Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Elouan Quartet with Bridget Douglas

The Elouan Quartet is a newly formed string quartet comprised of NZSO players with a special love of chamber music and performing…

Sept 2025

Arts & Culture

Shadowing Lands 

Rosalie Jurczenko’s new solo exhibition at Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History is a show about resilience, told through New Zealand…

Sept 2025

Arts & Culture

Martinborough Music Festival

“When you move to a new country, it’s not just furniture, crockery or family treasures that come with you – it’s the…

Sept 2025

Arts & Culture

Jazz in Martinborough 

“It’s always a bit fraught putting together a festival programme and we always wish we could confirm bands and venues earlier,” says…

Sept 2025

Arts & Culture

Martinborough Museum 

Things are changing again at the Martinborough Museum as we continue our new programme of mini-exhibitions. For September we have chosen a…

Sept 2025

Arts & Culture

The Star Book Review

Runt and theDiabolical Dognapping  In 2022 we met Runt, a sassy little farm dog who turned up in the town of Upson…

Sept 2025

Arts & Culture

Wairarapa Youth Orchestra tunes upfor global showcase 

Every week, the heart of Carterton beats with the rhythm of young talent. Inside St. David’s Church, tamariki and rangatahi from across the…

Aug 2025

Arts & Culture

Swing Back in Time atJazz in Martinborough 2025

A Truly Community Festival Returns. Martinborough is about to swing into spring as Jazz in Martinborough returns for its 13th edition on…

Aug 2025

Arts & Culture

What makes the Martinborough Music Festival special?

First, it’s the music. Chamber music may sometimes be thought of as difficult and not easily approached by those who are more…

Aug 2025

Arts & Culture

Aratoi “A Million Pixels”

New exhibitions open this Winter at Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. The biennial exhibition “A Million Pixels” from the Wairarapa…

Aug 2025

Arts & Culture

MADCAPs

For those of you who are new to town MADCAPs (Martinborough and District Company of Amateur Players) is our local theatre society.…

Aug 2025

Arts & Culture

The Star Book Review

Bad Archive by Flora Feltham. There are all kinds of writing calling themselves all kinds of things out in the wonderful world…

Aug 2025

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