Matariki is a time to join up and be together with the ones you love. Embrace the Matariki spirit and get the family out and about these holidays. Aratoi will be opening up an entire gallery just for kids to drop in and ...
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Monday 24 August 08:00pm
R18 Licensed event.
With the help of the Taranaki Country Music Festival....
We are pleased to introduce the winner of The Voice Australia 2017 Judah Kelly to New Zealand.
Emerging from the nationwide success of ...
Tuesday 25 August 09:00am
Our Adult Reading Challenge is back, from 6th July to 7th September 2020. There are nine challenges to encourage you to read through these cold and wintry nights. Pop into your local library to register for free and pick ...
Tuesday 25 August 10:00am
Aratoi holds a large collection of taonga Māori, entrusted to our care by Māori and Pākehā families. Many of the woven taonga – korowai, kete and piupiu - had been owned by local families since the 1800s.
The ...
Tuesday 25 August 10:00am
Wairarapa is on the verge of becoming a Dark Sky Reserve, a region dedicated to preserving the pristine night sky. Darkness is vital for human wellbeing, creatures’ life cycles, navigation and our own cultural and ...
Tuesday 25 August 10:00am
Two 'tourists of photography' of different generations in a game of visual snap. Gavin Hipkins's new epic eighty-photo frieze The Homely II scrambles of images of New Zealand and Great Britain. This 'Victorian melodrama' ...
Tuesday 25 August 10:00am
"The Crescent Moon: the Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand" gives a face and a voice to New Zealand’s Muslims of Asian descent, who form the majority of Muslims both in this country and in the world as a whole.
In ...
Tuesday 25 August 02:00pm
Come along and meet other reading enthusiasts. Every last Tuesday of the month, at 2pm.
All new 18+ members are welcome.
We are middlebrow readers - Jack Reacher is a favourite. We each bring along something we ...
Tuesday 25 August 03:00pm
Be prepared for a cool but not cold ice skating experience.
The Ice Skate Tour travels around New Zealand with state of the art, artificial ice rinks. They look like ice and have 97% same gliding capacity as natural ...