TK was a lovely experience. There were just a handful of youth who were signed up for this one but we just walked around the library and handed out cameras to the youth that were around and asked if they…
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We had a lovely afternoon at Chartwell with an intimate group of young budding visual poets. Hamilton area libraries started a reading dogs program that uses dogs to draw youth into the library so Gritty was just another day in…
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When the caravan pulled into Hamilton library we discovered the best possible setting for teaching shutter speed in the summer…a water park just in front of the Library itself. We couldn’t have planned it better if we tried. This was…
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The final example of Grit is Craig, one of our board members, hurculean efforts to get the caravan finished in time and on the road. After 6 months of working on the thing, a series of setbacks had landed us…
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What a gorgeous lot of young visual storytellers in training. Keen beans they are. During the Click Happy Live event they dug deep and really explored their environment to wrap their heads around shutter speed. The cleverest way they found…
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Ranfurly youth got a chance to experiment and play with a box full of DSLR cameras. They learned aperture, shutter speed, and ISO and then take their new knowledge and experiment with using reflections to reflect themselves in their work.…
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Click Happy in central Dunedin started in the Library with an indoor top floor exploration of the cityscape and then we went on a walkabout of the city. It was a rowdy fun bunch that really tucked in and explored…
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Kiakohe was our first stop on the Far North part of the tour. There was so much to see here with the gorgeous mural work by the library. There were several youth signed up for the workshop from the work…
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Waitomo – 18 May 2021 Click Happy planted its first seed on the 2021 road trip up in Waitomo and at Te Kuiti High. Our program teaches Grit and there is no better example than Craig Thompson one of the…
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