The Nelson Institute presents author Chris Stuart’s talk – A writer’s journey, when fact and fiction collide. Chris’s crime novel, For Reasons of their Own, won  the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for best first novel. For Reasons of Their Own is a bleak chronicle of implacable fate, revenge, and murder set in 2014 in and around…

Well known musician Caitlin Welsh is back on tour with her inspiring, relaxing and evocative new concert, featuring piano, flute, 12 string guitar and singing. Ian Trafford joins her with…

Come along and have a go at expressing yourself through the creative arts with a small group of women in The Sanctuary at the beautiful historical Fairfield House. The workshop…

Feeling confident & attractive in your own skin... Wouldn’t it be simply amazing to be able to say “I love my body?” To feel confident in your own skin… At peace…

DramaLAB’s award winning solo show ‘Solitude’ “When the Roaring Lion calls my Henry, I’m dreaming hours down to minutes…” In 1913 Annie fled into the remote mountains of Kahurangi National…

A potent way to enter your springtime in balance, influenced by the equal day and night of the equinox. Journey on the waves of ancient sounds played live by Sika…

“One day you finally knew what you had to do and you began…” Mary Oliver Jaime will share original songs about a necessary transition from an techno-industrial growth society to…

Rekindle, the Ōtautahi Christchurch-based resourceful craft organisation, is now teaching some of their workshops in Whakatū, with two tutors Gemma Stratton and Annie Mackenzie now based nearby. Rekindle teaches skills…

The Nelson Institute presents: Voices from the Fox, stories of the characters associated with the Edwin Fox. Speaker Nigel Costley, author of Teak and Tide, the history of this old ship on public display in Picton. Built in India 1853, under the auspices of the East India Company, the Fox had an astonishingly varied career,…

YEAH! Summer is coming! Come groove in the Fairfield Courtyard on a warm Sunday afternoon with Sun City Soul! We are excited to have this very popular band of talented musicians for Fairfield's first outdoor concert for the season Nelson’s favourite soul band features the vocals of the unmistakable Mr Dan Moon and Tessa Quayle,…

Formed in late 2020, Jukejoint is a Nelson band playing electric blues and old-school R & B, with a touch of Americana. Inspiration comes from such Blues legends as Jimmy Reed, Paul Butterfield, Bo Diddley, Junior Wells, Billy Boy Arnold, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, The Rolling Stones, Keb Mo and numerous others. Our Set List…

Dr. Alan Wallace is one of the world's leading scholars, writers and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism and an outspoken advocate for a revolution in the mind sciences to replace the current paradigm of materialistic reductionism. For 40 years he has taught widely around the world and has served as interpreter for many eminent Tibetan lamas,including…