All welcome

Fabric-a-brac is a fun fabric and sewing supplies market where you can shop for vintage and modern sewing and upholstery fabric, patterns, haberdashery and more. It brings the sewing community together to share stashes, stories and delight in our mutual love of textiles.

Fabric-a-brac is volunteer-run, and is a fundraiser for hospice – in Nelson this is Nelson Tasman Hospice. All profits from this event are donated to their work.

If you have a stash you’d like to sell, you can come and take a stall. You pay a stallholder fee (which goes to Hospice) but anything you make on the day is yours to keep.

If you have fabric, haberdashery or patterns you’d like to move on, but don’t want to have a table, you can donate items. This will all go onto the hospice table on the day, and all profits will go to their wonderful work. You can donate to any Nelson Tasman Hospice shop.

More here: https://fabricabrac.com/nelson/

Nelson-raised soprano Jasmine Jessen returns home for a special concert at the NCMA, joined by pianist Sarah Watkins. The programme offers a rich journey through art song and opera, from the lush romanticism of Rachmaninoff to Benjamin Britten’s song cycle On This Island. Audiences will also be treated to a selection of beloved operatic arias by Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini, and Verdi. Book tickets here: https://ncma.nz/event/jasmine-jessen/

As part of Hands Up for Hospice Month, we invite you to join a small Care and Connect gathering — a gentle space to slow down, share tea and kai, and connect with the women of Global Stitch Up. This relaxed session offers a chance to pamper yourself while learning from talented wahine in our community: meet Fernanda, who will share her nail care expertise, JingJing, who will offer a soothing hand massage using traditional Chinese tools and her own handmade balm, and Shakeela, who will introduce you to the beauty of Mendhi (henna), its designs, and their cultural origins. Come for the care, stay for the connection, and help support our local Hospice

For more details and to RSVP visit: https://www.culturalconversations.co.nz/event-details/hands-up-for-care-and-connection

See what’s happening here and around the motu… https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/tours-festivals/2026/nz-music-month-te-marama-puoro-aotearoa?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ef_news&utm_campaign=2618&utm_content=content

Registrations close on 22nd May. Contact: singingworkshops57@gmail.com

Arts Council Nelson is holding a casual free public session to explain and answer absolutely any questions you may have regarding this local arts funding scheme.

The Nelson City Scheme Administrator Lloyd Harwood and several current grant assessors will be in attendance to answer your questions or simply chat confidentially one to one.

Everyone is welcome to come along and stay as long or as short a time as they wish. This is a casual drop-in session and no registration is required.

When:  Tuesday 9th June from 5.15pm – 6pm.

Venue: The Refinery ArtSpace, 114, Hardy Street, Nelson.

We hope you can join us, but if you have questions about this funding scheme and cannot attend, don’t worry you can contact Lloyd at any time at lloyd@acn.org.nz

Questions may be:

I have a project in mind, but I don’t know it would it be eligible?

Can you give me tips on how to write a good application?

What do the grant assessors look for when considering applications?

Are Applicant Guides available in other languages?

Why have you introduced an underwriting option?

I am interested in volunteering as a grant assessor, who do I talk to?

Following its acclaimed debut at the Auckland Arts Festival, Toiere comes to Nelson, bringing a powerful fusion of cultures and sound. This extraordinary concert reimagines iconic operatic masterpieces through a unique blend of original languages and te reo Māori, transforming familiar arias into a new, deeply affecting experience that could only come from Aotearoa.

Full details and bookings here: https://ncma.nz/event/toiere-presented-by-nz-opera/