Welcome to May’s edition of ReCooper8! This month, Coops and Katie chatted to nomadic star-gazer extraordinaire Becky Bateman of Under the Stars to find out what we can see in our skies above this month, and all the delightful happenings at Aratoi; the indefatigable Jane Ross about the upcoming Wairarapa Film Festival; Nikki King about … More May’s edition of ReCooper8
I was lucky enough to catch up with Peter Murray, president of the Wairarapa Railway Modeller’s Society, ahead of the Society’s show in May at Carterton Events Centre. The show sounds fantastic, and you can buy tickets here. Thank you Peter for your time! And see you at the show!
Oh, didn’t we have fun! Thank you to Jen Olson for the music appreciation, to Kathy Bartlett for the art, sex ed awareness and all round sass, to Nikki King for the muscles, the fitness inspo, and of course the Talent Wairarapa intel, and to Peter Murray for the lowdown on the upcoming model train … More April’s show available now!
This week, Sav, Mike and Pete, aka SPOKED, pedalled into Wairarapa having completed roughly half of the TA, the Tour Aotearoa. Katie and Lucy caught up with them in Parkvale, Carterton, just before they pushed on to The Top Pub in Greytown to see their family and friends for couple of days R&R. SPOKED are … More SPOKED – progress update
Throughout February 2021, the Miracle Room in Featherston will host Carterton-based artist, Rosalie Jurczenko, and her beautiful exhibition, Seen/Unseen. I caught up with Rosalie and gallery owner, Campbell Kneale, to talk about the exhibition and the wonder that is the Miracle Room. My sincere thanks to Rosalie and Campbell for sharing their time with me. … More Interview with artist Rosalie Jurczenko
Katie and Coops started 2021 with a bang with some fabulous guests! We drank wine with vino-entrepreneur Richie Ferguson from Down to Find Wines; chatted night skies with Friend of the Show and stargazer par excellance Becky Bateman; got to know COVID-refugee, photographer and podcaster Carmel Jane; and rounding off the show nicely, talking up … More Happy New Year! Jan’s edition of ReCooper8
Not as tardy as November’s show, but still… anyway, we are here now with December’s offering. Katie and Coops had the pleasure to explore music appreciation in our semi-regular feature with the wonderful Jen Olson; the boys from SPOKED and Jane Cooper from Alexia Wines! It was a biggy! (Please note: We had a couple … More December 2020’s edition of ReCooper8
Check out November 2020’s show … More November 2020’s episode
On 14th November at 3pm at Featherston’s beautiful Anzac Hall, Annabel Langbein, Aotearoa’s most popular cookbook author, will be in conversation with Wellington based journalist and food critic David Cohen about her new memoir “Bella: My Life In Food“. The event is part of Featherston Booktown’s Words in November. Before and after An Afternoon with … More Featherston Booktown: Words in November with Annabel Langbein
Catch up with ReCooper8’s October 2020 edition! … More October’s edition of the show!
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