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LAUNCH INTO SUMMER AND FALL IN LOVE
WITH THE COROMANDEL
To welcome it in we have a variety of events on the Coromandel Peninsula, timed
to coincide with the flowering of our beautiful Pohutukawa trees!
The festival will include a variety of events
throughout the Coromandel, including: the Pohutukawa Wearable Arts, The Coromandel
Dive Festival, many Music Festivals, Launch and Wine Trails, Wine Match Dinners,
Markets, Crimson Cruises of the Mercury Bay and much more.
See you at the festival in 2011! For more
information check out our website
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18 Nov 2011– 4 Dec
2011 |
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all over the Coromandel |
| Website: |
www.pohutukawafestival.co.nz |
| Contact:
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[email protected] |
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FAMILY and FRIENDS can enjoy
a FUN relaxing afternoon.
Come with your picnic and a quite drink for an afternoon of relaxing music and an
opportunity for the kids to flying kites, frolic in the water, playing in their
kayaks.
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| Held Next: |
3 December 2011|3pm |
| Where: |
Plesent Point Reserve, Pauanui Beach |
| Web: |
Pohutukawafestival.co.nz |
| Contact: |
[email protected]
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 This event is part of BRNZ (Bull Riding New Zealand) 2011-2012
circuit, where you will see some of NZ's Bull Riders take on 1000kgs beasts whom
despite their size have the ability to buck and kick faster than your eye blinks so
folks DON‚T BLINK!!
Gates open at 11am – Bullriding
starts at 12.30pm
NO DOGS ALLOWED ON THE GROUNDS
Cost: Adults $15.00
Children (under 16) $10.00
under 5
are free
Family Pass $50.00
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| Held Next: |
3 December 2011 |
| Where: |
Paeroa Racecourse, Thames Road Paeroa
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| Website: |
www.bullridingnz.co.nz |
| Contact: |
Neil 07 868 1202 |
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 The Whangamata Summer Festival has been hosting this
event for over eleven years. It is the largest market in the region and is a myriad of
sights, sounds and smells with food, drink, craft, instruments, jewellery, fun rides
for the children, and much, much more.
The Craft Market day is hugely popular and is a fundraiser for the
week long festival 27th Dec - 2nd Jan.
Six nights of free entertainment, plus a
daytime kids programme from 10am each day
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| Held Next: |
27 Dec 2011 - 2 Jan 2012 |
| Where: |
Williamson Park, Whangamata |
| Contact: |
[email protected] |
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27th - 10km Run
starting at 6pm
28th - Harbour Swim
starting at 3pm
29th - Miss
Whangamata
starting at 2pm
30th - Pub to Club Run
starting at 6pm
31st - Whanga Fun Walk
starting at 7.30am
1st - Mile Beach
Run
starting at 2pm
2nd - Super surfboat Spectacular
starting at 11am
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| Held Next: |
27 Dec - 2 Jan 2012 |
| Where: |
Whangamata Surf Club, Main Beach, Whangamata
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| Website: |
www.whangamatasurf.co.nz |
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 A FREE family 10-day festival celebrating
global unity, inner peace, creativity & healing the planet!
Free exhibition, free daily talks and
workshops on peace-initiatives, 10am-5pm.
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| Held Next: |
30 December 2011- 8 January
2012 10am - 5pm |
| Where: |
Whitianga Town Hall |
| Website: |
www.peace.co.nz |
| Contact: |
027 2929 699 or [email protected]
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4-day Music, Dance & Arts Festival
Join us for 4 Days of Bands, DJs, VJs Performers,
Drummers, Artists, Crafts stalls and Performance Café.
This family friendly festival includes an uplifting 4 day & 4
night festival with more than 100 workshops, music, art, dance, and the pristine
Opoutere beach for lazing on, swimming and long walks.
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| Held Next: |
30 December 2011– 3 January 2012
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| Where: |
Prana Eco Retreat, Opoutere |
| Website: |
www.prana.co.nz |
| Contact: |
07 865 7620 |
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 Come and have some fun in Whitianga on the
Coromandel Peninsula!
Arts and Craft stalls, Fun games and activities for the
whole family, Lots of delicious food, drinks, coffee, candy floss and other yummy
treats for all. Music and other entertainment from local artists, white elephant
stall, home baking and lots more. All proceeds to Hot Water Beach Lifeguards,
Whitianga Fire Brigade and St Johns Ambulance Whitianga.
