The Reading Revolution

27/05/2026

25/05/2026

Love stories? Wanting to meet new people? Join us as we explore a short story and a poem together, pausing for discussion over a cup of tea

****N.B. The Shared Reading Group is meeting in the library tomorrow (26/05)!

Free parking available behind the library. Bike parking on site. Buses stop right outside.

24/05/2026

This is Clare - basically the Yoda of Shared Reading. We love you Clare! 🤩😻✨️💕

21/05/2026

So proud of our new Reader leaders training today! They took us on a journey from war horses to dancing camels!

Don’t worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn’t matter.

We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.

The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world’s harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.

So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.

This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.

Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!

They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can’t see.

Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of your chest,
and let the spirit fly in and out.



by Rumi –

15/05/2026

Readers from our Te Mātāwai Shared Reading group are going to Hot Takes at the auckland writer fest at Q tomorrow from 4-5pm if you want to join us we will meet on queen st outside the door at 3:45 its $10 tickets online...

Explore the 2026 Auckland Writers Festival programme — discover author sessions, panel talks, workshops, free events, and special activities for all audiences.

12/05/2026

11/05/2026

🤩🥰Thank you so much to Maria & Hannah & Book Chook & Book Chick from Wellington City Libraries for a beautiful refresher session with Kae Tempest's poem "Simple Things" & a wee bit of "Shared Reading - the Ultimate Therapy" The key change of friendship & grace of a fresh morning.

04/05/2026

Lovely librarians Sally & Suneeta & their fabulous readers at Highland Park Library this week enjoyed reading "The School Mistress" by Chekov..lots of discussion around women's roles & value as teachers & carers...🥰🤩

02/05/2026

Check out our friend Alexei on TVNZ on demand 7 Sharp thursday may 1st talking up the omelette at Lifewise Merge Café 😋 support Lifewise if you can those guys are flippin awesome!