This year the Wellington Heritage Festival is on from October 18th till November 9th, with more than 160 events all over the Wellington region.

There are several events in and about Newtown –  find them by going to https://wellingtonheritagefestival.co.nz/events/ and putting Newtown in the search bar – they are all free except the Street Art Bicycle Tour, but several require booking. Two events, the “Old town Newtown” walking tours guided by Claire Nolan, and Heritage tours of Government House and Grounds, are already fully booked.  
These are the remaining ones –

Sunday 19 October Patrick Morgan is leading a ‘Street Art Bicycle Tour’ from Te Aro to Newtown.
Tuesday 21 October  at University of Otago, Wellington Hospital, 23A Mein St, Newtown there is an event to celebrate 150 years of medical training in Aotearoa.
Wednesday 22 October you can visit the ANZ Bank Archives at Level 1 2aGreen St.
Thursday 23 October there is ‘History and Hoops’ with Claire Nolan and Matthew Spooner at Newtown Croquet Club
Thursday 30 October 7pm Paul Forrest is talking about ‘The History of Newtown’s Green Belt’ at Newtown Community Centre.
Saturday 1 November Paul Forrest is leading ‘The History of Newtown’s Green Belt’ Walking Tour, meeting at the new Owen St Park – 177 Owen St.

In addition our Association is putting on 2 photo exhibitions, one is Newtown Images at SubCulture, the refurbished Electricity Substation, which will be visible for the duration of the Festival (Claire Nolan will have a display in one of the windows and we will use the other one). The other is Newtown in Photographs and Story at the Artists. 24.7 Gallery at 247 Riddiford St. The exhibition opens Saturday 18th October, then will be open every day except the Wednesdays and Thursdays until the Festival closes on Sunday 9th November.