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Arts + Climate Innovation: The Role of the Arts

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Where: Whangarei Quarry Gardens When: FREE event, Monday, 12th November, 5.00 – 8.30pm Register via Eventbrite: trackzero-whangarei.eventbrite.co.nz Two of NZ’s top climate scientists Prof James Renwick (Victoria University) and Dr Craig Stevens (NIWA) will join Sarah Meads, Founder of Track Zero, and prominent local Tai Tokerau artists: painter and sculptor, BJ Natanahira (Te Aupouri, Te […]

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Northland Author Features At Book Festival

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Whangarei writer Michael Botur is appearing at this year’s NZ Book Festival on November 17, following the launch of his fifth short story collection. True?, launched October 10, is Botur’s sixth book and comes on the back of two well-received 2017 indie publications, Moneyland and Lowlife. Botur describes True? as “Sixteen stories of strippers, celebs, trysts, travel, virgins, Viagra, jail, journos,

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WDC Funding Rounds Open

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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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Art & chicken farms

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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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