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Compiled by PHOEBE FALCONER

Working with roses

Roses are blooming in Parnell. To celebrate the Festival of Roses next weekend at the Parnell Rose Gardens, the Parnell Community Centre at 545 Parnell Rd is holding classes in how to use roses to decorate gifts at 9.30am tomorrow, and how to make chocolate roses at 4.45pm tomorrow. Enrolment is required for both these classes - phone 379-2095.

Road shut for crane

Scotia Place, off the top end of Queen St, will be closed tomorrow and Thursday from 7am to 5pm while a tower crane is moved into place on a building site. Detour signs and marshals will direct traffic and pedestrians. For more information phone 294-8931.

Panmure town plans

A public meeting at 7pm today in the Panmure Community Centre at 1 Pilkington Rd provides an opportunity to view the final concept plans for the development of Panmure town centre and environs. Interested people are invited.

Coping with fire

Learn how to be fire-wise at a talk and video in the Mt Wellington library, 7-13 Pilkington Rd, Panmure, at 10am today. A fire officer will describe evacuation procedures, safe practices and fire alarms. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Jazz on a spring eve

Students in the jazz programme at Auckland University's School of Creative and Performing Arts demonstrate their skills in a series of free concerts this week. The concerts begin at 7pm every day until Sunday, excluding tomorrow, in the Kenneth Myers Centre in Shortland St in the city.

Nuns in the classroom

The influence of the Dominican Sisters on the Catholic youth of Auckland from the 1930s to the 1960s is discussed at 7.30pm today at St Mary's College in Ponsonby. This public talk by educationalist Jenny Collins, organised by the Auckland branch of the Historic Places Trust, considers the constraints of the religious life as well as the requirements of the teaching profession. For more information phone 377-1331.

Fun with terracotta

Learn creative and fun ways to decorate terracotta pots at 10am tomorrow at the Regional Botanic Gardens in Hill Rd, Manurewa. Bookings are essential, phone 267-1457.

Shop window art

Shop windows in downtown Auckland are in use as walk-by exhibition spaces for eight local artists. The project, at 12-20 Customs St East, includes works by painters, a printmaker, a textile artist, performance poet and a basket weaver. The display is open to view 24 hours a day, seven days a week until December 1.

Picnic time at Browns Bay

Pack up the kids and a picnic tea and head off to Sherwood Reserve in Glencoe Rd, Browns Bay, at 4pm for some Summer in the Bays fun. Phone 478-4301 for more information.

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