SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.....AWESOME  FREE CITY LIBRARY EVENTS

Beyond the Page is an exciting children’s and youth literary festival taking place during the July school holidays in over 24 venues within the Greater Wellington region.

Some key events feature:

·         Sir Jon Trimmer – tales from the Royal NZ Ballet
·         Des Hunt writing workshops
·         Fifi Colston - wearable arts demonstrations
·         Robots
·         Jo Morris - creative writing
·         Escapemate - immersive & interactive story creation
·         Te Reo Wainene o Tua -  Te Reo Māori storytelling kaupapa.

All events are free and aimed at children and young people aged 5 to 18 years.  See details below.

Wellington City Libraries, Hutt City Libraries and Upper Hutt City Library have been organising an exciting children’s and youth literary festival called Beyond the Page. This festival opens on the 8^th of July and will take place over the two weeks of the July school holidays (8-23 July 2017), in over 24 venues in the Wellington region.  Beyond the Page will lead children and young people on a journey through different aspects of storytelling, creating experiences for them to immerse themselves in and express their creativity.

The festival is aimed at the 53,000 children and young people aged five to 18 in the Greater Wellington region. The purpose of this festival is to embrace all literacies including digital literacy and to enhance these experiences for both children and youth across the region. We plan to do this by offering them the tools, people and spaces for open exploration and engagement with literacy.

There will be a wide variety of events drawing from a pool of local artists as well as national figures. Some of our key events include: Royal New Zealand Ballet story times, writing workshops by the 2017 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal award winner - Des Hunt, wearable arts demonstrations with Fifi Colston, robots, creative writing with Jo Morris, immersive & interactive story creation in collaboration with Escapemate, as well as Te Reo Wainene o Tua who will deliver a Te Reo Māori storytelling kaupapa. All our events are free.

Beyond The Page would love it if you were able to help spread the word to children and youth in your local area and schools, as well as friends, colleagues and family. We do hope you will be able to come to some of our exciting events

Please look at our website for further details of all the events: www.beyondthepage.nz

Check out our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/beyondthepagenz/

To download one of our fabulous posters please click on the link below and download a poster: https://beyondthepage.nz/about/#media

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any further questions.

Kassie McLuskie

Children and Youth Services Coordinator,

Wellington City Libraries

Mobile: 021 227 8637

Email: kassie.mcluskie@wcc.govt.nz