Council Events
Light up the Night
Ashburton District Council
30th Nov 2024 06:00 pm
Welcome in the festive season with our free Christmas celebration! Bring your friends, bring your family and join us in Baring Square East for an evening of live entertainment, music and a special guest appearance from Santa himself. At 9.15pm,...
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Bridging the chasm - 150 years of Ashburton District Railway
Ashburton Museum
13th Nov 2024 - 2nd Mar 2025
Arriving in August 1874, the Great Southern Railway opened Ashburton to the world. The station became the arrival and departure platform for thousands of people coming and going over the next 128 years until all passenger services ceased in 2002....
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Exhibition | Toro, Jenna Packer
Ashburton Art Gallery
1st Nov 2024 - 1st Dec 2024
Jenna Packer’s work looks to the various structures that shape the lives of people – social, political, religious and economic – and the tension that occurs within or between them.In this exhibition she looks back at over a decade of...
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Exhibition | Pāua Play, Jane Venis
Ashburton Art Gallery
1st Nov 2024 - 1st Dec 2024
Opening event: Saturday 26 October, 6pm
For this exhibition, Jane Venis has hand-built a variety of instruments that incorporate the culturally potent material of pāua shell.Both the ukelele and pāua have been historically devalued within the Pacific – sold as cheap and...
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Exhibition | An Iconography of Doubt, Esther Deans
Ashburton Art Gallery
1st Nov 2024 - 13th Dec 2024
Opening event: Saturday 26 October, 6pm
Esther Deans’ thesis exhibition is an accumulation of ideas and imagery from four years of study towards her PhD through the Auckland University of Technology. This research was a personal investigation into her experiences and preoccupations, including ideas about eschatology,...
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Games on the Green
Ashburton Library
17th Jan 2025
17 and 20 January, 4pm-5:30pm
27 and 31 January, 3pm-5pm
Come along and enjoy some light hearted fun with some backyard games like cornhole and ring toss!Rangatahi/young adults
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Teen Bootcamp
EA Networks Centre
13th Jan 2025 - 27th Jan 2025
Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm from 13-27 Jan. 45 mins sessions.
Stay fit over summer these holidays at BootCamp!Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm from 13-27 Jan. 45 mins sessions.Activity for ages 11-16 $5 per session or part of gym membership (only eligible for ages 14+)Rangatahi/young adults
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Community Pools Inflatable Visits
EA Networks Centre
5th Jan 2025
12:00-5:00pm on Wednesdays and 12:30-3:30pm on weekends.
Jump into our inflatable roadshow in Mayfield, Ruapuna, Mount Somers, Hinds and Rakaia.Mayfield Pool: Sun 5 JanMayfield and Ruapuna Pools: Wed 8, Sat 11 and Sun 12 JanMount Somers Pool: Wed 15, Sat 18 and Sun 19 JanHinds Pool: Wed...
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Stadium Inflatable
EA Networks Centre
5th Jan 2025
5, 7, 9, 11 & 14 January
Jump in on Jan 5 and 11 for three two-hour sessions 10am,12.30pm, and 3.30pm.Other weekdays one session 10am-12pmPrice $6.25 - 2 hour session.All tamariki/children
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Hampstead Pool Swimming
EA Networks Centre
3rd Jan 2025 - 2nd Feb 2025
01:00 pm - 06:00 pmFreshen up with a swim at Hampstead Pool over summer!Lifeguards from EA Networks Centre will be on duty.Public swimming / Adult $4.50 Child $3.50All tamariki/children
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EANC Holiday Programme - January
EA Networks Centre
6th Jan 2025 - 31st Jan 2025
08:30 am - 05:00 pmNeed fully-supervised childcare for your under-13 school-aged child?Book in for games, sports, field trips, Christmas crafts, rest home carol singing and more!Tamariki/children aged 5 - 13 years.Day $40, Full day $50 per session
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Waffle cone Christmas trees
Ashburton Library
23rd Dec 2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Book in to make a tasty and edible waffle cone Christmas tree.All tamariki/children
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Laser Cut Tic Tac Toe
Ashburton Library
20th Dec 2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Make your own Christmas themed laser cut Tic Tac Toe game.All tamariki/children
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Schools Out Stadium Inflatable and Pool Movie
EA Networks Centre
21st Dec 2024 09:00 am - 05:00 pm
Bounce in and try our stadium inflatable!Toddler session 9am-10.30am, regular sessions 11am-12.30pm and 1pm-2.30pm finishing with a movie in the pool on the big LED screen 3-5pm.Inflatable costs: Under five $3, ages five+ $6.25, inflatable and pool combo $8. Standard...
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EANC Holiday Programme - December
EA Networks Centre
19th Dec 2024 - 24th Dec 2024
08:30 am - 05:00 pmNeed fully-supervised childcare for your under-13 school-aged child?Book in for games, sports, field trips, Christmas crafts, rest home carol singing and more!Tamariki/children aged 5 - 13 years.Day $40, Full day $50 per session
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Christmas Story Time
Ashburton Library
19th Dec 2024 10:30 am
Come along and enjoy some fun Christmas stories and songs.All tamariki/children
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Teen Summer Reading Challenge
Ashburton Library
1st Dec 2024 - 24th Jan 2025
Have a bricktacular summer with our teen reading challenge.Drop in and pick up this summer’s reading challenge for 12-18 year olds.Complete all four challenges and claim a free choccy fish!Complete them twice and go into the draw for an awesome...
