Come and hear the the Auckland Street Choir singing in our beautiful front room! The Auckland Street Choir is a community choir of people from diverse backgrounds. The choir has an open door policy, and particularly welcomes homeless and marginalised people who make up many of its members. Since 2015, the Choir has been having a lot of fun singing waiata, soul, reggae and pop songs.

Starts at 3pm, and as usual, there will be free drinks and nibbles! 🍷

Mingle with the cool kids at the 2024 edition of The Open Book Christmas Party. BBQ, readings by artists who have graced our stage this year, happiness, conversation, sunshine. Maybe a singalong. Maybe Santa. Maybe not Santa.

26 Words respond to 26 Words from Page 26

26 Words New Zealand is a group of writers who write and respond to prompts using a tight format of, but not restricted to, 26 words, 260 words, or a Centana (100 word poem) - in this case 26 words from page 26 of a book selected by The Open Book.

This event will be a reading of the work resulting from this 26;26;26 exercise, and is a part of The Open Book’s on-going Ears Wide Open series, bringing poetry, music and local voices to the Ponsonby community, at no cost to you!

All are welcome! And, as usual, wine and snacks will be provided.

To learn more about 26 Words New Zealand, visit their UK’s counterpart website here: https://www.26.org.uk/

Wander the rooms and worlds of The Open Book to the sweet sounds of Baroquers. Fiddling sisters Dr Kirsten Locke and Rachel Dasler, along with our regular Christmas carols host 'harpsichordist' Amy Mansfield and cellist Kate Saunders, accompany you by means of baroque sonatas and suites by Albinoni. Your music-filled browsing will be followed by readings and some mid-winter conviviality.

👂 This event is a part of our on-going Ears Wide Open series, bringing poetry, music and local voices to the Ponsonby community.

Anna and Sophie, Open Book escapees, read poems old and new!

Mingle with the cool kids at the 2023 edition of The Open Book Christmas Party. BBQ, readings by artists who have graced our stage this year, a singalong, happiness, conversation, sunshine. Maybe Santa. Maybe not Santa.

~ come along and be the first to experience new works in development by Leilani Tamu & Poata Alvie McKree

Join us and Paula Morris (Associate Professor, English and Drama, and Director, Master of Creative Writing) at a reading of Hiwa: Contemporary Maori Short Stories. Colleen Maria Lenihan, Pamela Morrow and K.T. Harrison will share their stories with us.

Not one to miss - pencil it into your calendars ✏️🗓️

The mole dentist made his public debut in January, and now he’s back with a new group of friends…

Join us Sunday afternoon for words and music. Free drinks and snacks. Koha entry.

On Sunday 26 March, we're welcoming Sarah Krieg, Michael J. Carden and David Ciurlionis to the store. Poetry will be performed and the ivories of our piano will be played at this musical event.

Our October Ears Wide Open free event is all about students! We're excited to offer several Auckland Uni Stage 3 Poetry students an opportunity to share their work, perhaps for the first time. Come along to support these budding poets. If the weather's nice, we might just host it out in our fabulous garden again! Free drinks and nibbles on as per usual.

Live poetry at its best. Poet and short story writer, Tracey Slaughter will be joined by fellow poets Liam Hinton, Dadon Rowell and Elizabeth Morton for this special afternoon reading.