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.
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.
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.
Celebrate TAPAC’s incredible performing arts community with your host Ngaire Chambers, introducing a stellar line-up.
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.
Chomp down on some special White Night kai and join the Saturday sessions with outrageous funk from mrbigstuff and guest.
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.
Sip White Night cocktail goodness in Citizen Q bar to the sweet sounds of live music.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
Hum Salon are hosting a folk festival in the centre of Auckland in the wonderful old house on the corner of Grafton Bridge.
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?
Art, sound and surprise at Silo Park.
Film screening of Finding Vivian Maier.
Meander through the Homestead with Pā Collective dancers as they re-create excerpts of the PAH choreography.
Streetside, Ngā Rangatahi Toa students perform spoken word and music created during the transformational Art ACTion iniative.
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.
