Logan Hyperdome Library
Logan City Mayor’s Reading Challenge
29 November 2011
Read and win over summer! Visit any of the Logan City Council Libraries to find a great range of books to read over summer and for your chance to win. Register at your Logan City Council Library and read for your chance to win. Children can also enter the writer’s and illustrator’s competition as part of the Mayor’s Reading Challenge.
Every time you visit and borrow books from a Logan City Council Library you receive an entry into the weekly book prize draw. Read (or have read to you) your targeted number of books over the holidays, and return your completed log sheet to the library to be in the grand draw to win an iPod Nano.
Logan Libraries are taking part in the Queensland Department of Education Mayor’s Reading Challenge. The program is aimed at school aged children attending a State School in 2011 or 2012 up to grade six. All other children can enter the challenge at their local library to be in the weekly prize draws to win a book and grand prize draws to win an iPod Nano. Collect your passport at your local library or print off your reading passport at Logan reading challenge to keep track of the number of books read.
For more information, visit the Logan Libraries Events Calendar or view about the challenge.
Good luck to all challengers – I look forward to reading the many entries for the Budding Writers’ Challenge and to presenting certificates to the many successful challengers across Logan City.
Best wishes, Pam Parker
National year of reading: 2012
29 November 2011
2012 will see a whole range of amazing, fun reading activities taking place around Australia and online, so people of all ages, from different backgrounds, can discover and rediscover the joy of reading.
Australian libraries and library associations are supporting a campaign to turn 2012 into the National Year of Reading, linking together all the great things that are already happening around books, reading and literacy, and giving them an extra boost with inspirational programs and events taking place across the country.
Many events and activities are planned for 2012. A few of these include:
- It’s never too late … to learn to read. An adult learners’ week short story writing competiton.
- One country reading. The search for eight books to define the Australian experience.
- Creative reading prize. For teens, we will be running the National Year of Reading Creative Reading prize.
- Australia’s first Children’s Laureate. This December Australia will name its very first Chidren’s Literature Laureate!
Have a sneak peek at what NYOR 2012 is all about.
Music Month at Logan Hyperdome library
28 September 2011
Logan Hyperdome is hosting a Music Month in October. There will be music themed activities happening every day at the library. Consult the events calendar for specific events and come along and join in the fun.
We have a musician coming on October 15 at 1:30 pm and plenty of spaces left to fill. At that session there will be a world premiere of the work of Robert Burrell called “An Ear to Hear” (see details below)
Karen Lonsdale is a professional flautist who has performed regularly as Principal Flute of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. She is a graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and the Hochschule for Music in Munich, Germany. Her research on injury prevention and management for flute players is known internationally, and she has presented on this topic at several Australian and American flute and performing arts medicine conferences. Karen is on the teaching staff at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Please join us as Karen chats about herself and her music, and demonstrates her talents on the flute.
On 15 October, at the Logan Hyperdome Library, Karen Lonsdale will be giving the world premiere of the work of Robert Burrell for solo flute and ’soundscape’ called ‘An Ear to Hear’. The soundscape is a recording of forest birds that accompanies the flute solo.
Author visit with R J Timmis
11 July 2011Hyperdome Library was pleased to host a visit from author R.J Timmis on the 4th of June. Rebecca has been dubbed the next J.K Rowling and she happily discussed her new book "David and the Heart of Aurasius" which is her first published novel and the first in a series of five.
Rebecca dabbles in animation, web and graphic design, children’s writing and illustration and gave many useful tips on writing fantasy fiction and publishing.
Jacqueline Lonsdale-Cuerton (left) with Rebecca each holding a copy of her book "David and the Heart of Aurasius".
Hyperdome’s Topical Tea for March
9 May 2011
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Peter O’Reilly – author of The Spirit of O’Reilly’s – the World at Our Feet and a member of the well known family who own and operate O’Reillys Rainforest Retreat – shared his childhood memories of the Retreat and Lamington National Park to a full house at Hyperdome Library on March 15th. The audience was captivated by the tales he shared of a time that was somewhat simpler in many ways but certainly more difficult in others. |
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| Peter signing a copy of his book for Christine Bray | Winner of the door Prize: Shaun Johnson |