Workshops (page 6)

Taupo Learning Tech and Wellbeing at the same time.  Click Happy gives kids tools to build creative resilience. Turangi Click Happy Crew    

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…

Kawhia was an incredibly happy accident. We had not intended to head here.  We were actually slated to be in Papakura but the lockdown left us adrift.  As the lead up to the tour had been a whirlwind with no…

The workshop in Ngaruawahia gathered together a group of lovely young artists.  We ran the workshop in the library and then went on an adventure soon after.  Scholarships to Click Happy plus were given out based on the imagery created in…

Honestly, I think the purest fun I had as a facilitator was working with the kids in Raglan.  I handed out some cameras to the kids in the library,  taught them the basics of manual photography,  and then they took me on…

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…

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…

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…

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…