High Street looking vibrant for festive season

December 4th, 2013

Many Motueka residents are noting and talking about how bright and vibrant the town is looking as the festive and holiday season starts, thanks to some nice touches being added.

As well as the customary lighting displays along the street and in many shop windows, this year also sees many more hanging baskets with brighter looking flowers, an array of artistic banners, and some of the vacant shop windows with simple, smart exhibits at the front.

The hanging baskets are the work of Our Town Motueka, and are now permanently irrigated thanks to the help of a generous local benefactor. See our earlier story here.

Also installed recently are a set of flapping banners discretely attached to lamp posts and poles along High Street. One tends not to notice them up there, but they add life and colour to the street.

These were originally the work of the Motueka Arts Council using designs with local themes submitted, then hand painted using screen dyes onto flag bunting.

Another innovation this year is a simple initiative by Vision Motueka and Our Town Motueka to get community groups to design and install simple shop displays to front the few shops that for now are vacant, rather than leaving a sadly gaping space. See our earlier story here.

To date, three such displays have been built - one by the Crafty Tarts in the old Claudia Opticians shop, one by Rudolf Steiner School in the shop next door, and one by Motueka Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) in the old Needleworx shop beside the Swinging Sultan.

Our Town Motueka is talking with owners of the three other empty shops to ask if their buildings could also be used by other exhibitors.

Here are our attempts to photograph these exhibitions, made difficult by the street reflections dominating due to there being no power for lighting inside the shops.

Rudolf Steiner's Christmas beach scene	Crafty Tarts' giant flowers for hire
(Before)	(Before)

RDA's display (with unrelated cherry sales)

>> , to be added to the page. [If this link doesn't work, use this form instead]

[ Return ]
[ Other news articles ]

We wish to thank these local community-minded businesses who generously sponsor our site. They recognise the value of supporting this community asset, and in return Motueka Online is pleased to use and recommend their services whenever appropriate.

Ray White Motueka, Motueka Floral Studio, Nelson Building Society, House of Travel,
Greenwood Active Health, Lynette Mytton,