The Insider's Guide to New Zealand
KAIAPOI TO ARTHUR's PASS events 2019
Ohoka Farmers’ Market, Ohoka Domain, Friday 9am-12.30pm. This is a full-monty farmers' market offering a range of wares. A seating area creates a friendly hub for coffee and chat. ohokafarmersmarket.co.nz Kaiapoi Farmers’ Market, Morgan Williams Reserve, Saturday 9.30am-12.30pm. From European pastries, produce and plants to arts and crafts galore. kaiapoimarket.co.nz Oxford Farmers’ Market, Main Street, Sunday 9am-12pm. Enjoy coffee and a hot scone while you shop for locally grown produce and baked goods against a backdrop of the Southern Alps.
oxfordfarmersmarket.co.nz
Muscle Car Madness, Rangiora, 24-27 January 2019. Hot-rod heaven including classics, rods, bikes, trikes, stalls and live rock and country music all weekend. Designed for car nuts, retro fanatics and the general public.
musclecarmadness.co.nz
Kaiapoi Art Expo, July 2019. The district's largest visual art show features works by more than 100 Waimakariri painters, potters, weavers, jewellers and sculptors. A much-anticipated annual celebration of local artistic rigour. kaiapoiartexpo.co.nz Fire & Ice Night Market, Kaiapoi, July 2019. Held outside Blackwell's Department Store on the same weekend as the Kaiapoi Art Expo, there's ice sculpting in the afternoon and a night-time festival to follow – the ice sculptures are lit up, there's hot food, fire poi performers, mulled wine, crafts and bargains. On Facebook. Waimakariri Winter Festival, Rangiora, July 2019. A day of wintry celebrations North Canterbury style. From ice sculptures, ice skating, drive-in movies and polar dips to food trucks, bumper boards, bouncy castles, climbing walls, photo booths and a winter beer garden. rangiorawinterfestival.co.nz Oxford Country Garden Fete, October 2019. An old-fashioned boutique-style garden fete with high-quality wares, food and live music set in the grounds of renowned Ribblesdale Gardens. ribblesdalegardens.co.nz