Calendar of Events 2010

 

 

 

2010 International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
 

 

 

 

 

International Year of Biodiversity

 

 

 

  
 
 
 
January / Hanuere
 

National Blood Donor Month

                                                     National Braille Literacy Month

                  National Hobby Month

 

1 New Year’s Day

                             2 Day after New Year’s Day

        2 World Wetlands Day*

 

  18Southland Anniversary Day

                                                              18 World Religion Day

 

martin-luther-king1 18 Martin Luther King Day

 

 

 

penguinpenguinpenguin

20 Penguin Day    penguin      penguin

 

 

25 Wellington Anniversary Day

 

                           25 Annual Hui of Ratana Movement Day 

26 Australia / India Day

 

potatoe128 Potato Day

 

  30 Holocaust Commemoration Day – Europe 

 

31 - 6 Febr.  Leprosy Awareness Week       

 
 
 
 
February / Pepuere
 

  An Affair to Remember Month

                                                            Creative Romance Month

                     National Children’s Dental Health Month

 
bike-wise-week21 – 28 Bike Wise Month: see Bike Wise Week display www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas
 
 
 
 

 

 

1 Auckland Anniversary Day

1 Nelson Anniversary Day

2 World Wetlands Day* with the theme: "Wetlands, Biodiversity, and Climate Change,"

 

3   1931: Hawkes Bay Earthquake, measering 7.8 on the Richter scale

                                            4 World Cancer Day     cancer society logo

 

 

6 Waitangi Day

                                      7 Charles Dickens Day

 8 United Nations Day for Women’s rights and International Peace*

                     

                                      8 – 14 Heart Foundation Valentines Heart Week

9   1770: James Cook completes circumnavigation of North Island

9 Chinese Lantern Festival

11    1845: The flagstaff is cut down and Kororareka is invaded

                                                  12 Darwin Day

 

13 – 14 Second Chance for Love – SPCA Adoptathon

valentines-day1 valentines-day1 14 Valentines dayvalentines-day1

 

14 Get it on! Big Gay Out

 

 condom14  – 21 Condom Week

 

 

chinese-new-year1 14 Chinese New Year – Year of the tiger

 

17   1835: First book printed in New Zealand by William Colenso

20 World Day of Social Justice

 

                        20 – 28 Muscular Dystrophy Association Bow Tie Week

 

21 International Mother Language Day*

21 Chemical Sensitivity Day

 

28 Purim Jewish

eating-disorder228 – 6 March Eating Disorders Week

 

 

 

March / Maehe

 

Autumn 1 March – 31 May

National Women’s History Month

                                                                           Poetry Month

                    Music in our Schools Month

                                                                                        National Craft Month

1 Self-Injury Awareness Day

1 – 7 New Zealand Red Cross Appeal Week

1 – 7 Return the Borrowed Books Week

 

 nz-book-award-200914 NZ Post Book Awards Finalist Announced (finalist announced and children choice voting begins)

 

4 World Book Day

 

                7 NZ Children’s Day. Theme is: "Praise and Encouragement".

 

 7 – 14 NZ Sea Week: see Sea Life display http://www.creativelibrarydisplays.com/  for display ideas

 

8 International Women’s Day*

8 Commonwealth Day and the Commonwealth theme for 2010: ‘Science,   Technology and Society’

 

8 Taranaki Anniversary Day

                                 8 – 14 Child Cancer Appeal Week

 

9  Panic Day

12 – 21 National Science and Engineering Week

13 – 14 WOMAD Festival Taranaki

13 – 21 Asthma NZ Awareness Campaign, One Man, One Road, One Cycle.      
             Christchurch to Auckland, free education road show.

