Category: Events
We are just as excited for this year’s Auckland Pride Festival as you are! Here are 12 of our must-sees throughout the 2017 festival. Hot Brown Honey Hot Brown Honey will be sure to turn up the heat, delivering sass with a pinch of empowerment in its cabaret show. This posse of independent and unapologetically […]
Direct from London, SEXSHOOTERS, perhaps the world’s most-photogenic DJ duo, are joining the international cast of party superstars jetting in from Los Angeles and Melbourne for PROUD 2017, Auckland Pride Festival’s official closing celebration. The pair – David Hart and Claudio Girardi – have taken the world by storm since 2013, working dance floors in […]
Wellington’s vibrant Pride Festival will be returning this year. Spread out over 17 days, the festival will take place from 3–19 March and is expected to be one of Wellington’s longest and best celebrations of Pride yet. With last year’s nine-day festival bursting at the seams, the 2017 festival promises over 50 diverse events from […]
Bringing 19 days of the world’s best theatre, dance, music and circus to the city. From epic drama to circus comedy, from urban art to Opera and from contemporary Pasifika dance to seductive tango, the festival shines a spotlight on the wonderful world of arts. La Soirée In a show that can only be referred […]
Photo: Matthew Lyons Lorde, along with friend Jack Antonoff, covered Robyn’s ‘Hang With Me’ at Webster Hall in New York City on 12 December for an Ally Coalition benefit show. The Ally Coalition is a nationwide charity in the USA, based in Boston, which works with leaders in the entertainment, music and fashion industries […]
Benjamin Law, who created hit Australian TV sitcom The Family Law, is coming to Auckland to take part in LGBT+ writers’ festival Same Same But Different. The TV show is now producing its second series, and is based on Law’s book of the same name, which tells the story of a dysfunctional Chinese-Australian family on […]
Join 12 people from the LGBT+ community who were around in 1986 as they tell their stories about one of the landmark moments of this nation’s history. The evening at Q Theatre’s Loft will be hosted by legendary emcees Sarah Lambourne and Steven Oates. All proceeds will benefit community helpline, OUTLineNZ, and with tickets only […]
Body Positive will be hosting the Puāwai Festival at Te Pou Theatre in New Lynn from 29 November through to 3 December. The schedule: Tuesday 29 November: an oral history of HIV in New Zealand, hosted by Steven Oates, and a panel including Michael Bancroft and Judith Ackroyd Wednesday 30 November: Spoken Word night as […]