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There's always something new to discover in the heart of Hamilton city. Let us be your guide as you rediscover the charm, culture, and character that make our city centre unique.
Known for its clean cuts, friendly team, and top-tier service, it’s become a go-to destination for men’s grooming in the Waikato.
BarberShopCo is staffed by a team of qualified, professional barbers who are passionate about delivering sharp styles and great experiences. Whether you’re after a fade, a beard trim, or a full restyle, the barbers here take the time to listen and deliver exactly what you’re after.
If you’re after a sharp cut, a clean fade, or a classic shave — all delivered with precision and style — Cutthroat Brothers is the place to be.
Cutthroat Brothers is home to a team of highly skilled barbers, each trained through their in-house education programme. This ensures consistency, quality, and a shared commitment to excellence.
Cutthroat Brothers offers a full suite of grooming services, including:
Whether you’re after a quick tidy-up or a full transformation, Cutthroat Brothers delivers top-tier grooming with style, skill, and soul.
Tucked away in the artistic and tranquil Casabella Lane, Heidi Christian Hair is a salon that blends creativity, community, and personalised care. With its warm atmosphere and collaborative spirit, it’s become a go-to destination for those seeking more than just a haircut — it’s a place where artistry and connection thrive.
Founder and owner Heidi Christian has a deep love for the location and a passion for creating a welcoming, collaborative space, Heidi has built a salon that reflects her values: creativity, community, and authenticity.
Heidi Christian Hair operates on a rent-a-chair model, which means each stylist brings their own unique flair and client base while working together in a shared, supportive environment. This setup fosters a sense of independence and creativity, allowing stylists to truly shine.
The salon is more than just a place to get your hair done — it’s a creative hub where clients feel seen, heard, and pampered. The atmosphere is relaxed and inviting, with a strong focus on personalised service and collaboration between stylists and clients.
Tucked into the charming Casabella Lane, Blush'N Blondes is more than just a salon — it’s a creative hub for hair, makeup, and beauty that’s redefining what it means to feel confident and empowered.
Built on the belief that style is genderless and beauty is personal. Their approach is modern, inclusive, and refreshingly real. Whether you're after a precision cut, a bold colour refresh, or a nourishing treatment, their team is dedicated to helping you look good, feel good, and own your vibe.
Led by Phoenix, the salon’s Creative Director, the team at Blush'N Blondes is known for their artistry, warmth, and attention to detail. They’re not just stylists — they’re hair therapists, confidence boosters, and trendsetters. Every appointment starts with a thoughtful consultation to ensure your hair goals are understood and achieved.
Nestled in the stylish Riverbank Lane precinct, Fabrik Hair is more than just a salon — it’s a creative space where individuality is celebrated, sustainability is embraced, and every client leaves feeling like their best self.
Founded by Jamie Dryden in 2007, Fabrik has grown into one of Hamilton’s most beloved salons. Jamie brings over 20 years of international experience, having worked in top salons across Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, and Auckland before settling in the Waikato. His passion for precision cutting, especially short hair, and his creative vision have shaped Fabrik into a salon that’s both elegant and edgy
Jamie leads a talented team of stylists who are all about personalised service. They take the time to understand your hair, your lifestyle, and your goals — whether you’re after a subtle refresh or a bold transformation. The team’s vibe is warm, welcoming, and refreshingly down-to-earth, making every visit feel like catching up with friends who just happen to be hair geniuses.
Fabrik is committed to using ethical, sustainable, and high-performance products. hey also use bio towels (which are composted after use) and recycle all leftover foil, plastic, and paper — proving that great hair doesn’t have to come at the planet’s expense
If you’re looking for a salon that blends creativity, professionalism, and a genuine passion for hair, Ktizo Hair Salon is your go-to. Ktizo has built a reputation as one of the Waikato’s leading salons — and for good reason.
Ktizo isn’t just another hair salon — it’s a community of award-winning stylists who’ve been pushing boundaries and unlocking potential for years. With a strong foundation built on dedication to clients, the industry, and rising talent, Ktizo has become a trusted name in hair care across the region.
At Ktizo, the journey begins with a personalised consultation. Stylists take the time to understand your hair goals, lifestyle, and preferences. Whether you’re after a bold transformation or a subtle refresh, they’ll guide you through options that suit your face shape, hair type, and personality.
Ktizo offers a full range of services, including:
They use premium products like Wella, Kerastase, and Evo, ensuring your hair gets the best care possible
They believe that an amazing consultation is the key to that perfect result and ultimately determines what suits you.
