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Arrowtown,
born of gold in 1862, was once a thriving gold mining town. We have some of the most amazing scenery in the country during Autumn so come and join us to celebrate this wonderful time of the year. The 2008 Arrowtown Autumn Festival is so jam packed with events we have had to add another day so now it's an 11 day festival. The Festival dates are Thursday 24th April
- Sunday 4th May This is during the school holidays so there is plenty on the festival programme to keep everyone happy. Young and the young at heart! With the community at the heart of the festival the programme reflects this with fantastic workshops in cooking, writing, circo arts plus skateboarding. The idea is to get kids involved and actively participating to learn new skills while having a great time! All the old favourites are back with the Miners Band and Buckingham Belles, plus Senior Citizens Afternoon Tea and Arrow Entertainers Musical. The Main Festival day held on Saturday 26th April is shaping up to be huge with the market brimming with bargains. The main stage has a huge mix of wonderful local entertainment with 2 piece band Middle Earth starting off the day followed by NZ Haka then the Celtic Sounds adding a wonderful mix of traditional with modern day. Then Look Skyward is it a Bird? No it's a Plane!! Yes the guys from Actionflite are back again to dazzle us with their turns and aerobatic maneuvers -this is the perfect way to start the festival parade. This year we are also celebrating 75 years of
the Arrowtown Volunteer Fire Brigade and they will be turning
up the heat to showcase some wonderful safety demonstrations along
with old fashioned fire engines.
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The
gold of the Arrow has lured many into it's hills, rivers, trees and
main street.
See you there.
