Summer Holiday Programme events
There are loads of super fun programmes for 4-16 year olds happening throughout the summer holidays at both Napier and Taradale library. Download the full programme of events here or see the full list below.
Minecraft
Bring your own devices with the latest edition of Minecraft pocket edition downloaded and enjoy multiplayer with other Minecraft builders!
Napier Library: Wednesdsay, 19 December 3-4:30
Taradale Library: Wednesday, 9 January 2-3:30
Registrater your interest with jessieh@napierlibrary.co.nz or adavis@napierlibrary.co.nz
Suitable for ages 5-11.
Build with LEGO
Limited number, please register with Jessie or Anne, parents are asked to stay at the library during this time
Taradale Library: Tuesday, 11 December 3:30-5
Napier Library: Monday, 31 December 11:30-1
Suitable for ages 5-11
The Park Island Muddle
We have lost our Amazing Read team around Park Island! We need your help to find them. Also a great opportunity to do your first report-in (even your second)
Park Island: 2pm-5pm, Friday, 21 December
Suitable for ages 4-11
'Twas the night before Christmas
Join us for some Christmas songs, stories and crafts.
Napier Library: Monday, 24 December 10:30-11:30
Taradale Library: Monday, 24 December 10:30-11:30
Suitable for ages 4-11
Teen Trivia Evening
Think you know it all! Sign up and come along to our teen trivia night. Register as a team of 4 or as an individual and we will create a team for you.
Questions about books, movies, who lived and died, what’s my name and so much more!
Register contact jessieh@napierlibrary.co.nz
Taradale Library: Thursday, 27 December 5:30-8pm Trivia beginning 6pm sharp.
Suitable to ages 11-16
Make a Maze
Challenge yourself and come create a Board Maze, then see if you can get a bead from one side of your maze to the other, then take if home and challenge friends.
Greenmeadows East Community Hall: Friday, 28 December 10:30-12:30
Suitable for ages 4-11.
Little Dog Barking 'Twinkle'
A new original puppet play from the international award winning theatre company Little Dog Barking.
A simple and beautiful story about Twinkle, a small girl who wants to fly, to fly to the moon, to fly to other worlds. A lovely story about imagination, dreams, adventure and friendship.
Napier Library: Friday, 4 January 10:30-11:30 at the MTG Education Rooms
Taradale Library: Friday, 4 January 1:30-2:30
Suitable for all ages 4-11
Experimental fun!
We have been exploring some of our crazy science books and have found some exciting things to share with you, so join us for some ‘experimental’ fun!
Limited numbers, please register with jessieh@napierlibrary.co.nz or adavis@napierlibrary.co.nz
Napier Library: Tuesday, 8 January 10:30-11:30
Suitable for ages 5-11
Creators Panel
You asked so we created!
Napier Libraries will be hosting an amazingly diverse panel of Creative people to answer your questions about the writing and illustrating book world.
To register contact jessieh@napierlibrary.co.nz and please bring pre-prepared question with time for un-prepared questions at the end
Napier Library: Thursday, 10 January 6-7pm
Suitable for ages 11-16
Summer Fun
Join us at Taradale Library for some extra summer fun where anything could happen.
Taradale Library: Wednesday, 16 January 10:30-11:30
Suitable for ages 4-11
Zappo
Zappo The Magician has enjoyed performing as a full time children’s entertainer for the last 19 years and he will be sharing some of that magical joy with us this summer! With an array of fantastic awards to his name Zappo is not a performance you want to miss!
Taradale Library: Thursday, 17 January 10-11
Napier Library: Thursday, 17 Janauary 1-2pm at the MTG Education Rooms
Suitable for ages 4-11
Ancestry Library Edition
Located on Marine Parade, Napier, is the Bay Skate Park - home to skateboarding, BMX, roller derby, inline hockey and scootering.
Come to Par2 MiniGolf and meet Seamore the Seagull at our sea-side minigolf courses. Challenge your friends and family for a round.
We are Hawkes Bay's premier holiday accommodation park providing an array of facilities to keep the entire family entertained.
Unique Art Deco heritage has been preserved with the skilful addition of modern theatre facilities making it the best provincial performing arts centre in the nation.
Visit the Napier i-SITE to find out more about what is happening in Hawkes Bay, from events, activities and accommodation.
The Faraday Centre in Napier, is Hawke's Bay's Museum of Technology. It's a place of discovery where history comes alive through hands on experience.
Nowhere else in New Zealand will you discover a wider range of marine animals and native species in a single facility than at the National Aquarium of New Zealand.
Located in the Art Deco city of Napier. We have worked closely with our builders to promote and develop high quality housing within an open-aspect environment.
Situated in the centre of Napier, in the middle of Onekawa Park, the Napier Aquatic Centre is a safe and affordable aquatic facility for everyone.
For Napier City residents and citizens to have easy access to see what council are currently working on, completed, what they do, facilities, and council information.
Build on the blossoming national and international interest in William Colenso's life and ideas as the result of the William Colenso Bicentenary Celebrations in Hawke's Bay in 2011, and a body of new publications and research.
Comprising a Museum, Theatre and Gallery - MTG is home to a significant collection of objects that form the foundation of distinctive exhibitions, a world-class research facility and the MTG Theatre.
We offer an all purpose built venue that uniquely combines spectacular outlooks with functional layout.