Category: Workshops

  • Māngere Bridge Craft Group

    Māngere Bridge Craft Group

    A colourful pile of 6 blankets and 45 baby hats plus cardigans, knitted slippers, adult sized hats, knitted toys, and some tiny hats and booties for premature babies. 102 items in total for an excellent cause.  

  • Māngere Bridge – It’s a Hive of Wastewise Activity! 

    Māngere Bridge – It’s a Hive of Wastewise Activity! 

    Friends of the Farm members have been busy bees this month, buzzing around, running 3 different working bees.   An orchard working bee, a mangrove working bee and a sewing bee!

  • Preserves Workshop

    Preserves Workshop

    We are always looking for ways in which we can bring people together, with a common interest, to learn new skills, and how we can utilise the resources we have, as in knowledge and in this case feijoas.

  • Papua New Guinea Pidgin Language Week Celebration

    Papua New Guinea Pidgin Language Week Celebration

    Recently Mangere Bridge Library held a special event to celebrate the first Papua New Guinea (PNG) Pidgin Language week.  PNG is the most linguistically diverse country in the world and Pidgin is a commonly used dialect.    

  • We Love Libraries! 

    We Love Libraries! 

    These days, libraries are vibrant places that are the centre of communities. In addition to books and magazines, they offer activities to suit every age group, from babies and preschoolers’ music sessions to school holiday programmes to computer assistance for older adults…

  • It’s a Stitch-Up!

    It’s a Stitch-Up!

    The Mangere Bridge Library Knitting Group was formed 12 months ago and has grown since to include a variety of handwork, such as crochet, cross stitch, and felting. It’s more accurately known as the ‘Craft Group’…

  • From MOMA New York to Māngere Bridge

    From MOMA New York to Māngere Bridge

    At our recent Friends of the Farm hosted Sewing Bee, we were amused to see how most of us brought along the the same sewing machine. And we learnt a bit of history about that machine…

  • The Repair Café Movement Continues

    The Repair Café Movement Continues

    Our 5th Repair Café in Māngere Bridge Library saw pleanty of locals visit with items for repair. The usual foot traffic in the Library was increased by 200 people!

  • Repair Cafés do more than fix things!

    Repair Cafés do more than fix things!

    As well as practical repairs Repair Cafés bring together our local community and here’s a great story about a budding electrician. 

  • Māngere Bridge Repair Café winter 2023

    Māngere Bridge Repair Café winter 2023

    It was a busy Saturday morning at Māngere Bridge Library recently when local group Friends of the Farm (FOF) ran another Repair Café