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Mitre10 Sparks, a drive-in Valentine's themed movie night, plus events for the whole family - all taking place in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula this weekend.

Mitre10 Sparks

One of Christchurch's most loved events, Mitre10 Sparks, is back. Featuring the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and dazzling fireworks, you don't want to miss it!

Get your friends and whānau together to celebrate the 43rd year at our city's dazzling fireworks extravaganza, featuring the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. Saturday, 6.25pm to 9.40pm, free entry.

Mānuka Storygrove

Tūranga has a new and playful exhibition filled with books, puppet theatre, magnetic poetry and more. Let your imagination bloom.

Through the swishy harakeke you’ll discover cosy nooks, playful spaces, and heaps of sensory surprises. Step into this enchanting native bush and discover a world of storytelling for the whole whānau. Anytime until 28 February, at Tūranga Library. Free entry.

Drive-in Movie Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Drive-In: The Notebook. Food trucks and 360 booth. BYO snacks. Audio speakers/FM. Follow Firefly Cinema on Socials. 

Get ready for the most romantic night under the stars! We’re bringing you a Valentine’s Day Drive-In screening of The Notebook at the A&P Showgrounds — bring your favourite person (or your besties!) and make a night of it! Saturday, 7-11pm, A+P Showgrounds - tickets $10-50.

Bricks of Olympus

See ancient myth brought to life in brick form, created by LEGO® masterminds Jake Roos and Emily Fryer. 

See ancient myth brought to life in ‘Bricks of Olympus’ at the UC Teece Museum. Created by LEGO® masterminds Jake Roos and Emily Fryer, this brick-shaped tribute to the gods will feature ancient myth as its story telling heart. Marvel at the large-scale automated theatre, constructed from LEGO® bricks, telling the epic adventure of Odysseus – monsters and shipwrecks galore! 3 Hereford St. Ends Sunday, 11am-4pm daily, free entry.

Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction

Experience a close encounter with dinosaur skeletons, including a 9-metre-long relative of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. 

Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction, which opens on 13 February and runs until 14 June, stars life-size replica skeletons of a Tarbosaurus, a carnivorous Asian rival of T-Rex that could grow up to 12-metres-long, the fearsome Utahraptor, which was armed with deadly crescent-shaped claws, and a dinosaur that flaunted colourful quills like a porcupine. Every day at Canterbury Museum Pop-up, 66 Gloucester St, free entry.