Arts & Culture

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.…

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

Booklover’s Trail App launch in Wairarapa

Some 13 Wairarapa book stores have worked together to produce a Booklover’s Trail App in what is a New Zealand first, modelled…

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

‘Light Over Liskeard’ by Louis de Bernieres’

One of the perks of owning a bookshop is that you can get your hands on advance copies of books. Book reps…

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City Dog

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

Featherston Gentlemen’s Singers and the Songbirds.

Finally, in spite of several cancellations due to unforeseen circumstances, the Featherston Gentlemen’s Singers and the Songbirds are ready to raise their…

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

Talking the Wairarapa Walking Fest

“Learn, explore, connect! Ako, hōpara, hono!” is the motto of the Wairarapa Walking Festival, now in its third year. The varied November…

Oct 2023

Arts & Culture

Gumboot Glamour Creativity Wins

The 2023 “Glamour & Gumboots” competition has been adjudged another huge success, with the winners only recently revealed. The quirky competition that…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

Maree’s Musings

Party Lines     It’s coming up to election time again. To me, it doesn’t seem long since the last one. We’re…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

“Fine musicianship, passion and vitality”

Wenhong Luo says emphatically that none of her family is musical: “Not at all. They all work in the aerospace industry which…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

Inside the song – and songsters

Get inside the mind of the singer-songwriter. Listen to the ideas inside the lyrics. Enjoy live music! Young artists to veterans. Trip…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

Library News

The Wairarapa branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community recently gifted the Wairarapa Library Service two copies of the Qu’ran printed in Arabic…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

Wairarapa “Bookshop Hop” returns

The Wairarapa Bookshop Hop returns for 2023 with the region’s 12 local booksellers plotting to make it a full weekend of bookish…

Sept 2023

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