Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Maree’s musings

MULTITASKING … MYTH or MAGIC? Do you multitask? If you have a busy lifestyle or hanker to get stuff done, it’s tempting.…

Mar 2022

Arts & Culture

LOCAL SCRIPTWRITER WINS AN EMMY 

The scene was played in Auckland and Martinborough simultaneously: screams of surprised delight when Shoshana McCallum’s short form series INSiDE won an International…

Mar 2022

Arts & Culture

Book review

Nine live Nine lives is a novel concept of coupling nine notable New Zealanders with nine New Zealand authors who have been…

Mar 2022

Arts & Culture

Concerts –   Amici Ensemble, & Aroha String Quartet with Clarinettist Rachel Vernon

Sandwiched in between the March and April Star issues, are the Greytown Music Group’s first two concerts for 2022. Both the organisers…

Mar 2022

Arts & Culture

MULLED WINE CONCERTS 

OLD FRIENDS REUNITE FOR CONCERT IN FEATHERSTON The dynamic piano trio “Vieux Amis” (Old Friends) brings together three musicians who are longstanding…

Mar 2022

Arts & Culture

Featherston Booktown vouchers help South Wairarapa kids to read

This year, for the first time, Featherston Booktown will make available $15 book vouchers to 2,500 school students in the South Wairarapa,…

Feb 2022

Arts & Culture

When did the Four Seasons disappear?

You could ask the same question and receive the answer “Climate Change” but no this is a different topic. Sometime ago the…

Feb 2022

Arts & Culture

Maree’s musings

ANOTHER YEAR … I’m hoping, like me, that you looked forward to the return of our Martinborough Star for 2022. And even…

Feb 2022

Arts & Culture

Library news

Library debuts Click-and-Collect service Need something to read, and can’t make it into a library? Try the new Click-and-Collect service from Martinborough…

Feb 2022

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City Dog

Feb 2022

Arts & Culture

Aratoi exhibitions

Aratoi’s late summer exhibitions focus on the region’s talented and eclectic artists, through the biennial competition New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty Wairarapa…

Feb 2022

Arts & Culture

Against All Odds

The Martinborough Music Festival was performed in October, despite being reorganised three times. “It was a bit of a rollercoaster with “Will…

Dec 2021

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