W.E.A. Course programme and enrolments
First semester, 2009
Please indicate the courses in which you wish to enrol by checking the boxes indicated.
Then complete the enrolment and payment details at the bottom of this form.
All fees and charges include G.S.T.
MATIU/SOMES ISLAND
$70
Saturday 7th March.
Bus departs Waikanae Woolworths at 8.15 am, Paraparaumu Railway Station at 8.30 am
Matiu/Somes Island has taken its place as the jewel in Wellington’s harbour, a protected area accessible only by boat, with picnic areas, family-friendly walks and an abundance of wildlife and historic remnants. Open to the public since 1995, the shroud of secrecy has been lifted from the island and its stories and relics of old are waiting to be explored. Our trip guide, Holden Hohaia, is well versed in the history of Te Whanganui-a-Tara and is well known for his involvement with Maori communities and knowledge of Maori historical sites. Holden is of Taranaki Whanui ki Poneke descent. You will hear the story of discovery and naming by Kupe, the significance of Matiu and other Wellington landmarks to local iwi and the impact of British settlement.
WOMEN’S SELF-DEFENCE
$60
6 Tuesdays 24th February – 31st March, 10 am – noon,
Mazengarb Sports Hall, Scaife Drive, Paraparaumu
Learn how to defend yourself with simple basic self-defence techniques that really work. This course will build your self-esteem and self-confidence and will teach you how to keep yourself safe.
Andrew Salton, Sixth Dan Black Belt in Taekwon-Do
DRAW FROM THE RIGHT SIDE of the BRAIN
$85
8 Wednesdays 18th February – 8th April,
10 am - noon,
Waikanae Memorial Hall, Pehi Kupa Street
Cover the fundamentals of drawing by learning to access the right mode of your brain in a relatively stress-free environment. This is a drawing course for people who think they can’t draw and will probably never be able to learn. It is also a course for anyone who would like to improve their ability to draw.
Kimbra Taylor, artist, illustrator and tutor
PAPER-MAKING WORKSHOP
$50
Saturday 21st February
10 am – 4 pm,
Waikanae Arts and Crafts Room, Elizabeth Street
Pour, dip,lift, press: make beautiful handmade sheets of paper. In the afternoon, we will enhance your papers with eco-dyes, plant and vegetable fibres and your own found materials.
Jill Hemming, artist and tutor
MIXED MEDIA PAINTING AND DRAWING
$60
5 Tuesdays 3rd March – 31st March ,
10 am – 12.30 pm,
Rita King Cottage, 330 Rosetta Road, Raumati Beach
This class is to art what fusion cusine is to food. We'll be exploring our media and pushing it to its limits, using a range of techniques and materials and blending them to create original and dazzling artworks with wow factor. Bring some images that you would like to work with, and raid your pencil case and paint box for all your favourite materials. Together we will make mixed media magic! Charcoal, paint, and pencils provided. Please bring your own brushes.
Rachel Benningfield , Artist
DRAWING AND PAINTING ANIMALS
$80
March and Sunday 8th March,
10.00 am – 3.00 pm
Waikanae Arts and Crafts Room, Elizabeth Street, Waikanae
Learn how to draw a wide selection of animals from domestic to wild animals and birds. We will start with cats and dogs. Students should bring some photos of their pets and other animal pictures to draw and paint. There is a $15 cost for the hire of Chinese art materials (payable to the tutor).
Stan Chan, Artist
PAINT FROM THE RIGHT SIDE of the BRAIN
$85
8 Wednesdays 29th April – 17th June
10.00 am-12.00
Waikanae Memorial Hall, Pehi Kupa Street
This is a follow-up course for people who have attended the Draw from the Right Side of the Brain course and would like to take drawing through a variety of coloured mediums into painting with watercolour.
