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Rhythm and Rhymes
A weekly half-hour programme of songs, rhymes and fingerplays especially for children aged 0-2 years and their parent/caregiver
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Quiz Night With Riggsy
Back for 2025 !!
Hosted by the legendary award winning Quiz Master Riggsy along with his brand of cheeky infamous humor
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Havelock Handmade Market
the Havelock Handmade Market has been running for 15 years, each month we have an incredible lineup of talented local artisans and crafters who join us
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Napier Urban Farmers' Market
Walk down Emerson Street and end up in a perfect little market offering a true Hawke's Bay experience
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Hawke's Bay Farmers' Market
Delight in a shopping event of taste sensations at one of New Zealand’s oldest and largest traditional Farmers’ Markets
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Kōrero with Kurī
Kōrero with Kurī is a partnership between Canine Friends Pet Therapy and Hastings District Libraries
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Sunday Market
Taradale Sunday Market, held every Sunday from 9am-1pm
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Sustainable Fashion Market
NZ's biggest preloved clothing markets - Welcome to My Walk in Wardrobe!
Preloved, vintage, upcycled and handmade clothes, shoes, jewellery and more
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Hawke's Bay Better Home & Living Show 2025
Discover fresh, practical ideas that enhance both your living spaces, your lifestyle and your well being at the Hawke’s Bay Better Home and Living Show! Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to make eco inspired changes the Hawke’s Bay Better Home and Living Show has everything you need to create healthy, efficient homes without sacrificing style
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Wonder Pēpi Market 2025
The Pēpi Market is a children's market - an extension of Wonder
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Vinyl Day
Yes, it’s true… Vinyl Day at The Urban Winery with Rockstuff Records on Sunday 30 March! Dig the crates, quench your thirst, soak up the sounds! Entry is Free!
We’re all thrilled that Vinyl Day is back again at The Urban Winery! Big thanks to Tony Bish Wines, for making this possible
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Hide & Seek
Hawke’s Bay is teeming with incredible biodiversity - from rocky shores and estuaries to streams and coastlines, every habitat is home to remarkable creatures
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Play, Learn, Connect: a Pop-Up Play series
"Play is the work of childhood"
– Jean Piaget
Join us for Play, Learn, Connect!
A fun pop-up play series for whānau with young pēpi and tamariki
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Waipukurau Record Fair
Multiple Vendors with All sorts of good and bad Records, CDs and tapes
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Napier Record Fair
Records, Tapes and Cds, all sorts, all sizes, all styles
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Taradale Village Fete 2025
Taradale Village Fete hosted by Taradale Primary School is happening on Sunday 6th April 2025 between 10AM - 2PM
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The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca
Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production
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Osmanthus Gardens Lantern Festival
Step into a realm of enchantment as Cornwall Park comes alive with the mesmerising glow of lanterns at the Osmanthus Gardens Lantern Festival!
Join us from Sunday 6 to Sunday 13 April for a week-long celebration that transcends cultural boundaries and ignites the spirit of togetherness
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Takapau Lions 2025 Bookarama
The countdown is on for the Annual Takapau Lions Bookarama in Central Hawke's Bay!!
