20 days ago

Featherston Booktown - coming soon - check out our HOT PICKS LIST here

The Team from Destination Wairarapa

The Featherston Booktown 2023 Karukatea Festival involves 51 events over the second weekend in May 2023. Booksellers remain at the heart of the Festival, with 30 attending this year.

Featherston Booktown celebrates everything about books – writing them, designing them, publishing them, illustrating them, printing them, and selling them: the whole town of Featherston becomes the venue for the Festival .
A little HOT PICKS list below helps you get our bookings and festival plan sorted:

Dame Susan Devoy speaks at the Festival famous Friday night Fish'n'Chip Supper this year – hear all about her book: Dame Suzie D: My Story. (Fri 10 May)
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE:
www.eventfinda.co.nz...

Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders are storytellers who use music as their medium, and coming together as collaborators has taken them in new and exciting directions. They talk about “the strange territory” they share making music together. Word Gets Around: Songwriting with Barry Saunders and Delaney Davidson TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: www.eventfinda.co.nz...

One for the true crime enthusiasts: The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains Aotearoa New Zealand’s most famous cold case. Journalists Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings conduct their own investigation in their new book The Crewe Murders and talk with Missing Persons author, Steve Braunias. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: www.eventfinda.co.nz...

Tāme Iti (Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato, Te Arawa) is known as many things – activist, artist, actor, author, terrorist and cyclist. Join community advocate and social change activist Denis O’Reilly in conversation with one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most captivating and controversial figures. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: www.eventfinda.co.nz...

Moana Maree Maniapoto MNZM is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and documentary maker. Moana appears for two special events: Te Tiriti O Waitangi: What Tangata Whenua Say and Women On A Mission: Linda Clark & Moana Maniapoto.

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: www.eventfinda.co.nz... and www.eventfinda.co.nz...

Here is the full festival programme - www.booktown.org.nz... So much variety and interest.

More messages from your neighbours
10 hours ago

Share your New Zealand music memories...

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

It's NZ Music Month and New Zealand really has some beautiful songs from artists that we call our own.

Whether it's April Sun in Cuba, Don't Forget your Roots, or How Bizarre or Bic Runga's 'Sway' - songs have a way of unlocking memories and evoking old feelings.

In honour of NZ Music Month, share a New Zealand song or artist that is special to you and explain why.

Type 'Not For Print' if you wish your comments to be excluded from the Conversations column of your local paper.

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6 hours ago

What's On: WORKSHOP - SKIN AGEING

Gary from Waikanae

Join Skin Care expert Leigh as she delves into the topic of Skin Ageing and how to slow it down. Seating limited so to book Phone/Text Gary on 021 1155049.
WORKSHOP - SKIN AGEING
  • Room 5, Johnsonville Community Centre
10 hours ago

Riddle of the day...

Riddles from The Neighbourly Riddler

The more there is, the less you see. What is it?

*Do you think you know the answer to our daily riddle? Don't spoil it for your neighbours! Simply 'Like' this post and we'll post the answer in the comments below at 2pm.

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