At Colors, it’s not just about the cut or colour — it’s about you. Their stylists take the time to understand your face shape, skin tone, and personal style before crafting a look that’s uniquely yours. Whether you’re going for feminine and soft or bold and edgy, they’ve got the skills and vision to make it happen.
Led by industry veteran Djuanne (DJ), who brings over 47 years of experience, the team at Colors is a mix of seasoned pros and rising stars. They’re constantly upskilling to stay ahead of trends, and they’re passionate about creating a relaxing, enjoyable experience for every client.
From precision cuts to vibrant colour transformations, Colors offers a full range of services including:
They’re also known for their sustainable practices, using eco-conscious products like Davines.
Whether you’re after a fresh new look, a bold colour change, or just a relaxing pamper session, Colors Hair Studio is the place to be. Book your complimentary consultation and let the team work their magic.
Open four days a week (Tuesday to Friday), with Saturdays reserved for weddings and special occasions by appointment.
Known for blending fitness with cultural values, creating a space that’s not just about working out — but about community, connection, and personal growth.
Their approach to wellness includes physical, mental, spiritual, and social well-being.
t’s a place where you’re not just lifting weights — you’re lifting each other. If you're looking for a gym that feels like whānau, The Movement NZ might be your spot.
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The Hamilton Central Business Association is thrilled to announce that the Love the Centre Awards are back and ready to celebrate excellence within Hamilton’s central city business community! Sponsored by Spark Business and supported by Mediaworks, these awards provide a fantastic opportunity to shine a spotlight on the businesses who make our city centre extraordinary. Nominations are now open until August 30th.
At Fitstop they lift, perform, condition, and sweat.
Fitstop is athlete-based training focusing on personal progression within a supportive team environment.
It’s their mission to unleash your limitless potential tobecome the best version of you, whatever that looks like. They do this through theirathlete-inspired, progressive training in a genuinely team-based environmentthat is championed by our experienced trainers.
Hamilton's latest wellness studio opened 23rd June!
Sauna - Ice Bath - Float - Yoga - Pilates - Meditation -Massage - Recovery & More
O-Studio Hamilton is your destination to support complete wellbeing. A supportive atmosphere, innovative services, and inclusive community to help find balance and vitality in your life.
Investing in your health here will create positive transformations in allaspects of your life. At O-Studio, they empower you to focus on self-care,which enriches not only your own life but the lives of those around you.
Relax, recover, and thrive at O-Studio Hamilton.
Experience holistic wellness at Cothú. They offer specialised treatments including lymphatic massage, buccal facial massage, red light therapy, body-shaping therapies, rejuvenating retreats, and nourishing wellness products. Restore balance, support natural healing, and feel your most vibrant self, because at Cothú, your well-being comes first.
Give the gift of wellness with a Cothú Gift Voucher, perfect for any occasion! Our gift vouchers can be used toward any Cothú experience. Treat someone special to the ultimate self-care experience, and let them choose how they'd like to feel refreshed and revitalised. It's the perfect way to show you care!
Nature’s Spa NZ provide skincare and beauty services. They don’t promise magic, but they do promise better skin and relaxation.
A calm and tranquil space for massage and other treatments provided in a safe and supportive environment.
They believe that pampering is for everybody and everyone is welcome!
Massages and other services are available, such as advanced skin treatments like facials, microdermabrasion, face and body contouring, non-surgical face lifting, moles, warts, skin tags removal and teeth whitening.
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Every year in August, Hamilton Book Month celebrates New Zealand authors and their writing, with events covering different genres and age groups. Readers from the Waikato and beyond are invited to meet authors, listen to them discuss their work, and ask questions. With activities and events for all ages, all month, this is a local celebration you won't want to miss.
Visit their website for the full schedule of events.
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Opening: 5.30 - 7.30pm
Thursday 14th August 2025
Exhibition Date: 14th August - 13th September 2025
In Reflex, Sarah Munro invites viewers into a quiet, instinctual space — where watercolor becomes not a tool of control, but a collaborator in uncertainty. These works arise from a process of immediate, unfiltered response: to memory, to mood, to the body’s own rhythm.
Watercolor, with its fluidity and resistance to overworking, mirrors Munro’s interest in what lies beneath conscious thought. Each brushstroke is a reflex — quick, unrehearsed, and honest. Color seeps, bleeds, and settles in ways that cannot be entirely predicted, revealing the tension between surrender and intention that defines her practice.
Rather than plan or perfect, Munro listens. She listens to the way water moves, how pigment pools or vanishes, how gesture meets gravity. The result is work that feels ephemeral yet grounded—at once fleeting and deeply rooted in presence.
