Ashburton District Council Events
Body Butters
Ashburton Library
4th May 2024 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Looking for a Mother's Day gift idea? Or perhaps you want to pamper yourself? Join us in making some beautiful body butters!We only have 12 spots available, so make sure you book your spot!
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Teen Bob Ross
Ashburton Library
16th May 2024 06:00 pm - 07:30 pm
Paint Along with Bob Ross!For teens aged 12-18 yearsCome along and let your creative juices flow as you paint along with Bob Ross. We supply everything you need.*Bookings are essential*
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Ashburton heritage collections online launch
Ashburton Museum
5th May 2024 02:00 pm
Join us in celebrating the official launch of our new online collections website at the Ashburton Museum & Historical Society’s upcoming bi-monthly meeting. Over 1000 photographs and records (with more to come) from the AM&HS community archives will be made...
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Caught in the Moment: Guardian photographs of 1974
Ashburton Museum
18th May 2024 - 21st Jul 2024
Which moments in time did the Ashburton Guardian photographers capture around Hakatere Ashburton throughout 1974? In this exhibition, a selection of photographs from our large collection of negatives will take visitors on a journey across various aspects of life in...
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Artist Talk | Ynes Guevara
Ashburton Art Gallery
19th May 2024 02:00 pm
Join us for our upcoming artist talk with Ynes Guevara on Sunday 19 May at 2pm.At this talk, Ynes Guevara will be in conversation with curator James Hope to discuss her new exhibition Altar, Beautifying Understanding.In this new suite of...
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Save the Date - Glow in the Park 2024
Ashburton District Council
31st May 2024 - 2nd Jun 2024
King's Birthday Weekend
Save the Date!Glow Up Your Winter! Bring your family and join us for three magical nights of light, music, food and fun for all ages at Ashburton Glow in the Park!King's Birthday Weekend | Ashburton Domain
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Home Front Heroines
Ashburton Museum
13th Apr 2024 - 30th Jun 2024
Until recently, the unsung heroes of Aotearoa New Zealand’s WWII home front efforts went largely unrecognised.‘Land girls’ of the Women’s Land Service, an organisation formed under the Women’s War Service Auxiliary in 1942, played a vital role in the country’s...
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Altar, Beautifying Understanding | Ynes Guevara
Ashburton Art Gallery
22nd Apr 2024 - 7th Jun 2024
In this new suite of paintings Timaru-based artist Ynes Guevara looks to feminine archetypes to explore the magical and imaginary. Her reconstructed silhouettes produce new imagery, considering the duality of the divine and erotic using a palette of six magenta...
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Legacy Issues: Lens-based Investigations of Waitaha Canterbury Whenua
Ashburton Art Gallery
27th Apr 2024 - 14th Jun 2024
Legacy Issues brings together contemporary photographic artists Mitchell Bright, Conor Clarke, Ella Hickford, Moana Lee, Mike O’Kane, Tim J. Veling, and Hannah Watkinson, and presents the diverse ways they have pictured our region. This selection of photographs aims to provide...
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Exhibition | Tuitui Tangata
Ashburton Art Gallery
27th Apr 2024 - 14th Jun 2024
The European art of embroidery and quilt making was taught to Cook Islands women by early missionaries’ wives 200 years ago. Needlework quickly replaced the beating of Tapa cloth made collectively by vaine (women). A revered art form, Tivaevae plays...
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