Saturday 31st August 2024, in Music & Performing Arts

Brought to you by NBS: The Celtic Pipe Band proudly presents "Connect," a concert celebrating musical bonds and community collaboration. Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of performances featuring our band and special guest artists.

Please join us as we put on a show to help raise funds for our organisation towards the uniforms, equipment and travel expenses required to compete at this years National Pipe Band Championships in Invercargill.

Featuring guest artists:
- Get Reel Dance
- NBS Nelson City Brass
- City of Nelson Highland Pipe Band
- Marlborough Pipe Band
- and more…

Don't miss this unique celebration of dedication and unity through music.
We look forward to seeing you there!
CPB

Sunday 1st September 2024, in Community Events

In New Zealand, we have massive marine resources yet to be realized within the seaweed and microalgal space. Despite having one of the largest EEZs in the world, less than 2% of our GDP comes from the ocean. With estimates of up to 1500 species of seaweeds in New Zealand waters, Aotearoa New Zealand remain an algal treasure chest that we have just started to sneak a peek into.

This presentation will shed some light on what the plans are for the emerging New Zealand algae industry and will further highlight areas and applications where algae may play a role in the future.

Monday 2nd-Friday 6th September 2024, in Sports

2024 HNZ SS Hockey Johnson Cup

Tuesday 3rd September 2024, in Community Events, Visual Arts & Crafts

Learn the art of harakeke putiputi weaving and create beautiful, traditional crafts in this hands-on session.

All skill levels welcome. Material provided.
Join us and weave some natural beauty.

Booking recommended.

Tuesday 3rd September 2024, in Education, Heritage & Culture

On the few days that the Theatre Royal is not in use, we can take small groups on a tour around the building.

Learn about the history and the major refurbishment, look at 19th century artefacts, and see the technical side of the theatre, with backstage and on stage access.

Please note, there are quite a few stairs to negotiate.

Maximum 10 people.
Additional tour dates will be added.
Alternative days may be available upon request.

Thursday 5th September 2024, in Music & Performing Arts

From the moment their debut EP Starlifter landed in 1998 until their swansong album Local Kid arrived in 2008, Pōneke’s Fur Patrol left an unforgettable legacy behind them.

Their debut album Pet rode high in the New Zealand Albums Charts for an astonishing thirty weeks, while the single Lydia knocked Destiny’s Child off the number one spot in the singles chart. Second album Collider was a rocking affair that saw the band taking Australia by storm and earning a reputation as a formidable and unmissable live act.

Now, some twenty years since the arrival of Collider, Julia Deans (guitar, vocals), Andrew Bain (bass), and Simon Braxton (drums) are taking to the road again to remind us how timelessly brilliant their stonking back-catalogue really is. Anyone who caught the band’s shows in 2022 will attest that they have lost none of their potency, power, or live energy, with the Ambient Light blog calling their Napier performance “a barnstorming show”.

‍Joining the bill will be Aotearoa Music Awards and Taite Music Prize finalist Tom Lark, fresh home from a UK tour and ready to warm up these shows in style.

Seats on the flat are out to make room for dancing.

Thursday 5th September 2024, in Community Events, Visual Arts & Crafts

A playful exploration of collage as an art medium and a mindful practice.

Join Stef for a playful collage session where the goal is to have fun, try something new and, last but not least, to forget all about your to-do list!

No experience required.

Booking recommended.

Thursday 5th September 2024, in Music & Performing Arts

Music Director and Pianist Jason Balla is joined by Baritone Roderick Williams in a programme of English Songs by Britten, Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Finzi, Ireland, Gurney and others. Both musicians studied together at the University of Oxford and come together once again to present a programme of English Songs.

Friday 6th September 2024, in Music & Performing Arts

A comedic celebration of food from the beloved and bizarre cookbooks of our past. Te Radar has sampled a century and a half of New Zealand cookbooks to find the tastiest morsels, with a side of sumptuous vintage food photography.

Revealing New Zealand’s rich - and weird - home cooking heritage we rediscover celebrity chefs such as Graham Kerr, Alison Holst, Aunt Daisy and Hudson and Halls. We’ll savour cookbooks designed to get us eating more dairy, tamarillos or kiwifruit, and the desperate lengths they go to: Cold Sour Kiwifruit Soup anyone? We’ll get a taste of cookbooks from school fundraisers and recipe contests: recipes supplied by ordinary kiwis that suggest some of us were not to be trusted with food.

Why did we disguise mutton as poultry? Why did Alison Holst believe fried brains were the perfect food for children? And is the brilliant “Recipes With Canned Foods Are Interesting” the greatest cookbook ever written in the nation’s history?

Multi award-winning comedian and documentarian Te Radar dishes up a smorgasbord of kiwi recipes moulded into a deliciously hilarious and sentimental journey through the Cookbookery of our past.