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Introducing our Conference Christmas Buffet Menu! 🎄 Perfect for everything from small-scale meetings to larger…
🏊♀️ School Holiday Private Lessons – A Few Spots Left! 🏊♂️ Looking for a great…
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SCHOOL HOLIDAYS AT THE MUSEUM Looking for something fun, creative and inspiring these school holidays?…
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Led by carver and artist Kahu Paki Paki, this exhibition is an intimate portal of…
Our city centre, free family day of fun is Saturday 24th October. This vibrant block…
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The Big SPRING Street Party – FREE: Nelson Arts Festival
Our city centre, free family day of fun is Saturday 24th October. This vibrant block…
Announcing the appointment of Ali Boswijk as our new Director: Hiwa
Big News! We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Ali Boswijk as our new…
Django Junkies are taking over Fanny’s for an afternoon on Sunday 27 Sept.
Sunday sounds, the Django way. On Sunday 27 September, from 3–6pm, we’re bringing the sounds…
Virtual Tours
Step into Nelson City’s great Virtual Reality shopping experience. Be able to walk through Nelson places without leaving home.
Recipes
Chicken and Lettuce Fried Rice | Quick and Easy Fried Rice
Credit: Cook! Stacey Cook
Chicken Masala Handi Restaurant Style | Chicken Boneless Handi | Boneless Chicken Gravy
Credit: Spice Eats
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Romesh FINALLY Calls out Holly | Play To The Whistle
Joey and Ross Start a Rebellion at the Museum | Friends
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Join a team of volunteers helping at aid stations, trail and road marshaling or registration. Be part of this unique multi-day running festival.
Simply get in touch with Sirena at volunteers@thespectacle.co.nz, and she’ll find a role that works for you.
The Spectacle #thespectacle #runthespectacle #nelson #nelsontasman #uniquelynelson #uniquelynelsonWe’re on the hunt for our 2026 volunteer legends! 🙌
It’s our incredible team of volunteers who have helped bring The Spectacle to life over the past two years, and this year we’re looking for almost 200 legends to help make it happen again!
To say a huge THANK YOU for giving up your time and energy, every volunteer will receive a Spectacle volunteer tee - so you can look the part while cheering, directing, supporting and generally making race-day magic happen!
If you’ve got the time and capacity to volunteer this year, we’d love to hear from you.
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Cherry Blossom Festival – This Weekend
This spring, Nelson will celebrate a momentous milestone with our sister city, Miyazu, marking 50 years of friendship, cultural exchange and connection between the two cities.
Nelson Miyazu Sister City Association Chairperson Linley Smith says it is wonderful to be celebrating 50 years of the sister city relationship.
“This friendship was started due to the similarities between the Nelson Boulder Bank and the Miyazu sand bridge Amanohashidate and has endured over the years thanks to successive mayors from both cities and the dedicated sister city association members.”
Five decades later, that friendship has grown into one of New Zealand’s longest-standing sister city relationships. The milestone will be celebrated at this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival at Miyazu Garden on Saturday 26 September, from 11am to 3pm.
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Nelson Clay Week Returns to Celebrate Aotearoa’s Thriving Ceramics Community
Nelson Clay Week attracts hundreds of potters and ceramicists to Nelson for a series of exhibitions, workshops and events, to exchange techniques and ideas, and to show their work.
As a biennial event, Hiwa (Arts Council Nelson) is working with Creative Directors Jamie Smith and Tom Baker to create a celebration of pottery, as a craft, an artform and an industry that has had a massive impact on Nelson and New Zealand since the 1950s.
“Nelson has long been a centre for pottery, and we are embracing and sharing the creative knowledge, expertise and passion to nourish and inspire the current and future generations,” said Hiwa Project Manager Andy Meldrum.
“Nelson Clay Week brings together some of the country’s best potters, to teach, and to take part in the workshops. This year, we also welcome some international guests, extending our reach, and cementing this event as one of the country’s essential art gatherings.”
“As the third Clay Week, we know that pottery has broad appeal, and we look forward to welcoming everyone to our free events. We’re particularly enthusiastic about this year’s Potters Square at upper Trafalgar Street, which will have demonstrations every day, as well as the opportunity for everyone to make clay animals.”
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Experience the sanctuary after dark – 25% OFF
When the sun goes down, the forest comes alive. Step beyond the gates and join us for A Night in the Forest — a guided night-time adventure.
- Discover glowing glowworms
- Hear the sounds of the nocturnal forest
- Listen for the distinctive call of kiwi
- Experience the forest in a whole new way
Along the way, discover the story behind the Sanctuary’s conservation work and how we’re helping restore native forest and protect some of Aotearoa’s most precious wildlife.
GET 25% OFF Book your night tour in September or October 2026 and use code NIGHT25 at checkout. New bookings only.
Every booking helps support the ongoing conservation work at the Sanctuary.
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54 people could keep our doors open
For 25 years, Magenta Creative Space has been Whakatū Nelson’s only free, walk-in, artist-led creative space. Supporting people navigating mental health, disabled artists, rangatahi, seniors experiencing social isolation and other underserved creatives to sustain a creative practice, exhibit their work publicly, and find belonging in a welcoming creative community.
Magenta is running a fundraising campaign on Boosted at the moment for $21,000, and it’s all or nothing. If we don’t reach the target by 6 October, we don’t get any of it. There are 20 days left to raise the remaining $2,705 we need to reach our target. 54 people giving $50 would do it!
Funds raised will go to tutor wages, art materials and studio consumables, the youth programme, exhibition and gallery costs, and core operating costs including rent, power and insurance.
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Come for the comedy. Stay because you’re laughing too hard to leave!
Yes, this year we have some of Aotearoa's most dynamic comedy voices coming to Nelson!
Want to catch two comedy shows at The Boathouse on the same night? You’ll get 10% off each ticket when you book tickets to two Comedy Double Bill performances. Two shows, one big night of laughs!
The Boathouse is also taking bookings for pre-show drinks and dinner, so you can grab a bite, settle in and enjoy a full night out.
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Te Tauihu Accessibility Expo – Sunday 13 September 2026 at Trafalgar Centre!
The Te Tauihu Accessibility Expo is back on Sunday 13 September — here’s what you can expect!
Following a fantastic inaugural year that welcomed more than 500 people, the Te Tauihu Accessibility Expo returns on Sunday 13 September, from 10am–3pm at the Trafalgar Centre, Nelson — and this year it’s set to be even bigger!
This free community event is dedicated to people of all abilities, their whānau, friends and supporters.
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Politicians, policies, and everyone in between; he’s here to skewer them all.
ONE NIGHT RANT
The Boathouse, Nelson | Fri 30 Oct | 9pm
There’s three things you can count on this election year: Ministerial soundbites that age like milk, policy walk-backs hours after announcements, and James Nokise having hot comedic takes on the chaotic campaigns around the country.
One Night Rant returns in 2026 with a new hour of frenetic, furious, funny stand-up aimed at politicians across the spectrum — no party or policy is safe. Book early: this is the one show where the news cycle does half the research for a night of comedy, catharsis, and fist-shaking, boot-stomping fun.
Supported by: Uniquely Nelson
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