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The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres
Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 1:46 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Sublime music and stunning deep space imagery combine in Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra’s The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres . The world-renowned Canadian period instrument orchestra specialises in turning its concerts into theatrical events and Music of ... More >>
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: TeZukA
Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 1:43 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Presented by Sadler’s Wells, TeZukA began with the creations of legendary Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka – the ‘Walt Disney of Anime’ and the inventor of Astro Boy. More >>
Telstraclear Festival Club
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 2:46 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The TelstraClear Festival Club Tent returns for the 2012 Festival – pitched at the heart of the action in Odlin’s Plaza on Wellington’s waterfront. Check out live music in the evening, then catch late-night theatre cabaret spectacular Cantina ... More >>
Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 2:44 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
A dazzling double bill of Stravinsky masterworks opens the 2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival. One of the world’s outstanding young conductors, Joana Carneiro, joins the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, acclaimed opera soloists and the NBR New ... More >>
Shivkumar Sharma - Spirit of India
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 2:43 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Wellington audiences will experience the unique, mesmerising sounds of the santoor in Spirit of India , a concert featuring world-renowned santoor virtuoso Shivkumar Sharma. More >>
Sharon Shannon Big Band
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 2:41 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Sharon Shannon has performed with everyone from Bono to Nigel Kennedy; now she’s bringing her extraordinary accordion to the Town Hall Gigs. More >>
I Musici: Serenata Italiana
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 2:40 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Serenata Italiana , the Italian serenade, is the theme for a Festival concert by acclaimed Italian chamber ensemble I Musici. One of the oldest active chamber music groups in the world, I Musici was formed in Rome in 1952 and will make their first-ever ... More >>
Selina Hastings
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 2:38 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
British writer and journalist Selina Hastings has written literary biographies of Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Rosamund Lehman. Her latest literary biography is The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham . She worked for 14 years on The Daily Telegraph ... More >>
Festival artists honoured in 2011 Arts Foundation Awards
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 11:33 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Two of the five $50,000 Laureate Awards, presented by the Arts Foundation last night, went to New Zealand International Arts Festival artists. More >>
Writers and Readers Schools' Day
Monday, 28 November 2011, 5:11 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Elizabeth Knox ( The Vintner’s Luck and Dreamhunter ) is one of New Zealand’s most adventurous and imaginative fiction writers. American short story writer Kelly Link ( The Wrong Grave and Pretty Monsters) is often described as a slipstream writer ... More >>
James Thiérrée: Raoul
Monday, 28 November 2011, 5:10 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
One of Europe’s most extraordinary performance artists, James Thiérrée, returns to Wellington with his new solo show, Raoul. Born into vaudeville royalty, Thiérrée has been performing since the age of four, and has a unique ability to turn everyday ... More >>
Private Peaceful
Monday, 28 November 2011, 5:07 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Private Peaceful , a riveting adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning book, comes to the Festival following sell-out seasons on London’s West End. More >>
Power and Passion - NZSQ and Jonathan Lemalu
Monday, 28 November 2011, 5:05 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The New Zealand String Quartet combines with the glorious baritone of international opera star Jonathan Lemalu in Power and Passion : a programme of four stunning works. More >>
Hofesh Shechter: Political Mother
Monday, 28 November 2011, 5:03 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
One of the UK’s most exciting contemporary choreographers brings his dramatic new work, Political Mother, to the New Zealand International Arts Festival. More >>
Peter and the Wolf
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 1:04 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
An Oscar-winning film of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf is set to enchant a new generation of children. Suzie Templeton’s beautifully made animated film will play on a giant screen, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Hamish ... More >>
Peninsula
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 1:00 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Playwright Gary Henderson takes a touching, bittersweet look at life in the 1960s in the beautifully crafted Peninsula. Michael Hope is 10 years old and sleeps on a volcano. This is his playground, his paradise. But rumblings in the adult world ... More >>
Grupo Corpo: Parabelo & Onqoto
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 12:58 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Salsa, rumba and tango join forces with classical ballet in a dazzling double bill from the sassy, high-energy Brazilian dance company Grupo Corpo. More >>
Michael James Manaia
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 12:54 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Twenty years after it burst onto the stages of the world, John Broughton’s iconic New Zealand play Michael James Manaia returns for its Festival encore. More >>
The Conch & Paul Kieve: Masi
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 4:37 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Acclaimed Pacific theatre company The Conch and legendary British illusionist Paul Kieve, magic advisor for the Harry Potter films, join forces to create a truly magical new play. More >>
Tobias Wegner: Leo
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 4:34 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Acrobat extraordinaire Tobias Wegner embarks on an intriguing, gravity-defying journey in Leo. Berlin-based Circle of Eleven produces extraordinary scenes and landscapes for the show, leaving the audience wondering which way is up and which way is down, ... More >>