Reflex is not a narrative. It is an impulse. A visual record of the moment before interpretation, before language. In this body of work, Munro explores what happens when we trust the immediacy of the hand, the weight of the brush, and the quiet logic of the unconscious.
Han Chao - Hanrad Gallery
Artist Statement:
I am a studio-based painter in Hamilton, New Zealand and an academic specialising in creative practice research in painting and embodied cognition. I have exhibited in New York, Italy and France. Since 2018, I have taught art theory and supervised Honors and Masters-level creative practice research at Waikato Institute of Technology. My doctoral studies explored how painting activates embodied cognition and I am committed to developing this research in both my painting practice and teaching.
Sarah Mitchell Munro
The Bruce Springsteen Experience is an international-level show dedicated to honouring the timeless music of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Featuring a full nine-piece lineup, this captivating performance delivers an electrifying blend of visual and audio excitement. Audiences are consistently wowed, with standing ovations being the norm.
As 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic "Born to Run" album, The Bruce Springsteen Experience will perform the album in its entirety, along with a selection of The Boss's greatest hits. This special celebration promises to be a remarkable tribute, allowing fans to relive the magic of Springsteen’s music like never before. Don't miss this unforgettable experience!
Saturday Night Fever defined the disco era and the high-energy second act delivers chartbuster after chartbuster from the Bee Gees, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Yvonne Elliman, The Trammps, Graham Bonnet and others – Night Fever, Jive Talkin’, Disco Inferno, Stayin’ Alive, More Than A Woman, Emotion, Warm Ride, If I Can’t Have You, How Deep is Your Love, You Should be Dancing and so much more.
Saturday Night Fever was the biggest selling sound recording between 1977 and 1980 with highest daily sales of 200,000 USA copies, and topped the popularity surveys of Billboard, Cashbox and Record World.
Awarded the Album of the Year Grammy in 1979, the release stayed in the Top 200 for 29 consecutive months and made Barry Gibb the first solo songwriter in history to have three consecutive #1’s and four songs in the Top Ten simultaneously.
Saturday Night Fever has since been added to the American National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant”. Stayin’ Alive continues to make history as it features the first drum loop ever recorded on a pop music track and the Brooklyn Shuffle moves are still in evidence on the dance floor.
After humble beginnings in a garage, to a record-breaking rise to the top of the podcast charts, Aotearoa’s favourite trio — Jordan Vaha'akolo, Brook Ruscoe, and Marc Peard — are taking The Morning Shift to the people. This August and September, they’ll be bringing eight massive shows across Aotearoa and Australia in their first-ever LIVE tour.
Real people, real talk and now real life. Expect all the stuff you love from the podcast: deep kōrero, big laughs, a few tears, spontaneous/questionable singing, plus whatever Jordan decides to overshare that night. The live show brings the podcast to life, with that signature Morning Shift energy that turns commutes into therapy sessions and takes gym workouts to another level.
The Morning Shift is more than a podcast, it's a community. Having now ticked over two years of being #1 in your hearts (sometimes #1 in the charts), their podcast has become a staple for thousands of New Zealanders who tune in daily.Whether you’re a Day One Shifter or just joined the movement last week — this is your moment.
Rally the crew, book the babysitter, and get ready for a night that promises to shift you.Thanks to Nando’s, who’ve helped take this dream from the garage to the stage.Shift Nation, we on.
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The Black Flames are ready to burn the house down.
It’s been 30 years since Aaron Gascoigne stormed Hamilton stages fronting local rock legends ColdShock — a band that left its mark on the city with raw power, sweat, and sound. Now he’s back. And this time, he’s bringing fire, brass, and a full-blown musical machine.
The Black Flames are an 11-piece supergroup fusing rock, funk, and soul — the brainchild of Netherworld Dancing Toys founder Nick Sampson, alongside longtime collaborators Tim Robinson and Steve Shaw.
Up front:
Gascoigne — Waikato-born and battle-tested — a showman with the grit of rock and the heart of soul.
Beside him: Moana Richardson — a phenomenal young soul vocalist whose star is rising fast. Taking on the mantle once held by Annie Crummer, Moana brings undeniable power, grace, and soul well beyond her years. She’s the real deal — and she’s just getting started.
On guitar and vocals, Nick Sampson — the songwriter behind some of New Zealand’s biggest anthems (and yes, For Today is in the set).
In the engine room: Steve Shaw (The Loving Arms) on bass, Tim Robinson on drums, and Michael Larsen (ex-Jan Hellriegel band) on keys.
Overhead? A horn section that slaps — five of NZ’s finest from The Instigators, Wonderfish Collective, The Alibis and more — razor-sharp and loud as hell.
Their brand new single launches live on the night.
