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One year of heat, hustle and heart 🔥
The Sauna Project turns ONE and we’re celebrating the only way we know how.. with our community!

WALK | RUN | SAUNA
In collaboration with Whiria Fidz Meltzer @ Safe Performance 🤝🏽 bringing the energy, strength and community vibes together for one epic morning!
📍 Ahipara Foreshore
🗓 Sunday 1st March
7–8AM – 5KM Run or Walk +
FREE sauna sessions (7–9AM)
8–8:30AM – Free giveaways from YK Move & Switch Supplements
9AM – Coffee + smoothies available & FREE B&E rolls
This is more than a workout.
It’s community.
It’s connection.
It’s showing up for yourself and each other.
Whether you’re chasing a PB, walking with friends, or coming for the sauna and vibes, we’d love to see you there 🤍
Tag your crew. Set your alarm. Let’s celebrate a year of The Sauna Project in true Ahipara style.

Come join the coolest club in the Far North where our kids come first! If you'rte looking for a fun, all inclusive club to join the Kaitaia Pirates! Grades start from noncontact u7s, to first years tackling in u9s, u11s & u13s.

Thanks to funding from Foundation North, Creative Northland is proud to support bringing this kaupapa to Awanui...
Create something meaningful with your own hands at the Bind Your Own Taonga Workshop with acclaimed kaiwhatu (weaver) Bethany Matai Edmunds-Cook (Ngāti Kuri), part of the Tau Atu E! exhibition.
📅 4 March 2026
🕚 11am – 2pm
📍 KĀ URI, 235 State Highway 1, Awanui
💲 $20 registration
Bring a taonga, shell, or kōhatu (stone) and learn how to bind and transform it into a necklace for someone special. Whether repairing a treasured piece or creating something new, you’ll learn practical plaiting and binding techniques in a supportive, hands-on environment.
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/bind-your-own-taonga...
Check out the exhibition details here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1B9XZD8d2h/

Meet the Cancer Team, learn about available support services, NTA claims, dental support, wellbeing programmes, and helpful resources including the ACP booklet.

Join us this International Women's Day at our Breakfast Buffet hosted by Business Professional Women Kaitaia. We will be welcoming the inspiring Huhana Lyndon MP as our guest speaker, speaking on 'Respect Us, Pay Us' and 'Together for pay equity!'. For ALL women and girls. To book your spot, email bpw.kaitaia@gmail.com. Payment instructions will be emailed when your booking is received.

Join us for a fun-filled day as we celebrate National Children's Day together. Tamariki mai, pakeke mai, hge rā whakatotahi tēnei i te whānau katoa. Held at Tangonge Park at the end of Bonnetts Road. 

This interactive, family-friendly even is brought to you by Te Rarawa Anga Mua with the support of local community organisations and groups. Join us for bouncy castles, kids activities, local health providers & free kai!

Join Medical Herbalist Donna Tyler for a 4-hour science-based Skincare Formulating seminar at REAP Kaitaia. Stop "mixing" and start formulating from the ground up.

For more info or to register, go to farnorthreap.org.nz

If you're interested in learning more about traditional tangihanga practices (re tūpāpaku), nau mai, haere mai to Te Hiku Rongoā Māori Collective Whare Rongoā - Tihei Wā Mauri Ora. 

This wānanga is for whānau who would like to explore natural options for caring for their loved ones - an alternative to chemical embalming - and to better understand your rights and choices. 

If this kōrero speaks to you, please register using the link below, be quick there is limited space. 

Please bring a plate for shared kai and a koha on the day or bank online. 

Contact Jo Murray for more info - 021 138 0413
or email kupenga.kupe@gmail.com

Come along for a day of fun & games! 

From 1pm: Bouncy castle, sack races, tug of war, head to head games, face paints, arts & crafts, food stalls & BBQ!

From 6pm: Live music from Kiwi Express!

From 9pm: Party time with DJ Trey!

We are pleased to be hosting one of NZ's premiere saxophonists to fundraise for the new Kaitaia College Music Academy. The show will feature a number of local artists mixing it up with Louisa including Jade Leatherby-Tipene, ALex Simeti & Robin Wells.

We welcome all players who'd like to be apart of our club for the 2026 season! 

Arnold Rae in the Clubroom. 
Tuesday 10th MArch 
4pm onwards

GRADES:
Year 1&2 - U7
Year 3&4 - U9
Year 5&6 - U11
Year 7&8 - U13

For more info contact Neve on

Guest speaker: Jo Urlich
a qualifed nutritionist discusses the importance of food and excerise to help with your journey.

Come and grab yourself a bargain from our stock clearance everything is $1

A one day wānanga where you will be introduced to the foundations of rāranga harakeke. Students will learn tikanga for harvesting, practice traditional and contemporary weaving techniques, and create items such as kono, kete, and korowai

Learners will:

• learn tikanga (protocol) around harvesting

• work with Harakeke (flax) and learn basic to advanced contemporary and traditional techniques of weaving

• be able to make and complete a variety of items from kona (basket) or kete (basket) to korowai.

Cost $20 per person

For more information or to register, head to www.farnorthreap.org.nz

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Please note visitors can view from 12 noon onwards

Jan Norman (Kerikeri)
Judge and demonstrator

If you would like to join us the cost is $15 the demo.

Raffle and trading table will be available.

any queries - please email 
Mags.aydon@me.com

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🌿Our first Hapū wānanga for 2026 is coming up.
Details in the Panui below.

Free kaupapa for any expectant mama and whanau🫵.

Don't be shy, wānanga is a relaxed and open space for all with some amazing facilitators lots of learning to explore and enjoyable activities that connect us back to traditional concepts and ideas of birthing.

First baby, fourth baby every pregnancy is a new journey, a new experience and there is always lots to learn, so come and join us!! 🌿

a 2 day wananga exploring purakau and traditional birthing practices.

Create your own muka tie and ipu whenua, with korero on labour breastfeeding and safe space a safe space for hinekopu and whanau to learn share and connect

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122122143711120054&set=a.122113287831120054

🌿Our first Hapū wānanga for 2026 is coming up.
Details in the Panui below.

Free kaupapa for any expectant mama and whanau🫵.

Don't be shy, wānanga is a relaxed and open space for all with some amazing facilitators lots of learning to explore and enjoyable activities that connect us back to traditional concepts and ideas of birthing.

First baby, fourth baby every pregnancy is a new journey, a new experience and there is always lots to learn, so come and join us!! 🌿

a 2 day wananga exploring purakau and traditional birthing practices.

Create your own muka tie and ipu whenua, with korero on labour breastfeeding and safe space a safe space for hinekopu and whanau to learn share and connect

Guest Speaker: Demham Pivac, Lisa Deans
Discussions and help with offering tools towards sleep and stress

Description:

A one-day wānanga, where you will be introduced to the foundations of contemporary tukutuku making with our tutor Kylie Simeon. You will learn about key tukutuku stitches, explore patterns and their stories.

This is the contemporary method of utilising pegboard and knot-string, not the traditional method of creating tukutuku.

Learners will:

-Learn about patterning and a few pūrākau/their history through stories

-How to do the Kowhiti stitches and tūmatakahuki stitch

-How to use more than two patterns

-Naming your board

Cost $20 per person

For more info, head to www.farnorthreap.org.nz