10 Wairarapa Midweek Carterton Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Carterton, you’re on the air Erin Kavanagh-Hall
Carterton
erin.kavanagh-hall@age.co.nz
If you’re a Cartertonian looking to promote your community organisation, share your culture, or introduce the public to your unique musical preferences – Wairarapa’s Access Media station would like to add your voice to the airwaves. Arrow FM is now offering free broadcasting in Carterton – providing a mobile recording service to allow locals to create radio shows and podcasts from their own backyard. Next week, Arrow staff will be holding a public meeting at the Carterton Community Courthouse to gauge local interest, discuss programming ideas, and introduce its portable recording technology. Arrow, currently broadcasting from Church Street in Masterton, is one 12 Access Radio stations in New Zealand: which facilitate radio programmes by, for, and about the diverse cultures and special interest groups that make up local communities. In recent years, Arrow has expanded its mobile programming throughout the region: with shows now regularly broadcasting out South Wairarapa, with support from programme co-ordinator Marina Lira. Lira will also be on hand to manage Carterton’s new
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service, able to provide the transportable equipment and assistance with recording. Arrow station manager Michael Wilson said there has certainly been an appetite for more community broadcasting within Carterton – but travel to the Masterton studio has been prohibitive for many. “But now, they can stay put – and we can come to them,” he said. “Arrow stands for ‘Access Radio Reaching Over Wairarapa’ – not just over Masterton. We want to fully represent the whole region, and we don’t want people to be geographically excluded from having a voice. “We got the gear, and we’ve got the staff available. And we want to hear what
Carterton has to offer.” Wilson said this will not be the first time Arrow has broadcasted in Carterton: in the early 2000s, programme coordinator Veronika Beall recorded several local shows out of the Bambino Café on High Street North. “You’d hear the noise from the coffee machine and cutlery clinking in the background,” Wilson said. “Then we moved into the Carterton library, which was much quieter. “We did that for about seven or eight years. But we were just a two-person team back then, so it became too difficult to manage. “So, we’re hoping to resurrect that service – and
develop it further.” Wilson said he and the Arrow crew are encouraged by the success of the mobile recording services it has run in South Wairarapa, which started with community workshops in Featherston and Martinborough. With support from South Wairarapa District Council, and Lira as facilitator, several shows now broadcast from both towns, covering topics such as local events, Brazilian music, organic gardening, and good books – courtesy
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of Martinborough Bookshop. At next week’s meeting in
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Carterton, Lira and her coworkers will demonstrate how to use the recording equipment and will invite people to “come and have a go” themselves. Also present at the meeting with be Carterton mayor Greg Lang – himself a former Arrow presenter – who will help facilitate the discussion. Wilson said he hoped the station could represent a range of people within the Carterton community – including people of diverse ethnicities, cultures, backgrounds, ideologies, and abilities. “Even if you’re someone who has the weirdest taste in music, we’d love to have you on board. “Music can be a great expression of who we are.” • Arrow FM’s Carterton event will be held on Tuesday, March 22, from 7pm at the Carterton Community Courthouse, Holloway Street. • Numbers are limited – so book a place by contacting Michael Wilson 027 340 30 60, or Marina Lira on 027 251 2410, or emailing quiver@arrowfm.co.nz. • Vaccine passes will be required.
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