Happy New Year from the Gold Awards Team

Welcome back to all of our alumni, sponsors and especially all of you considering entering the Gold Awards. Our Gold team is sensing some real renewed optimism out there this year and we are looking forward to what 2024 will bring for our region's hard-working businesses ....
 

If you have NOT participated in the Gold Awards yet - 2024 may be just the year to do it.

And for those who have been involved sometime in our first 25 years,
maybe it is time to retell your story - perhaps in another category.

Check out the
GOLD HALL OF FAME which lists all winners since 1999 in
each category. Which Category would your business fit into best?

 

ENTERING IS EASY AND QUICK.It is all online. Check out the Entry Process here. The Entry Forms have a maximum 13 easy questions and that's it!

Alumni Clippings:
some success stories...

We love featuring our various alumni whose businesses are flourishing. From startup success stories to industry disruptors, our alumni continue to make waves in their respective fields. Discover their journeys and gain insights that may inspire your own business.

HATTY 150th BIRTHDAY HILLS HATS

A heeuuuge Happy Birthday Hills Hats!

(Global Gold 2017 & 2018)

 

These guys have been covering heads since 1875! Head hatter Simon Smuts-Kennnedy aka Hatman (pictured) is one clever marketer too. He has moved his Hatmosphere into the 20th and now the 21st century with his constant wacky product diversifications and his head-first creativity....

Simon is also Hattier to the Stars all over the world. Slash is a client, as was the late great Tom Petty.

Fat Freddy's Drop always don new Hills Hats for every tour. Other kiwi hip hatsters include Shapeshifter, Troy Kingi, Bailey Wiley, Tiki Taane and Tami Neilson.

SHOP: Buy your own Hill Hats now available online here

READ MORE: Simon tells RadioNZ sabout his secret marketiing sauce.

TAKI RUA's latest production - "HATUPATU"

Don’t miss HATUPATU (starting February 20th)

 

Taki Rua’s (Creative Gold 2010) NZ Festival production

Hatupatu looks AMAZING!

It’s an immersive, multimedia, aerial dance extrav…. the story of forbidden love and survival between the young Te Arawa warrior Hatupatu and the unique bird woman Kurungaituku, set amongst the whirling thermal forces of Rotorua.

 

Tanemahuta Gray joins forces with Wetini Mītai-Ngātai, leader of the two time Te Matatini Society Incorporated winning national kapa haka rōpū Te Mātārae i Ōrehu to present a contemporary Māori theatrical experience not to be missed!

VIDEO: Hatupatu preview

BUY TICKETS HERE

MILLS ALBERT ARE THE SAINTS !
 

 "Mills Albert Slam Dunks as the Saints

Naming Rights Sponsor for 2024 Season!"

Mills Albert - the Kapiti Coast based construction crew and winner of the 2023 ACC Workplace Safety Gold have picked up the Wellington Saints naming rights for the 2024 season

What a team! Proud of yous!

You can support the
MILLS ALBERT WELLINGTON SAINTS too.

Buy Tickets here.....

LUNAR NEW YEAR 2024

The Year of the Dragon is here

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A big Kung Hei Fat Choi 恭喜发财 to Linda Lim (pictured left) and the Asian Events team (Vibrant 2019) - You did it!

Against the odds too! When funding was too low to proceed - up stepped LEE KUM KEE - you know the sauce people - who made up the shortfall.

LNY kicked of last weekend February 10th. BUT next weekend goes off with a bang.Get along and welcome in the Year of the Dragon in in-style.

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VIEW all the Welly LNY events here.

 REMBRANDT REMASTERED RETURNS


A remarkable collection of 57 digitally remastered and life-size paintings from one of the world’s greatest painters of all time.

Each work reproduced exactly as it left the master’s studio nearly 400 years ago.

In collaboration with the Rembrandt Research Project Foundation, Amsterdam.

 

Friday 16th February until Sunday 17th March

Daily 10am - 5pm

Adults $10. Under 13 $5.

 

NZ Academy of Fine Arts

1 Queens Wharf (next to the big red gates) Wellington

 

 

 CIRCA THEATRE :

Ali's back in town
 

Circa Theatre (Vibrant Gold 2002) presents The Supper Club starring long-time favourite and sometime Gold Awards chanteuse ALI HARPER.

And as always Ali delivers.

 

THE POST says...

"Prepared to be wooed and charmed at the Supper Club” Sarah Catherall The Post January 25, 2024

 

CIRCA THEATRE (Circa One)

1, Taranaki Street, Wellington

UNTIL February 17th

Tickets from $35

Book here now...

 
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For any inquiries or partnership opportunities, reach out to our team on +64 27 208 8780.  

Thinking of entering the 2024 Gold Awards? You can register your interest or nominate a business here...

 

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