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Fam Is Back: Film Festival Edition: Karangahape Road Becomes A Living Cinema
Friday, 18 July 2025, 9:56 am | Elephant Publicity
“FAM is all about bringing people together on K’ Road and using all the weird and wonderful spaces we’ve got on this iconic street,” says Ella, Creative Producer at the Karangahape Road Business Association. “It’s fun, it’s a bit chaotic, ... More >>
Bach Musica NZ Celebrate Local Talent With Two World Premieres
Thursday, 17 July 2025, 2:34 pm | Elephant Publicity
Bach Musica NZ’s Music & Artistic Director, Rita Paczian, will lead the concert as conductor, marking her second to last performance with the organisation following the recent announcement of her retirement at the end of this year. More >>
Pacific Dance Festival 2025 Proves Community Demand & Delivers On Creative NZ’s Pacific Arts Strategy
Monday, 7 July 2025, 1:03 pm | Elephant Publicity
Intergenerational audiences expressed great appreciation for the chance to share Pacific cultural stories outside formal education systems that often omit or marginalise these narratives. More >>
Call Me Mother. Or Don’t.
Monday, 7 July 2025, 10:09 am | Elephant Publicity
Fresh from Broadway and a 2025 season at Melbourne Theatre Company, Mother Play lands at Q Theatre with fierce poise and a matching handbag. This is not a gentle homage to motherhood. I More >>
Doc Edge Awards 2025: Mighty Indeed And The Pool Take Top Honours And Oscar® Consideration
Friday, 4 July 2025, 9:45 am | Elephant Publicity
Doc Edge is an Academy Awards qualifying festival for feature and short documentary films. The winners of Best NZ Short, NZ Feature, International Feature and International Short are eligible for consideration for the 2026 Academy Awards. More >>
A Window Into Humanity: World Press Photo Exhibition Opens This Month In Auckland
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 9:17 am | Elephant Publicity
Presenting the 2025 World Press Photo Contest winning photographs, the exhibition will display a selection of powerful images by 42 international photographers. It offers a rare opportunity to step away from our screens and engage with the stories ... More >>
Rita Paczian To Retire As Bach Musica NZ Music Director
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 4:24 pm | Elephant Publicity
Rita has been the driving force behind the organisation’s high standard of musicianship for over 31 years. Her dedication, enthusiasm, drive, energy and passion for music have transformed the group to firmly establish its position in the New Zealand performing ... More >>
Things Just Got Personnel: H.R. The Musical #2, A Provocative New Sketch Comedy
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 3:55 pm | Elephant Publicity
Mansfield is a strong believer in the wisdom and voice of audiences, both in her artistic practice and as a producer. Everyone has a work story to tell, and the more absurd the better! For H.R. The Musical #2, I’m crowd-sourcing work stories from ... More >>
Rising Opera Stars To Take Centre Stage For One Glorious Night
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:28 pm | Elephant Publicity
The Auckland Opera Studio nurtures emerging operatic talent by offering performance opportunities to young New Zealand singers, and has played a role in launching the careers of many of Aotearoa’s finest operatic singers. More >>
The Quest Is On To Find Wellington’s Next Comedy Stars
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 6:56 pm | Elephant Publicity
The Wellington Raw Comedy Quest is held annually by the Humorous Arts Trust, who will be celebrating 15 years of supporting local comedy this August. This year also marks the 15th year Humorous Arts have run Wellington Raw. More >>
A New Universe Of Whānaungatanga Takes The Stage With ‘Siblings’
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 4:14 pm | Elephant Publicity
Directed by acclaimed artists Pelenakeke Brown and Barnie Duncan, SIBLINGS brings together four Māori and Pacific disabled performers in a devised, disability-led production that is as theatrically adventurous as it is emotionally resonant. More >>
Bill Bailey New Zealand Tour 2025
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 2:42 pm | Elephant Publicity
New Zealand’s best loved UK comedian is back with an all-new show touring this October and November. More >>
The Redaction Action That Sparked A National Reckoning Comes Home
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 9:59 am | Elephant Publicity
Co-written with director Tainui Tukiwaho this uplifting one-man play is inspired by true events and shares the remarkable experience of Te Wehi Ratana’s time in Rimutaka Prison — part courtroom drama, part prison diary, part absurdist kōrero. More >>
Firing The Canon Pays Tribute To Aotearoa New Zealand’s Playwriting Icons
Monday, 23 June 2025, 1:16 pm | Elephant Publicity
Firing the Canon presents five readings of plays from Aotearoa New Zealand’s massive back catalogue – plays that are important to our history, plays that represent the best of the best, and plays that are just plain cool – and pairs them up with ... More >>
Auckland Theatre Company Presents MARY: The Birth Of Frankenstein
Monday, 23 June 2025, 9:36 am | Elephant Publicity
Forget polite conversations from the drawing room. MARY is visceral horror with its teeth bared - part psychological thriller, part hallucinatory fever dream. More >>
NZTrio Head On Tour In Aotearoa And Australia With Fantastique Programme
Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 2:27 pm | Elephant Publicity
The final instalment of NZTrio’s 2025 programme, Hypnotique, will take place in November with Matthias Balzat as guest cellist, who is set to officially join the trio as a permanent member in 2026. More >>
New Zealand’s Best Loved UK Comedian Is Back With An All-New Show Touring This October And November
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 4:24 pm | Elephant Publicity
Bill Bailey returns with a show that celebrates this great tradition, as the versatile multi-instrumental, multi-lingual, purveyor of humour & musical prowess, who could lay claim to being perhaps the foremost practitioner of this great tradition, an ... More >>
Abbie Chatfield Brings The Trauma Dump Tour To New Zealand
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 10:51 am | Elephant Publicity
Audiences can expect Abbie at full tilt — riffing on mental health, sex, relationships, fame, and life online — in a show packed with razor-sharp insight and deeply relatable chaos. More >>
Come In From The Cold: Winter School Holidays At Stardome
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 10:45 am | Elephant Publicity
With daily dinosaur screenings, magical Matariki shows, and a line-up of classic sci-fi films the whole whānau will love, Stardome’s holiday programme promises to spark curiosity, imagination and intergalactic fun — rain or shine. More >>
Doc Edge Festival Announces Finalists For 2025 Oscar-Qualifying Awards
Friday, 13 June 2025, 5:10 pm | Elephant Publicity
The festival kicks off on 25 June – 13 July in Auckland before also heading to Wellington and Christchurch (16 – 27 July) and online in The Virtual Cinema (28 July – 24 August). More >>