Thousands of books to satisfy all ages and interests, plus magazines, and a wide selection of jigsaws, board games, LPs, CDs and videos to be sold
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Cat Purr-son Party
This activity is exclusively for adults 65+, as part of a programme supporting positive ageing and community participation
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UNBORING 2025 Nature scavenger hunt
Can you find the tuatara and the tūī? We've partnered with Hawke's Bay Regional Council to bring you an exciting search for Aoetearoa's native treasures
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UNBORING 2025 Makerspaces
Visit our makerspaces at all three libraries across the holidays and get creative
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UNBORING 2025 Nature scavenger hunt
Can you find the tuatara and the tūī? We've partnered with Hawke's Bay Regional Council to bring you an exciting search for Aoetearoa's native treasures
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UNBORING 2025 Nature scavenger hunt
Can you find the tuatara and the tūī? We've partnered with Hawke's Bay Regional Council to bring you an exciting search for Aoetearoa's native treasures
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UNBORING 2025 Makerspaces
Visit our makerspaces at all three libraries across the holidays and get creative
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UNBORING 2025 Makerspaces
Visit our makerspaces at all three libraries across the holidays and get creative
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Record Store Day
Record Store Day with Rockstuff at Sound & Vision on Carlyle in Napier on Saturday 12 April
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UNBORING 2025 Green games with HBRC
Join us for green games, where fun meets kaitiakitanga! Hosted by the lovely team at Hawke's Bay Regional Council
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UNBORING 2025 Green games with HBRC
Join us for green games, where fun meets kaitiakitanga! Hosted by the lovely team at Hawke's Bay Regional Council
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National Theatre Live: Fleabag
Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life
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The Easter Experience
Yes, Easter is a lovely holiday - especially if the Autumn weather is fine
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Hop! Hop! Hop! Easter Scavenger Hunt
Hop into Hastings City over Easter weekend and see if you can find all 8 Easter eggs!
The Easter eggs are represented by 8 images, all hidden across 4 different locations in Hastings CBD
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Easter Fun Day
Looking for a fun way to spend the Saturday this Easter? Ocean Spa is hosting a relaxed, family-friendly Easter Fun Day on Saturday 19 April, with plenty to keep the kids entertained - and a few treats for grown-ups too
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UNBORING 2025 Movies with Maui
Haere mai! Set sail on an epic journey together and watch a whānau favourite - sing along if you know the words
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UNBORING 2025 Tim Saunders: Storytime with a farmer
Dress in your best farm gear and join author Tim Saunders for a fun-filled reading of The Tractor Has a Wobbly Wheel! Meet farmyard friends with big ideas—will they fix the wobbly wheel? Come find out!
Suitable for all ages
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Vinyl Day
The party vibe continues! After the fantastic and popular return of Vinyl Day at The Urban Winery with Rockstuff Records last month, we’re all set for more fun on Sunday 27 April
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MTG Sunday Cinema: They Shall Not Grow Old
Using state-of-the-art technology and materials from the Imperial War Museum, filmmaker Peter Jackson allows the story of World War I to be told by the men who were there
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Hawke's Bay Music Industry Gala
On the Opera House Stage, at Toitoi Hawke's Bay Arts and Events Centre
Join us for a celebration of our region's music talents and champions! Experience inspiring talks from advocates beyond our borders and captivating performances by our very own local artists
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Wonder Winter Market
Join us for our first Winter Night Market, being held in the Exhibition Hall at the Tōmoana Showgrounds in Hastings
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Fashion for a Cure Hawke's Bay
Hawke’s Bay, we are so excited to be back!
Fashion for a Cure returns for a night of runway magic, elegance and impact
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The Metropolitan Opera: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
An ensemble of leading lights takes the stage for Offenbach’s fantastical final work, headlined by French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet
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Mother's Day Movie Night - Fundraising event
Mother's Day is a time to celebrate the special bond between mothers and daughter - making memories, and cherishing the moments that matter most
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Play, Learn, Connect: with Little Cubby Spaces
"Play is the work of childhood"
– Jean Piaget
Join us for Play, Learn, Connect!
A fun pop-up play series for whānau with young pēpi and tamariki
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Banff Mountain Film Festival
The New Zealand Alpine Club with Presenting Partners, Cycle Journeys, La Sportiva, NZ Mountain Safety Council and Osprey, bring the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour back to Napier this May!
Since 1976, the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival has been an industry leader in the celebration of Mountain Culture
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Son De Cuba Trio - Fiesta Latina
Son De Cuba Trio - Fiesta Latina (Latin Dance Party)
RSVP with us as we Welcome back Son De Cuba trio (Cuban Latin Music and Fiesta Latina !