Application for stall holders available here
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| Held Next:
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30 December 2011 | 9am - 4pm |
| Where: |
Taylors Mistake, Whitianga. |
| Contact:
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David Harvey 0274 878 363
[email protected]
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Coro Gold is back for 2011-12 with a new plan
that will see the festival expand to 2 days… Dec 30th and New Year’s Eve
In true Coro Gold style the line-up for each day will be epic. Throw in bigger bars,
more food, toilets and entertainment and its set to be the best Coro Gold yet!
There's also a new 3 night camping option so you can enjoy the sun, sand and beaches
while lapping up 2 massive festival days and nights.
Held in the beautiful surroundings of
Coromandel's Ohuka Farm, Coromandel Gold is 3 kilometres from Whitianga town centre
and a stone's throw from Buffalo Beach. Because the night will be so huge, camping
will be available on site and buses will be running from Whitianga and local beaches.
This is a New Years Eve party you don't want to miss.
Check out the website www.coromandelgold.co.nz
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| Held Next: |
30 - 31 Dec 2011 |
| Where: |
Ohuka Farm, Whitianga |
| Contact: |
www.coromandelgold.co.nz |
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4-day Music, Dance & Arts Festival
Join us for 4 Days of Bands, DJs, VJs Performers,
Drummers, Artists, Crafts stalls and Performance Café.
This family friendly festival includes an uplifting 4 day & 4
night festival with more than 100 workshops, music, art, dance, and the pristine
Opoutere beach for lazing on, swimming and long walks.
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| Held Next: |
30 December 2011– 3 January 2012
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| Where: |
Prana Eco Retreat, Opoutere |
| Website: |
www.prana.co.nz |
| Contact: |
07 865 7620 |
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A FREE family 10-day festival celebrating
global unity, inner peace, creativity & healing the planet!
Free exhibition, free daily talks and
workshops on peace-initiatives, 10am-5pm.
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| Held Next: |
30 December 2011- 8 January
2012 10am - 5pm |
| Where: |
Whitianga Town Hall |
| Website: |
www.peace.co.nz |
| Contact: |
027 2929 699 or [email protected]
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The Whangamata Summer Festival has been hosting this
event for over eleven years. It is the largest market in the region and is a myriad of
sights, sounds and smells with food, drink, craft, instruments, jewellery, fun rides
for the children, and much, much more.
The Craft Market day is hugely popular and is a fundraiser for the
week long festival 27th Dec - 2nd Jan.
Six nights of free entertainment, plus a
daytime kids programme from 10am each day
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| Held Next: |
27 Dec - 2 Jan |
| Where: |
Williamson Park, Whangamata |
| Contact: |
[email protected] |
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27th - 10km Run
starting at 6pm
28th - Harbour Swim
starting at 3pm
29th - Miss
Whangamata
starting at 2pm
30th - Pub to Club Run
starting at 6pm
31st - Whanga Fun Walk
starting at 7.30am
1st - Mile Beach
Run
starting at 2pm
2nd - Super surfboat Spectacular
starting at 11am
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| Held Next: |
27 Dec - 2 Jan |
| Where: |
Whangamata Surf Club, Main Beach, Whangamata
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| Website: |
www.whangamatasurf.co.nz |
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The Keltic Fair is one of
New Zealands most succesful fairs and the highlight
of the Coromandel holiday season.
Over 300 stalls, Arts and Crafts, Yummy Food, Entertainment all day around.
Over 15.000 visitors
Come to enjoy a full day of entertainment, kids rides, yummy food and a world of arts,
crafts and great value fair shopping!
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| Held Next:
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2 Jan 2012 |
| Where: |
Coromandel Town |
| Contact: |
www.kelticfair.co.nz |
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 Happy new year, New Zealand! It's holiday time. Come on
down to Whangamata School for a great day out with the family. Free entry. Free
entertainment. Great shopping, coffee and food. Open for 5 days.
Popular famous big fair that comes to town only once a year - thirty Gypsy families
in interesting house trucks and buses, come check out these fabulous homes.
Wooden crafts, tarot reading, palm reader, open home, crystals, herbal products,
LuckyStar coffee, funky clothes, silver jewellery, ethnic clothes, food, candyfloss,
glass blowing, bouncy castle, hip accessories, tattooing and piercing, hand painted
craft, pony rides, fork art, leather, minibikes and lots, lots more.
