Waipu in Tartan 2013
Tartan Week – yes it is happening again in 2013, but it is being renamed
WAIPU IN TARTAN
Dates for 2013
29 June – 14th July
Same web address www.waipu-tartan.co.nz New Facebook Page
New co-ordinators: Nikki Collins and Sarah Archer
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Calendar of Events (Draft at this Stage!!)
| First it was Tartan Day as part of Winter@Waipu, then it was Tartan Week, and then it was Tartan Two Weeks. We decided a new name was needed – so it is Waipu in Tartan |  |
Saturday 29 July – 31 July
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Saturday 29th June 11.30am on
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Ruakaka Racecourse
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Sunday 30th June Tee off from 3pm
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Waipu Golf Club
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| Monday 1st July International Tartan Day Tartan Pipe Band Parade 11am Celebrate International Tartan Day with us. Young and old invited to don their tartan and join the parade. Prize for best dressed. Street Theatre – some local lads will once again be shaking off their trousers and and donning a wee bit of tartan and the Plod will be there keeping a watchful eye From Pizza Barn to Caledonian park. Waipu Primary School will take part. |
Celebrate International Tartan Day in Waipu  |
Tuesday 2nd July
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Friday 5th July
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Saturday 6th Saturday Festivities
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Are you rough enough? Waipu Mud Run  |
7pm Saturday 6 July Glamour in the Gloamin’
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 The Celtic FlyersTickets will sell out so get in quick! |
Sunday 7th July10am Kirkin of the Tartan – Waipu Presbyterian Church 10am-3pm Waipu Wellbeing MacClean motto – Honor Thine Virtue - Join us in this hands on expo and showcase of the local Well Being providers around Waipu. Stalls, workshops. treatments and refreshment.
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Monday 8th July 5.15pm -6.45pm
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Wed 10 July 7pmWaipu Tavern All welcome All to contestants to wear tartan!
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Saturday 13th July
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Sunday 14th July
Tartan Taniwha Competition – Use recycled/found/ household products, this can be made prior to the day & brought along & placed for judging or made on the beach on the day! Prizes for best junior and senior creations. |
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Waipu Caledonian Games 2013
I did not make it to the Games this year, but heard good reports as usual. Here is Bream Bay News report
The massed pipers led by young Jamie Lymbourn of One Tree Point and guest drum major Grant MacDonald.
“We haven’t added it all up yet but we think the numbers were about the same as last year” said Don Ewen, Chairman of the Waipu Caledonian Society regarding the 142nd Waipu Highland Games held on 1 January.
Cyclone Evan, which brought rain and wind over Christmas had passed over and 1 January was hot and sunny. An estimated 6,000 people passed through the gates of the park to see the games. The Caledonian Society’s uses the profits to maintain the park and its facilities throughout the year. The games are its main event, so fine weather and big crowds are crucial.
The red bearded highland heavyweight Reubin de Jong tosses the 56lb weight high above the bar at its starting height of 10 feet.
The Waipu Highland Games are the largest Highland Games in New Zealand and host the annual New Zealand Highland Heavyweight competitions which forty one year – old Pat Hellier won for the 18th consecutive year and thereupon announced his retirement.
Annabel Thomson, aged 13 years, of Devonport competing in the under 14 years, Sailors Hornpipe competition.
This year the games were officially opened by the Mayor of Whangarei, Morris Cutforth, who said it was a well established tradition amongst many residents of the district to head to Waipu with a picnic rug on the first day of the new year.
On the tree shaded Scottish Country Dancing stage at the St. Marys Road entrance the indefatigable Elaine Goldthorpe was directing novices in dance sequences. Highland Dancing competitions continued throughout the day with tiny tots through to highly accomplished young men and women competing in flings, Irish jigs and leaping high in the Sailors Hornpipe.
Young Jamie Lymbourn of One Tree Point marched alongside guest drum major Grant MacDonald to lead the massed pipe band around the park. Waipu’s Ashney Were was the chief’s official piper leading Caledonian Chief Bain McGregor into the park.
Elaine Goldthorpe directs novices on the Scottish Country dancing stage.
People strolled amongst the avenue of Clan tents telling one another about their Scottish lineage and, dazed by the heat, they had to be continually reminded not to wander into the path of runners competing in races around the running track.
Winner of this year’s Tartan in the Park fashion award, Rona Cooper of Levin wearing the McLeod Tartan.
Get Tarted up at New Year
Tartan in the Park will be once again a feature of the Waipu Highland Games
Tartan in the Park will be held once again at the Waipu Highland Games on 1st January 2013.
Put on your creative cap and make an outfit which showcases tartan. The idea of the competition is to demonstrate that tartan can be a contemporary fashion fabric.
