Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Pipe Band Ready for Summer Season

The Wairarapa Fern and Thistle Pipe Band has a long and proud history in the region and looks forward to a vibrant…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Maree’s Musings

HATS OFF! You may think that chat about hats is a strange topic for my column, but headgear has featured in the…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

 No time to visit the library? No problem – Libby’s here to help.

Libby is the library reading app that lets you access a collection of over 40,000 digital books, audiobooks, and magazines anytime, anywhere.…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Boogeying to the Classics

“There were scores of kids up dancing”. Who would have thought that Mozart, Vivaldi, Shostakovich and Holst interspersed with themes from films,…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

WLS Evening Book Club

We came to Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures for the octopus. But while the readers of the Wairarapa Library Service’s Evening…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Spring Jazz Celebration Hits High Note

Martinborough’s annual jazz festival, held in the first weekend of Spring, was a sell out! “We had two ticketed shows and they…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Mulled Wine Concert dates in Featherston & Masterton for 2023 season

HELEN WEBBY’S NIKAU HARP TRIO (Violin, Cello, Harp) Masterton Friday 10 February, 7.30- 8.45 pm (St Matthews College) CHAMBER MUSIC PIANO TRIO…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Maree’s Musings

to COIN a PHRASE … Being both a writer and a fan of a decent chinwag, I suppose it’s not surprising that…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Hammers & Horsehair with Rowena Simpson – Homecoming

This concert was originally scheduled for July, but Covid interfered with everyone’s plans, and it will now take place on 23 October.…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Exhibitions at Aratoi

With Spring and the final school term just around the corner, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History brings you stories of…

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City dog

Oct 2022

Arts & Culture

Book review – Human kind

Historian Rutger Bregman’s studies have shown that right from the time of the ancient Greeks the great thinkers like Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes,…

Oct 2022

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