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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The much-travelled Booktown Road
Ngā mihi o te tau hou – Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a restful summer break and read some good…