Categories: Men , Women, Boys, Girls and Toddlers with good prizes. Register at the Clan MacLean tent on the day.
1.p.m. to the stage and strut your stuff – ALL WELCOME
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
Tartan Week in Waipu – 2012
Tartan Week in Waipu is growing…
2012 Saturday 30 June – Saturday 14 July
Tartan week in Waipu
www.waipu-tartan.co.nz
Don your tartan
and join us to celebrate
all things Tartan in Waipu
Programme
Saturday 30 JuneComplimentary Haggis Tasting at Waipu Butcher 6-10am Classic Hits Breakfast kicks of Tartan Week at the L’Amour de Kasbah on corner of South Road Waipu. Snow for the kids and breakfast available from 6am. Come and join the fun. 10am Waipu Pipe Band Parade People in Tartan and street theatre
11.30am Tartan at the Races – Ruakaka Race Track Free Buses from Whangarei – check our website for timetables. Free entrance and carparking. Website
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  HOWEVER – Scottish themed dinner at Clansman Restaurant on Saturday 30 June – should still be fun!
Phone Clansman to book 09 432 0424 |
Sunday 1 July
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Monday 27pm Waipu Scottish Country Dance Club – all welcome to their regular club night at Coronation Hall |
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Friday 6 July3pm-6pm Tartan Circus at Coronation Hall MORE $8child/$10 adult $30 family Men in Kilts Rugby and Tarts in Tartan Netball
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Saturday 7 JulyComplimentary Haggis Tasting at Waipu Butcher 9am-1pm Waipu Saturday Market – in Coronation Hall 11am Pets in Tartan Parade Bring your pet along and march behind Waipu’s own Highland Pipe Band, Supported by Waipu Vet Club. Prizes. Gather outside the Waipu Pizza Barn TART’N'ROCK Dance Party Dress as your favourite Rock star with a tartan twist! 7pm until late at Coronation Hall Organised and a fund raiser for Radio Waves Waipu 105.6fm |
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Sunday 8 July9-1pm Waipu Boutique Sunday Market – Coronation Hall 2pm Mid Winter Swim at Waipu Cove |
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Monday 9 July7pm Waipu Scottish Country Dance Club – all welcome to their regular club night at Coronation Hall |
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Friday 13 JulyTartan Week Community Golf Tournament Tee off from 3pm Teams of 4 players, $35 each includes a Hot Toddy, golf and dinner. Dinner only $25 Prizes for
To Enter or book for dinner:
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Art’nTartan Wearable Art Awards
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2012 Waipu Highland Games
It was touch and go with the weather – many volunteers worked through the rain to set the Caledonian Park up.
But by the time 2 January rolled around – fine weather greeted us for another great Highland Games. There was a great atmosphere – I met some one guy proudly wearing his new kilt, there was of course tartan everywhere, and rarely was the sound of Pipes far from our ears.
The Tartan in the Park fashion parade is always great fun, and the fiddle competition have both become favourites for me. I watched the heavyweights and what a joy Pat Hellier is – everyone throws well, but he is stupendous and it seems so effortless as he picks up the hammer and throws it.
Well done to all those who make this event happen so well. It can only get bigger and better
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Tartan Week off to a great start in Waipu
First of July and International Tartan Day - Waipu had a perfect Northland clear blue winters day. Classic Hits kicked off the day at 6am with their breakfast show at Ynot cafe and a load of snow. Yes there were some people there at 6am, but not me! I waited to a leisurely 8.30. Classic Hits photos on Facebook
It was fantastic to see the Waipu Primary School - the whole school walked down to town – its the only time many of us get to see them all together. Many wore tartan, one of them led the Waipu Highland Band as it paraded down the street with the school behind them. Someone on the street commented “I didn’t realise there were so many kids in Waipu!”. Read more
Waipu Rugby at top of the Table
Waipu’s senior rugby team sits at the top of the table in its second division competition for the second week now, after beating City 38-5 at home in the wind and rain on Queens Birthday Weekend. The score was 5 nil at half time but with the wind behind them in the second half Waipu completely turned the game around.
Team manager Carl Pereira said one of the features of this game against Onerahi at the Waipu Caledonian Park on Saturday 28 May was that all players backed each other.
Next week there is another home game (in the Waipu Caledonian Park.) when Waipu meets Whangaruru. The game begins at 2pm. Team manager Carl Pereira urges people to come down and support this young team. The oldest player Andy Ryan is aged 50 but most of the players are aged from 17 to 23. The team is coached by Dusty Reader and Merv Kenny.
Story from Bream Bay News Photo by Christine Birss
Don’t forget the Rugby Men in Kilts Challenge in Tartan Week 7.30pm Friday 8 July – www.waipu-tartan.co.nz
Matt Abraham about to break the Onerahi line
after receiving the ball from Marcus Jones.
