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RESET Postponed Till 2022

Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 7:28 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Taranaki Arts Festival Trust regrets to advise our audiences and our community that we have had to make the difficult decision to postpone our RESET festival for 2021. With the continuing uncertainty around COVID-19 restrictions, we cannot proceed with ... More >>

Taranaki Arts Festival Trust Will Not Present WOMAD NZ 2021

Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 6:09 am | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Taranaki Arts Festival Trust ( TAFT) has made the heart-wrenching decision not to present WOMAD NZ in March 2021. WOMAD NZ for the last 20 years has been about connecting Aotearoa to the World and the World to Aotearoa. With the global uncertainty surrounding ... More >>

Taranaki Garden Festival A Fresh And Diverse Festival Offering This Spring

Thursday, 28 May 2020, 11:19 am | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

The 33rd Taranaki Garden Festival, presented by TAFT, will launch on July 16, 2020, as planned. The festival team are confidently preparing the 2020 festival programme, which will take place from 30 October - 8 November 2020, and will offer visitors ... More >>

New Artistic Director for TAFT

Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 5:04 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

The new artistic director for the Taranaki International Arts Festival has stood among the throng time and time again. More >>

Tropfest: here’s a capital idea

Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 2:12 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Late last year the Taranaki Arts Festival Trust announced that it had secured Womad for another three years, but not the short film festival Tropfest NZ. More >>

TAFT Considers the Future of Kinetika

Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 2:47 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

After a successful competition and event in 2014, the Taranaki Arts Festival Trust (TAFT) is reconsidering the future of kinetika. More >>

‘Green’ theme of 2015 Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular

Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 12:44 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

“There’s a theme around sustainability, organics and taking things back to basics,” says Festival Manager Lisa Ekdahl. More >>

Kinetika returns to Taranaki in 2014

Friday, 22 November 2013, 1:20 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Today The Taranaki Arts Festival Trust (TAFT) announced that it is picking up the reins from The Taranaki Arts Community Trust (TACT) and breathing life into kinetika™. More >>

Gardens of Significance abound - Taranaki Garden Spectacular

Thursday, 2 May 2013, 2:55 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Of the 47 premium Taranaki gardens in this year’s Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular, a quarter have been independently assessed as Gardens of Significance by the New Zealand Gardens Trust. More >>

Tropfest shorts to screen at Taranaki Bowl

Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 3:07 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Finalists in Tropfest Australia, the world’s largest short film festival, are coming to New Zealand at an outdoor short film night at New Plymouth’s Bowl of Brooklands on February 19, 2012. More >>

Tropfest shorts to screen at Taranaki Bowl

Monday, 5 December 2011, 2:42 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Finalists in Tropfest Australia, the world’s largest short film festival, are coming to New Zealand at an outdoor short film night at New Plymouth’s Bowl of Brooklands on February 19, 2012. More >>

Powerco to sponsor Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival

Monday, 22 November 2010, 3:52 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Powerco, one of New Zealand’s largest energy distributors, has signed a significant sponsorship agreement with the Taranaki Rhododendron and Garden Festival to help the Festival market itself both nationally and internationally. More >>

Taranaki’s latest Garden of National Significance

Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 3:37 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Puketarata, a large country garden north of Hawera, has been awarded Garden of National Significance status just two years after opening its gates for the Taranaki Rhododendron & Garden Festival. More >>

Melbourne man wins Taranaki Rhodo Fest prize

Thursday, 30 April 2009, 2:12 pm | Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

A Melbourne man who had never heard of Taranaki or its Rhododendron & Garden Festival is now planning an extended holiday to the region having won a competition at the recent Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. More >>

 
 
 
 
 

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