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Event fund supports a summertime full of endless event options.

Te Puke Sikh Parade held on 30 September 2023 at Gurudwara Temple, Centennial Park....

Rugby returns to Mount Maunganui Main Beach this December.

Rugby is often refined to grass fields, school grounds and local parks. Occasionally, however, you may have spotted a local team training or group of friends throwing a ball around on the beach.A condensed beach version of the internationally recognised rollicking, dynamic game is returning to Mount Maunganui after its 2022 debut and a successful six seasons in Australia. New Zealand Beach 5s Rugby is a five aside sand-based event based on modified rules of rugby. With no lineouts, no scrums, an...

Tauranga STEM Festival celebrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics as you've never seen before.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM for short, is happening all around us, all the time, without most people ever realising. Young people use technology daily, and Tauranga is a hub for STEM, whether it’s engineering innovators tucked away in pockets around the city, marine scientists out on the moana or educators at the University of Waikato.Tauranga STEM Festival (STEMFest) is a hands-on, learn-by-doing festival that celebrates discovering things you didn’t know befor...

Somi Kim performing one of Mozart’s timeless concerto’s with Opus Orchestra

Somi Kim, South Korean-born New Zealand pianist....

Rhymes & Lyrics - The event blending hip-hop and RnB with poetry for National Poetry Day

Hip-hop and RnB are not what most people think of when they hear ‘National Poetry Day’. However, Craft, the co-share space for the film, radio, and television industry in Tauranga, has developed a new event to showcase poetry in a new light.Developed to do something different than the usual poetry slam, Rhymes & Lyrics was created to showcase the hip-hop side of poetry and expose the local hip-hop talent from the Bay of Plenty and national artists.Rhymes & Lyrics will offer original ...

Tauranga Western Bay events receive a $223,000 funding injection

STEMFest 2022, photo credit: STEMFest...

Tauranga Western Bay Community Event Fund bigger than ever

Tauranga Multicultural Festival 2023, photo credit: Katie Cox....