Swing Ball - featuring Hawke's Bay Jazz Club Big Band

Date: Saturday 5 June 2010

Venue: Waipawa Municipal Theatre

Location: Kenilworth St, Waipawa

Time: 7.00pm

Tickets: $60 p.p.

Bookings: Waipawa Fish Supply

Contact: (06) 857 8018

Another 'Lights On' Event - Waipawa Municipal Theatre Refurbishment

It's Swing Time - put on your glad rags and swing to the Big Band sound!

Cash bar and complimentary bubbles on arrival.

Otane Arts & Crafts Exhibition

Date: Friday 4 - Monday 7 June 2010

Venue: Otane Arts & Crafts Corner

Location; Higginson Street, Otane

Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm

Contact: (06) 857 3719

Free Admission (Gold Coin Donation)

Morning and Afternoon Teas available

Visit the Otane Arts & Crafts corner, this annual event exhibits painting, patchwork, quilting, spinning and much more.

Guest Exhibitors

Phillipa Bourhill  ......... Woolcraft

Bevan Duff  ................  Scroll Woodwork

Barbara Riach ............  Mosaics

Featuring works from The Friday Portrait Group       

Matariki - Celebrate Maori New Year in Central

Date: Friday 18 June 2010

Venue: AW Parsons Stadium & Russell Park

Location: River Tce, Waipukurau

Time: 5pm - 8pm

9th annual matariki celebration, hosted by Tamatea Taiwhenua.

Enjoy dodge ball, performances by Te Aute Maori Boys College and other CHB schools.  Hot Maori food available and end the evening with a large fireworks display and a lantern procession to music.

Bring the family

The Story of Matariki

Matariki was a time when people would gather to share kai, rituals, entertainment, hospitality and learnings. Matariki celebrations were popular before the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand, and they continued into the 1900s. Gradually they dwindled, with one of the last traditional festivals recorded in the 1940s.

At the beginning of the 21st century Matariki celebrations were revived and have become a special time of the year to respect the land we live on, celebrate the unique place we live in and continue to share and grow with each other.

Waipukurau Little Theatre present 'Taking Off"

by Roger Hall

Directed by Valda Peacock

Date: Thursday 17 June - Saturday 26 June 2010

Venue: Waipukurau Little Theatre

Location: Ruataniwha St, Waipukurau

Cost: $25 Adult, $20 Seniors, $42 Dinner & Show

Tickets: Colourplus   06 858 7116

A poignant touching and very funny comedy that trails four intrepid middle-aged Kiwi women on their OE to Europe.  For these women it's now or never!