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Learn to Draw Animals 2020
New Classes with Inklings Art !
Waste-Free Parenting Workshop with Kate Meads
Humourous, informative and inspirational !
English Language Partners Free Courses
ESOL Intensive
Learn to Draw the Face 2020
Enter a Beginner – Exit a Winner
Paula Knight Painting Classes
Let your creative juices flow
Adult Colouring Clubs
Finding joy in colour
Food Lovers Master Class
with Kate Meads
Learn @ Papamoa Library – One-on-One IT Help
One-on-One IT Help
Learn to Draw People 2020
7 Session Course with Inklings
Budding Writers Workshop
Bringing Out the Book in You
Free English Courses
Improve your English for Everyday Use
Library Law Series
Free sessions on a range of legal topics
Taoist Tai Chi Society – Bay of Plenty
We teach Taoist Tai Chi™ arts: a moving meditation – build your strength, flexibility and stillness.
Radio Controlled Model Yachts
Radio controlled sailing for fun
Friends of the Tauranga Libraries
Monthly meetings at the 4 libraries
Waste-free Parenting
Learn about waste free parenting, reusable products and recycling.
Boomerang Bags – Sewing Bee
Tackle plastic pollution at the grassroots level
New Zealand Society of Genealogists
Papamoa Branch
Shadow Beekeeping
Follow us on our beehive inspections
Events
Genealogy Support Papamoa Library
Want some help with Family History Research?
Get started !
Call in at one of the Library Drop In Genealogy Help sessions hosted by local genealogy experts.
No booking necessary.
Bring along your laptop if you have one and any details you have already collected.
Genealogy Research Assistance
Papamoa Library
Where: Pāpāmoa Library
When: 4th Friday of the month, except January, 10am – 12 noon
On call help
Give one of our genealogists a call to negotiate a time that suits.
- Kate McEwan (Convenor): katemcewan5@gmail.com
or phone 07 939 7884 - Rowena Sinclair: rmss.tmds@gmail.com
or phone 07 562 8839 - Elinor Rawlings (Secretary): papgen@gmail.com
- Betty Atkinson (DNA results help by appointment):
betty.ra.atkinson@xtra.co.nz or phone 0274 475 448
Colouring Club – Papamoa
Adult Colouring Clubs
Come along and enjoy a relaxing, social colouring session at a library near you. Bring your own colouring book and equipment; or give it a go using our basic materials supplied.
All sessions are free of charge. For more information, please call 07 577 7177.
Pāpāmoa Library
On the 3rd Thursday of the month
from 10.30-11.30am
Also at Tauranga Library
On the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month
from 10.30-11.30am
Papamoa Garden Circle
The group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month. Visitors welcome.
When: Wednesday 1pm
Where: Papamoa Sport & Recreation Centre, Gordon Spratt Reserve
Contact Marilyn for more details:
Phone 542 0762
New Zealand Society of Genealogists – Papamoa
Learn about researching family history/genealogy and family trees/pedigree charts and accessing records for family history research.
Meeting: 9:30am, on the 2nd Monday of each month, February – December
Venue: Tohoroa Room, Pāpāmoa Library and Community Centre, 15 Gravatt Road, Pāpāmoa
Contact: Kate McEwan
Phone: 07 929 7884
Email: Papamoa@genealogy.org.nz
Knit and Knatter at your Library!
Join us for some friendly knitting and a good natter. Bring along your latest project, share your ideas and skills or simply enjoy time spent with fellow creators.
Crocheters, cross stitchers, embroiderers and beginner knitters are welcome.
Greerton Library : Tuesdays at 1pm
If you want to learn but don’t know how – Come along and learn with the Greerton Main Street Community Knitters. If you are an advanced knitter, you are also welcome to come and share your skills!
Greerton Library : On the 2nd Tuesday of the month, from 2pm
For more information about these sessions
Contact Lesley
Email: lesleywarner66@gmail.com
Phone: 0210309280.
