The Wellington Jazz Festival returns, 6–10 June 2018, to host an exciting line up of modern jazz greats, including six-time Grammy Award–winner and Director of the legendary Newport Jazz Festival, Christian McBride. Jazz bassist McBride, who has collaborated with heavyweights from Sting to James Brown, will bring his talented new quartet Christian McBride’s New Jawn […]
Women Changing the World, a fast-paced, funny and fascinating series of talks from women doing their part to effect change in the world will open this year’s Writers & Readers. The gala event will be held on International Women’s Day, 8 March, with a line-up that includes Aotearoa’s Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh, Australian novelist Charlotte […]
Grammy winner Kurt Elling is headlining the 2018 Cavell Leitch New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival in Christchurch this May.
Acrobatics and contemporary dance combine with Māori mythology in Okāreka Dance Company’s new major work WIRED.
Caroline Diara is a French artist who has just arrived in New Zealand a few weeks ago. The 13th Floor sent her to the opening performance of Limbs@40, part of the Tempo Dance Festival 2017. Here is her report. (Best read with a French accent in your mind).
The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) announces its most provocative and poetic national tour yet, The Absurdity of Humanity to be presented this September in New Plymouth at the Taranaki Arts Festival, Marlborough, the Christchurch Arts Festival and in Wellington for strictly limited performances.
Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC) premiere season in the ASB Waterfront Theatre would not be complete without a work by one of New Zealand’s most popular and prolific playwrights, the unstoppable Roger Hall.
The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has announced 21 films from last month’s Cannes Film Festival will screen at the festival. All the major Competition winners from Cannes are confirmed to screen.
Four New Zealand feature-length films and the festival’s first-ever long form television series have been announced today for the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF).
Here’s Sarah McMullan with the latest from the New Zealand International Film Festival: Well I’m excited! In their second announcement of the year, the NZ International Film Festival has continued their musical theme with the announcement of their popular Live Cinema event that sees a silent film classic played in the majestic Civic Theatre with a score performed live by the […]