Enviro-themed films to premiere during conservation week
Themes of preservation, restoration, and sustainability echo through a series of five documentaries that will premiere at Waiheke Community Cinema from 3-7 September.
Organised by...
Poetry, prose and pavements
National Poetry Day is on Friday 22 August and the motu will be celebrating the day in true poetic form.
Poetry on the Pavement will...
Move aside Milan, Waiheke’s coming through
Waiheke’s environmentally friendly fashion design competition, Junk to Funk, is returning to the catwalk again this October with registration for entries already open.
Junk to...
Police 1081… solving crime on island time
One night, one case, zero script. Police 1081 is an improvised comedy-drama set on the not-so-mean streets of Waiheke.
Locally loved taxi driver/Detective Ron Husky...
$80,000 funding boost lifts gallery out of ‘survival mode’ to expand artist support
Waiheke Community Art Gallery is looking to move out of survival mode and make the most of the large funding boost allocated to them...
Help the children in Gaza is plea from island mums’ group
Waiheke Mums for Peace group is asking the wider community to help raise funds for the children in Gaza who are in dire need...
Poetry, pop and prose
Current Poet Laureate Chris Tse (pronounced ‘teece’ and rhymes with ‘peace’) will be the guest for the Song and Poetry Thing on Thursday 31...
Margaret Mills on the Rainbow Warrior bombing which nearly killed her
Forty years ago today, on 10 July 1985, the Rainbow Warrior was in Auckland preparing for an operation to protest nuclear testing in the...