Other sessions are held:
Pāpāmoa Library
Wednesdays at 1pm
Mount Maunganui Library
Wednesdays at 2pm
Radio Controlled Model Yachts
The club is called the Royal Palm Beach Yacht Club and you can go sailing – from dry land !
Sailing Electron and similar 3 foot long yachts is great fun. Go along and watch their manoeuvres. You might want to join them !
Visitors welcome.
Venue: The pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa.
Contact: Graham 572 5419 or Mike 575 0062
Days & Times
Sundays 1.30pm – 4pm
Thursdays
5.30pm -7pm during summer
1.30pm to 4pm during winter
Taoist Tai Chi Beginner & Advanced Classes
We teach Taoist Tai Chi™ arts: a moving meditation – build your strength, flexibility and stillness.
From Monday to Saturday there are different classes at different times and for different levels in Tauranga, Te Puke, Papamoa, Mount Maunganui and Katikati.
Please see our website for more information:
https://www.taoisttaichi.org/find-a-class/
or phone 02 150 0320 (Margie)
Remember – You can come along to any beginners class at any time and try Taoist Tai Chi for free.
Radio Controlled Model Yachts
The club is called the Royal Palm Beach Yacht Club and you can go sailing – from dry land !
Sailing Electron and similar 3 foot long yachts is great fun. Go along and watch their manoeuvres. You might want to join them !
Venue: The pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa.
Contact: Graham 572 5419 or Mike 575 0062
Days & Times
Sundays 1.30pm – 4pm
Thursdays
5.30pm -7pm during summer
1.30pm to 4pm during winter
500 Cards Papamoa & Mount
Card games – a great way to exercise your brain, socialise and have fun !
Papamoa Group
When: Thursdays at 1pm – 4pm
Where: Gordon Pratt Reserve, Parton Rd
Cost: $4 includes afternoon tea & prizes
Contact Wendy 021 254 4621 or Bob 027 478 6282
Mount Maunganui Group
When: Thursday afternoons
Where: Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd, the Mount
Cost: Afternoon tea & prizes.
Contact Margaret 027 656 848
First Aid Homeopathy for Mother and Baby
Homeopath, Noeline Levinson, is running this 6 week course at the Papamoa Community Centre. Bring baby along to the classes and meet other mums who are on the same journey.
The course deals with teething, rashes, colds, flu, fevers, colic, digestive upsets, bumps, scrapes and much more.
The course also includes a 12 remedy kit and a book by Miranda Castro.
When: Thursdays for 6 weeks, starting 15th of July, 10am -12 noon
Where: Community Centre, 15 Gravatt Rd, Papamoa
Cost: $190 all inclusive.
For details and to register contact:
Tutor: Noeline
Phone: 021 052 8980
Email: noeline@family-focus.co.nz
Website: http://www.family-focus.co.nz/
Noeline has been using homeopathic remedies for the past 26 years and brought up both her children on them. She specializes in the treatment of babies and children.
She wants to teach mothers how to use homeopathy for their children and offers courses in homeopathy first aid for mother and baby.
Knit & Knatter at Your Library
Join us for some friendly knitting and a good natter. Bring along your latest project, share your ideas and skills or simply enjoy time spent with fellow creators.
Crocheters, cross stitchers, embroiderers and beginner knitters are welcome.
Pāpāmoa Library
Wednesdays at 1pm
Mount Maunganui Library
Wednesdays at 2pm
For more information about these sessions
Contact Lesley
Email: lesleywarner66@gmail.com
Phone: 0210309280.
Other sessions are held:
Greerton Library : Tuesdays at 1pm
Also
If you want to learn but don’t know how– Come along and learn with the Greerton Main Street Community Knitters. If you are an advanced knitter, you are also welcome to come and share your skills!
Greerton Library : On the 2nd Tuesday of the month, from 2pm