# Festivals in Kahutara 2026 | Culture & Street Fairs

- **Subtitle**: Your guide to festivals in Kahutara 2026 — cultural celebrations, street fairs and food festivals. Find dates, locations and what to expect.
- **Category**: Festivals
- **Type**: category

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The best things to do in the world include attending top-notch festivals in Kahutara. Be it a rocking music festival or scrumptious food festival in Kahutara, you will have a gala time of your life with a few of your close friends or your family. With the best of fun, entertainment, and food, the experience in festivals lets the enthusiasts immerse in the local culture and vibe. Ranging from the biggest outdoor beach parties to crazy music festivals, the festivals fall under various categories to suit everybody’s tastes. If you are looking for the best events and festivals in Kahutara listed on one platform - we have you covered.

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## Festivals Events in Kahutara

- **Event Name**: Toast Martinborough 2026 - Wine Food & Music Festival Featuring Sir Dave Dobbyn
  - **Description**: New Zealand’s most iconic & much loved celebration of fine wine, good food, craft gin, and live tunes among the vines, for over 30 years. We’re counting down the days to Toast Martinborough on Saturday 14th November 2026! 

Experience the new era of T
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  - **Date**: Sat Nov 14 2026 at 12:00 pm – Sat Nov 14 2026 at 06:00 pm (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kahutara/toast-martinborough-2026-wine-food-and-music-festival-featuring-sir-dave-dobbyn/200030218556918
  - **Venue**: The Runholder
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  - **Categories**: music-festivals, entertainment, festivals, music, wine-tasting, food-truck-festivals, performances, parties, kids
- **Event Name**: Tora Bombora - 2027
  - **Description**: The Return of Tora Bombora. 

Wellington Anniversary Weekend, 22 - 24 January, 2027

After five incredible festivals and a four year hiatus, Tora Bombora is returning for the sixth edition - Tora Bombora Ono 

For four summers, the paddocks sat quietly. T
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  - **Date**: Fri Jan 22 2027 at 03:00 pm – Sun Jan 24 2027 at 01:00 pm (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kahutara/tora-bombora-2027/200030396465943
  - **Venue**: Tora Bombora
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- **Event Name**: Lemon Squeezers and Walking Sticks: Treasures of the Featherston Heritage Museum
  - **Description**: Presented as part of the Te Waiwhakaata Wairarapa Film Festival's Spring Season 2026, this special event marks the world premiere of Mark Pacey's new short documentary Lemon Squeezers and Walking Sticks: Treasures of the Featherston Heritage Museum.

The
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  - **Date**: Sun Nov 15 2026 at 01:00 pm (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kahutara/lemon-squeezers-and-walking-sticks-treasures-of-the-featherston-heritage-museum/200030629328301
  - **Venue**: Featherston Heritage Museum
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- **Event Name**: Cross Creek / Featherston Heritage Weekend
  - **Description**: Cross Creek Railway is very proud to support Featherston Heritage Festival with train rides 10am-2pm Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November. Koha / Donation. Note FREE RIDES 10am-12pm Sunday thanks to the support of WAI WHEELS FEATHERSTON. What a town!! ❤️🛻🚂❤
  - **Date**: Sat Nov 14 2026 – Sun Nov 15 2026 (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kahutara/cross-creek-featherston-heritage-weekend/200031040935834
  - **Venue**: Featherston, Wairarapa
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  - **Categories**: Festivals, Nonprofit
- **Event Name**: The Anzac Hall Experience
  - **Description**: Experience Anzac Hall as it was in 1917, with displays, music, refreshments and activities.

Take time to relax during the busy Featherston Heritage Festival weekend at the Anzac Hall, built in 1916 to provide recreation and hospitality to soldiers from t
  - **Date**: Sun Nov 15 2026 at 10:00 am – Sun Nov 15 2026 at 03:00 pm (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kahutara/the-anzac-hall-experience/200031043653452
  - **Venue**: Featherston Anzac Hall, 62 Bell St, Featherston
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  - **Categories**: Festivals, Workshops
- **Event Name**: The Wheelwright Hub Experience
  - **Description**: Meet Greg Lang of The Wheelwright Hub, New Zealand’s only specialist workshop for traditional wheelwrighting, carriage building, and coach painting, based in Gladstone. 

