Weekly Calendar 5th to 11th

Karen’s Calendar

(This is a work in progress, so any feedback is appreciated. If anyone has other events information that I can put in the calendar, please let me know. I also have a Blog where I’ve been posting the Calendar there with a growing set of links to the clubs mentioned on the calendar. http://www.karens-auckland-calendar.blogspot.com/ Ignore the random course work I have to post)

Coming up this week:

Monday 5th November

• Cinema Nocturne: Weekly movie nights, Arts 209, Firefly episode 2 and 3, doors open 6:30pm, start 7pm.

Tuesday 6th November

• America Club: weekly roleplaying club night at Auckland University City Campus. See their club website for more information. www.theamericaclub.net.nz Meeting will be back on the Lower Common Room tonight.

Wednesday 7th November

• America Club: weekly board games club night at Auckland University City Campus. Meeting is in Ground Zero tonight.

• Auckland University Medieval Guild: weekly club meeting at Auckland University City Campus. All welcome. http://stdionysius.sca.org.nz/
Ground Zero. 7pm to 9pm.

• BloodBowl Federation weekly gaming night. 6pm at Queen's Head Bar & Restaurant, 396 Queen Street, CBD.

• 14th Annual Watties Can Film Festival. Check here for which films are showing.
http://www.skycitycinemas.co.nz/?Control=sites/Village/CansFest#Content

Thursday 8th November

• Italian Dance workshops. Check here http://shell.world-net.co.nz/~katherpat/schedule.htm for more information. (note day has moved)

Friday 9th November

• Venue for the Damned weekly DJ gigs at Oblivion Room. http://www.mukuna.co.nz/auckland/cbd/oblivion.htm

• NZLarps Ravenholme: Montague vs. Capulet (Auckland) Fri to Sun event.
http://www.diatribe.co.nz/viewtopic.php?t=1830

Saturday 10th November

• Larp: OWBN (One World By Night) (Regular once a month larp)
Place: Western Districts fast draw club (38 Rua rd, Glen Eden, on the corner of Rua Rd, Tomo St, and Croyden Rd just behind the small group of shops there)
7pm until 10pmish. Anyone interested in joining a game with a lot of history and growing playerbase would be advised to contact Chris at thronodor@hotmail.com or Kirsten at jadikel@hotmail.com

Sunday 11th November

• Auckland City Guard Gaming Club: weekly Sunday meeting, at Freemans Bay Community Hall. From 1pm to 5pm. A range of wargames and board games being played including Warhammer Fantasy, 40K, Flames of War, Warmachine and Hordes. Cost $3 members/$5 non-members. www.cityguard.co.nz

• Northshore Wargaming Club: meet the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sunday of the month. Meet in the Forrest Hill Scout Hall in Becroft Park on Becroft Drive. Meetings are from around 10:30am to 5:00pm. http://www.geocities.com/northshore_wargames/index.html

• Weekly Auckland Farmers Market Plus. From 10am to 4pm.
http://www.aucklandfarmersmarket.co.nz/index.html

Happening All Month

• 15 Sept to 18 Nov Exhibition at Ak Museum – Loli-Pop
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/405/loli-pop

• NaNoWriMo http://www.nanowrimo.org/

• Movember – changing the face of men’s health.
http://www.movember.com/nz/home/

Things coming up this month – November

14-18 MLHNZ Spring Camp
18 Sun Star Trek Convention. Meet Q and Ensign Harry Kim. www.pulpexpo.com
17/18 Rally Point 33 (Hamilton) Wargaming event
29th Nov - 2nd December (SCA) St Catherine's Faire camp (Auckland) http://ildhafn.sca.org/stcaths.htm

Things coming up later in the year

December
1 Sat Underpants on the Outside, a comic book/sci-fi event. Grey Lynn Library Hall.
13 Movie Release The Seeker The Dark is Rising (group movie outing)

January 2008

12/13 GizzyCon (Gisborne)
19/20 Kapcon XVII: Random Encounters. Wellington Roleplaying Convention http://kapcon.rpg.net.nz/kapconXVII/index.html
(includes special Sanctuary Larp http://kapcon.rpg.net.nz/kapconXVII/larp.html )

February 2008
1-6 SCA Canterbury Faire (Christchurch)
1/2/3 Great Lake Tourney, Spa Park, Taupo. www.taupojoust.com
9/10 BattleCry 2008 (mixture of gaming tournaments) (Auckland)
16/17 Over the Top 2008 (Hamiton) Warhammer, 40K and LotR tournaments.

March 2008
7-9 Serenity Larp http://www.diatribe.co.nz/viewforum.php?f=65

May 2008
SCA Crown Tournament, Darton. (Wellington)

July 2008
3 to 6 GenCon (Brisbane, Australia) Uber gaming convention http://www.genconoz.com/