Arrowtown Autumn Festival

As the first drops of rain fell in Arrowtown late yesterday afternoon, the final pints were poured on the Village Green, closing the first full weekend of events in the 30th Arrowtown Autumn Festival.

Richard Hutchens models In a Frazzell about Frizzell, made by Sharon Gilchrist, in the Old Masters category of the Art2Wear show, part of the Arrowtown Autumn Festival, at the Athenaeum Hall last night.

Ruby Anderson (8), with ''Dancing Queen'' a scarecrow she and her sister Charlie (11) made for the 2013 Arrowtown Autumn Festival scarecrow competition.

Arrowtown's Autumn Festival starts tomorrow, and director Sarah Swale is promising variety for all.

The Arrowtown Autumn Festival has a new director; and she has a few surprises planned for the 2013 event.

While Queenstown's Simon Green recently stepped down as Winter Festival director, the smaller Arrowtown Autumn Festival is also looking for some one to take the reins.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms brought the curtain down on the 2012 Arrowtown Autumn Festival which, until yesterday afternoon, had been blessed with clear skies.

The Arrowtown Autumn Festival continued yesterday, street entertainment on Buckingham Green providing a festive lunch break for locals and visitors alike.

The Arrowtown Autumn Festival attracted nearly 8000 people to the annual opening day parade on Saturday.

Jane Robinson, of Earnscleugh, doubted the bold blouse handed down from her aunt, which had hung in her wardrobe for 20 years, would ever see the light of day again. That was until she took part in the "Reboot Your Wardrobe" course at the 23rd annual Wanaka Autumn Art School this week.

The family from last year's Cribbies show twist and shout again in a new original play inspired by the Beatles' visit to Dunedin.

Ann Bain has helped display 23 of the 28 annual Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibitions, and she says the quality of this year's collection has surpassed expectations.

The inaugural Wallace and Gibbs Art 2 Wear exhibition opens at the Lakes District Museum tomorrow.

Inspiring wearable art was displayed on the catwalk for the entertainment of a sold-out audience, when the Wallace & Gibbs Art 2 Wear Show was staged as part of the Arrowtown Autumn Festival on Friday.

The 27th Arrowtown Autumn Festival ended with an entertainment-packed variety concert in front of a sell-out audience last night.

An Arrowtown artist says he is "delighted" to win the people's choice award in the Arrowtown Autumn Festival Locations Art Exhibition.

Arrowtown lads (from left) Jack Howley (5) and Lennox Faamalepe (4), with Arrowtown Autumn Festival chairman Lex Perkins and Queenstown father Sebastian Hansen and son Zali Hansen (2, behind), present some of the 15 entries in the festival's scarecrow contest, on Sunday.