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2006 Arts Festival an all round success

Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 4:20 pm | International Arts Festival

The 2006 New Zealand International Arts Festival was one of the most successful ever, with many shows selling out and record audience numbers overall. The NZIAF Trust has just released its report on this year’s Festival, which sold over 130,000 tickets ... More >>

Italian contemporary ballet

Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 2:26 pm | International Arts Festival

Italy’s leading contemporary ballet company Aterballetto brings its ensemble of 20 dynamic and beautiful dancers to the Festival stage in their first New Zealand appearance. More >>

Picnic in the Park postponed until Sunday 5 March

Saturday, 4 March 2006, 3:01 pm | International Arts Festival

Due to bad weather the Toyota Picnics in the Park kick off at Waitangi Park tomorrow, Sunday 5 March from 1-4pm, with The World Comes to Wellington picnic. More >>

Cliff Curtis Heads ‘A-List’ Cast In Holy Sinner

Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 11:26 am | International Arts Festival

Direct from the premiere of River Queen – Cliff Curtis makes his return to the stage in the iconic New Zealand theatre work - The Holy Sinner at the New Zealand International Arts Festival. More >>

Whale Rider Star to narrate Tuwhare production

Thursday, 12 January 2006, 2:20 pm | International Arts Festival

Mâori actor Rawiri Paratene (Nga Puhi) has been confirmed as the narrator for upcoming New Zealand International Arts Festival co-production Tuwhare. More >>

New Artistic Director International Arts Festival

Friday, 16 December 2005, 8:57 am | International Arts Festival

A talented young woman who is seen as being in the vanguard of a new generation of festival artistic directors has been appointed to take over the programming of the 2008 and 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festivals. More >>

Festival fever takes hold –

Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 4:00 pm | International Arts Festival

50,000 tickets issued already! Tickets to the New Zealand International Arts Festival are hot! Sales are 20 percent higher than at the same time for the 2004 Festival, with 50,000 tickets already issued in the first five weeks of national ticket availability. More >>

Arts Festival: Bursting with magic and colour

Thursday, 3 November 2005, 10:08 am | International Arts Festival

Be transported into the realms of the extraordinary with the New Zealand International Arts Festival. From Spain to Guinea, France to India and Italy to New Zealand, the 2006 Festival programme features more than 100 events handpicked from the best the ... More >>

A Tribute to the Maori Showbands of Yesterday

Monday, 24 October 2005, 5:44 pm | International Arts Festival

There's only nine days to go till the first-ever public launch of the 2006 New Zealand International Arts Festival programme. To get things rolling the Festival has announced one of it's key New Zealand musical events: Maori Showbands - Taking on the World. More >>

Pulitzer Prize Winner Coming To The New Zealand

Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 3:33 pm | International Arts Festival

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael Cunningham has confirmed his participation in the New Zealand International Arts Festival as a guest of New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week 2006. More >>

Acclaimed American Diva To Judge Lexus Song Quest

Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 12:20 am | International Arts Festival

One of the great opera divas of the twentieth century, Grace Bumbry, is coming to New Zealand in April to judge the Lexus Song Quest 2005 and teach classical singing master classes. More >>

NZ International Arts Festival Final Results

Friday, 24 September 2004, 9:32 am | International Arts Festival

The New Zealand International Arts Festival has announced a modest operating surplus of $136,000 for the 2004 Festival. More >>

New Zealand International Arts Festival News

Thursday, 4 March 2004, 11:29 am | International Arts Festival

* Win tickets to Foi - but be quick! * The Songmaker's Chair * Geographical Cure * Mahinarangi Tocker * The Untold Tales of Maui * Young and Rollins * Vivo * The Elixir of Love - opens tomorrow More >>

NZ International Arts Festival Celebrates10th Fest

Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 9:08 am | International Arts Festival

2004 will be the tenth biennial New Zealand International Arts Festival and it is a celebration of survival and growth, says Artistic Director Carla van Zon, with only two weeks until the launch of the eagerly awaited events programme. More >>

Comic Quartet Shows Pressures Of Touring

Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 9:07 am | International Arts Festival

The world premiere of Quartet is a story that anyone who’s been on the road with others can relate to. More >>

Hone Kouka Concludes Waiora Trilogy

Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 9:06 am | International Arts Festival

The only writer who has had more plays staged at the New Zealand International Arts Festival than playwright Hone Kouka is a guy named William Shakespeare. More >>

Roger Hall’s New Play Spreading Out World Premiere

Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 9:05 am | International Arts Festival

New Zealand’s most popular playwright, Roger Hall, revisits the characters from his hugely successful comedy, Middle Age Spread, in his new comedy, Spreading Out, which makes its world premiere at the New Zealand International Arts Festival in 2004. More >>

Geography – The Cure To All That Ails

Wednesday, 8 October 2003, 9:01 am | International Arts Festival

The show Geographical Cure starts simply. A couple head off in a car somewhere up the coast to settle their differences. Before long they find that they have forgotten the time and where they are going, and their differences have settled themselves ... More >>

International Arts Festival Programme Out Oct. 30

Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 4:32 pm | International Arts Festival

Thirty days to go until the eagerly awaited event programme for the New Zealand International Arts Festival is released (October 30). It will be available the next day throughout New Zealand from public libraries, cafes and Ticketek offices. More >>

Tan Dun To Conduct at NZ Int. Arts Festival

Thursday, 26 June 2003, 2:20 pm | International Arts Festival

In a Festival coup, one of the world's major composers Tan Dun will conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in a programme of his work at the 2004 New Zealand International Arts Festival as part of the TOWER International Season. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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