The Auckland Heritage Festival has begun. This runs for a fortnight, from 17 September to 5 October. Auckland Libraries is celebrating the region's rich and diverse past during Auckland Heritage Festival 2011. Here are just some of an exciting range of events, walks and talks in our libraries.Auckland Central – includes:
various dates: Symonds Street cemetery talks
various dates: heritage walks through Avondale, Remuera and Auckland's early Chinatown
19 Sep: A hot time in the old town with author and TV host, Lindsey Dawson – make a booking now!
21 Sep: 'How to be a property detective' talk by local historian Lisa Truttman
21 Sep: Afrikaner Progenitors family history talk
23-24 Sep: Karen Kalopulu family history 12-hour lock-in – make a booking now!
Auckland Akarana 'The wonderful isthmus' exhibition – a wealth of visual material within our heritage and photographic collections (until 12 November)
Manukau – Heritage walk through Howick with Alan La Roche
Waitakere – 'Locals at play' heritage rugby photography display (until 31 October)
North Shore – including 'A hot time in the old town' with author and TV host, Lindsey Dawson
Pukekohe – See a 1925 Type 35A Bugatti, owned by Ron Roycroft and famously raced by him through the 1950s with a Jaguar XK 150 engine.
For the full list of events go to the Auckland Heritage Festival page on our Libraries website or go to the Auckland Council events website.
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