Creative Te Puke

Welcome to Creative Te Puke

Creative Te Puke Forum is a group of volunteers dedicated to making Te Puke a brighter, more pleasant and inspiring place to live, work and play.
Our Mission : - To initiate, inspire and encourage creative endeavours for the aesthetic & cultural enhancement of Te Puke.
We Value : - 1. The beautification of Te Puke 2. The diversity of Te Puke 3. The heritage of Te Puke
4. The involvement of the whole community in creative projects.

Creative Te Puke 'Powered by PechaKucha' Vol.5

With guest speakers including:-
Ann & Jim Dowman, Bill Wheeler, David Love, Dean Flavell, Elaine Rickard, Gael Blaymires, Harry Schraishuhn, Robbie Hart, Sarah Martin & Scott McLeod.

Creative Te Puke are holding their 5th “Powered by PechaKucha” Event in the Jellicoe Room, Te Puke Hotel on Friday March 22nd, 2013. Click here for more details.

Woo Hoo! School Murals Win Award!

Great News! We learnt on 7th December that Creative Te Puke's School Murals Project won the nationwide 2011 Resene Mural Masterpieces Competition! We are very pleased & thank all the local Te Puke schools who participated in this project: - Fairhaven, Maketu, Otamarakau, Paengaroa, Pongakawa, Rangiuru, Te Puke High School, Te Puke Primary & Te Ranga. Also a big thanks to Resene Paints, Bunnings Te Puke, Creative Communities NZ & Creative Te Puke's project co-ordinator Lisa Stowell.

Lorna Treloar Memorial Citizen of the Year 2011

Creative Te Puke initiated this Award last year as a tribute to the memory of Lorna Treloar who was a past Chairman of the group as well as a long-serving Te Puke Community Board Member and WBOPDC Councillor who did so much for the town.
We sent 23 nomination letters to local Community organisations and we received some very worthy nominations for the Award. Judging has been finalised and on Friday 12th August we will announce the 2011 recipient.
Click here for more information about the Award.

Rugby Murals 4 Sale

Lisa Stowell's mural created for RWC 2011

Creative Te Puke commissioned several rugby murals by local artists for public display in Te Puke during the RWC festival. These murals are now being offered for sale. For more information email:
te-puke@hotmail.com

Silver Broom Award

The Silver Broom Award was created to recognise excellent cleanliness & shopfront presentation in Te Puke CBD shops. The April 2012 recipient is the Te Puke National Bank. Photo soon. We also thank the National Bank for allowing us to display three school murals on their Jocelyn St wall.

Julie Neketai's fabulous mural created for Rugby World Cup 2011

Goodness Grows Here

In March 2013 Te Puke Economic Development Group launched Issue 1 of a new glossy magazine called "Te Puke Goodness Grows Here". To read the magazine as an e-book click here: - TP Magazine.

School Mural Project

Creative Te Puke's School Mural project has been very successful with most schools in the wider Te Puke district contributing a mural to be displayed in Te Puke's CBD. Click here to see all the murals

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Mosaic Pavers Project

Te Ranga School's Mosaic outside Town Hall

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2011 Photography Competition Exhibition

Creative Te Puke's Photography Competition has now closed. The winners have been decided and all photos are now on display in the ARCH Exhibition at 74 Jellicoe St in Te Puke until October 21st. Click here for more details of ARCH and the Photo Exhibition.

Historic Water Trough

On Sunday 2nd May 2010 Creative Te Puke finally completed a project that had been in the planning stage for a very long time. We were very proud when this replica historic trough was finally completed and installed on the median strip adjacent to the Te Puke Post Office.

Te Puke Adopt Namibia for Rugby World Cup 2011

Creative Te Puke made a concerted effort to help dress up our CBD for the period of the Rugby World Cup and we really made an impression on the Namibian Rugby Team when they visited Te Puke on the 11th of September. Click here to see what we did.

Te Puke Heritage Walkway

Te Puke's Heritage Walkway was Creative Te Puke's very first project and the reason for the group's formation. Click on the picture for more info about the Walkway.

Creative Te Puke Wins TrustPower Award!

Creative Te Puke are proud to have won the Arts & Culture category at the 2011 TrustPower Western Bay of Plenty Community Awards for their efforts over the past year. Click here to see Awards night photos.

Creative Te Puke appreciates the support of Creative Communities NZ Scheme for local arts & cultural funding in Tauranga & the Western Bay of Plenty District.

Lady Bird Johnson

"Ugliness is so grim, a little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help create harmony which will lessen tensions." Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson (in office 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969)
That belief - that beauty can improve the mental health of a society - and her determination to make the United States a more beautiful place became Lady Bird's true legacy. Throughout her time in the White House, she fought to make American cities more beautiful by planting flowers or adding park benches and by removing billboards and junkyards from the nation's highways.