Whanganui s Hops and Vines festival good to go after Covid-19 postponement
8 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Around 300 people have already bought tickets to Hops and Vines. Photo / Supplied
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
The inaugural Hops and Vines festival will host hundreds of beer and wine connoisseurs at Whanganui s Majestic Square next week. Originally scheduled for March 6, recent Covid-19 alert level 2 restrictions forced the organisers to postpone until Saturday, April 17.
Organiser Gioia Damosso said despite the change of date, very few of the 300 people who had already bought tickets wanted a refund.
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It s an uncertain business but Gioia Damosso and Koert Wegman have no regrets about quitting their full time jobs to become event organisers, launching Lost Arts Events at the beginning of 2020.
It s been quite a ride trying to organise large scale events with Covid in the background. We thought at the beginning, alright this year isn t going to go how we wanted it to, shall we push on ahead shall we just not go down this track, but we re both quite optimistic people, said Damosso.
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Hops & Vines festival coming to Whanganui s Majestic Square
13 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Hops and Vines will round out Whanganui s festival season. Photo / Sharna-Lee England
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Lost Arts Events Management is following up the debut of its Taste Whanganui festival last year with an event at the tail end of summer.
Hops and Vines will be held at Majestic Square in March, and organiser Koert Wegman said, unlike Taste Whanganui, it would focus almost exclusively on New Zealand-made wine and beer. We learned a few things from taste and there were things we got right and things we didn t get right, Wegman said.