Learn how this ancient craft is being preserved for future generations through the s
  - **Date**: Sat Nov 14 2026 – Sun Nov 15 2026 (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kahutara/the-wheelwright-hub-experience/200031034423323
  - **Venue**: Featherston Menz Shed Inc
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  - **Categories**: Festivals, Workshops, Art, fine-arts
- **Event Name**: Featherston Rocks!
  - **Description**: Paleontology special interest group convenor, Dr Chris Hollis, will open an exhibition of rocks and fossils from South Wairarapa. 
This is a brand-new exhibition at the Featherston Heritage Museum, which has been specially created for the 2026 Featherston
  - **Date**: Sat Nov 14 2026 at 11:00 am – Sat Nov 14 2026 at 01:00 pm (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kahutara/featherston-rocks/200030997138746
  - **Venue**: Featherston, New Zealand
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  - **Categories**: Exhibitions, Festivals
- **Event Name**: Town of Stories Heritage Trail
  - **Description**: Explore Featherston’s rich history at your own pace on this self-guided heritage trail through the heart of the town.

Follow the Town of Stories Heritage Trail to uncover the people, places and stories that have shaped Featherston. Beginning and ending a
  - **Date**: Sat Nov 14 2026 at 05:00 pm (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kahutara/town-of-stories-heritage-trail/200030769945832
  - **Venue**: Featherston Heritage Museum Complex, 70-72 Fitzherbert Street, Featherston 5710, Featherston
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  - **Categories**: trips-adventures, Festivals

## Trending Events in Kahutara

- **Event Name**: Toast Martinborough 2026 - Wine Food & Music Festival Featuring Sir Dave Dobbyn
  - **Description**: New Zealand’s most iconic & much loved celebration of fine wine, good food, craft gin, and live tunes among the vines, for over 30 years. We’re counting down the days to Toast Martinborough on Saturday 14th November 2026! 

Experience the new era of T
  - **Venue**: The Runholder
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- **Event Name**: Christmas Pottery Painting 🎨
  - **Description**: Christmas Pottery Painting 🎨🏺
A relaxed evening of Holiday pottery painting at Fareham Creative Space, Featherston

Come along to Fareham Creative Space for a fun, creative session painting your own piece of pottery.

Choose from a selection of handmade b
  - **Venue**: 80 Underhill Road, Featherston, Wellington, New Zealand
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- **Event Name**: Featherston | 2026/27 NZ Jetsprint Championship R1
  - **Description**: Featherston | 2026/27 NZ Jetsprint Championship – Round 1

Get ready, the 2026/27 NZ Jetsprint Championship launches into action at the Gray Bros Jetsprint Track, Tauherenikau Racecourse, Featherston!

📍 Just 30 minutes south of Masterton, the Kiwispan Je
  - **Venue**: Tauherenikau Racecourse
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- **Event Name**: Tora Bombora - 2027
  - **Description**: The Return of Tora Bombora. 

Wellington Anniversary Weekend, 22 - 24 January, 2027

After five incredible festivals and a four year hiatus, Tora Bombora is returning for the sixth edition - Tora Bombora Ono 

For four summers, the paddocks sat quietly. T
  - **Venue**: Tora Bombora
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- **Event Name**: DELPHINE DORA (France) LIVE in Featherston
  - **Description**: Delphine Dora is a French pianist, organist, vocalist, improviser, and composer, born in Paris in 1980. For nearly two decades, she has cultivated a distinctive and intuitive musical language that bridges improvisation, folk, contemporary classical, exper
  - **Venue**: The Bakehouse Collective
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- **Event Name**: Lemon Squeezers and Walking Sticks: Treasures of the Featherston Heritage Museum
  - **Description**: Presented as part of the Te Waiwhakaata Wairarapa Film Festival's Spring Season 2026, this special event marks the world premiere of Mark Pacey's new short documentary Lemon Squeezers and Walking Sticks: Treasures of the Featherston Heritage Museum.

The
  - **Venue**: Featherston Heritage Museum
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- **Event Name**: 2026 Martinborough Charity Fun Ride
  - **Description**: Registrations are open for the 2026 Martinborough Fun Ride. Join us on November 15 for another great day of riding!
Register through our website @ mcfr.org.nz.  All profits will be donated to the Wellington Free Ambulance.
  - **Venue**: Martinborough Rugby Football Club, Regent Street, Martinborough
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- **Event Name**: ROLLER DISCO Featherston
  - **Description**: 🟡🟠🔴 ROLLER DISCO with SKATESCOOL 🟣🔵🟢
                          
                               
3pm 🟢  Lesson beginners and confident skaters 🟢 50min
4pm 🟢  Roller Disco for all ages, all levels 🟢 90minn

Come 10min earlier if you are hiring skates 

🔴🟠🟡🟢
  - **Venue**: 59 Underhill Road Featherston
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- **Event Name**: Cross Creek and Wai Wheels FREE RIDES.
  - **Description**: Cross Creek is hugely proud to once again be supporting WAI WHEELS FEATHERSTON. Thanks to their team, we have FREE RIDES on our train in Clifford Square 10am-12pm Sunday 15 November. We also have a stall so check out the car show and swap meet at Card Res
  - **Venue**: Cross Creek Railway Society Inc.
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## FAQs

