Category: Arts & Culture
Kween Kong talks to Oliver Hall about representing South Auckland on Drag Race, bringing Pasifika culture to Sydney WorldPride, and moving back to Aotearoa. “I think this season was great. I feel like we’ve definitely redeemed the franchise,” Kween Kong tells us with a beaming smile. She is on Zoom from her home in Melbourne. […]
Sandi Toksvig read Law at Cambridge (often considered to be the world’s best university), but would never practice, instead pursuing a career in comedy, leading her to present popular TV shows The Great British Bake Off and QI, as well as authoring over twenty novels. Calling from her home in England, in the middle of […]
After much anticipation from fans, the official trailer for My Policeman, an LGBTQ+ romance drama starring Harry Styles, has been released. Based on the novel of the same name by Bethan Roberts, My Policeman follows the life of a police officer who gets married to a schoolteacher, all while already being in a love affair […]
Oli Mathiesen (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Manu, Ngāpuhi) is a queer Māori choreographer and dancer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Next month, as part of Tempo Dance Festival, he will perform with The New Zealand Dance Company for the first time in What They Said, choreographed by Jo Lloyd. He talks to express about gender in dance, […]
Fresh off the back of last year’s film adaptation, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra prepares to explore Leonard Bernstein’s glimmering and impassioned Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Conceived on the brink of the civil rights movement in the United States, Bernstein wrote West Side Story in a time of both great change and artistic exploration. But […]
For over 30 years, World of WearableArt (WOW) has embraced the worlds of art, design and fashion and brought them together in a theatrical performance. WOW attracts entrants from over 40 countries each year, with designers creating extraordinary works of wearable art that are then brought to life on stage in the annual WOW Awards […]
Whether you’re looking to entertain your kids or giving your siblings a break and being the perfect ‘guncle’, join the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra for two big screen adaptations of works by beloved author and children’s laureate Julia Donaldson (The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child). For those who have never attended one of the APO’s hugely popular […]
Pop icon Madonna has released her 50-track career-spanning compilation album titled: FINALLY ENOUGH LOVE: 50 NUMBER ONES to celebrate her huge range of club hits! The new album, which is available now via streaming and in physical format and includes an epic collection curated by Madonna, is in celebration of her historic milestone as the […]