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New Zealand baking classics - Delicious sour cream and lemon syrup cakes and melting moments with a lemon buttercream cream filling in the middle prepared by our Foundation chef students.
At selected Live Days at Howick Historical Village: Tintype Central's Pop-up Photography Studio!
Photographer Adrian Cook produces captivating images of his subjects using 100% authentic 19th-century wet plate techniques.
Using equipment and techniques developed in the 1850s, photographic … View moreAt selected Live Days at Howick Historical Village: Tintype Central's Pop-up Photography Studio!
Photographer Adrian Cook produces captivating images of his subjects using 100% authentic 19th-century wet plate techniques.
Using equipment and techniques developed in the 1850s, photographic plates are individually coated and sensitised in the darkroom before being exposed and developed while wet. Once fixed, washed and dried they are then coated in a gum sandarac varnish that preserves and protects them for generations.
Participating in a tintype session and watching the alchemic process as images appear on the plate, is totally captivating; an experience that few people now have the opportunity to witness. Following the session, the one-off, original portrait will be varnished before you receive it along with a complimentary digital file of your image at a later date.
Come along to learn about the wet plate collodion process on the following dates and book in for a special portrait session of your own!
Sunday 14 August, 10am-4pm
Sunday 13 November, 10am-4pm
Sunday 12 February, 10am-4pm
Sunday 14 May, 10am-4pm
Portrait sessions are $150 and include entry to the Live Day. Bookings are highly recommended as the sessions per day are limited.
Victorians pioneered many of the arts and fine handicrafts that we know today. On this Live Day, step back in time and craft as the Victorians did!
Meet costumed villagers butter making, baking on the range and undertaking traditional pastimes such as needlework and knitting. Learn to stitch … View moreVictorians pioneered many of the arts and fine handicrafts that we know today. On this Live Day, step back in time and craft as the Victorians did!
Meet costumed villagers butter making, baking on the range and undertaking traditional pastimes such as needlework and knitting. Learn to stitch & knit and make a lavender sachet or peg doll to take home.
Get up close with a vintage hand-crank Singer sewing machine in a workshop at 10am or 1:30pm. Make an old-fashioned linens/delicates bag from salvaged pieces.
Also on site - TINTYPE CENTRAL's pop-up photography studio! Meet photographer Adrian Cook who produces captivating images using 100% authentic 19th-century wet plate techniques. Learn more or book in for a unique portrait session at tintypecentral.com...
Sunday 14 August, 10am-4pm. Admission: Adult $16, Child: $8, Senior/Student: $12,Family $40.
Bookings are essential for the hand-crank sewing workshop. Tickets $75. Book on Eventfinda or contact village@historicalvillage.org.nz or (09) 576 9506
Auckland-based food rescue charity Fair Food, which will be delivering 75,000 meals to 5000 vulnerable families over winter, has put out a call for Kiwis with excess citrus fruit to donate it to those in need.
It’s that time again neighbours - we need your help! Look at all this creativity hiding behind front doors. We now need YOU to vote for your favourite Upcycling Award finalist. The four designs with the most votes will each receive a $200 Resene voucher and a $300 Prezzy® card!
… View moreIt’s that time again neighbours - we need your help! Look at all this creativity hiding behind front doors. We now need YOU to vote for your favourite Upcycling Award finalist. The four designs with the most votes will each receive a $200 Resene voucher and a $300 Prezzy® card!
Find out a little more about each entry here. Voting closes 5pm Thursday 4 August.
Thanks for voting; your clever neighbours thank you!
Hi everyone, we are offering an 8 week sewing course (bring your owning sewing machine) starting next Tuesday evening, 2nd August, from 7pm to 9pm at Highland Park Community House.
This course is organised by the Korean Positive Ageing Charitable Trust and Howick and Pakuranga Community Houses … View moreHi everyone, we are offering an 8 week sewing course (bring your owning sewing machine) starting next Tuesday evening, 2nd August, from 7pm to 9pm at Highland Park Community House.
This course is organised by the Korean Positive Ageing Charitable Trust and Howick and Pakuranga Community Houses Inc Society for all interested members of our community.
The 8 week course fee is only $50.00 per term per person.
We have a limited number of spaces so please contact Jennie at Highland Park Community House ASAP
Phone 09 534 5584 or email info@hpapcommunityhouses.org.nz to book your place .
Make a calm, comfortable place for your family to relax and read independently - or together ?????
Are you overdue a getaway? You could win a 13-day Sir Edmund Hillary Explorer South Island Rail & Coach tour by participating in Neighbourly’s 8th birthday celebration.
To enter the competition, just tell us what you love about your neighbourhood. It could be your favourite spot, a … View moreAre you overdue a getaway? You could win a 13-day Sir Edmund Hillary Explorer South Island Rail & Coach tour by participating in Neighbourly’s 8th birthday celebration.
To enter the competition, just tell us what you love about your neighbourhood. It could be your favourite spot, a beautiful view, or something that makes you smile. You could be in for a once-in-a-lifetime getaway!
We're looking for a dive instructor and retail worker to join our team! See below for more details
If you or someone you know is interested please send a CV and photo of yourself to info@epicscuba.co.nz or give us a call on Ph: 022 527 2822 or even pop into our shop and have a chat with us!
Music and arts enthusiasts will get the significance of this photo. Morrin Cooper paying homage to one of his influences, the late-great Chet Baker, extraordinary trumpet player, jazz composer and vocal stylist of the US. No one sounds like Chet Baker. Morrin Cooper, too.
Morrin was of course our … View moreMusic and arts enthusiasts will get the significance of this photo. Morrin Cooper paying homage to one of his influences, the late-great Chet Baker, extraordinary trumpet player, jazz composer and vocal stylist of the US. No one sounds like Chet Baker. Morrin Cooper, too.
Morrin was of course our much-loved Mayor of Howick from 1974 to 1989 (retired undefeated after five terms), and many will know he’s been a professional musician, too, since the 1950s.
He tells of tours in the great days of live concert-hall shows, such as trumpeting in the band that backed The Platters in 1959.
The photo is of Morrin at the commemoration plaque of where Chet Baker died. It’s in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He passed out of a hotel window two storeys up. Morrin went to the room.
The picture of the two great trumpeters is in the Bill Mudgway Studio at East FM, where Morrin Cooper has the highly-recommended Howick-Citing Jazz Show on Sundays at 11am and Mondays at 2pm. The show would be in its 13th year.
Howick-Citing was also the title of Morrin’s magic jazz group back in the day. He’s also a past-president and life member of the Auckland branch of the NZ Musicians Union, ex-chairman-manager of the Tauranga Big Band, and chair of the Dame Malvina Major Foundation in Auckland.
Readers may have noticed, too, that our Morrin has popped up in a bank ad on television recently. “Hello, matey”, he says.
The other photo here is of Morrin with another amazing New Zealand trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Finn Scholes, after Finn's gig with Carnivorous Plant Society at Uxbridge Arts and Culture in Howick in recent years.
East FM is proudly the official broadcaster for Howick 175 – www.howick175.co.nz.... This year is the 175th anniversary of the Howick Owairoa area being known as Howick.
East FM is East Auckland’s dedicated community-powered public service radio station, broadcasting on local frequencies 88.1FM and 107.1FM, at www.eastfm.nz... and on app iHeart Radio.
Wikipedia says of Chet Baker:
Chesney Henry “Chet” Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He’s known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool".
Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals: Chet Baker Sings (1954) and It Could Happen to You (1958). Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Baker's early career as "James Dean, Sinatra, and Bix, rolled into one".
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