Live entertainment all day from our resident musician, Frank.
Come along for a great weekend out.
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| Held Next: |
1,2,3,4,5 Jan 2012 |
| Where: |
Whangamata Area School |
| Website: |
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The annual Market Day at
Kennedy Park in Pauanui is a fantastic way to spend the day, with entertainment for
the kids, great food and coffee, and over 100 different stalls selling everything from
arts and crafts to tools and clothing. Thousands flock to this event every year, and
there really is something for everyone!
Always a big event on the calendar and NOT to be missed!
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| Held Next:
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3 Jan 2012 |
| Where: |
Kennedy Park, Pauanui |
| Contact: |
Amber Cordero [email protected] |
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| Over 100 stalls; Games, Rides,
Food, Music, White Elephant and the Daisy Dung Drop. Fun for the whole family. All
proceeds to Whenuakite School |
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4 Jan |
| Where: |
Cooks Beach |
| Contact: |
[email protected] |
| Website: |
www.cooksbeachsummergala.co.nz |
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A Great Market Day!
Come and enjoy a day in Pollen Street with loads of stalls from local businesses and
visitors. kids amusements, buskers and great food.
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| Held Next:
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4 Jan 2012 |
| Where: |
Pollen Street, Thames |
| Contact: |
John 07 8689535 |
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| The annual Hahei market in Hahei
always has a huge variety of stalls, so come along and join the fun. The Market is the
onlyfundraiser for the Florence Harsant Community Library, run by volunteers, for the
community. |
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| Held Next:
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Friday 6th Jan 2012 |
| Where: |
Hahei |
| Contact: |
Maggie Walker 0210454546 - [email protected] |
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 A huge celebration of food, wine, arts and crafts
The Tairua Wine and Food festival is a ritual amongst holidaymakers in the Tairua and
Pauanui area. Over 10,000 people flock to the festival each year.
A huge array of food stalls, wine, beer,
entertainment and of course stacks of arts and crafts stalls.
The event is the major fundraiser of the year for picturesque Tairua School - which
sits on the Tairua Harbour and has a roll of just under 100 students - and is run
completely by parents and kind local volunteers.
There are no dogs allowed at the festival
since it is held on the school grounds and it is also a smokefree area
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| Held Next: |
7 January
2012 |
| Where: |
Tairua |
| Website: |
www.tairuawineandfood.co.nz |
| Contact: |
Tairua School 07 864 8590 |
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The Waihi Summer Festival has become a popular, recognized
institution for artists and art lovers alike over its 38 years. It's also a treasured
opportunity for talented people to meet other like-minded artists, and share their
views on the latest - or oldest - methods being used in their chosen craft.
Well known for being the biggest small town Exhibition on the arts calendar, the
annual Festival is promising to be bigger and better attended than ever.
This year, as well as the usual categories of Painting, Sculpture and Fibre Art,
Photography, Floral Art and Short Story Writing, the organizers have included a new
Poetry Section, a Young Photographer and a Young Artist Category.
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| Held Next:
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7 - 15 January 2012 |
| Website: |
www.waihi.org.nz |
| Where: |
Waihi |
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New
Zealands most spectacular multi sport event!
One of the most scenic and challenging multisport races on the
calendar. Three races that start close to and finish in the township of Coromandel
 The Moehau - 66km Multisport race. Set in the
shadow of the Moehau the race includes Sea kayaking, mountain biking and off road
running. The race is open to individuals and teams of up to 4 people.
Moehau Tri – 54km Off road Triathlon. Includes a 1.5km 0cean swim at Waitete
Bay, 12km Off road run and 36km of mountain biking.
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| Held Next: |
14 Jan 2012 |
| Where: |
Coromandel Town |
| Website: |
www.arcevents.co.nz |
| Contact: |
[email protected]
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 Stunning Setting, Swinging Sounds
You can't get a better setting than this. Set on a natural
ampitheatre near Pauanui. Three hours of fun filled music. All proceeds go to the
Westpac Rescue Helicopter Trust.
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| Held Next: |
28 January
2012 3.30pm - 9:00pm |
| Where: |
408 Settlement Road, Hikuai (Road
into Pauanui) |
| Website: |
www.concertintheorchard.com |
| Contact: |
Anne & Gary Fowler 07 8647839 or
email: [email protected] |
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 A must see live performance!
