June-July School Holiday Program 2009

The Alice Springs Public Library has a fantastic range of activities on offer over the up-coming school holidays to engage and entertain children of all ages.

Younger children will be delighted by the Teddy Bear’s Picnic, Bedtime Storytime, as well as our regular Storytime program, which will include a special Multi-lingual program as part of NAIDOC week.

Children of all ages are invited to battle against each other in the Wii Tennis and Bowling Tournaments, or relax and be entertained with a puppet show, juggling, egg and spoon races and stories at the Fun Day. Children of all ages can also bring in a photo to be framed and decorated in the Picture Framing activity, or perform a five minute act in Alice’s Got Talent for a chance to win an MP3 player!

Activities catering for older children include Water Colour Pencil Art, Make Your Own Musical Instrument, Mask Making with Plaster of Paris, Felt Toy Making, and the Wii and Karaoke Night, where there will be prizes to be won for the best 70s and 80s costumes.

Most activities require bookings, and some have a cost of $2.

Bookings can be made from Monday 15th June at the Library front desk or by calling the Library on 8950 0555.

U-ART:Our Voice

Alice Springs artists creative response to the Uranium mining and dumping issues affecting our town.

Exhibition Opening on World Environment Day

Friday 5 June, 6 - 8pm

@ Alice Springs Public Library

The exhibition will run 5 June – 3 July 2009

Closing date for entry of art works is Friday 30th May 2009.

Before submission of works, please contact the U-ART Co-ordinator Unanyntji Scales, to ensure the work/s can be accommodated
logistically within the exhibition space.

This is a community run exhibition and is open to any artistic
expressions and opinions. However, we ask artists to be aware that the exhibition will be hung in a public area that children access.

For more information contact Unanyntji Scales on 0488266478

Historical Photograph Database

The Alice Springs Public Library is glad to have the first volume of an index of photographs being scanned by local historians, Barry Allwright and Geoff Purdie.

Barry and Geoff are dedicated to retaining the town's visual history, which previously has been lost as people leave town or pass away. They anticipate donating further volumes of the index to the library as they have many more photographs to scan. They want to make the images available to anyone who wants to have a copy or use them, as long as the source is acknowledged. The index lists photographs taken by a number of people from early last century and has thumbnails of each image. People can look at the index in the Alice Springs Collection in the library; and will be able to contact Barry or Geoff for copies of the images.

For more information regarding the Historical Photograph Database please contact Barry Allwright on 8952 1726; or email Barry.allwright@bigpond.com

For any other information concerning accessing the index housed at the Library, or information on local history resources, please contact the Library on 8950 0555

For a preview of images click here