                                15 – 21 International Brain Awareness Week

 

 saint-patricks-day1 17 Saint Patricks Day

 

                                                             18 – 21 National Conference of Missing Persons

19 World Sleep Day, under the slogan: "Sleep Well, Stay Healthy".  

 

20 Sun Earth Day

 

21 World Poetry Day poetry-day2

 

tree21 World Forestry Day*

21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

 

                                                  21 World Down Syndrome Day

22 Otago Anniversary Day

 

22 World Water Day* world-water-day1

 

23 International World Meteorogical Day*

                                                    24 International Tuberculosis Day* 

 

26 – 28 Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Red Puppy Appeal  

 

27 International World Theatre Day* theatre

 

                                                 

                                              27 Margaret Mahy Day

 

 27 – 28 Dragon Boat Festival Wellington  

 

 pesach30  Pesach -  Jewish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April / Aperira

 

 National Humor Month

 

                         International Guitar Month

 

                                                                        Stress Awareness Month

 

       Alcohol Awareness Month

april-fools-day21  April Fool’s Day

 

 

2 World Autism Awareness Dayautism

 

world-book-day1 2 International Children’s Book Day

2 Good Friday

 

warbirds-wanaka2 – 4 Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow

 

4 – 5 Easter  Christian  easter2

 

5 – 11 National Polio Eradication Awareness Week

 

                                                                   7 World Health Day*

 10   1968: ‘Wahine’ Disaster

                                                    10 – 18  Youth Week

 

15   1912: Titanic sinks   

 

           19 Zoo Awareness Day                    zoo

 

 

19 – 25 Leukaemia & Blood Foundation Shave 10 week    

    

 

earth-day 22 World Earth Day*

 

 

 

 

23 World Book and Copyright Day *

                                             24 World Lab and Animal Day*

 

 

pink-poppy23 Poppy Day

 

                                                                   

                                                                     25 ANZAC Day anzac

 

 25 Africa Malaria Day

26 – 2 May NZ Riding for the Disabled Association Inc Awareness Week

 

dance

29 World Dance Day

 

 30   1959: Official opening of Auckland’s Harbor Bridge

 

 

May / Mei

National Atrhritis Month

                                           Heal the Children Month

New Zealand Music Month                  Anti-Tobacco Campaign Month

                                             Medidation Month

Clean Air Month   

                               

 naturist 1  World Naturist Day*

 

 1 Labour Day*

 

5-o-clock  1 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards 2010 – Childrens Choice - Voting closes 

 

 2 – 8 New Zealand Sign Language Week

 

2 – 8 National Pet Week



 

3 World Press Freedom Day*. The theme is ‘Freedom of Information: The Right to Know’

 

                               3 – 7 Teachers Appreciation Week

 

fire-fighters-truck4 International Fire Fighters Day

 

 

5 International Midwife Day*

5 Asthma Day*

8    1945: WWII ends after 5 years, 8 months and 7 days

 

8 World Red Cross Red Crescent Day

 

remembrance 8 Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War*

 

8 – 16 National Tourism Week

 9 Mothers Day

 

 9 Europe Day*

 

childrens-choice-book-award10 – 18 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Award  Festival, a nationwide, week-long feast of events, readings, author tours and book-inspired games, kicks off.

 

 

12 – 16 Auckland Writers and Readers Festival (contact schools@writersfestival.co.nz for more information)

 

 

12 – 13 Going West: Book and Writers Festival Waitakeri City

 

 

12 – 23 International Film Festival Cannes   festival-cannes
 
 
 

 

family-day 15 International Day of Families*

 

 16 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial

                                                                              

                                                            17 World Information Society Day*

18 Workchoice Day *

 

hepatitis-nz 19 World Hepatitis Day*

 

19 NZ Post Book Awards, Awards Ceremony 21 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Award. All winners will be announced at an awards ceremony held at Auckland Museum*

 

cultural-diversity21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development *

 

 21 Ascension Day

 

                                                          21 – 28 National Dignity Week

 

40-hours-famine21 – 23  World Vision 40 hours Famine: see World Famine Week display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas

 

 21 – 30 Youth Week

                                22 International Day for Biological Diversity*

 

 24 International Women’s Day for Peace and disarmamend*

 

                                              24 – 30 Child Protection Week

 

25 International Missing Children Day*

 

25 Africa Liberation Day*      Africa liberation day

                                             

 

                                              25 – 4 June Queenstown Winter Festival

28 – 30 Buddhist Wesak

29    1953: Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay reach summit of Everest

