Largest Programme Ever for Show Me Shorts Film Festival 2019
Show Me Shorts, NZ’s biggest little film festival opens across Aotearoa from 5 October – with sixty short films and three music videos, chosen from a record 2040 entries.
Show Me Shorts, NZ’s biggest little film festival opens across Aotearoa from 5 October – with sixty short films and three music videos, chosen from a record 2040 entries.
One of the world’s greatest sopranos, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, will be honoured at a star-studded gala event on Wednesday, 20 November, celebrating her remarkable career and also the renaming of the Aotea Centre’s ASB Theatre to the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre.
Beloved New Zealand author Janet Frame’s landmark novel will be brought to life on stage for the first time ever. Filled with fierce heart and visual splendour, Owls Do Cry is considered one of New Zealand’s landmark novels, and is making its world premiere in Frame’s childhood hometown of Ōamaru (4 and 5 October), before heading […]
Japan features prominently in the minds of New Zealanders this year with the forthcoming Rugby World Cup, Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The Show Me Shorts Film Festival, too, is bringing Japanese culture into the spotlight by partnering with the Asia New Zealand Foundation, the Japan Foundation and the Embassy of Japan for this year’s Festival.
Taurima Vibes presents ATAWHAI 2019, in association with Changing Minds. Structured to engage different pockets of the community in specifically tailored ways, for its fifth year Atawhai will support five different programmes throughout September and October across the Auckland region, strategically timed with Mental Health Awareness Week from September 23-29.
One of the world’s greatest sopranos, Kiri Te Kanawa, is being celebrated in a grand theatre tradition, with a permanent tribute to be unveiled at Auckland’s Aotea Centre on 20 November.
At the heart of Basement Theatre’s Spring 2019 Season is FAFSWAG’s RECLAMATION – the second and final work in the inaugural Basement Visions programme which asked Basement’s community of artists to pitch responsive, disruptive and unpredictable works to challenge the mainstream. Led by up-and-coming artist Elyssia Wilson-Heti, RECLAMATION answers the call for more stories about […]
After selling out their breathtaking show Midnight in 2017, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) is again collaborating with Auckland’s leading circus theatre company, The Dust Palace, on a new work in which the circus performers tell their enchantingly beautiful story around – and above – the orchestra.
Tempo has launched its full 2019 programme hot off the heels of nearly sold out shows for Parris Goebel and Sau e Siva! Tempo will bring Auckland City to life from the 2nd – 12th October with 60 vibrant breakthrough dance works.
This August and September, Event Cinemas presents the inaugural IMAX DOCO Film Festival, showcasing new and classic IMAX documentaries on New Zealand’s biggest and most immersive screen, IMAX with Laser.