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Arrowtown Beech Party Planting Day

Queenstown Blood Drive

The NZ Blood Mobile Services unit is back for the first time since 2019. The unit is only here for three days and while the schedule is full spots may come up as peoples circumstances change.

To check visit please visit: www.nzblood.co.nz/booking/?siteid=2186#schedule

When: Tuesday 28 March to Thursday 30 March 8:00am – 2:00pm

Where: St Margaret’s Presbyterian Church, Ross St, Frankton, Queenstown

Arrowtown RSA AGM

This year’s Arrowtown RSA Annual General Meeting is being held at the Arrowtown Bowling Club Rooms. All welcome.

When: Wednesday 29 March at 7pm

Where: Arrowtown Bowling Club Rooms, 6 Hertford Street

Kelvin Peninsula Community Association

AGM

All Peninsula residents are welcome to attend, whether or not a member of KPCA.

There is much to discuss of the year’s activities including the ongoing building of our capability of responding to an emergency, whether climate or tectonic related; our predator free 2050 programme; and the need to develop our community engagement activities. Our guest speakers at the AGM will be Jon Bitcheno and Jayne Macdonald, representatives of the Lakes District Hospital Foundation.

When: Wednesday March 29 at 7:00 pm

Where: Queenstown Golf Club, 759 Peninsula Road

Green Drinks : Future proof - building our region’s food resilience

Wao and the Wanaka Festival of Colour are teaming up to bring you their next Green Drinks: future proof - building our region’s food resilience and how to understand the current local food system and see why it needs improvement.

In the light of recent events up North, and other disruption events happening, it becomes more apparent how important it is we look at our food system and identify ways to make it more resilient. Julia Blackford, lead researcher will provide insight on this project in a brief but impactful session. Tickets are FREE but limited, so register your interest online at Wao.co.nz

This month’s Green drinks is for: anyone interested in

• who our local food stakeholders are

• how we feed ourselves as a community

• how to keep feeding ourselves when natural disaster, political unrest, supply chain interruption or disruption to the energy systems occur.

When: Wednesday 29 March 4.45 to 6pm

Where: Armstrong Room, Lake Wanaka Center

A day for all ages, families and friends to come together and enhance the biodiversity of the Arrowtown area by planting native Beech, Ribbonwood, and Totara up on the Sawpit Gully Track. Kid friendly planting with all the holes being pre-dug. Stay up the hill after the plantings as there is a complimentary BBQ, refreshments and kids prizes. Meet at the Chinese Village at 9am, and people will be directed to the planting site. For more information email arrowtownchoppers@gmail.com

When: Sunday 2 April Sunday 9:00am - 1:00pm

Where: Arrowtown Chinese Village

Te Kura Whakatipu o Kawarau - Primary School at Hanley’s Farm Community Fun Day

Everyone’s welcome to come & celebrate Hanley’s Farm’s awesome community & help raise some much needed funds for the Primary School at the same time!

When: Sunday April 2 from 11am

Where: Te Kura Whakatipu o Kawarau - Primary School, 85 Howden Dr, Jacks Point

Music

Jackie Bristow LIVE

Jackie Bristow needs no introduction, she has made music her entire life. Gore-born, Jackie moved to Sydney, then LA and Austin while touring the world before relocated to Nashville to join long-time musical collaborator Mark Punch. Now Jackie regularly performs for us at shows and local events.

When: Saturday 1 April 4:00pm – 7:00pm

Where: Kinross Vineyard & Cottages, 2300 Gibbston Highway

Charlotte Graf - Bad Jelly and the Seven Deadly Sins

This is the tale of a WITCHY WOMAN…with raven hair, and ruby lips. A restless spirit on an endless flight, who drove herself to madness. She’s some kind of demon messing in the glue… if you don’t watch out - it’ll stick to you! Charlotte Graf is at it again; this time exploring the world of spells, magic and love potions.

When: Thursday 6 April 6:30pm – 7:30pm and 8:30pm – 9:30pm

Where: The Blue Door 18 Buckingham Street Arrowtown

South Island Schools Mountain Bike Championships

The 2023 MTB Championships will be held at Coronet Peak this week. Hosted by Coronet Peak and Queenstown MTB Club. This event will include Cross Country, Cross Country Relay, Downhill and Enduro events and utilise the infrastructure of Coronet Peak Ski Field.

When: 30 March - 1 April (with 2 April as a backup weather day)

Where: Coronet Peak

Composting Made Easy with Dr Compost

A great veggie garden starts with great compost. It’s the magical ingredient for growing your own food, boosting the microbial activity in the soil and helping your soil hold moisture.

In Dr Compost’s free workshop, you’ll discover how to turn your food and garden waste into nutrients to feed your plants and soil, and get tips to make your composting fail-safe.

Learn about cold and hot composting, Bokashi bins, and worm farms, plus find out which method will suit you best.

Whether you want to get started on your compost journey, or maybe your composting has been de-railed (stinky Bokashi anyone?!), you can get some help from the doctor.

With more than 20 years composting and gardening experience in our unique Central Otago climate, Dr Compost, aka Ben Elms, has all the tricks to get your compost heap working and your garden blooming. He’ll share his knowledge and answer all your questions in this entertaining workshop. Spaces are limited for this popular workshop, so please reserve your free ticket today

When: Wednesday 5 April from 6pm

Where: Sherwood Queenstown 554 Frankton Road

Lecture

Catalyst Trust’s Historic amnesia – and the need to end the forgetting…

This is Catalyst Trust’s first event for the year, and it should be one to remember.

Andrew Gilhooly was one of 1600 Armed Constabulary and volunteers who invaded and occupied the pacifist settlement of Parihaka on November 5, 1881. Soon after, the landless Irish immigrant returned to Taranaki to run three family farms, all on land confiscated from Maori who were forced to leave their land, homes and possessions to seek refuge elsewhere.

Politics Professor Richard Shaw was 55 before he discovered his greatgrandfather’s story, part of the “historic amnesia” which he says has allowed families like his to ignore the advantages given them by colonisation. His Catalyst Conversation will connect the erased ‘small stories’ of colonial settler families to the ‘big story’ of colonisation and discuss the necessity for Pakeha New Zealanders to “end the forgetting”.

Cash koha will be given to Te Tapu o Tane for Whakatipu community environmental projects.

When: Thursday, March 30, 6 -7.30pm

Where: The Rees Hotel Queenstown’s conference room

WHS presents Rock Apocalypse

Wakatipu High School students return with their annual musical production, Rock Apocalypse. This year’s show is a rock n roll parody of classic horror and sci-fi B-Movies. Students will dive into the life and times of rockstar Ricky Valiant and his big band of misfit doctors and “deadhead” zombies.

The story follows megalomaniac rockstar Ricky Valiant who sets up an evil laboratory turning unsuspecting victims into zombie-like creatures called deadheads. Married couple Dawn and Ash are lured to the institute for counselling but find themselves embroiled in Ricky’s evil plans to turn everyone into deadheads. Will Ash and Dawn help the FBI take down Ricky? Will the planet be saved?

Tickets available online at iticket.co.nz

When: Wednesday 29, Thursday 30, Friday 31 March and Saturday 1 April at 7:30 pm

Where: Wakatipu High School, 47 Red Oaks Dr, Frankton, Queenstown

If you would like your show, event, exhibition or meeting promoted in Goings On drop me a line at davidgibbs@qmg.co.nz with the details

Welcome

Artificial flowers and greenery can be so amazingly realistic, come and see for yourself.

Bring your own container and photo to show placement, then select your favourite flowers/colour and I can work within your budget (no arranging fee).