Kimbra Taylor, Artist, Illustrator and Tutor
GREAT READING AND CREATIVE WRITING
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE – The Visionary
$40
2 Thursdays 26th February and 5th March,
2 pm – 4 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
We will look into the life and times of this extraordinary man; we will read, discuss and enjoy professional recordings of selected Coleridge poems, linked with evocative music by Hector Berlioz. All texts supplied.
Lynda Burnett, actress, editor, teacher
READING SHAKESPEARE – Coriolanus
$50
4 Tuesdays 3rd– 24th March,
2 – 4 pm,
Kapiti Community Centre, Ngahina Street, Paraparaumu
This is one of the finest but least known of Shakespeare’s plays. It deals with the conflicting doctrines of dictatorship and democracy, and the challenges of leadership. Set in Roman times, it is, as with all of Shakespeare’s plays, relevant to all times, including our own. (Please bring a copy of the text)
Janet Secker, English literature teacher
READING SHAKESPEARE – Julius Caesar
$50
4 Tuesdays 2nd – 23rd June,
2 – 4 pm,
Kapiti Community Centre, Ngahina Street, Paraparaumu
Using his own interpretation of Roman history, Shakespeare considers the politics of power and the challenges of leadership. It is a well-known play, but with much more to it than the famous and familiar speeches. It has relevance to Elizabethan England and to our own times. (Please bring a copy of the text)
Janet Secker, English literature teacher
PERSONAL ESSAY WRITING WORKSHOP
$120
2 weekend workshops 2nd/3rd May and 6th/7th June,
10 am – 3 pm,
Paraparumu Library, Rimu Road
Writer Lindsay Rabbitt will convene these workshops on writing the personal essay. The workshop will cover how some writers have employed the genre and support participants to complete an essay. Please bring to the course a piece of writing (about 500 words) and/or an outline of what you would like to write about. The workshops will be restricted to 12 people.
Lindsay Rabbitt, poet, multi-media artist, filmmaker
WRITING WINNING SHORT STORIES
$60
2 Saturdays 7th and 21st March
10 am – 3.30 pm,
Waikanae Library, Committee Room
Maybe you have a short story you need feedback on, or, perhaps you need ideas, motivation and tips on publication? These workshops will offer friendly advice and encouragement. They are suitable for beginners or published writers needing feedback/criticism in a friendly group environment. Please bring your writing materials and/or laptops.
Vivienne Joseph, award-winning writer
WRITING STORIES FOR CHILDREN
$60
2 Saturdays 2nd and 16th May
10 am – 3.30 pm,
Waikanae Library, Committee Room
Do you want to write for children? Need help to begin, or, perhaps would like feedback and advice on preparing manuscripts for publication? Come along for friendly encouragement, ideas and help. Any genre of children’s writing can be covered in these workshops. Please bring your writing materials and/or laptops.
Vivienne Joseph, award winning writer
MUSIC APPRECIATION – Great conductors of today and yesterday
Singles $75 Couples $130
9 Wednesdays, 4th March – 29th April,
9.45 am– 11.45 am,
Parklands Hall, Sylvan Avenue, Waikanae
Come and join us for these sessions with recordings and documentary film on conductors from the 20th century. We will also look at today’s charismatic directors of the top orchestras around the world, including the young emerging talents from Europe and South America.
Jane Godfrey, music teacher
MUSIC FROM ST PETERSBURG
$40
2 Saturdays, 9th and 16th May,
2 – 4 pm,
Parklands Hall, Sylvan Avenue, Waikanae
These two presentations by Jane Godfrey will focus on the music from St Petersburg – the city created by Peter the Great, which progressed into the city of great Russian art, music, ballet and opera.
Jane Godfrey, music teacher
OPERA TALK – The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
$20
Sunday 26th April ,
2 – 4 pm,
Parklands Hall, Sylvan Avenue, Waikanae
This opera is full of the bubbling energy of its youthful composer, who was just 21 when he wrote it. The comedy revolves around an aging Mustafa, Bey of Algiers, who wants to be rid of his wife Elvira. He decides to marry her off to an Italian in his service, Lindoro. An Italian girl is captured and brought to the Bey’s Seraglio, to be his new wife. She, however, is Lindoro’s love, who has been searching for him. The plot becomes really – and hilariously – complicated!