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Christmas Paper Craft
Ashburton Library
18th Dec 2024 10:30 am
Cut & colour your way into Christmas festivities. Get crafty with us at Te Kete Tuhinga.All tamariki/children
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Wriggle & Read Christmas Special
Ashburton Library
17th Dec 2024 10:30 am
Come along and enjoy some of our favourite songs and rhymes along with a few Christmas songs to enjoy in the event space.
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Family Film Time
Ashburton Library
1st Dec 2024 01:00 pm
Enjoy a magical film with the whole family. The movie will be on the big screen in the event space.Whole whānau/family. Max 100 people
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Christmas i-spy
Ashburton Library
1st Dec 2024 - 31st Jan 2025
Can you find all the hidden items in our Christmas themed i-spy display?All tamariki/children
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Kids’ Summer Reading Challenge
Ashburton Library
14th Dec 2024 - 22nd Jan 2025
Rocket into the Ashburton Library this summer for this season’s kids’ summer reading challenge.Complete the challenge and be in to win one of 10 Whitcoulls gift vouchers valued at $25.All tamariki/children
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Bauble Creation
Ashburton Library
10th Dec 2024
10 and 12 Dec, 5.30pm-7.30pm
10 and 12 Dec, 5.30pm-7.30pmThink your family Christmas decoration’s need an upgrade?Come along and add your own creative style with some colourful Christmas trinkets or bring along something small to add to a bauble to gift or cherish.For ages 12-18...
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Women’s Swim Night
EA Networks Centre
11th Dec 2024 07:00 pm - 08:30 pm
Whether you want to come for a soak, do some lengths, spend time with your children or try an aqua fitness class, we have something for you.$5 per adult (special price) and kids are free.Boys under 10 allowed.
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Christmas Carols at EANC
EA Networks Centre
10th Dec 2024 11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Join us for carols in our foyer, as primary school children and the Mayor hang a decoration on the tree.
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Sensory Swim Session
EA Networks Centre
8th Dec 2024 08:00 am - 09:30 am
The learn to swim pool will have various equipment for people to explore the water and their senses.The music and water features will be turned off, lights dimmed and other stimuli minimised.Standard pool prices apply. Caregivers for people with Community...
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Active Adventures
EA Networks Centre
4th Dec 2024
4 and 18 Dec, 10.30am-12.30pm
Join us for exploration play for toddlers.4 and 18 Dec, 10.30am-12.30pmA space for toddlers and parents to come and play with balls, sensory toys, balance beams, bikes and foam blocks.Child-led, adult-supervised play session for under fives.Pēpi and tamariki / Babies...
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Christmas T-shirts
Ashburton Library
2nd Dec 2024 - 13th Dec 2024
03:00 pm - 11:00 am2 - 13 DecMon - 3pm-4pmTues - 11am-12pmWed - 2pm-3pmThurs - 11am-12pmFri - 10am-11amOpen to teens 12 to 18 years.Bring along your own t-shirt and choose a printed...
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Sewing Creation
Ashburton Library
1st Dec 2024 10:00 am - 02:00 pm
Open to people aged 16 -25 years.Available dates:1 Dec 10am-2pm6 Dec and 24 Jan, 2pm - 5pm12 Dec, 12 and 16 Jan, 10am - 2pmThis nice simple small bag is great for a festival...
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The Great Santa Hunt 2024
Ashburton Museum
18th Dec 2024 05:00 pm
The Great Santa Hunt is back on at the Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum these school holidays with a special late night opening event on Wednesday 18 December, so get your torches ready!All the...
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Two O'Clock Tours | Jenna Packer - Artist Talk
Ashburton Art Gallery
1st Dec 2024 02:00 pm
At this special Two O'Clock Tour, join us and artist Jenna Packer for an extended artist floor talk.On the final day of her exhibition Toro, Jenna Packer will join us to share insight into her practice and discuss the context...
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Exhibition | In View: Reflections of Whakatere Ashburton's Unique Artistic Treasures
Ashburton Art Gallery
21st Dec 2024 - 21st Feb 2025
In View features a selection of artworks from the Ashburton Art Gallery Incorporated Collection (AAG Inc.) and the Ashburton District Council’s Civic Art Collection. AAG Inc. was founded in 1995 before a gallery and collection were...
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Opening: Michael Greaves | Wesley John Fourie
Ashburton Art Gallery
14th Dec 2024 06:00 pm
Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions: Falling if not Flying by Michael Greaves, and and with his kiss i became a braided river by Wesley John Fourie.Falling if not Flying builds on the last four years of...
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Exhibition | Falling if not Flying, Michael Greaves
Ashburton Art Gallery
9th Dec 2024 - 7th Feb 2025
Opening event | Saturday 14 December, 6pm
This recent body of work from Ōtepoti Dunedin-based painter Michael Greaves are a continuation of the last four years of his practice, a period bound up with the COVID pandemic, which altered the parameters of everyday encounters, resulting...
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Exhibition | and with his kiss i became a braided river, Wesley John Fourie
Ashburton Art Gallery
15th Dec 2024 - 21st Feb 2025
Opening event | Saturday 14 December, 6pm
Waitaha Canterbury contains nearly sixty-four percent of the braided rivers found in Aotearoa New Zealand. Their dynamics are still being understood, but what is clear is that the visible course of a braided river is only one element...
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Exhibition | Lost Luggage
Ashburton Museum
4th Dec 2024 - 16th Mar 2025
Lost luggage includes items of luggage or personal goods left behind or that have not arrived at the correct destination with the passenger. Whether travelling by rail, bus, ship or airline, lost luggage usually and hopefully follows shortly after.Luggage with...
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