Events

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. 

Arti Community Art Space

Join our Arts Director Nathan Livingstone & some of our 13 artists on the 13th day of Opening (grand opening exhibition).

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.

ARTIS Gallery

Explore the sublime use of colour in richly textured works by Bridget Bidwill.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bath St Gallery

A meditation on the art practice of Kazu Nakagawa in a short film about him directed by Bridget Quick.

Black Door Gallery

Delight in the bold, brilliant colours and beautiful from over 80 renowned New Zealand artists behind Black Door Gallery in the heart of Parnell.

Central City Library

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

Corelli's

Corellis are back hosting one of their famous Bowl Nights. Feast on music, art, and fine food with ceramic artist band The Porcelaines (Peter Lange, Nadine Spader and Chris Southern ) and exhibiting artists Ann O’Sullivan, Chris Priestly, Hank Trenton and John Dawson.

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.

Flagstaff Gallery

Contours features new works by Olivier Duhamel. Listen to the artist  talk about his work and watch a live demonstration.

Fresh Gallery

7-9pm Savour the sweet scent of Koko Samoa and coconut oil as Paula Schaafhausen’s exhibition Ebbing Tagaloa melts to a close with a special *performance[sitetree_link,id=272]* by Samoan multi-media artist Ole Maiava and Fijian poet Daren Kamali.

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.

iShen Gallery

Get up close with Microworlds as photographers dissect the hidden beauty of our natural universe in minute detail.

Jonathan Grant Gallery

Travel through the bustling ports and rich material culture of Southern China and Hong Kong with artists Shen Ming Cun and Peter McIntyre.

Mangere Arts Centre

Look back to look forward with a retrospective of Ngā Rangatahi Toa’s transformational community development work, The Sole Project, Art ACTion and Manawa Ora, alongside an exhibition of the revolutionary work of Emory Douglas (USA).

Muka Gallery

Get acquainted with the history and significance of Muka Gallery with their Youth Prints in Context Q&A.

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.

Objectspace

Witness the first major survey of contemporary Maori ceramics. 

OREX

Check out Matthew Browne’s exhibition in the gallery plus all these extras programmed at OREX for White Night:

Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre

At 6pm, join Pā Collective members Star Gossage, Carol Brown, Dame Gillian Whitehead and others for a discussion about PAH – a multi-dimensional, site specific performance featured in the Auckland Arts Festival, then meander through the Homestead with Pā Collective dancers as they re-create excerpts of the PAH choreography (8-10pm).

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).

Street-based art projects throughout Parnell

All 6pm to midnight unless otherwise stated.

Pearce Gallery: Whitecliffe School of Arts and Design

Cross the ditch with three leading Australian artists – Bernard Ollis, Johnny Romeo and Archibald Prize Winner Wendy Sharpe.

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. 

Studio One:

Create your own piece of jewellery inspired by traditional Solomon Island body adornments with sister artists Molana and Reina Sutton in this drop-in workshop. Explore a contemporary focus as the duo share their expertise with participants and guide you through the evolution of Pacific jewellery in New Zealand.

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.

The Depot Artspace

Change gear and chat with artists Nicholas Boyd, Paris Kirby, Jermaine Reihana, Sash and Yonel Watene, the artists behind the wheel at The Driving Force. Discussing their creative practice in painting, installation, sculpture and assemblage, the artists will be joined by DJs Lia Kent and Hannah Sarney for a night of music and inspired conversation.

Toi Ora Gallery

Alter your perspective via the gallery’s NZ Outsider Art showcase and spot-lit live art event outside, and drop into a *printmaking workshop*[sitetree_link,id=308] specialising in woodcut and monoprint techniques.

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.

Webb's

From their new Parnell premises, Webb’s stays open late to present a selection of highlights from their April auction of Important Paintings & Contemporary Art.

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.

Timeout Festival Garden

Hashtag your heart out with the hypnotic digital organism #entity255 opening on the Festival screen, spook yourself with ghost stories from Aotearoa, breathe in the Festival’s feast and funk it up with Hopetoun Brown, Nathan Haines  and HAPTIC .

Waikare on Q

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

Toi Ora Gallery

Alter your perspective via the gallery’s *NZ Outsider Art[sitetree_link,id=216]* showcase and spot-lit live art event outside, and drop into a printmaking workshop specialising in woodcut and monoprint techniques. 

Artspace

SUCK, chapter 1 of Poetry in Motion, Billy Apple solo exhibition

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. 

Black Asterisk Gallery

Check out the inaugural BAFOP: Black Asterisk Festival of Photography - a fine selection of photographic works by both established and upcoming New Zealand photographers. The exhibition will run from March 3 - 31

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.

