Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 6.30pm. This poetry reading brings together six Aotearoa New Zealand poets to address environmental and cultural themes related to proposed open-cast gold mining developments in Central Otago. The poets will read works that explore our relationship with the land and the natural environment.
Henderson Gallery | 8–28 November 2025Opening Night: Saturday 8 November, 6pm (RSVP to manager@centralstories.com by Thursday 30th October to attend) Textile and mixed-media artist Jan Fraser presents Hono: Bound to the Land, an exhibition exploring connection to land, ancestry, and identity through felted textiles and paintings. The exhibition title carries Read more
01-30 November 2025Heafey Gallery, Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery After turning 80, internationally acclaimed Central Otago artist Denis Kent held a retrospective exhibition at Central Stories in 2020. While that remarkable show spanning works from 1968 to 2020 might have suggested a culmination of Kent’s artistic journey, “Gone for Read more
A Musical Journey into the Past: Rogues, Rebels & Unsung Heroes. Thursday 4th December, 7:00pm Join us for an enchanting evening of storytelling through song as Chris Priestley, who has been one of the primary movers and shakers in Auckland folk music scene for over thirty years, brings history to Read more
Join us for an inspiring evening of choral music as Cantabile Women’s Choir presents their concert “What the World Needs Now Is…” at Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery in Alexandra. Event Details When: Wednesday, 26 November at 7:30pm Where: Central Stories Museum & Art Gallery21 Centennial Avenue, Alexandra Ticket Read more
Our two beautiful Otago skinks have gone home over winter, back to DOCS. But they will be back, hopefully for the Spring school holidays. Watch this page for updates!!
When an innocuous plastic bag was left at the doorstep of the empty Sir William Bodkin Building in 2002, few could have imagined the mystery hiding inside. Alongside a leather horse rein and gun holster was this well preserved letter from a dying father to his desperate son on the Read more