Calendar of Events 2009

2009 International Year of Reconciliation
International Year of Natural Fibres

International Year of Astronomy

NZ Year of the Frog Campaign June 08 –  June 09

January / Hanuere

1 New Year’s Day
2 Day after New Year’s Day

3 – 7 Arthritis Awareness Week

7 Aashura Isamic
18 World Religion Day
19 Wellington Anniversary Day
19 Southland Anniversary Day

21 Martin Luther King Day

25 Annual Hui of Ratana Movement Day
26 Auckland Anniversary Day

26 Chinese New Year – Year of the Ox

26 Australia / India Day
27 Holocaust Commemoration Day – Europe

28 Potato Day

February / Pepuere

1 – 28 Bike Wise Month: see Bike Wise Week display
www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com

2 Nelson Anniversary Day
2 World Wetlands Day
4 World Cancer Day
5 – 14 Eating Disorders Week
6 Waitangi Day
7. Charles Dickens Day
9 Chinese Lantern Festival

12 Darwin Day>

13-19 Contraceptive Week>

14 Valentines day

20 World Day of Social Justice
21 International Mother Language Day
21 Chemical Sensitivity Day
24 Mardi Grass

March / Maehe

Autumn 1 March – 31 May

1 – 8 NZ Sea Week: see Sea Life display

www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com

1 NZ Children’s Day
1 Self-Injury Awareness Day>

3 NZ Post Book Awards Finalist Announced (finalist announced and children choice voting begins)

5 World Book Day
5 – 22 Pacifica Living Arts Festival Auckland

8 International Women’s Day
8 Commonwealth Day
8 – 10 Buddhist Wesak
9 Taranaki Anniversary Day
13 – 15 WOMAD Festival Taranaki
14 Dragon Boat Festival Auckland

17 Saint Patricks Day

19 Workchoice Day
20 Sun Earth Day
21 World Poetry Day

21 World Forestry Day

21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21 – 22 Dragon Boat Festival Wellington

21 23 Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow

22 World Water Day

22 – 24 World Vision 40 hours Famine: see World Famine Week display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com

23 Otago Anniversary Day
23 World Meteorological Day
24 World Tuberculosis Day

27 International Theatre Day

28 – 3 May Wanaka Festival of Colour

April / Aperira

Holocaust Month

1  April Fool’s Day

2 World Autism Awareness Day

2 International Children’s Book Day

7 World Health Day>

9 Pesach -  Jewish
10 Good Friday
10 Pesach – Jewish

10 Buddhist New Year

11 Pesach – Jewish
12 Pesach – Jewish

12 Easter    13 Easter Monday

13 Pesach – Jewish
14 Pesach – Jewish
15 Pesach – Jewish
17 Zoo Awareness Day
21 Jom Ha Sjowa Holocaust commemoration day – Jewish

22 Earth Day

23 – 29 United Nations Global Road Safety Week
23 World Book and Copyright Day>

24 Poppy Day
25 ANZAC Day

25 Penguin Day

29 World Dance Day

May / Mei

Missing Person’s Month

Better hearing and speech month

1  World Naturist Day

1 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Award (voting closes 5 pm)

3 World Press Freedom Day
4 International Fire Fighters Day

5 International Midwife Day
5 Asthma Day
8 World Red Cross Red Crescent Day

8 – 9 Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War

8 –13 Condom Week

9 Europe Day
10 Mothers Day

11 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Award ( festival week begins, finalist tour nation    wide)
11 – 19 NZ Post Book Awards Festival and Celebrations

15 International Family Day
17 World Information Society Day

19 World Hepatitis Day

20 NZ Post Book Awards, Awards Ceremony
21 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Award (award ceremony Auckland)

21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
21 Ascension Day
22 International Day for Biological Diversity

23 – 29 Let’s talk about Sex Week

25 International Missing Children Day

25 Africa Day

26 – 5 June Queenstown Winter Festival
28 Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
29 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
30 Mayday
30 – 11 July Matariki Maori New Year Celebration
31 World Anti Tobacco Day

June / Hune

Winter 1 June – 31 August

1 International Children’s Day
1 Queens Birthday

4 International Day of Innocent Children’s Victims of Aggression
5 World Environment Day
6 Fathers Day
8 World Ocean Day: see Sea Life display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com

