Category: Arts & Culture
Get ready to laugh until your sides ache because the New Zealand International Comedy Festival with Best Foods Mayo is back, and it’s their 30th birthday! From the 5th to the 28th of May, the New Zealand International Comedy will take over stages across Auckland and Wellington with a line-up of hilarious comedians from all over the world. […]
The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) is set to return to the ASB Waterfront Theatre in 2023 to premiere Stage of Being, a thrilling double bill celebration of choreographic voices from Aotearoa’s Sāmoan and Chinese dance makers, express speaks with one of the production’s lead dancers, Chris Mills about life as an out dancer, growing […]
Livi Reihana and Amanda Kennedy are two queer Kiwi women who shot to fame as musical comedy duo Fan Brigade. Having changed NZ comedy for the better they are now turning their talents to the world of opera, with a comedic take on the story of the unruly tourists who made headlines for stealing, littering, […]
The Art Gallery of New South Wales is staging an ambitious must-see program of events, performances and artist commissions to celebrate Sydney WorldPride 2023. Queer Encounters, which takes place from 17 February – 5 March 2023, brings together artworks, including new commissions, by legendary Australian LGBTQ+ artists, including Dennis Golding, Bhenji Ra, Sione Tuívailala Monū […]
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is proudly supporting 2023 Auckland Pride Festival with a series of free events designed to cater to the diversity of Rainbow audiences. These events will be held on 11 February and 19 February. As a safe and inclusive place, Auckland Art Gallery welcomes all through its doors and is […]
Artist Sung Kwan Bobby Park presents two unique, yet intertwined exhibitions this Auckland Pride Festival. Here he shares his frustratingly complicated and contradictory journey of being othered by his intersectionality. When making work in an environment as an outsider, be it a queer individual in a heteronormative society, an Asian living in a Pākehā colonised […]
The Mercury Bay Art Escape, held over the first two weekends on March 4th/5th and 11th/12th, is an opportunity to explore and tour the studios of innovative and talented artists in an area stretching from Tairua to Matarangi in the stunning Eastern Coromandel Peninsula. Over these two weekends, 39 artists open their studios freely to visitors. […]
Kae Tempest is a musician, poet, novelist, and playwright, who has won critical acclaim and award nominations in all four fields. Kae will tour Aotearoa later this month in support of their latest album ‘The Line is a Curve’. They talk to Oliver Hall about how coming out and recording during the pandemic affected their […]