Compiled by PHOEBE FALCONER
Holiday fun
School holidays are here again, and there is heaps to do:
* North Shore Leisure runs programmes for 5- to 12-year-olds and a new teenage programme for 12- to 17-year-olds that includes sailing, rock climbing and horse riding. To be sent an information brochure phone the
Birkenhead Leisure Centre on 418-4109, East Coast Bays on 478-3379 or Glenfield on 444-6340.
* North Shore libraries have a full programme of events, starting at 10am in Devonport today with the chance to help create a replica swamp, and from 11am in Takapuna with a super-hero drawing competition. Phone the libraries for more information. All activities are free.
* Roar into Auckland Zoo during the holidays, to be greeted by the Paddle Pop Lion and to take part in an adventure trail around the zoo. You can dress up as your favourite feline or take advantage of the free face-painting from noon every day.
* Workshops at Auckland Museum take place from 10am to noon and from 1.30pm to 3.30pm every day, and are for the 7- to 12-year-olds. Today's workshops are all about kaleidoscopes. Bookings are essential for all activities, on 306-7040.
* The Eastern Suburbs Gymnastic Club, in the ASB Stadium at Kohimarama, will keep the youngsters fit and active. Classes for those aged 4 to 6 run from 9.30am to 11.30am from today until Wednesday. Enrol on 528-0941.
* The Corban Estate Arts Centre in Henderson has activities ranging from creating comics, marvellous mobiles, fun with paper, painting on pots and more. For details and bookings phone 838-4455.
* Auckland City libraries in Blockhouse Bay, Epsom, Mt Roskill and Parnell have activities to tickle the funnybones, with poems, jokes, stories and websites to explore. It's spring at Avondale, Pt Chevalier, Mt Albert and Grey Lynn libraries and the Leys Institute in Ponsonby, and there is magic afoot at Mt Wellington, Glen Innes and Otahuhu libraries. Ring your local library for a list of its activities.
* Sleeping Beauty, at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna, is an adaptation of the traditional fairy tale, and the audience is part of the show, being required to say the magic words that will wake a princess, make a prince brave and help a tiny fairy grow. The show runs at 10am and midday from tomorrow until Friday, all tickets are $7 and you can book on 488-3133.
* Take the family to Whitcoulls Botany Downs at 10am tomorrow for a shared storytime for young and old.
Blood donations
Stocks of O-negative blood are needed very urgently and donations of both B-negative and AB-negative are needed urgently. All other blood groups are listed as needed.
The Greater Auckland blood donor centres are open from today until Friday at Newmarket (71 Great South Rd), North Shore (120 Shakespeare Rd, Milford), and Manukau (AMI building, Manukau City). The Auckland Donor Centre at the Newmarket address will be open late, from 7.30am to 8pm tomorrow.
* Mobile blood collections:
Today: Bloodmobile outside 27 Hannigan Drive, Panmure from 9am to 3pm. Tomorrow: Auckland City, Heritage Hotel, 35 Hobson St, 10am to 4pm. Also Auckland City, Bloodmobile parked in Post Shop carpark 167 Victoria St, 10am to 4pm. Wednesday: Albany, Massey University, Round Room in the Atrium Building from 9am to 3pm. Thursday: Avondale, at the Deaf Association of NZ, 12.30pm to 6.30pm. Friday: Avondale, Deaf Association, 9am to 3pm; Wairau Park, Bloodmobile outside PlaceMakers 9am to 3pm.
* Regional blood collections:
Today: Waihi Memorial Hall, 9.30am to 1pm; Tomorrow: Waikato Blood Donor Centre late night from 7am to 7pm; Wednesday: Norske-Skog Kawerau, A-frame building, 9.45am to 1pm; Thursday: Te Kuiti Cultural and Arts Centre, 9.30am to 1pm; Friday: Rotorua Soundshell, 9.30am to 1pm.
Road closure
Cheshire St in Parnell, between Heather and Akaroa Sts, will be closed this week while sewer and stormwater lines are connected.
Fassbinder film
Despair, a film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was adapted by Tom Stoppard from a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. It stars Dirk Bogarde as a man who, instead of committing suicide, openly decides to go insane. It screens at 6.30pm in the Rialto Cinema in Newmarket.
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Compiled by PHOEBE FALCONER
Holiday fun
School holidays are here again, and there is heaps to do:
* North Shore Leisure runs programmes for 5- to 12-year-olds and a new teenage programme for 12- to 17-year-olds that includes sailing, rock climbing and horse riding. To be sent an information brochure phone the
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