Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
Wasabi crisis
Japan faces a climate, cultural and cuisine crisis with a threat to wasabi – the pungent electric-green paste that characterises sushi, sashimi…
Arts & Culture
Write your life with Martinborough Library
Popular writing classes return with sessions on personal essays and poetry Our urge to revisit memories is a simple twitch of being…
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Aratoi
Autumn begins with several new exhibitions, each with a unique environmental and historical viewpoint. Our major exhibition, Toitū Te Whenua, The Land…
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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.…
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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…
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Book review
Nine live Nine lives is a novel concept of coupling nine notable New Zealanders with nine New Zealand authors who have been…
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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
