Festival
Unpacking the debate over new year name
As Asian communities around the world celebrate the start of a new year, debate still rages about how to refer to this holiday in English.
Moon Festival lights up Auckland with rich cultural traditions
Festivalgoers braved mixed weekend weather to enjoy lantern displays, mooncake-making workshops, traditional Hanfu parades, and lively lion and dragon dances.
Harvest Hawke's Bay to bring together food, wine and music
Dozens of Hawke's Bay businesses will come together for a wine and food festival on the banks of the Tukituki River, a welcome celebration after the long clean-up following Cyclone Gabrielle. Audio
The cultural reiginiting of Timaru
Timaru's artists and performers are banding together with local businesses and the Council in an all-out effort to boost the population and regenerate the South Canterbury city centre. A trial run is… Audio, Gallery
Gisborne business leader concerned about summer visitors
Double vaccinated visitors only thanks - that's the preference of a Tairāwhiti business leader as Gisborne braces for a summer influx.
Come December 15, Aucklanders are being set free - able to… Video, Audio
Reflecting cultures through film
Film festival programmer Vicci Ho explains why a career watching movies is harder than it seems and how she picks films to reflect a culture. Video, Audio
Reflecting cultures through film
Film festival programmer Vicci Ho explains why a career watching movies is harder than it seems and how she picks films to reflect a culture.
AudioFestival organisers racing to keep up with Covid alert levels
If you're organising any kind of event right now the changes in Covid-19 alert level restrictions are challenging your plans. Moving alert levels from three to two and two to one presents all kinds of… Audio
'New normal' working well for literary festivals
Literary Festivals are back - but not as we knew them. The pandemic hasn't put a stop to traditionally popular writers festivals with three happening in the next few weeks. But a big line up of… Audio
Doc Edge Festival Programme Announced
This morning at 6am, Doc Edge Festival launched its 2020 programme and tickets are now on sale. We talk to Alex Lee, festival director. NZ's first digital international film festival. Audio
South Auckland celebrates diversity with festival
Organisers of a festival celebrating the diversity of South Auckland want to prove its different from other cultural events in the city. Audio
Auckland's Moon Festival illuminates best of Asian culture
More than 20,000 people attended Auckland's first Moon Festival, a three-day event celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival popular in Asian countries.
Woodstock 50th anniversary of an iconic photo
The Woodstock Festival took place between August 15 and 17 1969 attracting a crowd of over 400,000 people and wrote itself into the history of music. For Bobbi & Nick Ercoline Woodstock became a… Audio
Festivals, events planned to celebrate Matariki
Events are being held throughout the country to mark the Māori New Year, with just a few days to go before the Matariki Constellation rises in our skies. Reporter Joanna MacKenzie went out on a waka… Video, Audio
The 'must see' Venice Biennale
The world's movers and shakers in the contemporary art scene have had the last few days to get their heads around this year's Venice Biennale exhibitions, and now it's an anxious wait for the artists… Audio, Gallery
Courtney Collins: Armageddon event organiser
Armageddon organiser Courtney Collins speaks to Jim about the 24th event in Wellington. Audio
John Minty: Splore festival director
New Zealand's longest running music festival, Splore, is on again this weekend. Festival director John Minty speaks to Jim about the event's 20th anniversary. Audio
Biggest kapa haka festival in the world begins
The biggest kapa haka festival in the world has officially begun, with the first Te Matatini groups taking the stage in the capital today. People lined up outside Westpac Stadium from five o'clock… Video, Audio
Powerful welcome for teams arriving for Te Matatini competition
Wellington iwi erupted in haka and song on Wellington's waterfront today as they welcomed thousands to the capital for Te Matatini - the biggest kapa haka competition in the country. The four-day… Video, Audio
NZ's first crime writing festival - Rotorua Noir
The country's first crime writing festival, Rotorua Noir is on this weekend. Participants will hear from international and local crime writers and gain more clues along the way about the elements of… Audio