Take a walk of the arts, design and science with inspiring interactive and multi-sensory experiences throughout the Remuera precinct

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.

Te Uru

Curators Ariane Craig-Smith and Chris McBride wax lyrical on A Delicate Balance. 

Masterworks Gallery

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

Whitespace

Get immersed in Niki Hastings McFall’s new show incorporating Pacific amulets and sound, coinciding with her installation in the Festival Garden, *Fale Ula*[sitetree_link,id=167]. The artist will be in attendance to meet visitors and discuss her work.

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

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

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.

Verona Bar & Cafe

Chomp down on some special White Night kai and join the Saturday sessions with outrageous funk from mrbigstuff and guest.

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.

Stairway in the arcade at 297 to 299 Parnell Road

Be transported by Sally Lush’s magical stairway of twinkling and shimmering candles in crystal glass.

280 Parnell Road

Contemplate the human form with Llew Summers’ beauty-affirming 1.5m bronze work. 

Outside the Parnell Baby Boutique 269 Parnell Road

See the ordinary become extraordinary with Becca Bolscher's multicoloured Pohutukawa-like orbs, made to fascinate and push the boundaries of perception and experience.

Inside courtyard of the Geyser Buildling, 105/100 Parnell Road

Breathe out and interact with AUT students Tanya Lim, Jewel Yan, Anna Mansan, Ella Chen, Cassandra Ho, Huai Hsuan Huang, Katie Jun and Oliver Latimer’s ethereal floating sculpture that pulses like the breath of the Geyser building.

Entry way to Pierre Peeters, approx. 251 Parnell Road

Become entangled in the bone-like forms of Audrey Boyle's installation paying homage to the young lives tragically lost in the Battle of Messines during World War 1. 

Courtyard at 135 Parnell Road

Karin Barr’s installation of individually cast glass rocks that resemble floating clouds.

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.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

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

Remuera Library

Go neon and mesh with Mark Schafer, Garry Nash, Claire Bell and jim Schrfe's take on new and recycled materials.

Cross St Arcade

Act up in Cross Street Arcade, K’Rd, with Unitec students and staff, who present a little theatre of dreams through projected animations and live art making.

Sanderson Contemporary Art

Behold fragmented figures, planes of colour, sinuous line and abstract form coming together in Oxborough's new portrait paintings.

Remuera Library

Explore the boundaries of haberdashery-making in a contemporary context with Jacquelyn Greenbank whilst celebrating the history of ladies’ craft and the handmade.

Remuera Village

Notice how those spot-lit and those watching need each other in leading New Zealand sculptor Terry Stringer’s Audience and Performer – here, they are conjoined, and a hand is tossing a rose.

Remuera Village

Encounter Iain Cheesman and Chris Hargreaves’ art on the move, where DIY and pop culture aesthetics meet, and the moveable LED signs illuminate messages, from hawker’s calls to biblical prophecies.

Remuera Village

Dream, imagine, hope, aspire, and experience the mystical with Alvin Xiong’s multi-media performance in which light itself is the medium.

Remuera Village

Experience a childhood imagination come to life as your hand is transformed into a virtual aircraft in this playful and engaging interactive installation by creative engineer Jacques Foottit.

Remuera Village

Feast your eyes on Hannah Andersen’s provocative sculptural approach to food, globalisation and seductive consumerism.

Remuera Village

Explore perception – and deception – in this multi-platform experimental digital production presented by Diocesan School for Girls Digital Design students using space, light and image.

Remuera Village

Witness the dancers of SABA Young Ballet share the oldest of human art forms – the contemplative art of ballet. 

Remuera Village

Imagine a 12m fence of street art embroidered by a cast of hundreds, including you. This is the story of a street art project made over 2014 and 2015 and conceived and curated by crafter/storyteller Margaret Lewis. Come give stitching a go and make your mark.

Remuera Village

Christopher Duncan and Joseph Yen of TÜR Studio use yarn, textile and metal to reclaim the world of making through collaboration, hands-on work, and an open door.

Remuera Village

Question yourself and the idea of the self with conceptual photographer Emma Pottinger’s series of personal and surreal self-portraits.

Paradox Books

Award-winning fiction writer Sue Orr, author of From Under the Overcoat, will read her work and talk about her upcoming novel at 6pm

Remuera Village

Escape the chaos of everyday life and explore the world of a young Melbourne teen through sharp paper-edges and soft graphite smudges with experimental artist Tanishka Brahmanand. 

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.

