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Ultimo Science Festival
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The Library is joining in the fun of National Science Week and Ultimo Science Festival with books and bubbles for science fans of all ages. Visit ultimosciencefestival.com for the full program of festival events.
For everyone
Storms & Magic: Controlling the forces of…Fiction?
Maria V. Snyder, a meteorologist turned novelist, talks about creating a unique magical system to tame storms and regulate magic in a fictional world.
Wednesday 17 August 5.45pm for 6.00pm
Read it 2011: Science Book Discussion Group
Bring along your favourite science books and magazines and join the discussion with other science-minded readers.
Tuesday 23 August 5.00pm - 6.00pm
Dr Donna Green
Dr Donna Green talks about her journey from being a Science Olympiad student to debating energy taxes with Malcolm Turnbull.
Thursday 18 August 1.15pm - 2.00pm
For kids
Air, Atmosphere and Weather: Science Show with the CSIRO
This stimulating interactive show is designed to encourage children to ‘think like scientists’.
For ages 5 - 12.
Tuesday 16 August 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Bubbles & Slime with Questacon Science Squad
Explore the fantastic physics of foamy films. You’ll be enthralled and disgusted by the utter sliminess of this show.Joseph Braude is the first Western journalist ever to be embedded within an Arab security force. Join Joseph as he discusses his book The Honoured Dead, a timely and riveting mystery about a society in transition, the power of the truth, and the irrepressible human need for justice.
For ages 5 - 12.
Thursday 25 August 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Science Rhymetime
For ages 6 months to 2 years.
Thursday 18 August 10.00am - 10.30am
Science Storytime
For ages 3 - 5.
Thursday 18 August 11.00am - 11.45am
After School Reading Group
Join the Ultimo after school reading group for a chat about science in fiction.
Monday 22 August 4.00pm - 5.00pm
All events at Ultimo Library
Level 1, 40 William Henry Street, Ultimo
Telephone: 9298 3110
Bookings essential for all events
except for Rhymetime, Storytime
and the After School Reading Group
Free events
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Joseph Braude: The Honoured Dead
Wednesday 31 August
5.30pm - 6.30pm
Surry Hills Library
Telephone: 8374 6230
Bookings essential
Free event
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Michael Neaylon
How To Bring in Big Money for Your Small Business
In this engaging session for small business owners and managers, True Brand Toolkit author Michael Neaylon will help you to connect the dots between your brand’s persona and marketing message. You’ll get practical tips on how to leverage that message to increase your sales and how to reach your target market to grow your business.
Wednesday 17 August
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Customs House Library
Telephone: 9242 8555
Thursday 25 August
6.00pm - 7.00pm
Surry Hills Library
Telephone: 8374 6230
Bookings essential
Free events
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Q&A(rchitect)
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Winner of the 2011 NSW Emerging Architect Prize Matthew Chan, of Scale Architecture, will give a presentation about his career progression, mentors and contribution to the professional community. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session, where fellow emerging architects, students and graduates are free to ask the difficult questions, with a focus on mentoring and teaching. The evening will be hosted by Janne Ryan, an ideas curator and executive producer of the recent TEDxSydney event.
The NSW Emerging Architect Prize is designed to recognise an outstanding contribution to architectural practice, education, design excellence and involvement in the profession through leadership. The short-listed entries will be exhibited in the Surry Hills Library Foyer throughout August.
Presented by DARCH, the NSW Emerging Architects Network with the Australian Institute of Architects.
A Sydney Design 2011 event.
Thursday 11 August
6.30pm to 7.30pm
Surry Hills Library
Telephone: 8374 6230
Bookings essential
Free event
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On Architecture: Angelo Candalepas
Over the next four months Architecture on Show invites some of Sydney’s most exciting architects to deliver a red hot lecture on understanding architecture. Our experts speakers will mix history, precedents, contemporary work, their own work and future possibilities - all through the filter of their particular approach to architecture.
In August, Angelo Candalepas will present a lesson on architecture, exploring the foundations of his work.
Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects NSW.
Saturday 27 August
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Surry Hills Library
Telephone: 8374 6230
Bookings essential
Free for Library & AIA members
Cost: $10 for non-members
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Julie Chevalier: Permission to Lie
In Permission to Lie, Julie Chevalier casts a curious eye into many different worlds; from Australian jails to the Big End of Town through to suburbia. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and literary journals including Antipodes and Southerly and have been broadcast on ABC Radio National. Permission To Lie is her first published collection.