10 14 NZ Agricultural Field Days
12 World Day against Child Labour
13 – 24 International Film Festival Cannes
14 World Blood Donor Day
16 International Day of the African Child
17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
17 Badger Day
18 Panic Day
20 World Refugee Day
24 Midsummer Northern Hemisphere

26 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
26 International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

July / Hurae

4 Independence Day USA
4 International Day of Cooperatives
11 World Population Day
23 – 9 August International Festival of the Arts, Taranaki
24 – 31 Maori Language Week / Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori
27 – 28 Peugeot Hokonui Fashion Design Awards
28 First World War start 1914
31 Disability Awareness Day

August / Akuhata

Conservation Week early August but dates have to be confirmed: see Conservation Week display: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com

4 Constitution Day Cook Islands
6 International Hiroshima Day
9 International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People

10 – 16 Library Week

11 Islam Awareness Week
12 International Youth Day
13 Lefthanders Day

14 – 20 Allotment Week
15 Independence Day India
16 – 22 International Languages Week
17 NZ Coffee Festival
21 –  19 Sept. Ramadan Islamic

23 – 30  Storyline Fesival of NZ Children’s writers and Illustrators23 International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade

28 Daffodil Day

31 National Cup Cake Day for the SPCA

September / Hepetema

Spring 1 Sept. – 30 November

Northland Kauri Festival
Farmers Market Month
Save the tiger month
1 World of Wearable Art
2 – 4 International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference Italy
11 World First Aid Day
15 International Day of Democracy
16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozon layer
20 Eid ul-Fitr Islamic
21 World Alzheimer Day
21 Peace Day
24 Dating Day
28 Canterbury South Anniversary Day

30 World Literacy Day

October / Oketopa

Computer learning Month

Disability awareness month

Hunger Awareness Month

Kaikoura Seafest

NZ Book Month

Month of the Dinosaur

1 World Vegetarian Day

1 International Music Day 

1 International Day of Older Persons
2 International Day of Non Violence (Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday)
3 Chinese Moon Festival
3 Harvest Moon Festival Korea
4 World Animal Day

4 -10 World Space Week

5 World Teacher Day
5 Poetry Day
6 World Habitat Day
8 International Disaster Day
9 World Hospice Day

10 World Mental Health Day12 Columbus Day
16 World Food Day
17 International Day of Elimination of Poverty
18 Chemistry Day
19 Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year

21 International Day of Peace: see Peace Week display with Peace Tree: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com

22 South Canterbury Anniversary Day
22 – 27 Helen Keller World Conference (World Federation of the DeafBlind, Uganda)
22 Stuttering Awareness Day
23 Hawkes Bay Anniversary Day
24 United Nations Day
24 World Development Information Day
24 30 Disarmament Week
26 Labour Day
28 Diwali Indian Festival of Lights

29 Sleep-In Day
31 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Awards (first submission deadline)
31 Halloween

November / Noema

Aviation History Month

Epilepsy Awareness Month

Fruit and Vegetable Month

Novel Writing Month

2 Marlborough Anniversary Day
5 Guy Fawkes Day
6 International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflicts
7 International Men’s Day
9 World Freedom Day
9 International Day against Fascism and Anti Semitism
10 World Science Day for Peace and Development
11 International Mountain Day
13 Canterbury Anniversary Day
14 World Diabetes Day
16 International Tolerance Day
17 International Students Day
17 – 24 Maintenance Week
19 World Toilet Day
20 International Transgender Day
21 World Television Day
25 Hajj Islamic
25 International Day for the Elimination of violence against women
27 Eid ul-Adha Islamic
27 Thanksgiving USA
29 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
30 Chatham Islands Anniversary Day

December / Tihema

Summer 1 Dec. – 28 February

1 World Aids Day
2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 International Day for People with a disability
5 Children’s Choice NZ Post Book Awards (final submission deadline)
5 International Volunteers Day
6 -10 World Allergy Day

7 Westcoast Anniversary Day
7 Civil Aviation Day
9 International Anti-Corruption Day
10 Human Rights Day

18 Islamic New Year
18 International Migrants Day
20 International Human Solidarity Day
22 Hanukkah, Jewish Festival of Lights

25 Christmas Day 
26 Boxing Day

see: Christmas: www.CreativeLibraryDisplays.com

2010 International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
International Year of Biodiversity.

2011 International Year of Forests