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Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity

Couple of film/documentary screenings happening

Sunday 5th October: Kneecap (the movie)
5:30pm
OUSA Clubs & Socs (Albany St)
$10

Wednesday 8th October: The Encampments
6pm
Burns 1 (65 Albany St)
$koha

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Screening of Kneecap (the movie)

fundraiser event

all proceeds support: Otago Students for Justice in Palestine and UNRWA

Co-hosted by: Otago Socialist Society and Otago Students for Justice in Palestine

$10 admission

OUSA Clubs & Socs building

Sunday, October 5th

illustrated with photos of Kneecap band members

The Encampments

a film by Kei Pritsker & Michael T Workman
Executive producer Macklemore

Exclusive film screening

The Encampments is a groundbreaking documentary that chronicles the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment and the international wave of student activism it ignited.

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 5d

Part time water features.

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 5d

Includes a bonus albatross.

KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 5d

A trailer for the upcoming writers festival. www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...

Dunedin dystopia

Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival runs October 17-19.

www.odt.co.nz

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 6d

That was the one I'd forgotten, thanks.

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 6d

Remember peak bookstore, Unity at the old site, the big one on the corner of Willis and Lambton, Bennet's government and Kirk's, and Parsons. With whitcoulls in the middle and paper plus in Lambton square. Maybe not all at the same time bur still. Now it's all shoeshops.

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 7d

Well, it would mean that rich people needed to curtail their weekend travel...

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 8d

Currently obsessed with these meschaussettesrouges.com/en/products/...

Napoleon Bonaparte box set - Knee-highs - Limited edition

Box of 6 replicas of Napoleon's stockings - Limited edition May 5, 2021 marked the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death. To celebrate this page in French History and the love of socks, the Mes Chauss...

meschaussettesrouges.com

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 8d

What it says is that you're too young to have had those Betty Crocker recipe cards (were they Betty Crocker?) I have this vision of the angel food cake, and the fairy tale castle.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

Suriname’s government has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its tropical forests, a move conservationists say is among the most ambitious commitments to climate and biodiversity ever made by an Amazonian nation.

Suriname pledges to shield 90% of forests, far beyond global conservation goal

Suriname has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its forests, far surpassing the global 30x30 goal.

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 11d

toroa, bird of myth, art, literature, yet to win
takahē - botc but robbed
whio - sharing the $10 note with Kate Sheppard
kakī - beautiful southern waders
kōtuku - beautiful southern waders
I've just realised I could have been cheating at birdle all this time, using the #boty site.

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KarinWarnaar @muguetdebois.bsky.social · 11d

Another beautiful recent bird book which will bring back memories for 1970s kids who collected the jelly cards. (Which I'd always thought were photos, and earlier.)
shop.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/products/eil...