Central

Kura Gallery

Expose the senses to John Penman’s latest reflections, which take hot-blown form using the ancient technique of filigrana and the modern material of photosensitive glass. 

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Celebrate White Night by the water with magical twilight sailings aboard the Museum’s historic vessels, live theatre and dance performances from Prayas Theatre Company and Java Dance Company, and Love the Sea themed activities to keep the kids entertained.

Q Theatre

For a fresh look at culture, take one artist and add a cotton swab, glowing bacteria and Petri dishes. Mix them together in Q Vault and – violà! – you have a masterpiece: Biolumination.

Auckland Art Gallery

Join the buzz at Auckland Art Gallery as they get set for one massive night of art, music and film. With a solo show from Billy Apple, performances from the NZTrio and founding members of the Nairobi Trio, and screenings of Into The Void and Nosferatu throughout the night, there will be something to inspire and move visitors of all ages.

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

Gus Fisher Gallery

Bringing together diverse works, from sculpture and paper-cuts to video and virtual reality 'experiences', Black Bird is the first major survey of Lonnie Hutchinson's varied and rich practice. Hutchinson's Māori and Samoan heritage inform her interest in pattern, the play of light and shadow and the navigation between space and time.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Drop in for love the sea flags and messages-in-a-bottle activities for the kids.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Prayas Theatre Company Performances: Indian folk music, dance and contemporary migration stories through the museum galleries. 

Aotea Centre Digital Art Live

Uncover feathered inhabitants together in Jenna Gavin and Matthew Martin’s interactive artwork, opening on White Night with a special appearance from dance group Bodyphonics. Birds of a Shadow is a playful installation inviting family, friends and strangers to work together to discover beautifully crafted bird images on the screen.

AUT

Enter the phonetic matrix of New Zealand’s birdlife under the dense typographic canopy of Gerbrand Van Melle’s audience-responsive PUA. Demonstrating the relation between humans and birds, names appear and disappear, responding to the audience presence.

Central City Library

Ogle at Alternative Resources inside and outside the Library by artists from the Elam School of Fine Arts.

Timeout Festival Garden

Contemplate the celestial ceiling to digital birdsong surrounded by lei-wrapped, Polynised trees in Niki Hastings-McFall’s open-air Fale Ula.  

FHE Galleries

Delve into FHE Gallery’s treasure and uncover outstanding objects, furniture and fine arts from across New Zealand, the Pacific and beyond.

Fingers Gallery

Pay a mint visit to Rainer Beneke’s exhibition Currency and discover 20 coin-shaped pendants in silver and gold.

Gow Langsford Gallery - Lorne Street

Pick up a new poster by Judy Millar, launching on White Night and exclusive to Gow Langsford Gallery.* Her exhibition Proof of Heaven will be showing in the gallery.

Projectspace B431

Explore an incongruous collection of mechanical and electrical moving images and devices by George Haijan and Robert Carter.

ST PAUL St Gallery

Check out the exhibition of six contemporary Japanese artists’ work channeling the energies of mega-city and environment, and an outdoor screening of moving image works presented in association with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. 

TAPAC

Celebrate TAPAC’s incredible performing arts community with your host Ngaire Chambers, introducing a stellar line-up.

The Civic: Taj Mahal Room

Light and performance, sound and painting collide and coalesce in Myah Flynn, Jesse Quaid, Scott Wilson and Michael Craven’s single immersive sensorium, in a space of experience between worlds and between expectations.

Trish Clark Gallery

Lose yourself in Anthony McCall’s Face to Face, an immersive and captivating light installation last seen in Auckland Art Gallery’s Light Show.

Waikare on Q

Riff off an old favourite, Ma is White, in this tongue-in-cheek play on the theme of motherhood and colour.

Papakura Art Gallery in the CBD

Reposition Freyburg Square as Papakura Art Gallery is brought into the CBD for White Night and unveils a trans-Tasman, interdisciplinary Shared Endeavour. The event – featuring light, sculpture, installation and genteel hospitality – launches the collaboration between Auckland-based Martin Awa Clarke Langdon (Tainui, Ngai Tahu) and Sydney-based Jonathan Jones (Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi).

Auckland Art Gallery

Saturday 14 March is the opening day of the largest-ever retrospective of celebrated Auckland artist, Billy Apple – The artist has to live like everybody else which profiles Apple’s prolific career spanning more than 50 years. As part of this exhibition, Craig Miller from Miller Coffee will be offering a tasting of his specially roasted Billy Apple blend and using a gold La Cimbali espresso machine (6pm-8pm)

Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT University

Take the weather with you to NZPQ15: Āhua o te Rangi, an exhibition by New Zealand’s most innovative performance and spatial practice artists, that addresses weather as a transformative system in this era of climate change. 

