The Wakefield Early Childhood community, Sport Tasman, Plunket and Public Health, have organized a trailer party to celebrate Childrens Day. To show the community the wonderful resoarse that the Active Movement trailer offers to families of children under 5. The event is free.

One of the highlights of the Nelson region's summer season. The Festival takes place in a picturesque setting, surrounded by vineyards and native bush. It brings together a range of wineries and boutique beers from the Nelson region with food and craft stalls from Nelson, Marlborough, the West Coast and Canterbury regions.

Now in its sixth year, the Festival is supported by a number of high-profile sponsors, has become a major event that raises funds to be ploughed back into local charitable and educational organisations. Don't miss it!

Richmond's own twilight wine, beer and food festival, set in Sundial Square, with banquet-style dining, music and entertainment for the whole family.

Mix and mingle and enjoy the finest foods, wines and beverages of the Nelson District. The Sprig & Fern Summer Fare is a family event, where everyone is welcome to come along and join in the festive atmosphere.

The Parrots Comedy Club Presents Mike King, as part of his 'The Heat is On' Summer Tour. Come and see this very well known comedian. Strictly R18 as some content may offend.

The band members are scattered around the country and are not often back together - this is a treat for Nelson, and them!

Emily and Jamie have toured all over the world delighting audiences with their imaginative mix of traditional and original songs and instrumentals.

The pair have been creating music together for 8 years. Previous tours of New Zealand have seen them play nationwide at a range of theatres and festivals as well as being interviewed and performing on TV1's Good Morning Show plus appearances on National Radio and Concert FM.

They met in 2002 when Emily had recently won the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award and was putting a band together. Jamie joined initially on fiddle but over the years has become an integral part of Smith's sound playing fiddle, whistle and lead guitar on recordings and live performances as well as co-producing Emily's latest solo album 'Too Long Away'.

On this tour Emily & Jamie will be promoting the release of their duo album of lesser known Robert Burns songs titled 'Adoon Winding Nith'.

They have recorded sessions for several BBC Radio 2 shows and receive regular airplay on BBC Radio Scotland. They recently headlined BBC One Scotland's Hogmanay Live TV show.

Harnessing gravity, the most powerful and mysterious of the unseen forces, the derby is an annual celebration of backyard ingenuity, recycled materials and daring, fun and furiously speedy downhill racing as part of the NCC Summer Festival with drivers aged from two to well in their 80s!

A carnival atmosphere and FREE entry for drivers and spectators alike ensures a fun day for all ages; starting at 10:30 with the GRUDGE RACES, then the HEATS from 11:00 and an afternoon packed with gravity-fuelled excitement, peaking at 3pm with the Bunnings MONARCH OF THE HILL

Get your design and build team together so you too can experience the thrill of the hill, with race, design and style categories for all ages

Add glamour to your design and create a matching costume and you might take home the trophy for STYLE-MEISTER OF THE HILL

Trolleys that cost less than $200 to build have a chance to win one of five BlueberryIT BACKYARD BRILLIANCE AWARDS with a $50 voucher from the recycling centre to buy parts AND advice from derby experts to help fit them

Community Education at UC is offering a series of history lectures in Nelson. These lectures will focus on aspects of the history of Scotland and will be presented by Frieda Looser.

Frieda is a long-term contributor to our programme in a wide range of fields exploring Medieval and early Modern Europe, as well as local history.

She has an MA(Hons) in history and is the author of Fendall’s Legacy, a history of the Christchurch suburb of Fendalton. Frieda has led UC Study Tours to Northumbria, the Welsh Borders, and Devon and Cornwall, and the Community Education Abroad tour to East Anglia and Cambridge. She will lead a forthcoming 2010 tour to Scotland.

The Making of Scotland: Skara Brae to Strathclyde
Saturday 27 February, 10.00am - 12noon

Scotland's Northern Isles: Shetland and Orkney
Saturday 27 February, 2.00pm - 4.00pm

Edinburgh: Proud Bastion of the Scots
Sunday 28 February, 2.00pm - 4.00pm

The Women's Lifestyle Expos have been well anticipated weekends in New Zealand since 1996. Held as annual events in nine cities around New Zealand, the Expos bring together an extensive variety of services and products aimed at today's women.

The Nelson Expo will have more than 100 exhibitors featuring everything from jewellery and health products to business products and information, crafts, fitness and beauty products, food and wine sampling, home wares, education providers and much more

The Women's Lifestyle Expo is open over two days between 10.00am and 5.00pm and is a major event not to be missed. Children under 12 are free.

Peggy Seeger is a superb songmaker and singer of Anglo-American traditional song, an outstanding multi-instrumentalist, a feminist speaker of wit and insight. She's a legend in her own time, with over 50 years of concerts, 20 solo albums, 100 joint recordings with other singers and 200 original songs, among which are Balland of Springhill and Gonna Be An Engineer. Peggy accompanies herself on guitar, banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and piano.

