Woodend Winter Arts Festival 2021
Determined to return – even if it’s not quite the same as it was all those years ago pre-COVID – the Woodend Winter Arts Festival will take place over the Queen’s Birthday Weekend with four fabulous concerts for patient post-lockdown music lovers.
It’s been a tough period for the Festival which was established to support the arts and artists – but by far those hit hardest by the pandemic were the performers and artists themselves.
This abbreviated concert series aims to be a part of breathing life back into the joy of gathering to experience music for both artists and loyal Festival audiences.
Long story short – Queen s Birthday Weekend: lots of gigs.
OK. So maybe that was unnecessarily short. It is, however, a fairly accurate summary of this week s column.
A little history? Well, I looked at the calendar and thought “Queen s Birthday Weekend is coming up, I bet there ll be a lot of gigs people want to know about.” Oh, you mean the history of the birthday, not of the column? Fair enough.
For those unaware, Queen s Birthday weekend, when we get a day off to celebrate a day that isn t the Queen s birthday, is another of those northern hemisphere traditions that make absolutely no sense here. File it next to Guy Fawkes Day and Christmas cards with snow on them as peculiar hangovers from the ‘Mother Country’.
Ruapehu Alpine Lifts says snowmaking should mean Happy Valley opens on time at Queen’s Birthday Weekend.
Mt Ruapehu skifield operators Ruapehu Alpine Lifts are reporting the Happy Valley ski area is on track for a traditional Queen’s Birthday Weekend opening in early June. Whakapapa Ski Area manager Steve Manunui said the team was confident about the upcoming winter season. “The snow factory has been pumping out snow for the last four weeks and there’s been a couple of dustings as well. There’s also snow in the forecast over the next week, so it’s shaping up well.”
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 1:33 pm | Birds New Zealand The 2021 New Zealand Bird Conference will be held from 5-7 June (Queen’s
Birthday Weekend) in Thames (Coromandel) Join us for this important event and learn
more about our country s unique birds! Over 2 days there will be a series of 10 to . More
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 9:52 am | Birds New Zealand
Birds New Zealand will hold its 80th annual conference in Wellington at Queen’s
Birthday weekend. Established by a small group of scientists in 1939 as the Ornithological
Society of New Zealand it has grown to more than 1,000 members having wider interests . More
Thursday, 3 May 2018, 11:32 am | Birds New Zealand