Gus Fisher Gallery

Witness Darcell Apelu and Amiria Puia-Taylor perform Lonnie Hutchinson’s Can You See Me (1997), in which a female figure is taped to the ground and struggles for release.

Hum Salon

Hum Salon are hosting a folk festival in the centre of Auckland in the wonderful old house on the corner of Grafton Bridge.

Masterworks Gallery

Exhibitions by Christine Thacker KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU and Vicki Fanning VARIOUS STATES OF DESPAIR

Nga Taonga Sound and Vision

Look and listen as Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision presents a live music and cinema event and an exhibition by Dieneke Jansen.

Java Dance Company take you on a ride you'll never forget - on the White Night buses and popping up around Auckland

Fresh from sell-out performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, in Australia and Welling- – well, all over! Java Dance Company performs their acclaimed dance theatre show Back of the Bu*s *on the free White Night buses. Join them for a magical ride combining physical comedy, kinetic energy and captivating scenarios in a character-based dance tour of Auckland city.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Hold onto your sea legs as Java Dance Company gives an intense and immersive performance on the Museum pontoons.

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Spook yourself with ghost stories from Aotearoa.

Central City Library

Go on THE BIG OE, as recorded in letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photos and souvenirs collected by travelling New Zealanders in this memory-triggering exhibition.

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Hashtag your heart out with the hypnotic digital organism #entity255 opening on the Festival screen.

Citizen Q Bar

Sip White Night cocktail goodness in Citizen Q bar to the sweet sounds of live music.

Auckland CBD

Skip through the central city's streets & laneways wooed by Pied Pipers: dancers Bodyphonics and Popular Music students from the University of Auckland.

Wynyard Quarter

Enter the grid of mirrored towers which is Angus Muir and Alexandra Hearney's outdoor installation Field and see yourself surreal in the night-time light.

Q Theatre

Featuring the work of Gil Hanly, John Miller, Jos Wheeler and Natalie Robertson, Tūrangawaewae is an exhibition of powerful and moving photographs which brings elements and issues from Hīkoi into perspective for Māori today. In particular, it looks at the way Māori are trying to maintain their traditions and culture in a continually changing and rapidly evolving Aotearoa.

St Paul Street Gallery

Online publication launch of yoursdankly.

Outside Central City Library

Art and language are bound together in a co­-existential relationship. The library’s mobile library will be repurposed for the exhibition of publications produced by an array of artists and writers, showcasing ideologies and dialogues that extend from the shelves and into conversation with a diverse demographic. Keeping with the library’s functionality, the authors invite you to participate in their ideas with some publications available free for take­away.

Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT University

Reception Party is a durational and endurance performance where Mark Harvey welcomes visitors at the entrance of the New Zealand pavilion and invites them to argue with him about climate change, related politics and their effects on the oceans and sea level rise. When people tire of the debate they are invited to push him over.

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Breathe in the Festival’s feast and funk it up with Hopetoun Brown.

New Zealand Maritime Museum, 6.30pm-7.30pm, 8pm-9pm

Take to the high seas with special evening sailings. Sailing dependent on weather. Please ring the NZ Maritime Museum 09 373 0800 for up-to-date information. 

An evening of Hindustāni classical music with Balamohan Shingade

Tune into a special performance of Hindustāni classical music with Balamohan Shingade.

Gow Langsford Gallery - Kitchener Street

Meet one of New Zealand’s most well-known artists, Max Gimblett, for a book signing. For a special price, visitors can purchase a copy* of his latest publications, including the first book to focus entirely on the sumi-ink paintings of the New York based artist.

Silo Park, Wynyard Quarter

Art, sound and surprise at Silo Park.

Auckland Art Gallery

Music on film comes via a one-off screening of Margaret Gordon’s Into The Void, a documentary on the band of the same name and formed by four art school students - Jason Greig, Paul Sutherland, Ronnie van Hout and Mark Whyte- as something to do in Christchurch on a Saturday night on the 1980s. The film was voted best documentary for 2014 by The Press. 

Auckland Art Gallery

NZTrio perform throughout the evening a 20-minute set titled Subtle Dances, which includes compositions Kenji Bunch (USA): Groovebox Variations, Claire Cowan (NZ): Subtle Dances and Raimundo Penaforte (Brazil): An Eroica Trio – Capiba. (7pm, 7.30pm, 8pm)

Masterworks Gallery

As part of the Auckland Art Festival's White Night, jeweller Soo Jeong Lee will be hosting a collaborative project give me a hand where participants will be invited to come along and make an object using Soo Jeong's wax moulding technique. The project is being run to promote Handshake2*,* a jewellery mentoring programme established by Wellington jeweller Peter Deckers, of which Soo Jeong is a mentee. 