Expect an impressive combination of traditional and contemporary songs about animals, smoking, murder, politics, homornes, jobs, peacemongering, children and other people, love and lovers, the earth and ecology. Peggy will be joined onstage by Irene Pyper-Scott and instrumentalist Nathan Torvik.

The evening will open with special guests Cairde, Nelson's popular female Celtic "group of friends".

This concert is a benefit for the Nelson Women's Centre: a growth, healing and resource centre serving over 4000 women each year in the Nelson Tasman region. BOOK TICKETS NOW: we are advertising nationally and this is Peggy's only 2010 concert in New Zealand!

Two of the best 'live' bands around plus local acts Gripper, Blasura Blanca and Grandad's Wedding all for a very sweet and easy $10
If you like 'real' original music and like to dance in a non-threatening environment then this is the night for you. It's got eveything one could ask for - rock, punk, ska, funk. prog, comedy, pop and no dub! Yes! Come and party and have the night of your life

Lilly's Ladies Night is all about the LADIES!!

Featuring Lilly (DJ), Jen Calder (Acoustic) and more to be announced!!!
Also there will art on display from Local Nelson Women.
$5 entry at Phat.

Gentlemen bring your lady down to Phat for a drink and a boogie and who knows what the night will lead to!!

Ladies bring your group of girls and celebrate being women!!!
Reeeeooow!!!!

Explore, Experience, Discover. Nelson’s Saturday market defies description.

For many years, artists of every kind have been gravitating to the sunny, open-minded region of Nelson. Art trails allow visitors to see potters, painters, sculptors, weavers and ceramicists at work. The Saturday market in Montgomery Square is another way to experience the creativity of Nelson's community.

Here you find real people, hard cash and products made and produced by the people who are selling them.

Prowl the lanes between the hundreds of stalls for Nelson's best; crafts, pottery, unique gifts,designer wear, woodwork, organic veges, breads, fruit, cheeses, gourmet foods and treasures ... treat yourself at the food stalls!

An approximately 60km circuit capturing the essence of the Moutere, taking riders through idyllic rural communities, past anglers challenged by the trout of the Motueka River, along charming valley flats and past a bevy of boutique and cottage industries before returning to enjoy the charming surrounds of Woollaston Estates.

EVERY FINISHER WILL RECEIVE A BOTTLE OF TUSSOCK WINE STRAIGHT FROM THE CELLAR
(Under 18 entrants will get a bottle of sparkling grape juice)

The National Masters Hockey Tournament will be held in Nelson in 2010.

A benefit performance of Nelson music for The Nelson ARK featuring BOOGIE TRAIN. Also appearing - Joe Rifici, William Fairburn, Judah Seomeng, Arianne Baker, JullietteAyre, Francis Paolo Meria, Kane Hogan
Concert at Crusoe's Cafe at Robinson's, Stoke on Sunday 28 February at 2 pm. Food and drinks available. Admission $10 in advance/$12 at the door. Tickets available from Everyman Records and Crusoe's Cafe

This 2-hour workshop is a basic introduction to song writing, including song structure, lyrics, rhyme and rhythm. No instruments necessary but bring a guitar/ukulele if you play one. Children will write at least a chorus and perform it during the session. Adults don’t have to stay. Paper and pens supplied. Email Kath to enrol at songs4kids@gmail.com

Former Dux of Nelson College, Buz Bryant-Greene is returning to Nelson at the end of the month to perform Chopin's Sonata in B-flat minor at the Happy Birthday Chopin Concert at the Nelson School of Music. Having studied under Sarah Lewis and Mary Ayre in Nelson and achieving his DipABRSM, he began his BMus at Canterbury University where he studied under Deidre Irons.
Buz will be joining local musicians in this celebration of Chopin's 200th Birthday.
Frederic Chopin is known as the “poet of the piano”. The concert includes a selection of piano pieces, performed by local pianists, Alan K. Gray, Anne Shearer and Sarah Lewis.
Whilst Chopin composed primarily for the piano, he wrote occasionally for other instruments. The Scherzo movement from Chopin's only, and rarely performed, Piano Trio will be performed by Kathleen Barnett, Jillian Carey, and Ingrid Peek. John Tompson will be performing a nocturne arranged for violin and Natalia Ivchenko, accompanied by Valerie Towse will be singing Chopin's “A Maiden's Wish.
The concert is presented by S.T.E.A.M (Students and Teachers Extension and Appreciation of Music) and has been compiled and directed by Gaelynne Pound.

Prowl the stalls for bargains at the Nelson Sunday flea market.

Second-hand clothing and items, produce, plant and food stalls.

A treasure and bargain seekers delight!

Family fun day to celebrate National Childrens' Day.  Bring your picnic lunch for entertainment, activities and info.

Music in the Park at Isel Park.  Nelson City Brass and Morris Dancing.  Colonial Teas available. 

From Cardiff to Canberra and now New Zealand, women of a certain age can finally unite behind a common fear of graying hairs and sagging rears. Around the world it is suddenly OK to celebrate the cellulite.