                 

                    29 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers*

 

29 – 4 June World Week for Peace for Palestine and Israel

                                  30 Mayday*

 

  31 World No Tobacco Day

 

 

June / Hune

 

sledWinter 1 June – 31 August

 

 In the Pink Auction June            International Men’s Month

                    Great Outdoors Month             National River Month

National Dairy Month                       National Rose Month      

 

3    1989: Tianammen Square massacre 

 

4 International Day of Innocent Children’s Victims of Aggression*

 

5 World Environment Day*

                                     

 

                                          6 – 12 National Sun Safety Week

 

6 – 12 National Headache Awereness Week

 7 Queens Birthday

 

 8    1987: New Zealand becomes Nuclear free

 

grey-fish-and-green-octopus18 World Ocean Day: see Sea Life display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas

 

9    1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts after 600 years

 
11 World Population Day*
                                                    
 
 
12 World Day against Child Labour *
 
 
 
 
14 Matariki Maori New Year matarikiCelebration
 
 
 
14 World Blood Donor Day*
 
 
14 – 20 National Flag Week
 
 
 
                      16 International Day of the African Child *
 
 
                                                                    16 – 19  NZ Agricultural Field Days
 

16 Dragon Boat Festival Auckland

 
17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
 
 
 
 
20 World Refugee Day*
 
                                                  20 – 26 St John Week Annual Appeal
 
21 – 27 National Epilepsy Week
 
 
 
23 United Nations Public Service Day*
 
 
 
drugs126 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking*
 
 
 
26 International Day in Support of Victims of Torture*
 
 27 – 5 July Eye Safety Awereness Week
 
 
 
 
July / Hurae
 
 
 
Glaucoma Awareness Month                       Mental Illness Awareness Month
 
                            Purposeful Parenting Month
 
National Culinary Arts Month                              National Black Family Month
 
 

4 Independence Day USA*

 

4 International Day of Cooperatives*

 

                                   5 – 11 Neurological Foundation Appeal Week

 7 – 11 National Therapeutic Recreation Week

 

10    1985: Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland

 

multicultural-family111 World Population Day*

 

                                                        11 Disability Awareness Day

                

                          12 – 18 Captive Nations Week

12 – 18 Alzheimers New Zealand Appeal Week

 

14    1853: First General Election in New Zealand

 

18    1855: NZ’s first postage stamps  on sale

 

24    1955: Completion of Wellington electrec railway

 

24 Lifeline’s Stress Down Day

                                                                         25 Parents Day

maori-language26 – 1 August  Maori Language Week / Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori

 

 

28 First World War start 1914*

 

28 World Nature Conservation Day*

 

                                    30 – 31 Peugeot Hokonui Fashion Design Awards

 

 

 

August / Akuhata

 

National Immunization Awareness Month            National Women’s Month

 

                  National Parks Month            Organ Donar Month          

 

Happyness Happens Month                   Psoriasis Awareness Month

 

                                   National Inventors Month

 

 

 

 

1 – 7 World Breastfeeding Week

 

 

2 – 6 Reumatic Fever Week 

 

                   2 – 8 National Immunisation Awareness Week 

 

 

 

conservation-week-21 3 – 10 Conservation Week. Theme: Keep New Zealand Beautiful. SeeConservation Week display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas

 

4 Constitution Day Cook Islands*

6 International Hiroshima Day*

7    1908: First direct train trip between Wellington and Auckland

8    1963: Britain’s ‘Great Train Robbery’

                                 9 International Nagasaky Day*

 

                9 International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People

 

                                                                9 – 15 VSA Project Friendship Week

                              

12    1816: Frst school established in New Zealand

                                                                                       

12 International Youth Day*

lefthanders-daylefthanders-day lefthanders-day13 Lefthanders Day or Sinistrophobia*

 

 9 – 15  Allotment Week

                                                                  11 –  9 Sept. Ramadan Islamic

                   15 Independence Day India*

 

                                       16 – 22 Library Week

 15 – 21 National Aviation Week

 

