Arts & Culture
5th Wairarapa Film Festival celebrates local
Wairarapa Film Festival (May 21 – 25) marks five years of showcasing local film, art and storytelling in the heart of our…
Wairarapa Film Festival (May 21 – 25) marks five years of showcasing local film, art and storytelling in the heart of our…
‘Always Home, Always Homesick’ By Hannah Kent Hannah Kent is haunted. Not in your traditional sense by a sheet wearing spirit but by…
Aratoi is many things – it is a museum of art and history, but it’s also a place that offers insights into…
A new Aratoi exhibition, Kaleidoscope, explores the relationship between the science of light and art, opens in April. It features Gabby O’Connor’s…
Highly regarded German pianist Michael Endres will return for a second Mulled Wine Concert in Featherston’s Anzac Hall – the first in…
The Greytown Music Group’s 2025 concert series opens on 30 March with the Amici Ensemble, led by NZSO associate concertmaster Donald Armstrong.…
With works taken from across the motu, Aratoi’s Autumn exhibition schedule is a nod to the lessons of our past and how…
“Route 52 A Big Lump of Country Unknown” by Simon Burt was launched in the Wairarapa last month to great fanfare and…
Since March 2024, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History has brought interesting pieces from their collection to display in our libraries…
“The Waiting” by Michael Connelly I read a lot. Not as much as some, but I generally always have several books on…