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Thirty eight pairs of jeans have been decorated by locals and are currently on display at Port Macquarie Library! Thank you to all the creative people who have made this exhibition possible! It is truly terrific! The Travelling Pants Exhibition will be on display at Port Macquarie Library from 16th to 20th August, Wauchope Library from 23rd to 27th August and Laurieton Library from 30th August to 3rd September. For more information, call 6581 8755 Writer, film maker, presenter and actor, Tristan Bancks will be visiting the Kempsey and Port Macquarie Hastings area on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th August. Tristan has just returned from the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. As children’s and YA author, he has written two book series’, Mac Slater Coolhunter and also the Nitboy series. He brings a wealth of experience to his writing and workshops. He says that he is always looking for ways to “meld my work with social action”. This is also true of his filmmaking. His “Change the World in Five Minutes, Every Day at School” is a dynamic short film produced for SBS TV and Film Australia. It follows a class of year five and six children as they spend the first five minutes of every day at school taking action to change the world in positive ways. “It’s about getting fired up and doing something about the state of your community and the planet. I hope that the film will spark a mini-revolution in our schools”. Students and our community are sure to be entertained and inspired by Tristan Bancks visit. For more information For more info on Tristan, check out www.tristanbancks.com South West Rocks CWA – 4.30pm to 5.30pm on Wednesday 18th August – Author talk Port Macquarie Library – 4pm to 5pm on Thursday 19th August If you have saved the link to the library catalogue in your “Favourites” you will need to update the link. The new address is: http://125.255.50.189/libero/WebOpac.cls Take a look at the Port Macquarie-Hastings Library school holiday schedule. You are sure to find something to do! See you at the Library! Click here for the schedule Imagine a bridge made up of jeans…crazy idea but we thought that we would give it a go!
• Take one pair of jeans and decorate one side (jeans available at your library) • Decorate the jeans to a theme if you like • Bring your jeans to your local library by Friday 13th August • The Travelling Pants Exhibition will be at: • There will be a Grand Opening of the Travelling Pants Exhibition on Thursday 19th August with visiting author Tristan Bancks at Port Macquarie Library…more details later! • All entries will receive a Certificate and Library Surprise Pack • The most important thing is to have fun…..any age welcome, individuals or groups!
Click below for the entry form:
Brian Matthews was awarded $20,000 for his work, Manning Clark: A Life. The judges praised it as a “brilliant biography” because it relied heavily on Clark’s diaries. Clark died in 1991 and his six-volume A History of Australia was three decades in the making. Receiving the National Biography Award in Sydney, Matthews said it took him 10 years to write and he was surprised to be named the winner. The library holds two copies of this book.
On Wednesday 19th May at 9.45 a.m, local author Charles Granquist will be be talking about his book “A Long Way Home” This is the story of his enlistment during World War II at the age of seventeen, his capture and imprisonment by the Germans and his numerous escape attempts. This account of his wartime experiences adds another important chapter to the story of Australian POWs
All are welcome to this free event. Morning tea will be provided and copies of his book will be available for purchase. We had had a wonderful afternoon in Port library last Sunday with an array of colourful manga characters taking to the stage. I am now thinking I will have to read the deathnote books as so many characters came from this series. Along with the cosplay we had wii games, a manga drawing competition & the hardest of all moving m’n'ms with chopsticks! A big thank you to all who helped out, especially our fantastic comperes and judges. To view all the pics from the afternoon please click here.
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A biography about one of Australia’s most prominent historians, Manning Clark, has won the nation’s richest biography prize.
Extraordinary pieces of Port Macquarie’s history from the Macquarie era will be revealed publicly for the first time at Port Macquarie Library on Thursday 20 May 2010. The State Library of NSW, in partnership with Westpac Bank, is celebrating the bicentenary of the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie by touring a selection of amazing documents and historic artefacts to 10 regional areas of NSW, many of which Macquarie visited. There’ll be readings from the original Macquarie journals and the new Roe letters. John Septimus Roe (1797-1878) was Phillip Parker King’s right-hand man on four major voyages (Mermaid and Bathurst) from 1817 to 1823. His personal letters (201 in total) reveal in rare detail new information about colonial society and its major players, including the Macquaries. Paul Brunton, Senior Curator at the State Library will give public talks at 10am and 2pm and share little-known insights about the state’s fifth and longest serving colonial governor who turned a penal colony into a free society. Bookings are essential. Please call 65818755.