 

language15 – 21 International Languages Week

 

storylines-festival 15 – 22  Storyline Fesival of NZ Children’s writers and Illustrators 

 

 16 – 22 Cystic Fibrosis week

                                               

 

                          23 – 29 Australasian Rail Safety Awareness Week

 

 

23 International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade*

 24 – 31 African Traditional Medicine Week

                                               25 – 30 Be Kind to Humankind Week

 

                                        26 Woman Equality Day

 

daffodil-daydaffodil daffodil 27 Daffodil Day

 

 

29 – 4 September MS Appeal Week

 

                                         30 - 5 September ADD/ADHD Awareness Week

 

30 National Cup Cake Day for the SPCA

 

 

September / Hepetema

 

 National Cholesterol Education Month           Baby Safety Month

                                          Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month

Gynaecological Cancer Awareness month        Healthy Ageing Month

                                             ADHD Month

 

springSpring 1 Sept. – 30 November

 

 1 NZ Gamble free Day

  1 – 4 October Time for Creation

 

                         1 – 7 National Childhood Injure Prevention Week

 3    1939: NZ declared war on Germany

                                           

      5 Fathers Day

 5 – 11 Suicide Prevention Week     

 

                                                   6 – 11 Kidneys Awareness Week

 

                                                      

                         literacy   8 International Literacy Day*

 

11    1928: The ’Southern Cross’ completes first trans-Tasman flight

12 World First Aid Day

                         14 – 17 Stroke Week

                                              15 International Day of Democracy*

 

ozon16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozon layer *

 

 

19    1893: Women’s Suffrage Day

                           19 – 25 Deaf Awareness Week

                             19 – 25 Prostate Cancer Awareness Week

 

21 World Alzheimer Day

 21 International Day of Peace*

                           

                                           21 – 23 Harvest Moon Festival Korea

                      21 – 27 National Rehebalitation Awareness Week                       

21 – 28 Arthritis New Zealand Appeal Week

                                             

22 Chinese Moon Festival

24 – 4 October wearable-art World of Wearable Art

 

dating 24 Dating Day

 

25 – 2 October Banned Books Week

                       25 - 3 October Age Concern Awareness Week

26 World Contraception Day

27 -1 October International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 

27 Canterbury South Anniversary Day

 

29    1958: The firest 111 Emergency Service introduced  

 

October / Oketopa

 

 Global Breast Cancer Awareness Month         Vegetarian Awareness Month

                             Class Reunion Month

Family Health Month                     Diversity Awareness Month

                                                       National Animal Protection and Safety Month

NZ Book Month

 

1 World Vegetarian Day

music1

1 International Music Day  

 

 

1 International Day of Older Persons*

 

2 International Day of Non Violence (Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday)*

 

3 Badger Day

3 – 9 Fire Prevention Week

 

world-animal-day4 World Animal Day*

 

 4 World Habitat Day

 

 4 – 8 Customer Service Week

                                4 – 10 Mental Health Foundation NZ Awareness week

4 -12 World Space Week

 

space-week 5 World Teacher Day*

 

5 National Poetry Day

                                                                      4 World Habitat Day

 7 – 1769: Captain Cook lands in Poverty Bay

8 – 10 Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year

                        9 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day*

 

                                                      9 World Post Day*

 10    1975: Waitangi Tribunal set up

 

mental-health-21 10 World Mental Health Day*

 

                                       10 International Day Against the Death Penalty

11 Columbus Day

 

 

 

11 Diwali Indian Festival of Lightsdiwali1

 

 

arthritis112 World Arthritis Day  

 

                                                        15 – 19 National Obesity Week

16   1936: Jean Batten flies solo from U.K. to N.Z.

