language and experience the vibrancy of our Deaf communities. Sara and Pollyanna share their experiences of being Deaf in Aotearoa and the work they’re doing to strengthen NZSL in society and schools. You can also learn some everyday NZSL phrases!