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Tauranga STEM Festival celebrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics as you've never seen before.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM for short, is happening all around us, all the time, without most people ever realising. Young people use technology daily, and Tauranga is a hub for STEM, whether it’s engineering innovators tucked away in pockets around the city, marine scientists out on the moana or educators at the University of Waikato.Tauranga STEM Festival (STEMFest) is a hands-on, learn-by-doing festival that celebrates discovering things you didn’t know befor...

Somi Kim performing one of Mozart’s timeless concerto’s with Opus Orchestra

Somi Kim, South Korean-born New Zealand pianist....

Rhymes & Lyrics - The event blending hip-hop and RnB with poetry for National Poetry Day

Hip-hop and RnB are not what most people think of when they hear ‘National Poetry Day’. However, Craft, the co-share space for the film, radio, and television industry in Tauranga, has developed a new event to showcase poetry in a new light.Developed to do something different than the usual poetry slam, Rhymes & Lyrics was created to showcase the hip-hop side of poetry and expose the local hip-hop talent from the Bay of Plenty and national artists.Rhymes & Lyrics will offer original ...

Tauranga Western Bay events receive a $223,000 funding injection

STEMFest 2022, photo credit: STEMFest...

Tauranga Western Bay Community Event Fund bigger than ever

Tauranga Multicultural Festival 2023, photo credit: Katie Cox....