10 top picks for the Auckland Arts Festival
Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival starts its 18-day run of theatre, music, dance, cabaret and more in early March. We asked curators ...
Culture
New Zealand offers plenty to lovers of culture, including a vibrant film and theatre scene, and an abundance of galleries and exhibitions, heritage attractions, museums, arts and crafts, treasures (taonga) and performing arts. Explore the country’s unique multicultural fabric, its fascinating history and the rich, essential culture and traditions of the Māori via live theatre and other stage performances, concerts and gigs from local musicians, cultural centres, gallery visits, museum exhibitions, and much more.
Pluto ascending - Q&A: Milan Borich
Legendary Kiwi band Pluto have had a mixed run of luck over the last few years. Reunited and back on a roll in 2019, the band suffered a cruel ...
Collab puts message of love in NZSO season
For composer John Psathas, the opportunity to collaborate with Moroccan singer and poet OUM and oud virtuoso Kyriakos Tapakis on a work marking ...
Season salute to city pioneer - RNZB 2024
Christchurch’s contribution to the Royal New Zealand Ballet story takes centre stage in the company’s 2024 programme with a production of Swan ...
Making connections - Q&A: Ebony Lamb
As a portrait photographer, Ebony Lamb has an eye for the defining detail. As a songwriter, she shows that same clear insight. We talk timing, ...
From Harry to MACEY
Harry Parsons had a Smokefree Rockquest win, a debut single, a degree in pop music and a clear trajectory to stardom ahead of him. The only ...
Come together again!
Hands up if you are one of the 40,000 people at a Come Together gig over the last three years? The series of rock concerts recreating classic ...
Abigail Boyle: In good company
The Royal New Zealand Ballet celebrates its platinum anniversary this month with Lightscapes. Over the decades, Christchurch’s community of ...
New team puts fresh spin on WORD programme
For Kiran Dass, programme lead for WORD Christchurch 2023, the future is bright for writing and publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kiran is ...
Exhibition honours artist Robin White
A retrospective exhibition honouring one of New Zealand’s most decorated and best-loved contemporary artists, Dame Robin White, opens this ...
Bic Runga: 20 beautiful years
It really is 20 years since Bic Runga released Beautiful Collision. She tells Cityscape about its genesis, and how much she is looking forward ...
Rare visit highlight of Matariki at Christchurch’s Arts Centre
As Aotearoa gears up for its second Matariki holiday, plans are well under way at Christchurch’s Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre for nearly ...
8 hidden gems at the French Film Festival
One of the great joys of a film festival is uncovering a hidden gem among the big hitters on the programme, a film you had never heard of before ...
Royal New Zealand Ballet marks 70 years
It all began on 30 June, 1953. At the Playhouse Theatre on Auckland’s Karangahape Road, Danish dancer Poul Gnatt, the founding father of ballet ...
Exhibition connects with what isn’t there
One of Christchurch Art Gallery’s best-loved paintings, Petrus van der Velden’s 1872 work Burial in the Winter on the Island of Marken, also ...
French Film Festival director already has 2024 in mind
Fergus Grady is in his third year as director of the French Film Festival Aotearoa and he still can’t quite believe the silver lining to his ...
Three artists find winter haven at Christchurch’s Arts Centre
For Hōhua Ropate Kurene, one of three artists chosen by Christchurch’s Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre for its winter Creative Residency ...
Crikey, it’s Melsy!
From being world famous in New Zealand, comedian Melanie Bracewell jumped the ditch and landed a spot on Australian television. She’s famous ...
Under the radar at Auckland Writers Festival 2023
Be it a music festival, film festival or wine and food, the seasoned punter will be very familiar with discovering a hidden gem among the big ...
Shifting sounds
Devin Abrams is an Ōtautahi boy, a founding member of Shapeshifter, successful music producer, and mastermind behind the solo project Pacific ...
Q&A: Dave Faulkner - Gurus, guitars and gabba gabba hey
Australian rock legends the Hoodoo Gurus will tour the country for the first time in two decades this year. What's Hot New Zealand talks to ...
Q&A: Scott Towers - Freddy’s share the love
After 20 years of playing festivals here and everywhere, Fat Freddy’s have the drop on how to make the most of the occasion. Saxophonist Scott ...
Shocks and giggles in Court season
Jane Austen, Billy T James, teen angst and political drama are all part of the compelling collection of plays that will take to the boards ...
Review: Call of the Huia by New Zealand Opera
What's Hot New Zealand went along to the first performance of the national tour of Call of the Huia, an exploration of lost Aotearoa art ...
Elton John announces return to New Zealand for Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour
We've been waiting (im)patiently since the Rocket Man's last New Zealand shows were cut short at the beginning of 2020, and now our patience has ...
Aotearoa metalheads Alien Weaponry join the bill for Guns N' Roses' New Zealand tour
As we gear up to welcome Guns N' Roses back to New Zealand this December, we're stoked with the great news that local legends Alien Weaponry are ...
Q&A: Barnaby Weir, lead singer of The Black Seeds
We've been eagerly anticipating the release of The Black Seeds' new album, and now it's out the band are hitting the road with a good ...
Wellington indie rocker Wiri Donna drops EP and hits the road
Wellington musician Bianca Bailey AKA Wiri Donna’s new record is out, and she heading out for a nationwide tour. The six-track EP Being Alone ...
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