The Whangarei District Council supports community groups for a variety of events, amenities and services through our community funding scheme. They want to hear from not-for-profit community organisations who are working to benefit our communities of place, of people and of interest. If you need support with a project or activity that is helping to […]
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WIN TICKETS Thanks to Improv Mob we have 2 tickets to give away to this Saturdays 7pm ‘Hilarious Improv Theatresports Show!’. This will only be running until Thursday so enter asap! How to enter: 1. Share the event page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/482099358897770/ 2. Tag in the comments of our Facebook post who you would take with you! https://bit.ly/2mlIxUw
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Activism is not something you associate with David Sarich and yet he has picked up his brushes and painted a 1.2 x 2.4-metre mural to protest against the proposed Chicken farm south of Dargaville. Reading an article written by the author, writer Therese Sjoquist, Sarich commented ‘ Painting is another language; a more truthful language, but
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This news update is to inform you of a grant scheme for the arts that is now open for applications from Creative Communities. The Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) helps to fund local arts projects. This fund is aimed at local communities to create and present diverse opportunities for people to access and participate in the
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Michael Botur Northlanders have achieved highly in this year’s National Flash Fiction Day competition, which celebrates one of the shortest forms of creative writing. 13-year-old Jana Heise, who was raised in Whangarei, won the NFFD Youth Award on June 22. Her story was performed, with those of other Northland and national finalists, at a workshop
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