The Doobie Brothers and Little River Band....
performing on one stage at the inaugural Whitianga Waterways Summer Concert.
The Whitianga Summer Concert will be held at Waterways on South
Highway Sunday, 5 February. Gates open at 12noon, and the concert commences from 1pm,
with New Zealand band Late 80’s Mercedes.
Ticket Information:
$89.00 Per adult
General on sale Monday 12th September
through ticketek.co.nz or at following i-sites Whitianga, Whangamata,
Thames, Coromandel Town, Tairua and Pauanui
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Child under 11 years free when accompanied by
a paying adult.
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| Held Next: |
5 February 2012 | 12noon - 6.30pm
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| Where: |
Waterways South Highway - Whitianga
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| Website: |
www.jumpentertainment.co.nz |
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The Sounds & Soul of Scotland returns to
Paeroa!!
Whether there's a bit of Scot in you or not, this is a great day of entertainment
for the whole family as the picturesque Paeroa Domain takes on a festival
atmosphere.
Commencing with Highland Dancing, Solo Piping and an Axemans Chopping Carnival the
cultural extravaganza continues throughout the day.
At 11am witness the Clan's March to the Town Centre, see the big men Tossing the
Caber and competing in the strongmen events.Take the opportunity to meet the
Clan's and check out your genealogy.
At midday the Pipe Band's contest starts with 13 Pipe Bands from the upper North
Island competing in Set's and Medley competitions concluding with a street march
at 5.30pm.
The highlight for many will be the evening Tattoo at 6.30pm.This 2 1/2 hour
variety spectacular complete with the Paeroa castle is based on the famous
Edinburgh Tattoo in Scotland, and features Massed Pipe Bands, Highland Dancing,
Caber Tossing, Mace Flourshing, Woodchopping, Ode to the Haggis, Scottish singing
and much more.
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| Held Next: |
Saturday 11th February
2012, 9am till 9pm |
| Where: |
Paeroa
Domain |
| Website: |
www.paeroahighlandgames.co.nz |
| Contact: |
Russell 07 8627320 or [email protected] |
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This
is a popular day for the petrol heads and car enthusiasts. Held the day before the
“Battle of the Streets” bike races, so that people can come the day before
and see the cars and stop over for the bike racing the next day.
Swap meet stalls are set up early in the morning ready for a day’s
‘trading’ and stalls selling other things join them for a marketplace
atmosphere. Coffee carts and sausage sizzles fill the air with rich aromas and live
music keeps the tempo of the day. The racecourse opens it’s bar to cater for
those who want to “wet their whistle” with something a little stronger.
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| Held Next: |
Saturday 18 February 2012 |
| Where: |
Paeroa |
| Website: |
www.paeroa.org.nz |
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 17 races of Motorcycling
Mayhem!
The Battle of the streets is an institution in Paeroa. Check out New Zealand's top
riders as they ter up the street circuit set trough central Paeroa.
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| Held Next: |
Sunday 19 February
2012 |
| Where: |
Paeroa |
| Website: |
www.battleofthestreets.co.nz |
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Huge
marlin and tuna,
big prizes and
loads of partying! New Zealand’s
best and biggest
gamefishing
competitions
all take place
on the Coromandel
including:
Whangamata Nauti
Girls and Classic
Shimano Stand
Up, Tairua
Whitianga One
Base and Gamefishing
Classic
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| Held Next: |
February
2012 |
| Where: |
Whitianga & Whangamata |
| Website: |
www.gamebase.co.nz
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| Contact:
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Mercury Bay
Ocean Sports
Club [email protected]
Whangamata Ocean
Sports Club
07 865 8704
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 An arts trail
set in NZ's most stunning location!
The volcanic, beautiful but remote Coromandel Peninsula,
long a destination for outdoor enthusiasts intent on hiking, fishing, and bathing,
has also attracted a population of permanent and part-time residents; musicians,
sculptors, painters and crafts folk, whose life-style and products expand the
regions attractions.
For more info check the poster or website
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| Held Next: |
Next held in 2013 |
| Where: |
Coromandel Peninsula |
| Website: |
www.mercurybayartescape.com |
| Contact:
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[email protected]
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