Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Use new eyes as you walk the road again

Wairarapa author and photographer Madeleine Slavick has a newly published book of photographs, stories and poems, all set in New Zealand, with…

May 2024

Arts & Culture

Popular Amici Ensemble returns

The Amici Ensemble is the Greytown Music Group’s most popular performer. This year’s ensemble is a string quintet: Donald Armstrong and Malavika…

Apr 2024

Arts & Culture

Remutaka Road as you never see it

Two black and white photography exhibitions are currently showing at Aratoi – including a dramatic scene on the Remutaka (then Rimutaka) Hill…

Apr 2024

Arts & Culture

Free books: what’s not to like?

Wonderful, amazing – miharo! That’s the message from Louise Dowdell as she introduces herself as local library services manager – noting that…

Apr 2024

Arts & Culture

Clear Autumn Book Review

Take Two by Danielle Hawkins Reading is many things – from the deadly serious and cerebral to the uplifting and unifying. Sometimes…

Apr 2024

Arts & Culture

Wairarapa Library fuels book clubs

Reading needn’t be a solitary activity. Neither does the pleasure have to end when you turn over the last page. Every book…

Mar 2024

Arts & Culture

George Pain taonga Maori collection on first display

Some 35 Maori artifacts/taonga Maori collected by late Martinborough businessman George Pain, likely from the South Wairarapa region, are on exhibition in…

Mar 2024

Arts & Culture

Aratoi: There’s still “beauty in life”

We live in a constant state of crisis. Fires rip through forests, flood waters erode coastlines, wars tear cities to the ground,…

Mar 2024

Arts & Culture

Amiki Trio concert – Tales of Love & Enchantment

Recently formed after a corridor conversation at Marsden School where they’re all itinerant music teachers,, the Amiki Trio’s vocalist Barbara Paterson, flautist…

Mar 2024

Arts & Culture

Book reviews for hot summer days

“Whether Violent or Natural” by Natasha Calder This debut novel was published late last year from a young author known for her…

Mar 2024

Arts & Culture

Booktown global meet ready to roll

Delegates from Booktowns around the globe will visit Featherston and the region as the town hosts the International Organisation of Booktowns Global…

Mar 2024

Arts & Culture

World pianist plays in Featherston on March 3

Wairarapa concert-goers raved about Nikolai Saratovsky on his all-too-brief visit to New Zealand last year. The master pianist is a highly-regarded professor…

Feb 2024

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