Peter Baillie, opera singer
PETER BAILLIE’S VIENNA
$20
Sunday 21st June,
2 – 4 pm,
Parklands Hall, Sylvan Avenue, Waikanae
Peter was engaged as a solo singer at the Vienna Volksoper from 1966 to 1988. He reminisces about performances during his time in Vienna, with videos and recordings. He shares memories of experiences and people and will sing a selection of arias and Viennese songs.
Peter Baillie, opera singer
HOW TO READ MUSIC, Stage 2
Please telephone the office on (04)293 8077 if you are interested in joining these sessions.
The language of music, how to understand this language from a rhythmic and melodic aspect. Instruction and sympathetic tuition will be given in a series of classes to be held at 11 Karaka Grove, Waikanae. The aims will be to build confidence in the reading of music, using ear-training as well as the art of reading from a musical score. Regular attendance of these classes is expected and homework should be completed.
Jane Godfrey, music teacher
"EXPLORING HISTORY AND RECORDING HISTORY
RESEARCHING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY
$60
4 Tuesdays, 3rd – 24th March ,
2 – 4 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
Find out how to research your family history. Three classroom sessions plus a visit to Porirua Library, the National Library, and Archives New Zealand. Guidance from an experienced family history tutor in using computers in your research.
Rachel Brown, tutor
ORAL HISTORY
$80
2 Saturdays, 7th and 21st March ,
10 am – 4.30 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
Interested in recording on tape the memories of someone important to you, before it is too late? This course teaches you how to: research, prepare and conduct interviews; operate recording equipment; and process material after the interview. Participants have a chance to conduct an interview between the two training days. Training equipment provided.
Dr Alison Laurie, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University
DISCOVERING WELLINGTON’S WEST COAST (Part 1)
$50
2 Tuesdays, 24th and 31st March,
2 – 4 pm, plus field trip Saturday 4th April.
Waikanae Library, Committee Room
Whenua, whanau and whalers
This session looks at the changes in Maori occupation of the coast and how pakeha traders and whalers had to live within a Maori pattern of authority, often by forming families and introducing technologies and activities that appealed to an adaptable people.
Church and Governor
This session explores how and to what extent British authority was established. We will look at how threats to peace were met by a brief armed intervention and how order was restored by an armed police force, Maori forbearance and strategic roads.
Saturday 4th April, 10 am Field Trip: Paraparaumu and Waikanae
Te Uruhi; Kenakena; the first Waikanae; the Ferry Inn; Takamore urupa; Reikorangi; Hemi Matenga; St Luke’s.
Anthony Dreaver, local historian
DISCOVERING WELLINGTON’S WEST COAST (Part 2)
$50
2 Tuesdays, 26th May and 2nd June,
2 – 4 pm, plus field trip Saturday 6th June.
Waikanae Library, Committee Room
‘Native Land’
The region’s land was mostly dense lowland forest, lightly occupied by Maori settlements and a ‘Maori town’ (Otaki), interspersed with grazing runs, some of them Maori-owned. The beach and sea connected Wellington to the north. Postal service, police force and Pakeha graziers provided a flimsy connection with authority. But it was also the period of the Maori War and, later, reassertion by formerly dominant tribes.
Wellington’s colonial empire
What created today’s settlement pattern? The New Zealand Company’s settlement had been a disappointment, but the west coast offered a second chance. The capitalists of Wellington provided the answer that was transforming much of the world: a railway. The railway company re-made the region, but at what cost to Maori?
