What's on at Culture Waitaki
The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Forrester Inc will be held as follows;
Date: Tuesday 14 July 2020
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: Forrester Gallery14 July 2020 - 5:00pm
Drop in Games and Lego: Use the library's Lego and try out games like Guess Who?, Bananagrams, Card and Memory games, Twister, Hedbanz, Snakes & Ladders, Jenga, Monopoly & more.
Oamaru Library8 July 2020 - 10:30am to 16 July 2020 - 11:15am
The Waitaki Whitestone Geopark presents: From Zealandia to Oamaru
An introduction to the Waitaki Whitestone Geopark Proposal.Ōamaru Library16 July 2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Graeme Loh and Sue Maturin will discuss the management of the only mainland breeding population of the fairy prion. They will also explain the upcoming final review of Otago marine reserves.
Ōamaru Library30 July 2020 - 6:00pm
The wonderful team at TumbleBooks have given all New Zealand Libraries free access to their children's, teens, adults eBooks and eaudiobooks!
1 April 2020 - 12:45pm to 31 August 2020 - 11:00pm
Programmes
Do you love reading and finding new books to dig into?
Come along to the BookChat group at Palmerston Library! We meet the third Wednesday of the month at 2pm.
Interested to know more about your family?
Join others and learn from the experts.
Learn how to record family information.
Love to do jigsaw puzzles and want to meet others?
Come to the Community Space at the Oamaru Library, keep warm this winter and indulge your passion in puzzling.
Stories and music for preschoolers and parents/caregivers. Come along to our fun, free sessions at Ōamaru Library, every Thursday from 10:45-11:15am. Sessions will resume on June 18.
Wriggle & Rhyme is an active movement programme for 0-2 year olds and caregivers.
Exhibitions
Welcome back to your place. An exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the Forrester Gallery exploring the concepts of place and identity.
Forrester Gallery13 June 2020 to 19 July 2020
29 artists and 20 scientists collaborate to bring you artworks exploring research by scientists.
This exhibition is an art and science collaboration from the Dunedin School of Art and Otago Polytechnic.
Forrester Gallery13 June 2020 to 19 July 2020
Configured has been created especially for the Forrester Gallery, Ōamaru and continues a dialogue begun in 2017 with new work from Kiri Mitchell, Sarah Baird and Michele Beevors.
Forrester Gallery25 July 2020 to 6 September 2020
Burns Pollock describes himself as a “lucky lifetime resident of the Awamoko (valley)”. The works in this exhibition feature the artist’s beloved and in his mind ‘undervalued’ Waitaki rock escarpment or ‘rock tumbles’, as well as other ‘treasures’ found across the landscape.
Forrester Gallery25 July 2020 to 6 September 2020