Plenty of Salsa and Latin dancing with a Special Milonga 7-9pm before the live Music
Cash bar on the night and special Flight Rum Tasting (extra cost )
Tickets and inquires 0275829925
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Ruby and Rata Fundraiser
Join acclaimed New Zealand film maker Dame Gaylene Preston for a very special screening of Ruby and Rata to support a vital cause—raising funds for an overnight shelter for Napier's homeless
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Songbirds of Florence
Treat yourself to an afternoon of literature and lively conservation over a glass of wine in the stunning surrounds of a beautifully restored Ormondville homestead
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Inspire, Nourish, Devour
Food lovers, this one’s for you! Join That Green Olive author Olivia Moore for a delectable afternoon at the charming Ongaonga Hall
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Stories Of Our Past
Join renowned New Zealand historian and bestselling author Dr
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Between The Lines - Festival Finale
Join us for a celebration of local talent, featuring authors Shelley Burne-Field, Nafanua Purcell Kersel, Simon Burt, and Between The Lines Patron Charity Norman
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Tahatū Careers Expo NZ - Hawkes Bay
The Tahatū Careers Expo NZ presents a wide range of exhibitors, showcasing employers, tertiary providers, training institutions, industry representatives, government departments and corporates
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 2025
This year MTG Century Theatre is proud to host the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival, 29 May - 11 June 2025
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25 - Opening Night: The Chodge
A documentary about the design and building of a unique private holiday home in New Zealand
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 25: Sitting Still
Get inside the mind of distinguished artist, scholar, author, and one of the most renowned and significant landscape architects practicing in the world today, Laurie Olin, whose concerns have defined his life’s work: urbanisation, a lost connection to nature, economic marginalisation, and the grave necessity of humanity in design
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Explore the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Ada: My Mother the Architect
Ada Karmi Melamede is one of the most accomplished female architects in the world who, like many successful working mothers of her time, was forced to make impossible choices
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Mary Heilmann
Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations
Influenced by 1960s counterculture, the Beatniks, and the free speech movement, Mary Heilmann ranks amongst the most influential abstract painters of her generation
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Lewerentz Divine Darkness
Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is internationally renowned as one of Sweden’s greatest architects, but due to his aversion to being interviewed and recorded, he has long been shrouded in mystery
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Arthur Erickson
Known for his visionary designs and groundbreaking architectural philosophy, Erickson’s work profoundly shaped the modernist landscape as one of the 20th century’s most captivating architects
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 25: The Chodge #2
A documentary about the design and building of a unique private holiday home in New Zealand
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: E. 1027 - Eileen Gray
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: I am Martin Parr
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Ada #2
Ada: My Mother the Architect
Ada Karmi Melamede is one of the most accomplished female architects in the world who, like many successful working mothers of her time, was forced to make impossible choices
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Mary Heilmann #2
Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations
Influenced by 1960s counterculture, the Beatniks, and the free speech movement, Mary Heilmann ranks amongst the most influential abstract painters of her generation
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 2025: Viva Niki
Viva Niki - The Spirit of Niki de Saint Phalle
Investigating the monumental Tarot Garden and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris, Japanese director Michiko Matsumoto guides us on a joyous retrospective of her friend and French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, by combining photographs from her personal archive, with new footage
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 2025: The House
DOUBLE FEATURE The House: 6 Points of Departure (48 mins) screens with This Is Not a House (30 mins)
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 2025: Architecton
Through the material of concrete and its ancestor: stone, comes an epic and poetic meditation on architecture around the globe
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: E. 1027 - Eileen Gray #2
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Dale Frank Nobody's Sweetie
A charming portrait of Dale Frank, Australia’s foremost contemporary and conceptual artist, eight weeks out from his 40th exhibition at Sydney’s Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: We the Others & Fruitvale
We the Others (55 mins) PRECEDED BY Fruitvale: A Community for Regeneration (12 mins)
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Lewerentz Divine Darkness #2
Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is internationally renowned as one of Sweden’s greatest architects, but due to his aversion to being interviewed and recorded, he has long been shrouded in mystery
