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Airforce jazz orchestra headlines local scene

Jazz in Martinborough has booked the Royal New Zealand Airforce Jazz Orchestra as its feature act for 2025. “We’re delighted to be…

Nine years ago, the idea of an annual classical music festival in Martinborough may have seemed far-fetched. Not anymore. The inspiration for…

How many colours do you see in a rainbow? A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion…

Ten years ago, Jake Bailey got himself up and out of his hospital bed, into a hall filled with his cohort of…

In 1943, Wairarapa was home to two battalions of U.S. Marines. Who were these Marines, where did they come from, and what…

As well as impeccably-performed music at a Mulled Wine Concert, audiences have come to expect the unexpected and this is especially true…

Some 4,290 women who registered as land girls during WWII have been called “The Cinderellas” of women’s paid war service: they helped…

Wairarapa Film Festival (May 21 – 25) marks five years of showcasing local film, art and storytelling in the heart of our…

‘Always Home, Always Homesick’ By Hannah Kent Hannah Kent is haunted. Not in your traditional sense by a sheet wearing spirit but by…

Aratoi is many things – it is a museum of art and history, but it’s also a place that offers insights into…

A new Aratoi exhibition, Kaleidoscope, explores the relationship between the science of light and art, opens in April. It features Gabby O’Connor’s…