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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
Start your gardening journey – Spring Workshop
In this full-day comprehensive workshop you will learn the basics of how to design, plant and maintain a garden that will be abundant and full of all the things you love.
Through this workshop you will learn:
– The best place to create your vegetable garden
– How to make a new garden bed, with different techniques
– The basics of soil biology and the fundamentals to healthy soil
– How to plant seeds and transplant them to you garden
– Companion planting, crop rotation and pest control
– Feeding the garden
– AND more….
Held at the home of Crafty Gatherer in the Papamoa Hills, with a beautiful lunch included. Taught by Tess – who has over 10 years gardening experience and loves sharing knowledge to help other people to enjoy the joys and connection of gardening.
When: Saturday 29 August 2020 9:30am-3:30pm
Where: Papamoa Hills
Cost: $95 Book In Here
Waste Free Parenting with Kate Meads – Tauranga
Did you know… That each baby goes through approximately 5500 nappy changes throughout their childhood? That’s a lot of single-use items being thrown out across New Zealand!
Attend my longest-running and most popular workshop to become inspired and entertained about ways you can minimize waste in your home whilst babies are around!
At the workshop you will learn about lots of exciting ways you can reduce waste at home, be introduced to modern waste minimising household products, find out how you can save money, and learn about what impact your choices will have on future generations.
Who would benefit from attending this workshop?
– Parents to be
– Parents with children in the home
– Grandparents
– Anyone interested in reducing waste in the home
What else? You will receive a gift pack full of waste minimization products, including a couple of cloth nappies to have a go at!
When: Thursday 27th May 2021 6.00pm – 8.00 pm
Where: Papamoa Community Centre, 15 Gravatt Road, Papamoa
Cost: $27 ,Includes a $100 Goodie Bag.
Booking Page
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
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
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
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
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
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
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