Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

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 |…

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City Dog

Sept 2023

Arts & Culture

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…

July 2023

Arts & Culture

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…

July 2023

Arts & Culture

Kahutara Taxidermy Museum

A treasure trove of animals displayed at the Kahutara Taxidermy Museum is a wonderful surprise. John Mc Cosh opened the Museum in…

July 2023

Arts & Culture

Glamour & Gumboots time is here again!

There has been plenty of reason to be wearing gumboots lately, but how about adding some glamour and entering this year’s Glamour…

July 2023

Arts & Culture

Country Dog City Dog

July 2023

Arts & Culture

Aratoi’s current exhibitions

Our Winter exhibitions focus on the past, present and future. Headlining the Main Gallery is Rebecca Steedman with her exhibition Time Beds,…

July 2023

Arts & Culture

Library News

Martinborough Library (on behalf of the Wairarapa Library Service) congratulates 12-year old Polly Potts on winning third place in her age category…

Jun 2023

Arts & Culture

Marees’s Musings

Matchmaking? No doubt you readers are already jumping to conclusions, but rest assured, it’s not what you’re thinking. I was delighted to…

Jun 2023

Arts & Culture

Book Review

“Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts” by Josie Shapiro. Winner of the inaugural Allen and Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. The title attracted…

Jun 2023

Arts & Culture

Mystical and Lyrical, Bewitching and Astonishing

Jazz in Martinborough returns in 2023 with an old favourite, the Nairobi Trio, and the “mystical and lyrical” Lucien Johnson Quartet. The…

Jun 2023

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