1 years agoAuckland Arts Festival 2013 has been hailed a major success, doubling attendance figures and recording the largest box office income for any single previous Auckland arts festival.
1 years agoDue to popular demand, Auckland Arts Festival announces an extra performance of The Man Who Planted Trees on Friday 8 March, 6pm, Auckland Town Hall.
1 years agoBe spellbound by Auckland Arts Festival's free arts extravaganza.
1 years agoSchool teachers across New Zealand are encouraged to BOOK NOW for the Auckland Arts Festival 2013 SMARTSfest programme -where education meets the arts.
1 years agoEveryone's invited to see the very best contemporary Māori and Pacific musicians perform at Aotearoa's indigenous music expo.
2 years agoWu Man, the intrepid pipa player, Grammy Award winner and one-woman force of nature who is coming to Auckland Arts Festival 2013, has been named Musical America’s 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year.
2 years agoTheatre, music, dance and visual art for all at Auckland Arts Festival 2013.
2 years agoArt is for everyone in Auckland Arts Festival 2013’s visual arts fiesta.
2 years agoThe world-renowned pyrotechnic performance maestros, Groupe F, have created a brilliant new show especially for Auckland and Auckland Arts Festival 2013.
2 years agoThe National Theatre of Great Britain’s multi award-winning West End and Broadway sensation One Man, Two Guvnors is coming to the Auckland Arts Festival 2013.
2 years agoA high-voltage circus-theatre production, exploding with gravity-defying stunts and astonishing acrobatics.
2 years agoCantina offers breathtaking acrobatics, optical illusion, titillating tightrope, intimate encounters and high, high heels.
2 years agoAn infinitely beautiful dance-theatre masterpiece created by two of Europe’s hottest dancer / choreographers.
2 years agoOne hundred years since the birth of its composer, Benjamin Britten, the magnum opus War Requiem is coming to life at Auckland Arts Festival 2013.
2 years agoGroovers and shakers are invited to swing along to Auckland Arts Festival’s Festival Club which will take up residence in the Festival Garden in Aotea Square for the entire Festival.
2 years agoCalling all families, kids, mums, dads, grandparents, aunts, uncles and babysitters to come on down and celebrate the arts in Aotea Square for Family Day on Sunday 24 March.
2 years agoen route is an expedition into the core of the city, tailor-made for Auckland.
2 years agoAn epic, one-off concert in which classic Māori anthems take centre stage.
2 years agoNew Zealand’s first ever Pacific musical, created in and about South Auckland by the courageous Kila Kokonut Krew (KKK), is coming to the big smoke.
2 years agoThe ‘High Priest of Afrobeat’ and Grammy Award-winner Hugh Masekela will fill Auckland’s Town Hall with glorious sound and Afro groove.
2 years agoThe world-renowned Kronos Quartet and Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man perform two dynamic and boundary-breaking works, including Ghost Opera by soundtrack composer to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Tan Dun.
2 years agoConvergence is a dynamic concert that weaves together Western, Eastern and Māori musical traditions, presented by some of contemporary classical music’s cross-cultural innovators.
2 years agoThis Auckland Arts Festival, The National Theatre of Scotland, of Black Watch fame, is taking theatre to a place Kiwis know and love – the pub.
2 years agoFresh from one of New Zealand’s hottest playwrights, Mitch Tawhi Thomas, comes Hui, a story about whānau, secrets, lies and the challenge of resisting Māori tradition.
2 years agoAuckland Arts Festival is delighted to be bringing the National Theatre of China and this ground-breaking masterpiece of contemporary drama to New Zealand for the first time.
2 years agoAuckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) Composer-in-Residence Jack Body’s highly anticipated tribute to New Zealand drag queen and madam, Carmen Rupe.
2 years agoAuckland Arts Festival 2013 has invited New Zealand‘s finest choirs to raise the roof of Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral for a special concert on 20 March.
2 years agoLeo fuses energetic live performance with innovative video projection and leaves audiences wondering which way is up and which is down.
2 years agoTwo of Irish contemporary music’s brightest stars, Glen Hansard and Lisa Hannigan, in a rare, one-night-only show.
2 years agoA delightful Early Music performance from New Zealand’s Age of Discovery.
2 years agoAuckland Arts Festival 2013 invites audiences to open their hearts and prepare themselves for a most unexpected love story with I ♥ Alice ♥ I.
2 years agoA funny and captivating theatre show for children and adults alike, The Man Who Planted Trees, is a delightful production based on French author Jean Giono's environmental cult classic.
2 years agoFor audiences aged 9 to 90, The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk is an enchanting storytelling experience about friendship, betrayal and how relationships change over time.
2 years agoThe soulful, Grammy Award-nominated musician, Ruthie Foster powers on to the Great Hall stage on 6 March as part of Auckland Arts Festival 2013.
2 years agoA beautiful and inspirational feature-length documentary about the passionate drive to be an artist, created by award-winning Australian-based New Zealand choreographer and filmmaker, Sue Healey.
2 years agoLeading Māori playwright Hone Kouka’s award-winning play I, George Nepia, the heart-warming story of the talented and unassuming New Zealand rugby legend, is coming to Auckland Arts Festival 2013.
2 years agoThree world premieres will be performed by the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) as the first dance work in the Auckland Arts Festival 2013 programme.
2 years agoThe intrepid Wu Man - pipa virtuoso, Grammy Award winner and one-woman force of nature - is coming to Auckland Arts Festival for a one-off, solo performance, Wu Man and her Pipa: Ancient Ties for Modern Sound.
2 years agoNew Zealand soprano Deborah Wai Kapohe will be joined by emerging talents from the opera world to present a work that explores classic opera arias transformed into Te Reo and popular Māori waiata recreated in the lyrical language of opera.
2 years agoIn HOU 2013, three of the country’s best Māori contemporary choreographers will thrill audiences with the ihi, wehi and wana (energy, power and awe) of contemporary dance theatre.