Sarau Festival

Hall Fundraiser Tent is somewhere you must visit at tomorrow’s Sarau Festival! We are very grateful for all of the generous donations that we have received from all corners of Nelson & Tasman, and beyond. We have three categories… 1. Silent Auction 2. Raffle 3. Items for Sale 1. Silent...

Thanks to amazing support we are excited to offer the following fantastic prizes at the first ever Sarau Festival Raffle. Please give generously and enjoy the best Sarau Festival so far! FIRST PRIZE:   2013 World of WearableArt Awards Show Two Premium seat tickets to the 2013 WOW awards show on Thursday...

Due to the recent fire at MHCC we have extended the entry date for the photographic competition to 5pm Tuesday 29th January. Entries can be delivered to the Motueka i-site, or to Country Kids between 9am and 5pm. Get snapping and we look forward to displaying another spectacular collection of entries...

It’s time to get your entry forms in for the great Moutere Valley Mountain Bike Race which will start and finish at the Sarau Festival. Registrations will remain open up to and including the day of the Festival. Local farmers open their gates for us and the race crosses diverse Moutere farmland...

Enter the popular big blackcurrant bake off at Sarau Festival 2013 This year’s categories are: 1. juice and wine 2. children’s entries 3. innovative and original 4. desserts **Once again delicious prizes kindly donated by Barkers of Geraldine.** Bring your entries to the Baking Tent by 4pm...

Everyone wants to have a go at exploring the Moutere by bike but not everyone feels up to doing the Mountain bike club’s 26km cross country ride through some reasonably rugged farmland! So The Gentle Cycling Company have once again decided to mount a shorter ride over the flatter sections of the Moutere...

Do you have German ancestry or a German name? Chances are, if your German forebears came to New Zealand between 1842 and 1869 they landed in Nelson. The Moutere Inn History Marquee at the Sarau Festival  contains a display of early settlement in the Moutere Valley with interesting history panels, loads...

Wanted: books for the biggest book stall ever at Sarau Festival 2013. Please bring along any that you no longer want to have them recycled around the community and beyond! We will welcome books of any kind and thank-you in advance for your contribution. Please get in touch if you have some books for...

Introducing the Sarau Festival Photographic Competition 2013 Once again, we will have our very own photo competition at Sarau Festival 2013 in the following categories: Category 1:  Life in the Moutere Category 2:  Open – life outside the Moutere Category 3:  Digitally enhanced Category 4:  Under...

So much on for the children this year.  Check out the full list of purple competitions and fun for children right here! Purple and Sarau seem to just work in harmony, so what better than the: Purple Hat Competition By popular demand, school students (and pre-schoolers) of all ages are invited to attend...