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Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival returns
Kia ora Booklovers! May means it’s Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival time! The Young Readers Programme will take 22 writers/storytellers to over 1,000…
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Curiosly good books publisher speaks
Puiblishing pioneer Julia Marshall who founded Gecko Press, the curiously successful publisher and translator of books for young people by some of…
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Performing arts lessons hit the local stage
Starlight Performing Arts has offered drama lessons to children from the South Wairarapa since the beginning of Term 1. Jody McCartney, the…
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Walking the kids’ books at Considine Park
Martinborough’s StoryWalk at Considine Park was nominated for a Kumara Award (category: Kei tua atu i te kaupapa / Beyond the brief…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