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: The Sense of Tuning
Architect Bijoy Jain, of Studio Mumbai, welcomes us into his house and sheds light on the surprising human systems behind the chaos of Mumbai, and highlights the tendency to work with local materials, such as clay bricks
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: I am Martin Parr #2
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Jacquemus #1
Jacquemus: The Prince of Today's Fashion (52 mins) PRECEDED BY Richard Serra: You are the Subject (22 mins)
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Arthur Erickson #2
Known for his visionary designs and groundbreaking architectural philosophy, Erickson’s work profoundly shaped the modernist landscape as one of the 20th century’s most captivating architects
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Schindler Space Architect
A true original, Austrian-born and educated R
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 25: Viva Niki #2
Viva Niki - The Spirit of Niki de Saint Phalle
Investigating the monumental Tarot Garden and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris, Japanese director Michiko Matsumoto guides us on a joyous retrospective of her friend and French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, by combining photographs from her personal archive, with new footage
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: The Documerica Project
The Documerica Project (52 mins) PRECEDED BY Tāwharau Lane: A Sustainability Exemplar (14 mins)
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: Ursula K. Le Guin #2
Explore the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Ada #3
Ada Karmi Melamede is one of the most accomplished female architects in the world who, like many successful working mothers of her time, was forced to make impossible choices
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Lewerentz Divine Darkness #3
Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is internationally renowned as one of Sweden’s greatest architects, but due to his aversion to being interviewed and recorded, he has long been shrouded in mystery
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Sitting Still #2
Get inside the mind of distinguished artist, scholar, author, and one of the most renowned and significant landscape architects practicing in the world today, Laurie Olin, whose concerns have defined his life’s work: urbanisation, a lost connection to nature, economic marginalisation, and the grave necessity of humanity in design
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: The Sense of Tuning #2
Architect Bijoy Jain, of Studio Mumbai, welcomes us into his house and sheds light on the surprising human systems behind the chaos of Mumbai, and highlights the tendency to work with local materials, such as clay bricks
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: We the Others #2
We the Others (55 mins) PRECEDED BY Fruitvale: A Community for Regeneration (12 mins)
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 25: The House #2
DOUBLE FEATURE The House: 6 Points of Departure (48 mins) screens with This Is Not a House (30 mins)
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: The Chodge #3
A documentary about the design and building of a unique private holiday home in New Zealand
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Ever the Land
"Ten years after its cinematic release, we revisit the powerful story of Ngāi Tūhoe as they undertake the design and construction of a building that will enhance the connection between their people and their land
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: E. 1027 - Eileen Gray #3
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Architecton #2
Through the material of concrete and its ancestor: stone, comes an epic and poetic meditation on architecture around the globe
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: The Sense of Tuning #3
Architect Bijoy Jain, of Studio Mumbai, welcomes us into his house and sheds light on the surprising human systems behind the chaos of Mumbai, and highlights the tendency to work with local materials, such as clay bricks
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Schindler Space Architect #2
A true original, Austrian-born and educated R
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Mary Heilmann #3
Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations
Influenced by 1960s counterculture, the Beatniks, and the free speech movement, Mary Heilmann ranks amongst the most influential abstract painters of her generation
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 25: Viva Niki #3
Viva Niki - The Spirit of Niki de Saint Phalle
Investigating the monumental Tarot Garden and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris, Japanese director Michiko Matsumoto guides us on a joyous retrospective of her friend and French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, by combining photographs from her personal archive, with new footage
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 25: The Chodge #4
A documentary about the design and building of a unique private holiday home in New Zealand
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: E. 1027 - Eileen Gray #4
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: I am Martin Parr #3
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: We the Others #3
We the Others (55 mins) PRECEDED BY Fruitvale: A Community for Regeneration (12 mins)
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Dale Frank #2
A charming portrait of Dale Frank, Australia’s foremost contemporary and conceptual artist, eight weeks out from his 40th exhibition at Sydney’s Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Architecton #3
Through the material of concrete and its ancestor: stone, comes an epic and poetic meditation on architecture around the globe
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: The Documerica Project #2