Following a 40 date sell out UK tour and a West End run at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Ave, Grumpy Old Women has had thousands of women filling theatres across the world and leaving hundreds of men with no idea what they were going to have for their dinner.

Finally – and just in time for that perfect Christmas gift for the Grumpy People in your life -Grumpy Old Women comes to New Zealand, with an all kiwi cast, new cities to explore and new loos to try out.

Director David McPhail urges the men of New Zealand to take the Grumpy Women in their lives out for an evening of fun, with this sensational UK comedy hit.

Heading the New Zealand cast of Grumpy Old Women is Film and TV leading lady and Dancing With The Stars diva, Geraldine Brophy!!!

Starting on the renowned Kaiteriteri beachfront follow the undulating and picturesque coastline before climbing the Sandy Bay Hill. Following the steady descent to Sandy Bay there's more undulating coastline as you make your way back to finish on the golden sands of Kaiteriteri.

You will follow Kaiteriteri Rd through to Riwaka turnoff. Continue straight (towards Takaka) and turn right onto Sandy Bay/Marahau Rd (the start of the infamous hill!) and then a 'dogleg' towards Marahau after which it's a left turn toward Kaiteriteri, around the bays to finish at the beach.

The Rotary Club of Nelson West is hosting the Boulder Bank Challenge on Sunday 21 March.  Buses departing at 8.30am, 9.30am and 10.30am will take people from Wakefield Quay to the start of the walk at end of Boulder Bank Drive.  People can then walk the length of the Boulder Bank, around 10km, which could take up to three hours.  The walk can be difficult with a lot of boulder hopping so good footwear is recommended.

The Lighthouse will be accessible and other features will be described in a handout and a map to be provided.  The owner of one of the six remaining baches on the Boulder Bank plans to have their bach open to visitors and be available to talk about it and the Boulder Bank in general on the day.

Drinks and some food will be available for sale but it is recommended that you pack your own lunch.  The Coastguard will provide boats to return people back to Wakefield Quay from the city end of the Boulder Bank (be prepared to get your feet wet).  The last boat leaves at 4pm. 

Tickets purchased by 18 March are $12 for adults and $7 for children 14 or under.  Tickets are available from Stoke Garden & Landscapes, Sand and Land and the Magazine Shop.  Tickets on the day will cost $15 per head, or $10 for children.  Funds raised will go towards a new Coastguard rescue vessel.

Men only triathlon.

Run 5km or Walk 3km
Cycle (Road) 14km

And finish with Swim of 133yds (four lengths of Riverside Pool).

MarchFest is moving to April but keeping the name MarchFest - well, why not? The Munich Oktoberfest is actually in September so there is a precedent for our quirkyness.

The theme for MARCHFeST 2010 is 'creation' - to celebrate the creative acts of making beer, wine, food as well as great music. We may also be creating our own electricity!

This MARCHFeST will present TEN NEW CRAFT BEERS created especially for the event by TEN different craft breweries in the top of the south. This aspect alone makes MARCHFeST a unique event in New Zealand.

Acts already booked for 2010 include Don McGlashan, The Eastern, Carmen Salvador Band from Chile, The Immigrants, Ras Judah and Daham and the La Vida String Quartet..

Set in the beautiful, traffic-free environment of Nelson's Founders Heritage Park, MarchFest is Nelson's hip harvest hop festival celebrating craft beers, regional wines, slow food and eclectic music.

The 2010 MarchFest will be weatherproof – all activity areas have the potential to be sheltered from sun, wind or rain. Cool stuff for kids and families too!

MarchFest is geared towards people who make informed choices about their food, drink, musical taste and want to attend a family-friendly event, which is safe, fun and a bit different to the run-of-the-mill festival. An event for people who want to savour.. not just consume!

Trailrun/Trailwalk. 25km circuit of Lake Rotoiti, Nelson Lakes National Park.

Limited to 300 entries.

The Nelson Winter Festival runs over three weeks every July (and has been running strong in the local community for 15 years). 
More to come when Nelson School of Music release their 2010 Winter Festival programme.

WASA! Wild and Sneaky Art is a new event scheduled to debut over nine days in early October this year to help people celebrate their own inner artist.  Wild and Sneaky Art invites visitors to bring themselves as the artist and get immersed in or have fun watching art unfold as a living canvas in the Nelson CBD.  The Wild and Sneaky challenge for Nelson and its visitors is to surprise themselves as to how creative they can be.    The festival will offer a mix of free public events, ticketed iconic celebrations, workshops, competitions and more.

Nelson is a cyclist's haven, especially with our mild weather in October.  A week long programme of serious racing and a few fun events in between.  For cyclists of all ages and abilities, and those wanting both serious and fun events, the week long programme will feature something for everyone.  A range of road racing, BMX and mountain biking will make up the mix of both competitive and social rides.

Pool C match in the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Pool C match in the 2011 Rugby World Cup.