Arts & Culture

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…

May 2025

Arts & Culture

The Star Book Review

‘Always Home, Always Homesick’  By Hannah Kent  Hannah Kent is haunted.  Not in your traditional sense by a sheet wearing spirit but by…

May 2025

Arts & Culture

Going, going, Gone! Auction for Aratoi 

Aratoi is many things – it is a museum of art and history, but it’s also a place that offers insights into…

May 2025

Arts & Culture

Aratoi explores lightand art in Kaleidoscope

A new Aratoi exhibition, Kaleidoscope, explores the relationship between the science of light and art, opens in April. It features Gabby O’Connor’s…

Apr 2025

Arts & Culture

Pianist returns for Mulled Wine Concert 

Highly regarded German pianist Michael Endres will return for a second Mulled Wine Concert in Featherston’s Anzac Hall – the first in…

Apr 2025

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City Dog

Apr 2025

Arts & Culture

Concert series startswith star line-up

The Greytown Music Group’s 2025 concert series opens on 30 March with the Amici Ensemble, led by NZSO associate concertmaster Donald Armstrong.…

Mar 2025

Arts & Culture

Perception or real asks Aratoi autumn exhibition 

With works taken from across the motu, Aratoi’s Autumn exhibition schedule is a nod to the lessons of our past and how…

Mar 2025

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City Dog

Mar 2025

Arts & Culture

The Star Book Review

“Route 52 A Big Lump of Country Unknown” by Simon Burt was launched in the Wairarapa last month to great fanfare and…

Mar 2025

Arts & Culture

Sheep shearing at Martinborough Library?

Since March 2024, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History has brought interesting pieces from their collection to display in our libraries…

Feb 2025

Arts & Culture

The Star Book Review

“The Waiting” by Michael Connelly I read a lot. Not as much as some, but I generally always have several books on…

Dec 2024

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