The Documerica Project (52 mins) PRECEDED BY Tāwharau Lane: A Sustainability Exemplar (14 mins)
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: Ursula K. Le Guin #3
Explore the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Schindler Space Architect #3
A true original, Austrian-born and educated R
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Arthur Erickson #3
Known for his visionary designs and groundbreaking architectural philosophy, Erickson’s work profoundly shaped the modernist landscape as one of the 20th century’s most captivating architects
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Resene A & D Film Festival 2025: The House #3
DOUBLE FEATURE The House: 6 Points of Departure (48 mins) screens with This Is Not a House (30 mins)
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Sitting Still #3
Get inside the mind of distinguished artist, scholar, author, and one of the most renowned and significant landscape architects practicing in the world today, Laurie Olin, whose concerns have defined his life’s work: urbanisation, a lost connection to nature, economic marginalisation, and the grave necessity of humanity in design
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Mary Heilmann #4
Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads & Hallucinations
Influenced by 1960s counterculture, the Beatniks, and the free speech movement, Mary Heilmann ranks amongst the most influential abstract painters of her generation
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Dale Frank #3
A charming portrait of Dale Frank, Australia’s foremost contemporary and conceptual artist, eight weeks out from his 40th exhibition at Sydney’s Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
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Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 25: Viva Niki #4
Viva Niki - The Spirit of Niki de Saint Phalle
Investigating the monumental Tarot Garden and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris, Japanese director Michiko Matsumoto guides us on a joyous retrospective of her friend and French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, by combining photographs from her personal archive, with new footage
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Resene A & D Film Festival 25: Jacquemus #2
Jacquemus: The Prince of Today's Fashion (52 mins) PRECEDED BY Richard Serra: You are the Subject (22 mins)
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Fabric-a-brac Hawke's Bay 2025
We're excited to bring you the second Hawke’s Bay Fabric-a-brac!
Come along to discover vintage and modern fabric treasures, haberdashery, patterns, buttons and sewing supplies for sale, all in aid of Cranford Hospice
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Matariki Mahuika Beach Fires
Matariki Mahuika is a people-powered Matariki project that involves welcoming people to share the warmth of their fire on beaches right around Aoetaroa New Zealand
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The Metropolitan Opera: Fidelio
Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio
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Exhibition On Screen: Michelangelo
Michelangelo’s genius is evident in everything he touched
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Winter Deco Weekend 2025
Discover the world of Art Deco Napier this Winter Deco Weekend!
Napier’s coolest boutique festival is back, serving up jazz bars, vintage cars, 1930s style, and the glamour of the Grand Winter Ball
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The Metropolitan Opera: Le Nozze Di Figaro
Conductor Joana Mallwitz takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro
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National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and directed by Max Webster
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The Metropolitan Opera: Aida
American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings audiences inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt
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Exhibition On Screen: Dawn of Impressionism
Who were the maverick personalities that wielded their brushes in such a radical and provocative way?
The spectacular Musée d’Orsay exhibition brings fresh eyes to this extraordinary tale of passion and rebellion
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Hawke's Bay Arts Trail
Join us for two weekends of creative magic as artists throw open the doors of their studios and welcome you in!
- open studios - meet painters, potters, sculptors, carvers and more in their special spaces
- demonstrations, workshops and events
- shared spaces and art groups
- gallery talks and exhibitions
Hawke's Bay is home to exceptional creative talent - this is your unique chance to get behind the scenes and talk with well-known professional artists as well as discover emerging talent
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The Metropolitan Opera: Salome
Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting
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CHB Holistic Wellbeing Expo 2025
This amazing wellbeing expo is run over two days
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Wonder Christmas Market 2025
Experience the magic of the Wonder Christmas Market—a festive blend of local craftsmanship with over 90 creative stalls, food trucks, live music, and a bar with sensational cocktails
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The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
Rossini’s effervescent comedy takes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s madcap production at the Metropolitan Opera
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Waipureku Waitangi Commemoration 2026
Te Hokinga Mahara o Waipureku Waitangi
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