Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History - Latest News [Page 3]
Opening with Pride: the King Street Artworks exhibition
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 12:17 pm | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
The much-anticipated annual King Street Artworks exhibition this year features around 400 artworks - from embroidery, felt and craft, to paintings, woodwork and ceramics - by people who attend the creative space in Masterton. And there will be some special ... More >>
Plight of Wairarapa eels explored in free public event
Monday, 21 March 2011, 2:48 pm | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Local historian and ‘tuna’ (eel) expert Joseph Potangaroa speaks this week about the endangered eels of Wairarapa Moana. He joins GWRC freshwater scientist Alton Perrie in the second of a two part panel discussion, Wairarapa Moana: A Lake in Crisis ... More >>
Petrol head heaven at Aratoi
Monday, 14 February 2011, 2:57 pm | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Art of the Hot Rod21 February – 21 March, Aratoi – Wairarapa Museum of Art & History, Bruce St, Masterton. More >>
WAIRARAPA MOANA free public events start on Waitangi Day
Monday, 31 January 2011, 5:24 pm | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Local artists from Ngāti Hinewaka (Palliser Bay) will be demonstrating the use of traditional stone adzes at Aratoi on Sunday 6 February (Waitangi Day), in the first of a series of free public events being rolled out to accompany the major social ... More >>
WAIRARAPA MOANA opens in moving ceremony
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 10:15 am | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
The haunting sound of the pūtātara – conch shell trumpet – sounded above a crowd of several hundred people who braved cold winds in the Aratoi courtyard to attend the opening of the landmark Wairarapa Moana exhibition last weekend. More >>
Whirimako Black performs at Aratoi
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 4:00 pm | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Whirimako Black performs at Aratoi to mark opening of WAIRARAPA MOANA exhibition Whirimako Black, one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed and prolific Maori language singers, will perform on Saturday 6 November at Aratoi - Wairarapa Museum of Art ... More >>
Stories about a lake and its people
Monday, 18 October 2010, 3:24 pm | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
A major social history exhibition exploring the rich and sometimes turbulent history of the largest lake and wetland area in the lower North Island opens next month at Aratoi – Wairarapa Museum of Art & History. More >>
Peter Bush’s All Black photography show kicks off
Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 2:03 pm | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Aratoi in Masterton will roll out the red carpet for ‘rugby royalty’ in May, at the launch of Hard on the Heels, an exhibition by acclaimed New Zealand photojournalist Peter Bush. Rugby great Sir Colin Meads will formally open the exhibition, which ... More >>
Guided tours start this weekend at Aratoi
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 1:47 pm | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
A *free* guided tour of the exhibition Jewelled: Adornments from across the Pacific will be available at Aratoi this Sunday at 2pm. We hope that such tours will become a regular part of weekend activities at Aratoi from now on. More >>
Aratoi Plans to bring a Wairarapa Chief back home
Monday, 16 February 2004, 11:39 am | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
A Lindauer portrait of the Wairarapa Chief Ngairo Rakaihikuroa could be coming home in time for this year’s historical celebrations. More >>
Artists throughout the country unite for Aratoi
Monday, 17 November 2003, 11:18 am | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Some of New Zealand’s most well-known artists will have work on display in a major fundraising exhibition, 50/50, which kicks off with a gala opening at 5pm this Saturday 22nd November. More >>
Major Baselitz exhibition opens in Wairarapa
Friday, 12 September 2003, 11:14 am | Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
An artist once expelled from an East German art school for ‘socio-political immaturity’ is the focus of a major new exhibition at Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. More >>