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Art and Culture

Work to strengthen and develop the historic Municipal Building has been given a significant boost with the Lottery Grants Board announcing it will contribute $4.75 million towards the project.

Shop windows of some Hastings businesses have come alive with vibrant artworks created by Kahungunu school children.

The LIMBO season, sponsored by NZME, will be presented in the magnificent Victoria Spiegeltent on a 360-degree centre stage.

A new floral art exhibition, One Heart, has come to MTG, the third floral exhibition created with the Napier Activator Champion funding from Napier City Council.

Jil Sergent was one of 10 winners from across the country who took out the top prize in Keep New Zealand Beautiful's (KNZB) Resene Nature Murals Competition 2019.

The Central Hawke's Bay Settlers Museum is in the spotlight in Wellington this week, as a finalist in the ServiceIQ NZ Museum Awards 2019.

John Brown's new exhibition The Great Race explores theories from the controversial book To the End of the Earth.

This is the sixth year in a row that the region’s museum has made the finals of the national ServiceIQ NZ Museum Awards.

Titled “Generation to Generation”, the mural comprises five panels depicting a timeline as one generation passes the message of care, protection and enjoyment to the next generation.