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Ellerslie Winter Nights - Elemental AKL

See Auckland in a whole new light this winter! Join us for Ellerslie Winter Nights as part of Elemental AKL 19 Festival. For 10 nights Ellerslie Village will be showcasing light installations commissioned by local artist Andy Flint in the Village Square.  Spend some time admiring these artworks, then continue your evening with our hospitality of food and drinks at selected Ellerslie Village Restaurants that have created Elemental AKL themed dishes. The Light Installations are a free ev...

Pop-up Globe Winter Festival

The Pop-up Globe will be open for business in Auckland this winter for the very first time, with a new festival of performance through July and August.  The 2019 Winter Festival starts on 8 July and features a line-up of six shows including a brand new full-scale production of the hilarious comedy Twelfth Night.Pop-up Globe will pop down. Enjoy it while it’s up.  Click here for more information and tickets ...

Things I Know to be True

The Ellerslie Theatrical Society is proud to present their upcoming production of 'Things I Know to be True' Home.. Family... Something that you want to escape from - and escape back to. The Prices aren’t from the top end of town, but they’re not battlers either – Fran and Bob have brought up four children and kept their sense of humour. It should be time to stop and smell Bob’s precious roses. But just when things should be slowing down, the complicated lives of all four offspring come ...

ARTerslie 2019

This year we have had some great new additions to the ARTerslie line-up including a sold out Margaritas & Masterpieces at Mexico, a kids art class with HeART Minds Art Club, and our public participation artwork 'Incomplete' in collaboration with international art collective Illegal Art. Plus some of our old favourites like Chalk It Up, the School's Art Expo and Bartizans' Exhibition, plus our Community Art Competition....

Incomplete Project

We are very excited to bring Incomplete to Ellerslie Village as part of ARTerslie 2019.  An unfinished sentence will be displayed on a window in the walkway between Ellerslie Post Office (97 Main Highway) and Little Luscious Café (101 Main Highway Ellerslie) - This art project is known as 'Incomplete'  Simply take a piece of chalk and finish the incomplete sentence, add on to what others have written, or erase it and start over.  Feel free to tell your story, express your views o...

Ellerslie Santa Parade

The Ellerslie Santa Parade was once again blessed with sunshine! Thank you to all in our community who turned out in droves to celebrate Christmas with us. We have had a wonderful day seeing delight on many children's faces and seeing families coming together.  This parade wouldn't be possible without the help of so many in our community who make it so. Huge thanks to Wendy Sadd - Barfoot & Thompson and Rob Pollard and helpers from Dental Solutions Ltd Ellerslie who volu...

Magical September

Magical September was a big success in Ellerslie.  Check out some of the highlights from the Fairy Festival and all the other amazing events we had on:  Fairy Festival & Pirate PartyFairy Door Trail & Pirate Treasure HuntFairy & Pirate Morning TeaFairy Mail BoxColouring CompetitionKids CraftsLittle Pirate Kids Zone @ Union PostPlease note date for 2019 Ellerslie Fairy Festival and Pirate Party is Sunday 8th September...