Category: Events
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. […]
As part of Auckland Pride 2023, Auckland Museum welcomes LGBTTQIA+ families and their allies to a fun-filled day of craft activities and entertainment! Pride Family Fun Day, which starts from 10 am till 5 pm on Sunday the 19th of February 2023, includes a very special drag queen storytime with Anita Wigl’it (from RuPaul’s Drag […]
Historian Gareth Watkins unearths February dates from the past that have had a significant impact on today’s queer community. 6 February 1840 Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi was signed on this day. With it came New Zealand’s adoption of English law, including the Offences Against the Person Act, which made sodomy punishable by death. […]
Rainbow Kiwis from around Aotearoa will be descending on Christchurch from Friday 10 to Sunday 19 March for the Christchurch Pride Festival. The volunteer-run festival returns bigger and better than ever on Friday 10 March with their opening Walk of Support, starting from the corner of Cashel and Columbo Street at 5pm, followed by the […]
Pride Whanganui Chair Christina Emery spills all the tea on what we can expect from Whanganui Pride 2023, running from Saturday, 4 to Saturday, 11 March. TELL US A BIT ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF WHANGANUI PRIDE WEEK OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS? I can’t quite believe the evolution of Pride Week in Whanganui. Our first […]
As part of the 2023 Auckland Arts Festival, proud fa’afafine Petmal Lam stars in The Savage Coloniser Show, a stage adaptation of Tusiata Avia’s award-winning poetry collection, The Savage Coloniser Book. Directed by Anapela Polata’ivao and produced by Victor Rodger for FCC Theatre, the company that also adapted Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt for […]
Farewell Yellow Brick Road is more than just an opportunity to see the greatest living musical artist play, it’s your final chance to watch the Rocketman ascend into the sunset. To use one word to sum up how we feel as we walk out of Elton John’s final (ever) Christchurch concert, it’s: gratitude. Gratitude for […]
Pacific Sisters are set to celebrate the last weekend of SCAPE Public Art and the final days of Te Pū o Te Wheke with a very special Fiafia PIKNIK 2023 event in central Christchurch. Kicking off on Saturday, January 28th, from 10 am–4 pm at the Kate Sheppard Reserve, 159 Oxford Terrace, you are invited […]