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New hospital will dent surgery waiting lists
Hawke’s Bay new private hospital Kaweka will help cut local surgery waiting lists when it opens for business at the end of August. The state-of -the-art $40m hospital, owned and…
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Cellular Memory: Elizabeth Thomson
'We are each made up of one hundred million million cells, none of which have any idea who we are.’ - Marcus Chown For over 30 years, Wellington-based sculptor/installation artist […]
The Big Apple Project
Arts Inc. Heretaunga, Studio Benega and the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival are pleased to bring this mass participation public art trail event to Hastings. Apples are well known to represents a source […]
Keirunga Quilters Exhibition
Havelock North Function Centre 30 Te Mata Road, Havelock North, Hastings, Hawke's BayKeirunga Quilters annual exhibition is coming back for 2022! Come and enjoy a range of lovely quilts created by the talented Keirunga Quilters, based in Havelock North. Have a go […]
Environment
Face to face with climate change in Hawke’s Bay
[Editor: This article first published in Jul/Aug BayBuzz mag.] After what has seemed like an endless procession of target-setting, establishing a Climate Change Commission, interim reports, nation-wide consultations, draft discussion…
Get inside view of future NZ farm policy
Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor and business/sustainability journalist Rod Oram will shed some light on ‘the future of farming’ at an 11 August public forum in Hastings, sponsored by the HB…
Three Week Challenge
Hastings’ Geoff Speeden and family are taking climate change seriously, and as a family project have compiled a comprehensive menu of everyday actions most of us could take to mitigate…
3D imaging of HB’s aquifers
The HB Regional Council has begun to release unprecedented 3D imagery of our aquifers, having overflown our key basins – the Ngaruroro River Valley, Heretaunga Plains, Ruataniwha Plains and the Poukawa…
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Culture
Wāhine Toi – An Interview with Putaanga Waitoa
Putaanga Waitoa (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou, Kuki ‘Arani, Pākehā) is a photographer and Māori activist. Since the 2021 lockdown Putaanga has been conceiving, doing the mahi and publishing Wāhine Toi, the…
Keirunga proudly presents …
A major art exhibition featuring the art works of fifty+ established Hawke’s Bay artists, with a Gala Auction Evening sponsored by Harcourts, takes place during the last weekend of the Hawke’s Bay Art…
Arts Festival offers cultural feast
In the eight years since its inception, Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival has firmly planted itself as a stalwart of the local cultural calendar. Rolling with the Covid punches, the festival team returns…
Ākina Gallery … a place for Māori arts
Changes are afoot in Heretaunga. On Wednesday evening, bathed in the light of the rising full moon, Ākina gallery threw open its doors to a critical mass of arts aficionados, eagerly anticipating…