Events
Fashion Auction Extravaganza
When: Friday 20th July 2007
Where: Wainuiomata Fitzroy Tavern, The Strand
Time: From 7:00pm
Cost: $10 Per Person
Kiwi Party! - Kokiri Marae Maori Women’s Refuge Fundraiser
When: Sunday 8th July 2007
Where: Epuni School Hall
Time: From 1pm-3.30pm
Cost: $10 per child
Matariki Te ara o te Toi
When: 13th - 17th June
Where: Wainuiomata Marae
Open to all who wish to show any art pieces or craft they have produced to the general public, providing an opportunity for anyone from beginners to established artists to display at the same event.
Activities Include:
- An exhibition of arts, crafts, and Ta Moko
- Affordable art pieces for sale by local artists
- Art workshops for anyone wanting to have a go!
Contact: John Kingi (04) 920 1486
Tear It uP Dance Competitions
When:
30th June 2007
Where:
Wellington College Sports Centre
Dufferin Street (Next to Basin Reserve)
Time:
Junior Division - Doors open 11:00am
Open Division - Doors open 5:00pm
Wainuiomata Christmas in the Valley
When:
9 December 2006
Where:
Green outside the Wainuiomata Community Centre, Queen Street.
If wet, the event will be held in the community centre
Time:
4pm - 9:30pm
Wainuiomata is having a community event for the whole family. The Organisers say that there will be live entertainment “featuring local bands, school and youth groups and Hip Hop dance group. Bring your picnic blanket and food.
There will be give aways and lots of fun and games
The Tamaiti Whangai Holiday Programme
When:
Monday 3rd July 2006 through to Friday 7th July 2006
Monday 10th July 2006 through to Friday 14th July 2006
Where:
The Old Wainuiomata College Site
Moohan Street
Wainuiomata
Time:
From 9am - 3pm
Age Group:
Kids aged 5 - 14
Back by popular demand, Tamati Whangai runs another 2 weeks Holiday Programme with cool
activities to do like:
- Basketball
- Ripper Rugby
- Hiphop Dance Classes
- Technology
- Q&A
- Badminton
- Games Room (Pool Table, Table Tennis, Xbox etc.)
- Music Room (Drums, Keyboards, Guitar etc.)
- And much more to mention…
For More Details:
Please phone Shazz or Earl
During business hours Monday’s to Fridays
Ph. 5645.143
Please ensure you come with a packed lunch because no one is to leave the permises during the
time of event to buy lunch.
Games Night - Wainuiomata Community Centre
Tuesday 22nd of June
Wainuiomata Community Centre
6pm - 9:30pm
There are only 40 tickets available at $3 each (so don’t miss out) Tickets available from the Wainuiomata Community Centre.
Age group: Intermediate and college students only!
A night filled with:
- Trivia
- Challengers
- Karaoke Freestyle
- Ice Cream Mountain
- Wheatbix Face Off
- Shootout
- Table Tennis Relay
- And lots more…
After activity feed kindly sponsored by Joe’s Cook
Warning: You should only attend this activity if you want to have fun and yes you will get dirty! Sorry, but that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
Hang Out 2006 - Wainuiomata Community Centre
3rd to 7th and 10th to 14th of July 2006
Wainuiomata Community Hall
1pm - 5pm
These school holidays, Wainuiomata Community Centre have new activities:
- 2 on 2 B-Ball comp
- Table tennis comp
- Volley ball comp
- Dunk comp
- And lots more
There will be vouchers, confectionary and cash prizes up for grabs.
Dawnbake Bakery - Video Ezy - Cadbury
New Zealand Jet Ski Marathon
Saturday 10th of June 2006
Queens Wharf, Wellington
This Saturday down the Wellington Waterfront, theres going to be loads of water action ever seen with over 150 competitors as they race across the cook strait and back. Competitors leave around 11am from The Lagoon, so be down there from 10am as there will be sky diving, ski display and more…
Wellington - Picton 200km Return Trip
For more information visit Full Throttle NZ Jet Ski Marathon
Tear It Up - National Dance Crew Competition
Saturday, 1st of July 2006
The Events Centre, Wellington
The Most Off Da hook Nationwide hip hop dance event this Year!
CHECK out the Hottest Dance Crew’s from all round N.Z Tear It uP on da Dance Floor and Drop the Flavour!!
And Compete for the National Tear It uP title!
For more details visit Tear It uP
Stomp
June 27th - July 2nd
Westpac St James Theatre, Wellington
STOMP is an exuberant display of physical prowess, music, dance energy and wit. It is a performance guaranteed to set the pulse racing with a jiving cacophony of amazing percussion on the move, using every day household objects in non-traditional ways; garbage bins, brooms, drums and matches create extraordinary music and dance. With its high energy, fast moving and extreme physical dynamic mix of bodies, objects and sounds, abstract ideas are performed with humour and theatrical flair.
Having played to over 10 million people throughout the world, STOMP is a truly remarkable theatrical phenomenon, don’t miss out!
For more details visit STOMP
Ten brown kiwi birds will be released in Rimutaka Forest Park
20th of May
Rimutaka Forest Park, Wainuiomata
Ten brown kiwi birds will be released in Rimutaka Forest Park, each kiwi will have a radio transmitter attached while a well organised group of volunteers (GVN) join the Department of conservation (DOC) responsible for maintaining two trap lines aimed at catching kiwi predators. Its been 100 years since we had kiwis pecking around a protected area down the coast. This isn’t just a extremely huge thing for Wainuiomata but the whole New Zealand and its happening right in our backjard.
Event begins 10:30am at Wainuiomata Marae for welcoming and blessing of the kiwis
Weber Bros Circus
April 13th - 30th, School Holidays
Avalon Park - Fairway Drive, Lower Hutt
World class Acts from Mongolia, Russia, Colombia, South Afica, and Australia.
Will thrill you with everything you love about a Circus, from the Clowns to the High Wire to Footy-Playing Dogs!
For more details visit Weber Bros Circus
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