Category: Events
Event Manager Shaughn Woodcock spills the tea on all the ‘wow’ moments we can look forward to at Saturday’s Rainbow Parade on Ponsonby Road. After Auckland has faced a hellish few weeks, Saturday’s Rainbow Parade will bring an abundance of joy and the chance to proudly celebrate inclusion, diversity, and our Rainbow communities. For the […]
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 […]
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 […]