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Havelock Handmade Market
A great variety of stalls with locally made products by talented stallholders who set up behind Peak Pizza on Te Mata Road, Havelock North on the first Saturday of every month Feb-Dec each year
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Clive Community Market
A vibrant collection of local artisans offering you a huge variety of their amazing handcrafted goods
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Gwavas Homestead, Garden and Puahanui Bush Tour
Enjoy a gorgeous day at Gwavas Homestead and Garden with a sit down lunch and guided tour of the homestead, gardens and native bush
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German Film Festival Screening - Napier
We proudly present one film of the German Film Festival with a cinema screening at the Globe Theatrette in Napier
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Waipawa Spring Festival Duck Day
Mark the date – this is a long-standing institution in the Central Hawke’s Bay event calendar and is an absolute must do
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Waipawa Spring Festival AKA Duck Day
Mark the date
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Hastings Blossom Festival 2021: POSTPONED
Hastings Blossom Parade - POSTPONED!
The Hastings Blossom Parade, initially scheduled to take place on September 11th 2021, has now been postponed until October 9th 2021 due to the latest Government announcement that the country will remain at Level 4 until nearly the end of August
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Show Me Shorts Film Festival - Whānau Friendly
Children love short films! Let the magic of cinema inspire and fire their imaginations! This collection of films is suitable for the whole family
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Show Me Shorts Film Festival - The Sampler
Sit back and enjoy some of the best and most vibrant short films from Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world
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Hawke's Bay Home and Garden Show 2021
NEW DATES!
Turning houses into homes for over 30 years!
The Hawke’s Bay Home & Garden Show is packed with all the ideas and information that you need to transform your surroundings into the space you’ve always dreamed of
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Riding in Remembrance 2021
Riding in Remembrance 2021 is a fundraising event and family fun day hosted by Sands Hawkes Bay
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Red Cross Knitting and Book Sale & Shop Open
Wonderful knitted garments
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Hawke's Bay Arts Festival 2021
The Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival is happening again - from 16-31st October 2021, and includes Labour weekend
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HBAF 2021 - Nuit Blanche, Art After Dark
Nuit Blanche – Art After Dark
To kick off the 2021 Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival we return to Napier with a fantastic line-up of visual and performing arts
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Hawke's Bay A&P Show 2021
Fantastic Family Fun! Come along and see the animals and the people at New Zealand's biggest A&P show
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HBAF 2021 - Fire & Music
Fire & Music - Waiohiki Creative Arts Village
Waiohiki Creative Arts Village is a thriving hub of artists and craftspeople, near the spectacular historic Ōtātara Pā site
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The Hawke’s Bay Art Trail 2021
Be your own art tour guide! Grab an Art Trail map and over Labour Weekend take an inspiring meander around Hawke’s Bay artists’ studios, galleries and pop-ups
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HBAF 2021 - Dream Garden
Be open to circus, cabaret and music under the trees
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Fashion for a Cure Hawke’s Bay
Join us in Hawke’s Bay for a night of New Zealand’s finest fashion, to support research into a breast cancer CURE
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HBAF 2021 - Storytime with Kyle Mewburn
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
Storytime with Kyle Mewburn
Join multi award-winning children's author Kyle Mewburn as she reads her most lovely, funny and entertaining works aloud to a no doubt captivated audience
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HBAF 2021 - Stepping into the Sun
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
Stepping into the Sun
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Wine Options presented by Hawke's Bay Women in Wine
We're back this year and calling all wine lovers & enthusiasts to get a team of friends, family, or colleagues to join us at our Wine Options Quiz Night!
The event will be held on Friday the 29th of October from 6
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HBAF 2021 - Funny Ha Ha ...
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
Funny Ha Ha - Tom Sainsbury and Catherine Robertson die on stage
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CHB Holistic Wellbeing Expo
This amazing event is run over 2 days
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HBAF 2021 - She is Not Your Rehab, Matt and Sarah Brown
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
She is Not Your Rehab - Matt and Sarah Brown
At My Fathers Barbers, Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers men a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement
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HBAF 2021 - Maori Made Easy, Scotty and Stacey Morrison
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
Maori Made Easy - Scotty and Stacey Morrison
Getting on a course to learn te reo Māori in involves a waiting list these days
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HBAF 2021 - Dead Girls Don't Lie
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
Dead Girls Don’t Lie - Becky Manawatu, Jacqueline Bublitz and Tina Clough on changing the narrative
The dead girls are frustrated
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HBAF 2021- The Edible Backyard
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
The Edible Backyard - Kath Irvine in conversation with Lizzie Russell
Gardening guru Kath Irvine has been helping Kiwi gardeners design build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens for more than 20 years
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HBAF 2021 - Mana/va, Tusiata Avia & Karlo Mila w/ Nafanua...
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
Mana/va - Tusiata Avia and Karlo Mila with Nafanua Kersel
“Va is the space between… not empty space, not space that separates but space that relates, that holds separate entities and things together in the Unity-that-is-All, the space that is context, giving meaning to things
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HBAF 2021 - A Lite on the Move, Geoff Chappel w/ Roger Hall
Readers + Writers - Presented by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust in association with Hawke's Bay Arts Festival
A Life on the Move - Geoff Chapple with Roger Hall
Geoff Chapple once sat up in the bath and said, “I’ll do it!”, “it” being the walk from Cape Reinga to Bluff, some 3000km
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Napier Wellbeing & Vegan Market 2021
The biggest free mind-body-spirit weekend in Hawkes Bay!
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Hawke's Bay Wine Auction
The Hawke’s Bay Wine Auction celebrates 30 years in 2021, with Hawke’s Bay’s most talented winemakers providing over 40 lots of wine, many of which are being specially blended
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The Enchanted Ball Supporting Te Mata Park
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The Enchanted Ball supporting Te Mata Park
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Tahaenui Christmas Fete
The Tahaenui Christmas Fete will be an unrivalled fixture on the 2021 Christmas shopping calendar
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Bay View Market Day
The Bay View Market day is an annual fundraiser for Eskdale School and is well known in the market circuit
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Bring Back The 70's Cabaret
Get your tickets now for a great night out!
Dust off your disco shoes and jive the night away with live music from Sir Duke as they pump out all your favourite 70’s tunes!
Come dressed in your best 70’s outfit and enjoy a fabulous night of dancing, spot prizes, frolics and fun! Enjoy a complimentary drink on arrival and a delicious supper all included!
Perfect opportunity for social clubs and businesses to treat the staff!
Don’t delay, tickets won’t last long!
A fabulous way to kick off Spring and support this fundraiser brought to you by the committee of Strathmore Highland Dancing CHB!
$10 Pick up and Drop off Bus available -Please pre-book with ad-on ticket, Pick-up locations to be confirmed
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Wonder Christmas Markets 2021
Save the date!
Wonder Christmas Markets 2021 are back after a hugely successful first year
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Fiesta of Lights
There's so much more to see at our celebrations
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Cape Estate - Boxing Day Festival 2021
Iconic to the Hawke’s Bay social calendar, the Boxing Day Festival returns for its sixth occasion to Cape Estate in 2021
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East Coast Farming Expo 2022
The two-day event, which is hosted by Wairoa Community Development Trust, will be held at the Wairoa A&P showgrounds
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Puketapu Auction & Country Fair
A genuine Country Fair and rural Auction set around a beautiful lake
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