Poster Competition - Anti-discrimination

UPDATE!

Poster comp has been extended to May 30! Don’t miss out and make sure you get your entries in!

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The Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW has a poster competition for young people!

Here’s the details if you’re interested:

Design a “JUST BE FAIR – celebrate diversity in your community” poster

The Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW is holding a poster competition for primary and secondary school aged young people with the theme of “JUST BE FAIR – celebrate diversity in your community” to celebrate Law Week 2011.

We are asking young people to design a poster about diversity in their community. There are book voucher prizes for the winners and for their library, and the winning posters will also be published by the Board and distributed throughout NSW to display in all libraries.

For more information about the competition, refer to the website
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au – select “Poster competition for young people”
under “What’s new”.

Entries close 5pm Monday 23rd May 2011.

Beat the Blues Concert

The Beat the Blues concert on 21 March was an astounding success, and we have the videos to prove it! The storm outside couldn’t match the energy in the Astra Theatre, with big and bold performances by Justice Crew, Replicators, Schools Out, Step Ahead, Queenwood Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Special Olympic Performance Group.

Beat the Blues!

Justice Crew Performance

Easter Holidays Opening Hours

I don’t know about you, but I plan to spend my Easter break reading lots of good books, so I’m stocking up today for the long weekend! Don’t worry though, we’re open on Saturday so you can grab a mid-break book.

Easter Library Opening Hours

Friday 22 April – CLOSED
Saturday 23 April – 10am – 4pm
Sunday 24 April – CLOSED
Monday 25 April – CLOSED
Tuesday 26 April – CLOSED

Spine Out Available at Mosman Library

In January Good Reading launched their just-for-teens online magazine called Spine Out.

Teens just like you supply the fabulous interactive content including book reviews, poetry, stories, news, book trailers, events, music, book trailers and heaps more!

If you want to check out this awesome e-zine, just log head to Spine Out

80s Scavenger Hunt at Powerhouse Museum

Looking for something to do in the rest of Jan?

Grab your digital camera and friends and take the Powerhouse Musuem’s tribute to the 80s photo challenge!

The 80s digital camera scavenger hunt runs 9:30am to 4:00pm daily from the 4th to the 26th of January.

You can find the start point and list of challenges at 80s Photo Scavenger Hunt Central on the entry level of the Museum. Or you can check the list of challenges here

From there it’s up to you to make your way through Powerhouse 80s style!!

Some of the challenges include –
It’s raining Rubik’s Cubes at the museum
Moon walk with the moon walker in the Space exhbition
Help ET Phone home

You can also upload your photos to the Me and the Powerhouse Museum Flickr group make sure you tag your images with ‘80shunt‘ for a chance to win some great prizes!

For more information click here