A new summer festival is coming to Pōneke, organised by the wonderful people who bring us the Verb Festival and The Spinoff. It’s called The Garden Party, and it promises to be a fabulous celebration of music, talks and food aimed at the whole family.
So, gather friends and whānau and come along to the Botanic Garden Soundshell on the 20th and 21st of February for a weekend full of the interesting and the delicious!
Details
When?
Saturday 20 February & Sunday 21 February, 10am – 3:30pm
Where?
Botanic Garden Soundshell — View on Google Maps
What’s on the programme?
The full timetable will be out on 9 February, but Festival artists include Witi Ihimaera, Elizabeth Knox, Noelle McCarthy, Leonie Hayden, Linda Clark, Toby Manhire, Toby Morris, Rachel Haydon and many more.
For a full list of artists and the very latest details, visit Verb Wellington’s Garden Party website.
Entry to the festival is free or by donation if you can.
Giveaway
To celebrate this upcoming series of events, we have a copy of The Nature Activity book by Rachel Haydon to give away — along with a (very stylish) Verb Tote bag!
To go into the draw, email us at enquiries@wcl.govt.nz and tell us which Garden Party event excites you the most this year and why.
The winner will notified via email. Good luck!
Sneak peek
Navigating the Stars – Taki Rua Productions and Witi Ihimaera
Verb Wellington in partnership with Taki Rua Productions bring Witi Ihimaera’s new book Navigating The Stars off the page, in a special Garden Party performance reading with live music directed and led by Maiava Nathaniel Lees.
Songs, Stories, Sass and Splash — Sacha Cotter & Josh Morgan in The Treehouse
Illustrator Josh Morgan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata) and author Sacha Cotter together are the amazing storytelling/songwriting/award-winning-picture-book-making team, Cotter & Morgan. Together they have created Keys/Ngā Kī, The Marble Maker/Te Kaihanga Māpere, and the 2019 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, The Bomb/Te Pohū – all published by HUIA.
Sunday 21 February
11.30am: Watch out for Sacha and Josh in the Big Fun Family Quiz
12.10pm: Songs, Stories, Sass & SPLASH with Sacha Cotter & Josh Morgan in the Treehouse
Big Fun Family Quiz — with hosts Toby Morrs & Toby Manhire
Toby Morris & Toby Manhire (The Spinoff) host a quiz full of fun questions for the whole family with special cameo guests. Win prizes, come dressed as your favourite book characters for bonus points.
Sunday 21 February, 11.30am
…And there are loads of other activities planned too (flag making, nature activity fun with Rachel Haydon, a treasure hunt, string ‘o’ spells, and the nature activity book walking tour), so keep an eye out for the full timetable coming soon on Verb Wellington’s The Garden Party webpage.