Inglorious Vegetable Soup Disco - Free event Saturday 1st April on Waiheke
Love Food Hate Waste? Love Music and Dance?
Join our FREE event on Saturday 1st April to celebrate delicious & nutritious inglorious vegetables usually rejected by supermarkets and the general public. The world throws away hundreds of millions of tons of fruit & vegetables, mainly because of their appearance. Let’s share good food from our gardens regardless of their imperfections and reduce food waste!
Bring your three-legged carrots, undersized potatoes, warty pumpkins and holey greens from your gardens and community gardens along with the left-over veges from your fridges and join forces to chop and prepare veges that we’ll whip into a delicious soup for all to enjoy, while we laugh and dance to good music!
Featuring
4-5pm DJ TripleFFF (Dub, funk & classic rock)
5-6pm DJ Sinho (international collection)
6-8:30pm DJ Anirvan Deva (electronic dance, world & mantras)
8:30-11pm DJ Didge from the Deep House Brothers (Deep House)
LOCATION: The Old Blackpool School Hall, Nikau St, Blackpool, Waiheke, NZ
Food preparation 4-6pm (bring and prepare your veges in this window only as all must be ready to cook by 6pm),
Social catch up/dance 6-7:30 while chefs prepare soup,
Soup and bread shared meal at 7:30pm, Dance till 11pm!
Dj's playing continuously from 4pm - 11pm.
IMPORTANT: BYO Bowl & spoon for eating as they are not provided and chopping knife, chopping board and veges to contribute!
This is an alcohol free event for all ages, come along and join the fun!
The world throws away hundreds of millions of tons of fruit & vegetables,
mainly because of their appearance. Let’s celebrate the delicious & nutritious veges
from our gardens regardless of their imperfections and reduce food waste!
contact Rowena for more info: rowenabaines@gmail.com
Thanks to the Auckland Council for their support of this event.
Bright Spots winners!
A big congratulations to the 2025 Resene Bright Spots winners! We are proud to announce our ten winners who have all won a $250 Prezzy card and a $250 Resene Gift card!
Deepa Keenawinna - Lower Hutt (home crafts)
Slava Voronin - Kerikeri (blossoming tree)
Sam Holliday - Paraparaumu (hot pink outdoor chair)
Chris Carlyon - Waikanae (French Bulldog painting)
Joel Bradley - Auckland (Kea painting)
Jayne Walton - Rangiora (rainbow gate
Charmaine Macpherson - Cheviot (colourful bathtab)
Adele Whittaker - Auckland (school mural)
Karan Robson - Foxton Beach (blue backdoor)
Dave Bang - Levin (native bird mural)
Take a look at their wonderful colourful entries below. A huge thank you to everyone who shared a Bright Spot in their community this year; we have loved seeing the places in your neighbourhood that bring you joy.
Last chance to enter!
Don't forget to enter a Bright Spot in your home, workplace or community for a chance to win one of ten amazing prizes! Whether it's a colourful fence, a mural in your office or a place in the community that makes you smile - we'd love to see it.
Share a Bright Spot today for a chance to win one of ten prize packs worth $500.
And make sure you check out the entries so far too.
There's still time...
Does your home have a bright pink front door? Know a secret rainbow-coloured park bench? Is there art in your office that makes you smile every time you walk past it? If it's bright - we need to see it!
Bright Spots is back for a third year - a celebration of the crazy colourful places in our communities and homes. Share a pic today and you could win one of ten prize packages worth $500!
Need inspo? Check out the entries so far.
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