Sir Pauls Reeves Building PQNZ15 Exhibition

Still Sailing explores how humans might take action in times of environmental uncertainty that include extreme heat, storm warnings and states of emergency. A participatory mobile scenography/survival tour that requires the audience, as participants, to collectively navigate through the city, engaging with weather, site, sail and survival shelter.

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Spook yourself with ghost stories from Aotearoa.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Prayas Theatre Company Performances: Indian folk music, dance and contemporary migration stories through the museum galleries. 

Auckland Art Gallery

NZTrio perform throughout the evening a 20-minute set titled Subtle Dances, which includes compositions Kenji Bunch (USA): Groovebox Variations, Claire Cowan (NZ): Subtle Dances and Raimundo Penaforte (Brazil): An Eroica Trio – Capiba. (7pm, 7.30pm, 8pm)

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Chill out in the Festival Garden with funky tunes courtesy of Nathan Haines.

Gus Fisher Gallery

Witness Darcell Apelu and Amiria Puia-Taylor perform Lonnie Hutchinson’s Can You See Me (1997), in which a female figure is taped to the ground and struggles for release.

New Zealand Maritime Museum, 6.30pm-7.30pm, 8pm-9pm

Take to the high seas with special evening sailings. Sailing dependent on weather. Please ring the NZ Maritime Museum 09 373 0800 for up-to-date information. 

New Zealand Maritime Museum, 8pm-10.30pm

Take to the high seas with special evening sailings. Sailing dependent on weather. Please ring the NZ Maritime Museum 09 373 0800 for up-to-date information. 

Waikare on Q

Get your paparazzi on for Waikare on Q’s fashion show featuring Maori designers Shona Tawhiao, Maehe Ranginui, Tihi King and Jeanine Clarkin.

Auckland Art Gallery

NZTrio perform throughout the evening a 20-minute set titled Subtle Dances, which includes compositions Kenji Bunch (USA): Groovebox Variations, Claire Cowan (NZ): Subtle Dances and Raimundo Penaforte (Brazil): An Eroica Trio – Capiba. (7pm, 7.30pm, 8pm)

Auckland Art Gallery

Founding members of the Nairobi Trio, Richard Adams (jazz violin) and Nigel Gavin (seven string guitar) return for an eclectic and must-be-there performance. 

Q Loft

Be touched by KIRI, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Paerau Corneal and Paddy Free’s 12-minute performance wonder, sent from above and fed live to the Festival Garden screen.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Prayas Theatre Company Performances: Indian folk music, dance and contemporary migration stories through the museum galleries. 

Q Theatre

Be touched by KIRI, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Paerau Corneal and Paddy Free’s 12-minute performance wonder, sent from above and fed live to the Festival Garden screen.

TAPAC

Celebrate TAPAC’s incredible performing arts community with your host Ngaire Chambers, introducing a stellar line-up.

Auckland Art Gallery

Care of the Goethe Institut, see  F. W. Murnau's 1922 gothic, expressionist masterpiece Nosferatu, one of the silent era's most influential films. The screening will be accompanied by silent film maestro Mr William Green on piano.

Auckland Museum @ Silo Park

9pm Get out and about with Auckland Museum at Silo Park, activating the Fijian collections through dance and spoken-word group VOU around and in front of Silo 7.

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Prayas Theatre Company Performances: Indian folk music, dance and contemporary migration stories through the museum galleries. 

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Soak up the atmosphere with sweet tunes from HAPTIC.

Q Theatre

Be touched by KIRI, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Paerau Corneal and Paddy Free’s 12-minute performance wonder, sent from above and fed live to the Festival Garden screen.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Prayas Theatre Company Performances: Indian folk music, dance and contemporary migration stories through the museum galleries. 

Timeout Festival Garden

Journey through the intensity and spectacle of mourning in Lisa Reihana’s powerful new video work Tai Whētuki. Listen to ghost stories as the night darkens.

Have words with MIT’s Creative Writing students, who’ll be on the move around White Night recording and connecting the city in language, then sharing their wordy snapshots as the witching hour looms.

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Spook yourself with ghost stories from Aotearoa.

Q Theatre

Be touched by KIRI, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Paerau Corneal and Paddy Free’s 12-minute performance wonder, sent from above and fed live to the Festival Garden screen.