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ArtnTartan – Week 3 Tartan Week
And the winner was… SEAWITCH
Another fabulous Waipu extravaganza – as Huw Turner said to me yesterday, another amazing example of Waipu “punching above its weight”.
I attended the Friday night performance of ArtnTartan and it was spell binding, a tribute to all those involved – Helen Frances and her team, those who put the work in creating and those who put the hard work in making the event happen. Read more
Tartan Week all set to go….
Tartan Week celebrations in Waipu 30 June – 14 July
Events are mostly focused during the weekends, but we hope to expand that in years to come. Full timetable here
Highlights include:
Saturday 3o June 6-10am Snow and Breakfast at the Kasbah with Classic Hits Radio
10am – Waipu Pipe Band Parades with all tartan wearers invited to join in – $50 for best dressed
Enjoy our own street theatre adaptation of “Shaking of the Trousers”
11.30 Tartan at the Races in Ruakaka
6.30pm “A Braw Scots Night” at the Clansman Restaurant
Haggis Tasting at Waipu Butcher- Sunday 1 July 10am Kirkin o’ the Tartan at Presbyterian Church
12 – historic tour of the Waipu Cemetery 
Monday 2 July and Monday 9 July 7pm Scottish Country Dancing at Coronation Hall- Friday 6 July 3-6pm Tartan Circus workshops and show, Coronation Hall
5.30 Tarts in Tartan Netball Caledonian Park
7.30 Men in Kilts Rugby Challenge Caledonian Park - Saturday 7 July 9-1pm Waipu Hall Market Coronation Hall
11am Pets in Tartan parade with Waipu Highland Pipe band
7pm Tart’nRock Dance Party
Haggis Tasting at Waipu Butcher - Sunday 8 July 9-1pm Sunday Boutique Market Coronation Hall
2pm Mid Winter Swim, Waipu Cove Surf Club - Friday 13 July - Tartan Week Community Golf Tournament Waipu Golf Club
- 13-14 July Artntartan Wearable Arts Coronation Hall
TART’N’ROCK Dance Party
Dress as your favourite Rock star with a tartan twist!
7pm until late Saturday 7 July
Coronation Hall
DJs Finger food, fun photo booth Courtesy Van
Tickets $20 before 1 July then $25
Available Hammer Hardware Waipu and Unichem Ruakaka
A Fund raiser for Radio Waves Waipu 105.6fm
Tartan Week 2012
July 1st is International Tartan Day – celebrating the day in 1782 when the ban by the English on the wearing of Tartan was lifted, and what had been traditional highland dress became the proud emblem of nationalism in Scotland.
Waipu may be just a small town of about 500 folk, but nearly double that number of Gaelic speaking highlanders built a community here after having been burned out of their crofts in Scotland. That action began a remarkable migration across the globe, via Nova Scotia and Australia, and finally arriving to settle here in Waipu.
The story of the migration is told in the Waipu Museum, and is reflected in the greeting as you arrive in Waipu – Cead Mille Failte – A Hundred Thousand Welcomes.
From June 30 for over two weeks, Waipu will be awash with tartan and invites everyone who loves the energy of Scotland to join in the fun. There is something for everyone from the Artntartan Wearable Arts, to pets in tartan and mid winter swims. The Rugby Men in Kilts and Tarts in Tartan Netball will be playing once again and Classic Hits Breakfast show will broadcast live from 6am on 30 June from new Waipu Restaurant L’amour de Kasbah..
You can taste some haggis at the Waipu Butcher, try a Haggis Burger at the Waipu Pizza Barn, or buy a tartan scarf at the Thistle. And of course there will be bagpipes, highland dancing and the Waipu Scottish Country Dancing .
PEOPLE IN TARTAN Join the opening Parade at 10am on 30 June and you could be in to win a $50 prize for the best tartan dressed tartan person – can be either ‘correct’ tartan or outlandish. Dig out some tartan to wear and come and join us.
PETS IN TARTAN Join the Pets in Tartan Parade 11am Saturday 7 July
Look or Print off the full programme here
Draft Tartan Week Programme now out….
The counter on the home page of this website is counting down to Tartan Week – 4 months and 13 days and counting.
