Arts & Culture
Aratoi’s Current Exhibitions
A first for the Wairarapa is Te Papa’s touring exhibition – Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa.…
A first for the Wairarapa is Te Papa’s touring exhibition – Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa.…
Some 13 Wairarapa book stores have worked together to produce a Booklover’s Trail App in what is a New Zealand first, modelled…
One of the perks of owning a bookshop is that you can get your hands on advance copies of books. Book reps…
Finally, in spite of several cancellations due to unforeseen circumstances, the Featherston Gentlemen’s Singers and the Songbirds are ready to raise their…
“Learn, explore, connect! Ako, hōpara, hono!” is the motto of the Wairarapa Walking Festival, now in its third year. The varied November…
The 2023 “Glamour & Gumboots” competition has been adjudged another huge success, with the winners only recently revealed. The quirky competition that…
Party Lines It’s coming up to election time again. To me, it doesn’t seem long since the last one. We’re…
Wenhong Luo says emphatically that none of her family is musical: “Not at all. They all work in the aerospace industry which…
Get inside the mind of the singer-songwriter. Listen to the ideas inside the lyrics. Enjoy live music! Young artists to veterans. Trip…
The Wairarapa branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community recently gifted the Wairarapa Library Service two copies of the Qu’ran printed in Arabic…
The Wairarapa Bookshop Hop returns for 2023 with the region’s 12 local booksellers plotting to make it a full weekend of bookish…