And it’s not just The Black Flames lighting up the room — opening the night are two of NZ’s most exciting young bands:
Pocket Watch — a gritty, high-energy crew with killer riffs and youthful swagger.
The Rain — indie rock with soul, heart, and hooks that stay with you long after the lights go out.
This isn’t just a gig — it’s a homecoming.
A new chapter.
And a chance to dance like it's 1994 again — but bigger, tighter, and groovier than ever.
A celebration of Afrikaans with Bobby van Jaarsveld, Ruhan du Toit and Corlea Both with JD Mars.
This is three hours of great Afrikaans music by the best from South Africa. Kom kuier saam in jou taal by Afrikaans is Lekker. Moontlik gemaak deur die ondersteuning van Afriforum Wereldwyd.
Hamilton’s own Berkley Normal Middle School turns up the volume with Disney’s Camp Rock The Musical!
Mitchie, Shane and their friends square off against rival Camp Star in a winner-takes-all showdown bursting with guitar-driven anthems, energetic choreography and hits like “This Is Me,” “Can’t Back Down” and “We Rock.”
Packed with humour and heart, this 70-minute, family-friendly production proves that friendship beats fame and music shines brightest when shared. Enjoy high-energy performances and irresistibly catchy pop-rock numbers, brought to the stage by Berkley students. Book now and join the jam!
Disney’s Camp Rock The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are supplied by MTI.
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SkyCity Hamilton this August presents the very best in Local and International Stand Up comedy once again.
Their headline act this month is the amazing Hayley Sproull. Star of the ZM Morning show, Taskmaster, 7 Days and host of this year's Comedy Gala, we are honoured Hayley will be at Hamilton's newest and best comedy club.
Support will be from one of Hamilton's finest exports, Paul Douglas. The master yarn spinner has been one of the busiest comedians in New Zealand since he broke onto the scene 10 years ago with commanding performances on The Comedy Gala and 7 Days.
“There are many ways to enjoy pleasure and laughter as a human being, one of the easiest is watching Paul Douglas” - Dai Henwood
The show will be hosted by the hairiest and best known faces in NZ comedy, Ben Hurley.
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General Admission: $43.28 each ($39.00 + $4.28 fees)
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Step inside a compelling visual narrative that challenges society’s assumptions and celebrates the power of change. RAW Beauty is a transformative photographic master’s exhibition curated by Annah
Stretton, bringing to light the stories of waahine with lived experience of incarceration not as statistics, but as women of deep strength, mana, and untapped potential.
In this collection of striking portraits and personal reflections, the exhibition directly responds to the historic injustice of the state mugshot imagery captured and circulated without agency or consent. Here, those same women reclaim their image, voice, and future on their own terms.
The work has been developed in partnership with the waahine of RAW (Reclaim Another Woman), a pioneering social initiative that supports high-risk women to exit cycles of offending, poverty, and dependence. RAW offers a long-term, wraparound model of care that includes education, employment, and whaanau reconnection, walking alongside women both during and after their time in prison.
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1pm – 2.30pm
3pm – 4.30pm
5pm – 6.30pm
7pm – 8.30pm
Ticket Price
Non-Members Ticket Price - $50
Bookings for a Table of up to 4 Guests
Choose from 40+ available wines to taste
8 different countries and over 20 different regions
Taste up to 15 different wines & Specialty Products
No BYO. Food availability at venue
Parking available on site
Book a table for up to 4 people
Exclusive Event Only offers available on the day
Limited seats available. Register early to secure your preferred day & session time.
The Wine Community Members (and guests) - FREE
No Large Group Bookings. Maximum 1 Table per group
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After months of hard work, Bruce Cooper and I are proud to share The View from Poets Corner – a short film packed with creativity that brings Bruce’s poetry to life.
Premiere Night – Saturday 9 August
Nivara Lounge, Hamilton
Doors 7PM | Screening 8PM
Koha/donation entry – everyone welcome
Join us for the very first public screening, with a live poetry reading from Bruce and music from the incredible one-man band Mike Conlon.
Come grab a drink, hear the words, and see the film on the big screen for the first time.
Big Thanks To Hamilton City Council, The Creative Communities Scheme, and Creative Waikato for Funding and Support in the Development of this Film
About the Film.
Bruce Cooper, a Māori street poet from Fairfield, shares four raw and reflective poems inspired by the signs and stories of Poets' Corner. Filmed with a DIY spirit, it blends lo-fi charm and poetic grit – with cardboard props and handmade sets bringing Bruce’s words to life. Honest, creative, and rooted in place, The View from Poets' Corner turns everyday struggle into spoken word theatre.
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