Remuera Village

Explore the six senses of dining – aroma, taste, texture, sound, sight, emotion – with Otago Polytechnic Food Design Institute with Penelope Baldwin (Culinary Designer, Naturopath and Medical Herbalist).

Remuera Village

Enter the narrative of Mary-Louise Browne’s neon sculpture – a psycho, sexual, social, political commentary on contemporary life and an engagement with the politics of history, feminism and social context.

Courtyard of Italia Square, 100 Parnell Road

Grapple with the comfort of the familiar and the awkwardness of not fitting in Gina Fergusson’s meditation on material incongruity.

Heard Park, corner Ruskin Street and Parnell Road

Murder a cuppa handmade and served by ceramic artists The Tea Collective, then purchase your vessel and take it with you. Refreshments kindly provided by the Buckley Road Food Store, Epsom.

Remuera Village

Engage with internationally recognised Jeff Thomson’s iconic sculptures and their narrative of New Zealand cultural history, and our identity as shaped by life, art and the environment.

Remuera Village

Meet the next generation of creators and innovators as Media Design School students and graduates present projects traversing a diverse array of digital disciplines. 

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

Spook yourself with ghost stories from Aotearoa.

Warwick Henderson Gallery

Discover how four new artists respond through their latest artworks to a new environment, international styles and influences.

FUZZYVIBES

In March of 2015, FUZZYVIBES will host Pamphleteers, a collaborative publishing project that will produce a daily publication for the duration of one week. Pamphleteers is a reference to the revolutionary practice of free, widely-distributed, and often seditious print material. 

Black Note Bar

Inhale the live music at uptown’s smoothest bar and lounge, chill out in the colonial room, then wander upstairs for multi-sensory delight and wonder. Details coming soon.

Remuera Library

Get all raku fired up with Auckland Studio Potters and watch iridescent colours and crackle patterns form as they transfer glowing pots at temperatures of 1000 degrees to a drum of sawdust.

Remuera Village

Renowned painter, sculptor and conservationist Barry Lett showcases his unique style ofpaintings and an eclectic group ofhis iconic dog sculptures.

Remuera Gallery

Pull up a pew at this show where artists across diverse genres present seats embellished, adorned and painted. 

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.

Citizen Q Bar

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

Outside the Chocolate Boutique Cafe, 323 Parnell Road

Indulge your passion for "selfies" in Parnell's iconic, vintage-red phone box, transformed by Brendan McGorry into a shrine to self-immortalisation.

Outside the Parnell Baby Boutique 269 Parnell Road

Rearrange old and new Parnell in diorama form, then see the world you’ve created in billadonna+salt’s virtual gallery (instagram: #billadonnasalt).

195 Parnell Road

Watch the artist become the art in Wei Lun Ha’s mesmerising painting performance fusing New Zealand nature with roaring waterfalls, swaying trees and majestic mountains in the tradition of Chinese Zen painting with ink, brush, live sound, light and movement.

Heard Park

Look closely under the Park’s seating to discover Carol Green’s unexpected miniature projections depicting Parnell's historical past.

Parnell Village

Get engaged with Whitecliffe students Tara Cassidy, Tash Tansley and Natalie Paluch’s visually stimulating and inviting structures.

Heard Park

Take up the invitation and create the experience of Blair Fraser’s interactive light work, part sculpture, part symphony.

Courtyard outside The Parnell & Oh Calcutta, 145 Parnell road

Chill out and enjoy the hospitality in artist Katherine Batchelor's unique pop-up lounge.

RM, 3 Samoa House Lane, off Beresford Square

Leave all expectations behind as four creative practitioner present performances throughout the evening. Works will be created by Hana Aoake, Leticia Durant, Karin Hofko, Layne Waerea.

ARTI Artists Community Space

Join our Arts Director Nathan Livingstone & some of our 13 artists on the 13th day of Opening.

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.

Tunnel next to Alfresco, 223 Parnell Road

Immerse yourself in this trippy, interactive, light and sound experience by Samuel Coldicutt.

Perpetual Guardian, 343 Remuera Road

Discover Charles and Janine Williams' graphic, colourful outworking of their environmental and genealogical urban Maori heritage.

The Vic Devonport

It’s a white-out as The Vic unveils its new-look Vic Lounge Bar – freshly painted guess-what-colour and with White Night-themed food and drinks, video and sound works on the menu.

Jems of Remuera, 346 Remuera Road

The sculptural possibilities of the pineapple are what first attracted glassblower Luke Jacomb to this fruit. Luke saw the potential in hot glass of the inherent flamboyance of its highly textured surface and flourishing top. After researching the illustrious history of the tropical fruit - it was Columbus who first introduced the fruit to Renaissance Europe, Luke was hooked.

