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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Aratoi’s Current Exhibitions
Rita Angus in the Wairarapa! A first for the Wairarapa is Te Papa’s touring exhibition – Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist |…
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Marees Musings
HACKED [OFF]! Globally it’s estimated that 30,000 websites are hacked every day, and it’s cold comfort that online scams are up by…
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Magic Carpet Piano Trio
Rakuto Kurano, Gabriel Baird, and Boudewijn Keenan The Greytown Music Group is pleased to be supporting young and innovative Rakuto Kurano, a…
