Tauranga Arts Festival - Latest News [Page 1]
The Haka Party Incident To Open Tauranga Arts Festival In October
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 9:24 am | Tauranga Arts Festival
Tauranga Arts Festival is thrilled to announce that The Haka Party Incident will open the 2023 festival on October 19 at Baycourt Community and Arts Centre. Following its renowned sold-out premiere season in 2021, this groundbreaking work will come ... More >>
Another Exciting Appointment For The Tauranga Arts Festival
Monday, 27 March 2023, 1:03 pm | Tauranga Arts Festival
Tauranga Arts Festival Trust Board takes great pleasure in welcoming Alex Ellis to the Festival Team. Alex (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Pākeha) joins us in the newly established role of Associate Artistic Director. This role has been designed ... More >>
Tauranga Arts Festival Cancelled
Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 1:35 pm | Tauranga Arts Festival
This year’s Tauranga Arts Festival has fallen victim to the Covid-19 outbreak in Auckland with the trust board making the difficult decision to cancel the October 21-31 event. With Auckland’s extended lockdown severely impacting the rehearsal ... More >>
Tauranga Arts Festival Launch
Friday, 6 August 2021, 9:52 am | Tauranga Arts Festival
Last night’s launch of the 2021 Tauranga Arts Festival was received with rapturous applause as a capacity crowd at Baycourt Theatre embraced a programme featuring some of New Zealand’s best performers. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2108/f3de0e8a541a549f2397.jpeg" ... More >>
Home-Made Poetry Project
Thursday, 16 April 2020, 11:50 am | Tauranga Arts Festival
Tauranga Arts Festival has added Home-made Poetry to its web-based ‘arts at home’ line-up with locals or past guests of the festival being filmed reading work by New Zealand poets. Former Poet Laureates Brian Turner and Elizabeth Smither have poems ... More >>
Tauranga Arts Festival Launches A Web-based Arts Initiative For The Lockdown
Thursday, 2 April 2020, 4:33 pm | Tauranga Arts Festival
Ria Hall The Stroppy Women panel from Escape! 2018, from left, Tracey Slaughter, Sue Bradford and Mary Dillon. Credit: Brydie Photography Tauranga Arts Festival has taken the difficult decision to cancel the Escape! Festival at Queen’s Birthday ... More >>
Tauranga Arts Festival Appoints New Director
Friday, 7 February 2020, 3:43 pm | Tauranga Arts Festival
The Tauranga Arts Festival Trust is delighted to announce that award-winning singer and songwriter Ria Hall is to helm the 2021 Tauranga Arts Festival. More >>
Tauranga Arts Festival Director Steps Down
Sunday, 8 September 2019, 12:42 pm | Tauranga Arts Festival
Tauranga Arts Festival, which opens on October 24, has today announced that it is seeking a director for events from 2020 with the news that Jo Bond is stepping down after this year’s festival. More >>
2019 Tauranga Arts Festival launched
Friday, 9 August 2019, 10:07 am | Tauranga Arts Festival
Tauranga Arts Festival last night [Aug 8] launched its 2019 programme in front of an invited audience of 530 people at Baycourt Theatre. More >>
Escape! Festival
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 4:59 pm | Tauranga Arts Festival
Tutored by “old-school” Maori chef Joe McLeod, who has worked at many international restaurants including the Ritz in Paris, Monique Fiso has been learning how to eat her way through the New Zealand bush. More >>
Tauranga Arts Festival
Monday, 4 September 2017, 3:35 pm | Tauranga Arts Festival
Tauranga Arts Festival’s tenth birthday programme offers entertainment from as far afield as Switzerland and Germany, as well as Australia and from all around New Zealand. More >>
Tauranga Arts Festival director funded for Shanghai trip
Tuesday, 20 September 2016, 5:19 pm | Tauranga Arts Festival
Tauranga Arts Festival director Jo Bond is to attend next month’s Shanghai International Arts Festival in China, the only Kiwi show booker attending. More >>