Saturday 6th June, 10 am Field Trip: Otaki
Haowhenua battle site; the river mouth; Health Camp; Wananga; Museum; Rangiatea; Pukekaraka
Anthony Dreaver, local historian
TROY, THE TROJAN WAR AND THE LATE BRONZE AGE
$40
2 Sundays 1st and 8th March,
1 – 4 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
The classical Greeks told stories about the city of Troy and of a great war fought in their distant and heroic past for possession of the world’s most beautiful woman, Helen. These stories held no credence until Heinrich Schliemann unearthed on the hill of Hissarlik what he claimed to be the fabled city of legend. These lectures will discuss the historicity of the mythical Trojan War and the archaeological and written evidence that is testament to the last years of the Aegean Bronze Age.
Dr Matthew Trundle, Senior Lecturer in Classics, Victoria University
WORLD BELIEFS – Buddhism, Christianity, Islam
$20 per session or $50 for all three
3 Sundays, 15th, 22nd and 29th March ,
2 – 4 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
Buddhism
Sunday 15th March,
2 – 4 pm
Westerners are converting to Buddhism in significant numbers, and as a result, it is arguably the most visible ‘exotic’ religion in our highly diverse, post-modern religious landscape. In this session, we will talk about the basic ideas and practices of Buddhism, and also about the very great range of religious cultures included under its very broad umbrella.
Michael Radich, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Victoria University
Christianity
Sunday 22nd March,
2 – 4 pm
This session will explore the rise of Christianity as a global religion, and contours of the contemporary Christian world.
Geoff Troughton, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Victoria University
Islamic Civilisation and Islamic Religion
Sunday 29th March,
2 – 4 pm
This talk will provide an overview of Islam in world history and the basic practices and beliefs of Muslims. It will cover Christian-Islamic interactions, the contributions of Islamic civilisation in science, mathematics, and agriculture, how Muslims perceive the Qur’an and the role of Muhammad, as well as the ‘Five Pillars’ of Islamic practice and belief.
Art Buehler, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Victoria University
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HAPPINESS
$20
Sunday 3rd May,
2 – 4 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
What did the Greeks say about happiness that might help you today? This session sets out some of the classical theories of happiness and encourages you to present examples for discussion. We can consider theories such as stoicism, cynicism, hedonism, utilitarianism and Christian ethics. An introductory text will be provided.
Robert Shaw, Lecturer, Open Polytechnic
NZ SIGN LANGUAGE – BEGINNERS
$70
8 Mondays 9th February – 30th March,
6.30 – 8.30 pm
Parapaparaumu Library, Rimu Road
This course introduces people to a visual language that has its own distinctive grammar and structure. Cost includes the NZSLTA workbook units 1-6. A DVD or video is available for students to purchase.
Tania Reti, NZ Sign Language tutor
NZ SIGN LANGUAGE – STAGE II
$70
8 Thursdays 12th February – 2nd April
6.30 – 8.30pm
Kapiti Community Centre, Ngahina St, Paraparaumu
This course is for people who have completed a previous WEA NZSL beginners’ course and who wish to extend their knowledge and experience of this visual language for work-related or personal reasons. Cost includes the NZSL workbook Units 7-12. Students may purchase the DVD or video.
Tania Reti, NZ Sign Language tutor
DEAF CULTURE WORKSHOP / NZ SIGN LANGUAGE PUBLIC AWARENESS WORKSHOP
Free workshop Saturday 7th March, 9 am – noon, Kapiti Community Centre, Ngahina St, Paraparaumu
Free workshop Saturday 14h March, 9 am – noon, Kapiti Community Centre, Ngahina St, Paraparaumu
Join our New Zealand Sign Language Tutor, Tania Reti, and her interpreter for these free workshops and learn more about deaf culture and raising public awareness. Learn how to facilitate communication between deaf people and hearing people through the use of NZSL and English or Maori. Discover essential communication tips for deaf clients/customers and acquire basic NZSL signs and finger spelling.