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

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

Pierre Peeters Gallery

Dive into the luscious oceanscapes of Mark Cross. 

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. 

Te Uru

Sound artist Fred Harrison and Curator Kenny Willis discuss IOIOIOIOIOIO. 

Devonport Community House

Make Like a Tree in association with Devonport Community House presents: The Great Junk Mail Challenge! Create a work of art and/or design (basically anything!) using junk mail and a limited range of tools ie sellotape, stapler, hole punch and string. You have just one hour to create your masterpiece! The winner, will be selected by our eco-friendly judges on the night. Individuals or teams of up to 4 people are invited to participate in the challenge.  For all ages.

Devonport

The choir will be wandering from venue to venue in Devonport starting at 6.30pm

Brown’s Café, 417 Remuera Road

This is meaningful food: the food of deep emotional significance, the food of strong indelible memories. How does it taste like? And… what is your most meaningful food?

Remuera Village

Feel the live beats with Dubtext’s unique improvised analogue electronica performances in styles ranging from ambient dub to psychedelic techno. 

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.

Kelliher Gallery

Take a peep behind usually closed doors at one of New Zealand’s most famous art collections.

Northart Gallery

Celebrate White Night with an exhibition of works exploring the complexities of the ‘colour’ white.

Silo Park, Wynyard Quarter

Art, sound and surprise at Silo Park.

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

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. 

Kelliher Gallery

Join a guided tour by Linda Tyler of the University of Auckland.

Fresh Gallery Otara

Savour the sweet scent of Koko Samoa and coconut oil as Paula Schaafhausen’s exhibition *Ebbing Tagaloa[sitetree_link,id=174]* melts to a close with a special performance by Samoan multi-media artist Ole Maiava and Fijian poet Daren Kamali.

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. 

Te Uru

7pm Judy Millar talks about her gravity-defying A Model World.

The Vic Devonport

Film screening of Finding Vivian Maier.

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.

McCrae Way, New Lynn

Cast your eyes skywards and take in the new public artwork Transit Cloud, a constellation of brightly-coloured clouds suspended in McCrae Way, then return to earth and step to the beat of a dynamic, experimental marching band.

Parnell Gallery

Wise up on woodblock printmaking with artist Annie Smits Sandano in an interactive session.

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)

New Zealand Maritime Museum

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

OREXART

Matthew Browne artist talk

Timeout Festival Garden / Aotea Square

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

Te Uru

Daniel Malone speaks about his McCahon House post-residency exhibition.

Picton Centre, Fencible Walk, Howick Village

Bring a blanket and snuggle down for a flick at Howick's only open-air cinema, screening Malificient. Thanks to Uxbridge Arts Centre.

Nga Taonga Sound & Vision

Late-night archival footage from the collection accompanied by live music. 

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)

Artspace

THE BILLY APPLE PARTY Celebrating Billy Apple with music & dancing.

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. 

Pah Homestead

Meander through the Homestead with Pā Collective dancers as they re-create excerpts of the PAH choreography.

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.

Paradox Books

Historian David Veart will talk about his history of kiwi toys, Hello Girls and Boys! Join us for a glass of wine and some wonderfully bookish conversation in the heart of literary Devonport.

Te Uru

Take a guided tour of the gallery with curator Ioana Gordon-Smith (to commence on arrival of Intrepid Bus)

Heard Park, corner Ruskin Street and Parnell Road

Be present when The White Wall, a living breathing art installation, presents The Biomorph, a kinetic sculptural improvisation to connect you to the moment.

TAPAC

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

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. 

Lopdell House

Grab your cushion and kick back under the stars on Lopdell’s rooftop terrace for a screening of three short films: Layers in Time, First Breath and Paradise. Koha admission.

New Zealand Maritime Museum

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

OREXART

Emma Paton artist talk

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.

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.

Te Uru

The Model World, A Delicate Balance and IOIOIOIOIOIO

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.

OREXART

DRAWING IN THE DARK: Draw in the dark outside the gallery with Matthew Browne (drawing materials supplied for the first 20 people) and take in The White Wall living breathing moving sculpture.

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.

Heard Park, corner Ruskin Street and Parnell Road

Be present when The White Wall, a living breathing art installation, presents The Biomorph, a kinetic sculptural improvisation to connect you to the moment.

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.

Coco's Cantina

Streetside, Ngā Rangatahi Toa students perform spoken word and music created during the transformational Art ACTion iniative.

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.