2024 Plant Sale & Open Day

Our annual plant sale and open day with entry by donation is always a popular event!

From 10am plants from our garden raised by our wonderful volunteers will be sold as a fundraiser for Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. Plants priced from $5. Cash and card accepted, you may like to bring a box or bag to carry your plants home in.

The house will be open 10am-4pm with entry by donation, including our current exhibition Mothers: The hull of a canoe.

From 1pm At the Bay | I Te Kokoru will be hosting a celebration and readings (details below), followed by cupcakes to celebrate the 136th anniversary of Katherine Mansfield's birth on 14 October 1888. All welcome!

 

AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU: HAUNTINGS

Michelle Elvy & Harry Ricketts are thrilled to present this year’s celebration and awards.

In 2024, we explore hauntings. The event opens with readings from ATB ITK 2024 authors and books published this year by Janis Freegard, Jenna Heller, Sharni Wilson and a collection of Ōtepoti writers celebrating their city and Janet Frame. We’ll also announce the winners of the 2024 Sparkling Prose competition, with stories ‘haunted’.

Opening sentences from this year’s shortlisted stories – find out the winners on October 13

 

The house was hidden from the street, so she almost missed the turn.

The summer house

 

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven

eight.

This is how it starts. The pots are at boiling point, and it’s a Friday, and his mother is laying the table…

Picking Up Sticks

 

'You must get bored, living here on your own.'

We start and end with family

 

Good looking bloke wasn’t he / yeah / malleable hair / 

rare / yeah, rare

 

The window is open a crack only, but it is just eough to make the gauzy curtain flutter. 

Séance

 

There is a woman rotting in the front room of the Torea Street house. 

           four hauntings from the colonies