Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Library News

Martinborough Library (on behalf of the Wairarapa Library Service) congratulates 12-year old Polly Potts on winning third place in her age category…

Jun 2023

Arts & Culture

Marees’s Musings

Matchmaking? No doubt you readers are already jumping to conclusions, but rest assured, it’s not what you’re thinking. I was delighted to…

Jun 2023

Arts & Culture

Book Review

“Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts” by Josie Shapiro. Winner of the inaugural Allen and Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. The title attracted…

Jun 2023

Arts & Culture

Mystical and Lyrical, Bewitching and Astonishing

Jazz in Martinborough returns in 2023 with an old favourite, the Nairobi Trio, and the “mystical and lyrical” Lucien Johnson Quartet. The…

Jun 2023

Arts & Culture

New Work to Premiere at Martinborough Music Festival

“I am very excited to premiere a very beautiful new piece written for the Festival by Anthony Ritchie for bassoon and string…

Jun 2023

Arts & Culture

A Musical Journey: There and Back Again

Auckland pianist Stephen De Pledge is one of the most exciting and versatile musicians of his generation, and the Greytown Music Group…

May 2023

Arts & Culture

New instruments, new sounds and new music blow in for the Martinborough Music Festival

This year two interesting double-reed instruments – the oboe and the bassoon – will join the familiar core of wonderful strings and…

May 2023

Arts & Culture

The LOWDOWN on CHEATING

You might wonder what brought this on – a column on cheating? On most occasions my ideas are inspired by something I’ve…

May 2023

Arts & Culture

You probably recognise the following library team members. If not, read on!

Alison Norris-Baber Our inimitable style queen, Alison also happens to lead our Homelink service. If you find yourself unable to visit the…

May 2023

Arts & Culture

Aratoi’s new exhibitions over next month has a theme across remembrance and the passing on of knowledge. 

Have the Most Fun You Can Before They Make You Stop: A Retrospective of Carol Anne Bauer 27 May- 9 July In…

May 2023

Arts & Culture

The Axeman’s Carnival  by Catherine Chidgey

Everywhere the birds; sparrows and skylarks, thrushes and starlings, bellbirds and fantails and pipits – but above them and louder, the magpies.…

May 2023

Arts & Culture

What’s on at Aratoi

Print Council of New Zealand: Celebration 3 March 2023 – 4 June 2023 The exhibition brings together the work of printmakers across…

Mar 2023

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