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The coromandel artbeat spring festival is just around the corner and is launched this year by West Auckland ukulele legends The Nukes in a free-to-everyone concert on Friday 5 September.

In response to the renewed appetite for live entertainment following Covid restrictions, and originally performed outdoors, this silent movie project has since moved into theatres, reviving the magic of 1920s picture houses – where silent films were brought to life with live musical accompaniment.

Ngā Kaihanga Uk uwānanga at Driving Creek from November 2 – 9, including daily public workshops and talks, plus Ahi Kaa Exhibition Opening Sunday November 9

Spring is almost here, and that means the start of the 3rd coromandel artbeat spring festival! Yes, it’s hard to believe, but we’re in round 3 already! Woop-woop!

In her solo exhibition of retrospective and contemporary work and aptly subtitled ‘A Textural Exhibition of an Exploration of Plant Dyes’, the artist wants to show the vast range of colour that can be obtained from plant dyes and earth pigments…

Sofia Tekela-Smith is a New Zealand-Rotuman artist specialising in jewellery and body adornments. Many may recall her stunning garland in the Art is Identity exhibition in Kūaotunu and Kapanga this past January. Sofia just returned from New York where her work is on show at the Oceania Gallery in the MET.