16 World Food Day

                                     17 International Day of Eradication of Poverty

 

 17 – 23 Teen Read Week

                                    18 – 24 Osteoporosis Awareness Week

beginning-peace-tree21 International Day of Peace*: see Peace Week display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com for display ideas

 

 

stuttering122 Stuttering Awareness Day*

 

 

22 Hawkes Bay Anniversary Day

 

 24 United Nations Day*

                                                 24 World Development Information Day

 

24 – 30 Disarmament Week

 

26 Labour Day

 

26 – 1 November Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Week Appeal

 

   27 – 3 November Save the Children Appeal Week

 

 31 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Awards (first submission deadline)

31 Halloween*

 

 

November / Noema

 

 Red Ribbon Month                                   Lung Cancer Awareness Week

                                     National Hospice Month

National Inspirational Roll Models Month                National Novel Writing Month

 

Leukaemia & Blood Foundation – Leukaemia Appeal Week

 

The CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust Awareness week 

1 Marlborough Anniversary Day

 

2    1898: Old Age Pension Act passes into law

 

5 Guy Fawkes Day*

 

                                           5 – 9 National Care Week

6 International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflicts*

 8 – 14 World Kindness Week

 

8 – 14 Spirit Week

                                         9 World Freedom Dayworld-freedom-day

 

10 World Science Day for Peace and Development

 

mountain11 International Mountain Day

 

12 Canterbury Anniversary Day

 

                                                                             14 World Diabetes Day*

 14 – 20 National Hunger and Homelessness Week

16 International Day of Tolerance*

 

16 Eid ul-Adha Islamic*

                               17 International Students Day*

                                                                           17  Eid ul-Fitr Islamic

 

19 World Toilet Day*       toilet1

 

 

 

transgender day

20 International Transgender Day*

 

 

 

                                                  

                                                  20 Universal Children Day*

 20 – 27 National Geography Awereness Week

21 World Television Day *

                            22 – 28 National Family Week    

                                    

25 International Day for the Elimination of violence against women*

 

25 White Ribbon Day, for the elimination of all violence

                                                                     

                                                  27 Thanksgiving USA*

 

29 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People*

29 Westland Anniversary Day

30 Chatham Islands Anniversary Day

 

 

December / Tihema

 
 
 Aids Awareness Month                   Seasonal Depression Awareness Month
 
                                             Learn a Foreign Language Month
 
Read a New Book Month               Identity Theft Awareness and Protection Month
 
            Universal Human Rights Month              Art and Architecture Month
 
 
  summerSummer 1 Dec. – 28 February
 
 
1 World Aids Day *
 
       1 – 7 National Tolerance Week
 
 
             1 - 9 Hanukkah, Jewish Festival of Lights 
 
2 – 9 Chanuka Jewish
 
 
                         2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery*
 
 
3 International Day for People with a disability*
 
 
 
 
 
5 International Volunteers Day*
 
 
 
allergy6  World Allergy Day
 
 
7 Westcoast Anniversary Day
 
 
                                                            7 Civil Aviation Day*
 
 
9 International Anti-Corruption Day*
 
 
 
human-rights10 Human Rights Day *
 
 

13    1642: Abel Tasman discoveres New Zealand and names it Staten Landt

 
 
13  International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction*
 
 
                                                                    16 Ashura Isamic*
 
18 Islamic New Year*
 
 
                                                       18 International Migrants Day*
 

19 International Men’s Day*

 
 
20 International Human Solidarity Day*
 
 
  

24 Christmas Eve

 

 

 

25 Christmas Day  detail-gold-circle-with-dove-and-branch see: Christmas display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com display ideas for display ideas.

 

26 Boxing Day
 

 31 World Peace Meditation Day

 

 

31 New Years Eve    fireworks

 

 * United Nations Calendar

 

 

2011

International Year of Forests

Year of Volunteering

Year of the Rabbit – Chinese Calendar

 

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4 Responses to “Calendar of Events 2010”

  1. Fabulous!

  2. Thanks very much – I have spent weeks searching the internet for significant weeks to celebrate and make displays for in my new job as School Librarian – now I’v found what I need!

  3. Thanks for a really helpful resource.

    I wonder if I might add that October is NZ Book Month and November is Fruit & Vege month. Both are BIG events in our library.

  4. How bad am I that its taken me all year to find the time to actually look thru the whole site & not just use specific display ideas. You have made my day, week, YEAR – now that Ive learnt you have the calender for the year I can plan ahead for 2010. lots of cuddles coming yr way. THANKS