Tania Reti, NZ Sign Language tutor
SPANISH FOR BEGINNERS
$80
8 Tuesdays, 17th February – 7th April,
7 – 9 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
This course is suitable for people who want to travel to Spain or Latin America, or for those who wish to begin to learn the fluency of the language and aspects of the culture, with the possibility of continuing to a more advanced level.
Jorge Herrera, tutor
FRENCH FOR BEGINNERS
$80
8 Thursdays, 19th February – 9th April,
7 – 9 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
This course is designed for those who wish to access the French language through practical conversational skills. Classes will focus on basic oral and written communication skills in everyday life situations. It will appeal to those wishing to start conversing in French, wishing to practise basic French they already know, those planning to travel, or just wanting fun!
Anita Curpen, tutor
GERMAN FOR BEGINNERS
$80
8 Wednesdays 25th February - 15th April,
7 – 9 pm,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
This course will introduce you to the German language and culture. Survival German for travellers, including introducing oneself and talking about oneself, buying a travel ticket, ordering a meal and shopping. Emphasis will be particularly on the spoken language.
Daphne Harding, tutor
SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION
NEW ZEALAND’S NATURAL RESOURCES
$20
Saturday 16th May,
10 am – noon,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
If minerals, energy, water and land resources are considered, New Zealand is the most resource-rich country per capita on the globe. Come on a journey of discovery that focuses on mineral and energy resources within New Zealand’s recently expanded Exclusive Economic Zone, now the fourth largest behind USA, Australia and Russia.
Dr Ian Graham, Geoscientist
COSMOLOGY: Links, Connections and Relationships III: From Big Bang to Self Awareness
$30
Saturday 9th May,
10 am – 5 pm,
Kapiti Community Centre, Ngahina Street, Paraparaumu
This workshop will explore the formation of the first stars and galaxies and their subsequent evolution. It discusses quantum theory and relativity, the concepts of space and time, the four basic forces of nature, the possible nature of the Big Bang and subsequent evolution of the universe, and how common life might be in our galaxy. Where might we expect the search for extra-terrestrial life to take us over the next few decades?
Frank Andrews, retired astronomer and educator at Carter Observatory
THE DINOSAUR FOSSILS OF NEW ZEALAND AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE
$20
Thursday 7th May,
7 – 9 pm,
St Paul’s Church Hall, Kapiti Road, Paraparaumu
This illustrated talk will consider all known dinosaur fossils from New Zealand, what they mean in terms of our understanding of the geological history of New Zealand, and the implications for the origins of our modern fauna and flora.
Dr Hamish Campbell, Senior Scientist, GNS Science and geologist at Te Papa
INTRODUCTION TO TRANSITION TOWNS
$20
Sunday 5th April,
9.30 am – 4 pm,
Kapiti Community Centre, Ngahina Street, Parapaumu
Transition Towns is a worldwide movement of people who are finding ways to move from an economy based on cheap oil to a more sustainable way of living. You’ll learn about climate change and peak oil and ideas for responding to those challenges, including increasing local food production and permaculture. Bring a picnic lunch, and in the afternoon see some examples of permaculture and sustainable building in practice.
Judith Le Harivel, Transition Towns Kapiti
THE NATURE CONSERVATION MOVEMENT IN POST-WAR JAPAN
$20
Saturday 28th February,
10 am – noon,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
In this interactive presentation, we will examine the state of Japan’s natural environments and wildlife and explore the forces for and against nature conservation in Japan in the post-war era. Join us to discuss and compare a different environment.
Catherine Knight, Policy Adviser, Ministry for the Environment
HEALTHY HOMES
$10 or free to members
Saturday 23rd May,
10 am – noon,
Paraparaumu Library, Rimu Road
A warm dry home improves your family’s health. There are plenty of no-cost or low-cost things you can do to improve your home environment. Join us to discover ways to make your home more energy-efficient.
Richard Morrison, Eco Design Adviser, KCDC