Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, 14 to 21 Hepetema 2024

Māori Language Week begins on 14 September every year. It marks the day that a petition was signed by approximately 30,000 people…

Sept 2024

Arts & Culture Regular Features

The Star Book Review

Story-telling is possibly the most powerful and long-lived method of communicating on Earth. It is how we know where we are, who…

Sept 2024

Arts & Culture

Ma Olsen comes to a Film Festival screen near you

Save the dates – Saturday 26 – Sunday 27 October 2024 – for the Spring Programme of the Wairarapa Film Festival. This…

Sept 2024

Arts & Culture

Help dish out the Arts dosh

If you fit the criteria you can join a volunteer panel giving out funding for local artists: that’s the message from South…

Sept 2024

Arts & Culture

Aratoi spring: “different perspective” on home

Aratoi’s spring collection of exhibitions explores what “home” represents – from food, textiles and stories, these exhibitions will inspire you to look…

Sept 2024

Arts & Culture

Blowing in the wind with Spitfires Quintet

A length of hosepipe, a funnel, some empty bottles and a waving rubber glove were all part of the teaching aids used…

Sept 2024

Arts & Culture

THE STAR BOOK REVIEW

“The Ministry of Time” by Kaliane Bradley The eye-popping cover draws readers like a moths to a flame…and then if you are…

Aug 2024

Arts & Culture

Young players make the sound of music

“It showed us what we could do in the future!” That was the excited reaction from Wairarapa Youth Orchestra player Kathya Meier…

Aug 2024

Arts & Culture

100 days of Janet Frame poems

One hundred poems by Janet Frame will be broadcast over 100 days by Access Radio Wairarapa, Arrow 92.7fm, starting on the author’s…

Aug 2024

Arts & Culture

Aratoi focus on flax, food and film

Two intricate exhibitions at Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History open in August and share the concept of ‘home’ through textiles,…

Aug 2024

Arts & Culture

Violin and Harp Duo in Greytown concert

Greytown Music Group is delighted to present another slightly unusual concert – APO concertmaster Andrew Beer, and principal harpist Ingrid Bauer. Both…

Jun 2024

Arts & Culture

Matariki and family key to Aratoi winter exhibits

This season, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History has a group of exhibitions that reflect the concept of Matariki and encourage…

Jun 2024

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