Category: Events
The festival which was due to kick off in August, will now take a hiatus in 2026, with organisers saying they are now focused on delivering a strong return to Queenstown in 2027. The team behind Winter Pride has made the decision not to hold the festival this year. The current team took over Winter […]
Urge’s iconic underwear party moves to sexy new venue G.A.Y Auckland, the sister nightclub of Family Bar, is closed until further notice. YOUR EX understands this is due to remedial work needed following the fire that closed the bar and the venues above it for a few hours last November. G.A.Y, which changed ownership in […]
Pink Shirt Day is now widely recognised as a national call to stand against bullying, but for Shaun Robinson, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, it is crucial that people do not lose sight of where that kaupapa began. As Aotearoa prepares to mark Pink Shirt Day 2026 on Friday 15 May, Robinson says the […]
More than 800 Chinese participants who registered for the 2026 Asia Pride Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, are absent from the event after their entry process stalled amid security and documentation concerns. The 2026 Kaohsiung Asia Pride Games have opened in Taiwan without any competitors from China, despite 834 Chinese participants having registered for the LGBTQ+ […]
A bold celebration of burlesque, circus, music and comedy, the Auckland Live Cabaret Festival returns to The Civic from 24 June to 5 July 2026, transforming one of Tāmaki Makaurau’s most iconic venues into a glittering playground of late-night spectacle and genre-defying performance. This year’s festival invites audiences to step into a world within a […]
There is something especially lovely about a room full of people dressed to the nines for a genuinely good cause, and the Wild Night Masquerade Gala & Charity Auction delivered exactly that. Held as part of Wild Dunedin’s New Zealand Festival of Nature, the glamorous evening brought together more than 150 guests for a night […]
A glitter-drenched, Shakespeare-inspired pop musical has arrived in Aotearoa, built around one irresistible question: what if Juliet never died for Romeo? That premise gives & Juliet its spark, but what begins as a smart feminist reworking of one of literature’s most overdone straight love stories soon opens into something broader, warmer and, at times, beautifully […]
Comedian Stephen K Amos reflects on social media, race, representation, Prince Harry and Andrew, and the importance of context, in a world trying to balance progress with division. Ahead of his return to New Zealand with Now We’re Talking, Stephen K Amos sounds energised by the idea of reconnecting with audiences — but also deeply preoccupied by the state of […]