Tuesday 2 August
6.00pm - 7.00pm
Glebe Library
Telephone: 9298 3060
Bookings essential
Free event
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The Newtown Project
Discover Newtown through local history and local government sources. City of Sydney Archivists Naomi Crago and Natasha Neal will work you through the updated website which features the Archives collection of local government records, directories, historical books, maps and photographs.
A Local Government Week event.
Saturday 6 August
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Newtown Library
Telephone: 8512 4250
Bookings essential
Free event
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Talking/Writing: Claire Scobie
Join Pip Smith in conversation with Claire Scobie. Claire is an English-born journalist and author of Last Seen in Lhasa, winner of the Dolman Best Travel Book Award.
Presented with the NSW Writers’ Centre.
Wednesday 10 August
12.15pm - 1.15pm
Customs House Library
Telephone: 9242 8555
Bookings essential
Free event
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Emerging from the Green: Live music in the Library
LW Major returns to the Library with the Indie sound of his melodic guitar playing. Simon Bruce follows with a session of Dylan inspired folk rock.
Saturday 6 August
1.00pm - 3.00pm
Surry Hills Library
Telephone: 8374 6230
Bookings not required
A monthly, free event
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STACKS: The Red Room Company’s poetry-in-libraries series
City of Sydney libraries will display a new poem and poetry writing exercise every day for forty days. The public are invited to contribute poems that will form part of the virtual ‘Stacks’ poetry library. Visit redroomcompany.org to contribute online and to find out about free poetry readings.
1 August - 9 September
Library opening hours
All Library branches
Telephone: 9319 5090
Bookings not required
Free event
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Computer and Internet Basics for Beginners
City of Sydney Library is offering a series of three hands-on workshops to develop basic computer skills, learn how to navigate the internet and create and use a free email service. Each workshop will build upon the skills developed in the previous workshop—take one or all three!
For more information and bookings, contact your nearest
Library branch or email library@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au.
Introduction to Computers 10.00am – 11.30am
Internet Basics for Beginners 12.00pm – 1.30pm
Email for Beginners 2.00pm – 3.30pm
Customs House Library
Monday 8 August
Monday 15 August
Monday 22 August
Level 2 Training Room
31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay
Telephone: 9242 8555
Surry Hills Library
Tuesday 9 August
Tuesday 16 August
Tuesday 23 August
Level 1 Training Room
405 Crown St, Surry Hills
Telephone: 8374 6230
Bookings essential
Free events
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Captain Bandanna
Captain Bandanna returns to the Library for another fun filled environmental adventure. The good pirate and her energetic friends, Splash The Mermaid and super cool surfer Wave, will get the audience up and moving with award winning music, storytelling, and drama.
Suitable for ages 2 - 8.
A Children’s Book Week event.
Tuesday 30 August
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Glebe Library
Telephone: 9298 3060
Bookings essential
Free event
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Bronwyn Vaughan: At the Foot of the Storytellers Chair
The Chair and the Storyteller are two fabulous characters who try to outdo one another with fantastic tales of metamorphosis. This charming play is full of puppetry, music, song and dance from a variety of cultural sources. Bronwyn Vaughan’s highly theatrical storytelling style will please children of all ages
Suitable for ages 3 - 10.
A Children’s Book Week event.
Saturday 20 August
11.00am - 12.00pm
Surry Hills Library
Telephone: 8374 6230
Bookings not required
Free event
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Beth Norling: I found a friend
Beth Norling’s new storybook I found a friend and a friend found me has been nominated in 2011 Speech Pathology Association of Australia Awards. Beth will talk about her drawings and how they becomes books.
Suitable for ages 8 - 12.
A Children’s Book Week event.
Thursday 25 August
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Glebe Library
Telephone: 9298 3060
Bookings essential
Free event
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Member benefits: Goldner String Quartet & Ian Munro
WIN a double pass to hear the Goldner String Quartet at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, thanks to Musica Viva. Fresh from the City of London Festival, Australia’s flagship quartet will perform a world premiere work with Musica Viva Featured Composer Ian Munro. The Goldner String Quartet will perform a diverse repertoire of Beethoven, Romantic and 20th Century works, as well as the premiere of Munro’s second Piano Quintet, featuring the composer himself on piano.
To enter, email your library membership number to lsmallwood@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au by 9.00am Friday 5 August 2011. Conditions apply. Winners are randomly selected from the first 100 entries. Available only to members of the City of Sydney Library.
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