Draft Programme for Tartan Week is out Read it here
The programme is not finalised, so feel free to add more suggestions- start planning your tartan outfits – off to the op shops NOW
- Join in the parade in your tartan outfit on 30 June and you could win a $50 prize – 3 prizes for the most ‘Correct’, most outlandish, most creative
- Have you sorted out a tartan outfit for your pet?
PLAN YOUR OUTFITS NOW
FOR YOU
THE KIDS
THE PETS …
Art n Tartan – time to get those entries underway
Yes its happening again – more shows, more entries, another fantastic Waipu production.
Waipu Coronation Hall – 13 & 14 July 2012
Let your fancy take flight!
You are invited to help create the 2012 Waipu Museum ‘Art n Tartan’ Wearable Art Awards to be held on Friday 13 (evening show) and Sat.14 July (matinee and evening show) at the Waipu Coronation Hall.
Entries Close on 18th of May 2012
Entry Forms can be downloaded as a PDF from this link
Highlights from last year
Art n Tartan 2011 – DVD out
Were you one of those who missed out on tickets to ArtnTartan 2011 Wearable Arts, or maybe you just want another look at this fabulous show.
The DVD of the Art’n'Tartan Show, made by Peter Grant. I am told it is really good. Copies are available from the Waipu Museum - $20 each.
Behind the Artntartan Wearable Arts awards…
Sue Welford always has her camera with her, and has taken some fabulous shots of behind the scenes at the Waipu Museum ArtnTartan Wearable Arts Awards
See all her photos on Facebook here
Art’ n Tartan – and the winners are>>>
Those who were behind the second Waipu Museum Art n Tartan Wearable Arts Awards are to be commended for their efforts – another absolutely stunning event full of creativity, zest and zing. A fabulous show – Links to photos at bottom of this post.
Look out in Waipu Shops for the Art n Tartan Exhibition for next 3 weeks
ART N TARTAN 2011 – Photos and 2011 DVD available – for information click here
Peter Davies Photos of 2011 Art n Tartan and Here
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2011 Supreme Award
Thanks to those who dreamed up the idea
- Thanks to the Waipu Museum for taking the risk and getting behind it
- Thanks to Director Helen Francis and her team of enthusiastic volunteers who turned the idea into a visual spectacular again this year.
- Thanks to those who made entries – the thousands of hours of time and the love and dollars that went into each individual piece
And the Winners are:
Mask Category – Sponsored by Kids 1st in Waipu
- Winner – Tree Masks
- 2nd Place – The Thistle Brothers
- 3rd Place – Masked Warrior
Fireside Stories from the Land of Myths – Sponsored by Gilmore Brown
- Winner – Mythical Fish
- 2nd Place – Lochness Monster-ette
Warrior of Seven Sons
Warrior of Seven Sons
Warriors, Druids and Bards – Sponsored by Urlich McNab Kilpatrick
- Winner – Blanket me with Colour
- 2nd Place – Warrior of Seven Sons
McKiwi – Sponsored by Waipu ITM
- Winner – Pohutukawa Frenzy
- 2nd Place – Cultures Crossing the Borders
Braveheart – Sponsored by Northport
- Winner – Tsuna’ Mc’ee
- 2nd Place – The Bride was Half Scottish
Dressed to Kilt – Sponsored by Waipu Real Estate
- Winner – The Queen of Tartan
- 2nd Place – Are you game enough
The Award for an Outstanding Entry by a College Student sponsored by Liz Manning
- Winner – Bumble Bee 2011 Style
The Bride was Half Scottish
The Bride was Half Scottish
The Holly Robinson Memorial Award for a Highly Commended entry by a College Student
- Winner – Mete McLaren
Alison Turner Memorial – Supreme Award
- Supreme Winner – Tsuna’ Mc’ee
ART N TARTAN 2011 – Exhibition
There will be an Exhibition of a selection of artworks after the shows, starting with the Supreme Award held at the Waipu Museum, displayed in a range of main Street Shops, ending at ITM. Maps for the shops displaying artworks will be available from Waipu Museum the week following the shows.
ART N TARTAN 2011 – Photos and 2011 DVD available – for information click here