- **Q**: What are the top Festivals events in Kahutara?
  - **A:** Toast Martinborough 2026 - Wine Food & Music Festival Featuring Sir Dave Dobbyn (Sat Nov 14 2026 at 12:00 pm at The Runholder), Tora Bombora - 2027 (Fri Jan 22 2027 at 03:00 pm at Tora Bombora), Lemon Squeezers and Walking Sticks: Treasures of the Featherston Heritage Museum (Sun Nov 15 2026 at 01:00 pm at Featherston Heritage Museum), Cross Creek / Featherston Heritage Weekend (Sat Nov 14 2026 at Featherston, Wairarapa), The Anzac Hall Experience (Sun Nov 15 2026 at 10:00 am at Featherston Anzac Hall, 62 Bell St, Featherston).
- **Q**: What Festivals events are happening in Kahutara today November 14, 2026?
  - **A:** Toast Martinborough 2026 - Wine Food & Music Festival Featuring Sir Dave Dobbyn (Sat Nov 14 2026 at 12:00 pm at The Runholder), Cross Creek / Featherston Heritage Weekend (Sat Nov 14 2026 at Featherston, Wairarapa), The Wheelwright Hub Experience (Sat Nov 14 2026 at Featherston Menz Shed Inc), Featherston Rocks! (Sat Nov 14 2026 at 11:00 am at Featherston, New Zealand), Town of Stories Heritage Trail (Sat Nov 14 2026 at 05:00 pm at Featherston Heritage Museum Complex, 70-72 Fitzherbert Street, Featherston 5710, Featherston).
- **Q**: What Festivals events are happening in Kahutara this weekend November 13–15, 2026?
  - **A:** Toast Martinborough 2026 - Wine Food & Music Festival Featuring Sir Dave Dobbyn (Sat Nov 14 2026 at 12:00 pm at The Runholder), Lemon Squeezers and Walking Sticks: Treasures of the Featherston Heritage Museum (Sun Nov 15 2026 at 01:00 pm at Featherston Heritage Museum), Cross Creek / Featherston Heritage Weekend (Sat Nov 14 2026 at Featherston, Wairarapa), The Anzac Hall Experience (Sun Nov 15 2026 at 10:00 am at Featherston Anzac Hall, 62 Bell St, Featherston), The Wheelwright Hub Experience (Sat Nov 14 2026 at Featherston Menz Shed Inc).
- **Q**: What Festivals events are happening in Kahutara in November 2026?
  - **A:** Toast Martinborough 2026 - Wine Food & Music Festival Featuring Sir Dave Dobbyn (Sat Nov 14 2026 at 12:00 pm at The Runholder), Lemon Squeezers and Walking Sticks: Treasures of the Featherston Heritage Museum (Sun Nov 15 2026 at 01:00 pm at Featherston Heritage Museum), Cross Creek / Featherston Heritage Weekend (Sat Nov 14 2026 at Featherston, Wairarapa), The Anzac Hall Experience (Sun Nov 15 2026 at 10:00 am at Featherston Anzac Hall, 62 Bell St, Featherston), The Wheelwright Hub Experience (Sat Nov 14 2026 at Featherston Menz Shed Inc).
- **Q**: How can I find Festivals events in Kahutara?
  - **A:** You can discover upcoming Festivals events in Kahutara on AllEvents.in. Browse by date, venue, or price to find events that match your interests.
- **Q**: How do I buy tickets for Festivals events in Kahutara?
  - **A:** You can buy tickets directly through AllEvents.in. Many events offer online booking with options for free, paid, and early-bird tickets.
- **Q**: What are the popular venues for Festivals events in Kahutara?
  - **A:** Some popular venues hosting Festivals events in Kahutara include The Runholder, Tora Bombora, Featherston Heritage Museum.
- **Q**: Who are the top organizers for Festivals events in Kahutara?
  - **A:** Popular organizers hosting Festivals events in Kahutara include Toast Martinborough, Tora Bombora, Te Waiwhakaata Wairarapa Film Festival.
- **Q**: Are there any online Festivals events available?
  - **A:** Yes, many Festivals events are available online. You can filter for virtual events on AllEvents.in to attend from anywhere.
- **Q**: How can I get notified about new Festivals events in Kahutara?
  - **A:** Follow the Festivals category on AllEvents.in to get notified when new Festivals events are listed in Kahutara.

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