Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Artists: Angus Muir and Catherine Ellis Sound Design: Peter Hobbs A light installation that will absorb and awe you. A dense field of black fibreglass rods forms a quiet, gridded volume activated by laser light and spatial sound. As beams cut through the structure, they catch on thousands of fine...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Somersaulting in from Québec, Canada, are five internationally acclaimed contemporary circus performers for the premiere of their Aotearoa, New Zealand season. Their family friendly show follows the performers as they find themselves alone in an uncertain world, trying to contact other survivors with the help of a strange machine. Reckless,...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival 2026 Somersaulting in from Québec, Canada, are five internationally acclaimed contemporary circus performers for the premiere of their Aotearoa, New Zealand season. Their family friendly show follows the performers as they find themselves alone in an uncertain world, trying to contact other survivors with the help of a strange machine....
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Award-winning artist Duane Forrest expertly blends Bob Marley’s music with powerful storytelling in a captivating, heartfelt celebration of identity, love, and the healing rhythm of reggae. From Off Broadway to a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning artist Duane Forrest takes audiences on an uplifting, deeply human journey through the music and...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Li’l Chuck The One Man Skiffle Machine is an authentic one-man band performing “good time music with old time style.” Inspired by the street performers of the 1930s–50s, he blends blues, early jazz, ragtime, and Western swing, delivering it live with harmonica, guitar, kick drum and hi-hat all played simultaneously!...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Celebrating the release of his highly anticipated second album Trouble, Louis Baker returns to the stage here in Tauranga. Over the past decade, Baker has established himself as one of New Zealand's most distinctive voices, captivating audiences with his rich blend of soul, jazz and modern R&B. From intimate venues...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Somersaulting in from Québec, Canada, are five internationally acclaimed contemporary circus performers for the premiere of their Aotearoa, New Zealand season. Their family friendly show follows the performers as they find themselves alone in an uncertain world, trying to contact other survivors with the help of a strange machine. Reckless,...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival 2026 Somersaulting in from Québec, Canada, are five internationally acclaimed contemporary circus performers for the premiere of their Aotearoa, New Zealand season. Their family friendly show follows the performers as they find themselves alone in an uncertain world, trying to contact other survivors with the help of a strange machine....
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Extra Lives is a live choose-your-own-adventure concert where the audience votes by phone to steer a funny, heartfelt Role-Playing Game-style story while the band performs the soundtrack in real time. Part concert, part comedy, part theatre and part game, the show turns the audience into the hero as every choice...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Somersaulting in from Québec, Canada, are five internationally acclaimed contemporary circus performers for the premiere of their Aotearoa, New Zealand season. Their family friendly show follows the performers as they find themselves alone in an uncertain world, trying to contact other survivors with the help of a strange machine. Reckless,...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Li’l Chuck The One Man Skiffle Machine is an authentic one-man band performing “good time music with old time style.” Inspired by the street performers of the 1930s–50s, he blends blues, early jazz, ragtime, and Western swing, delivering it live with harmonica, guitar, kick drum and hi-hat all played simultaneously!...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival 2026 Somersaulting in from Québec, Canada, are five internationally acclaimed contemporary circus performers for the premiere of their Aotearoa, New Zealand season. Their family friendly show follows the performers as they find themselves alone in an uncertain world, trying to contact other survivors with the help of a strange machine....
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Somersaulting in from Québec, Canada, are five internationally acclaimed contemporary circus performers for the premiere of their Aotearoa, New Zealand season. Their family friendly show follows the performers as they find themselves alone in an uncertain world, trying to contact other survivors with the help of a strange machine. Reckless,...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival 2026 Somersaulting in from Québec, Canada, are five internationally acclaimed contemporary circus performers for the premiere of their Aotearoa, New Zealand season. Their family friendly show follows the performers as they find themselves alone in an uncertain world, trying to contact other survivors with the help of a strange machine....
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Premiering here in Tauranga, Paris in the Rain is an hour-long piano-plus-electronic performance by New Zealand icon Michael Houstoun. He performs beloved French piano music set in an ephemeral, dream-like ambience, surrounded by the audience. This intimate music has been curated and sensitively immersed in glowing sonic landscapes by Ambient...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Premiering here in Tauranga, Paris in the Rain is an hour-long piano-plus-electronic performance by New Zealand icon Michael Houstoun. He performs beloved French piano music set in an ephemeral, dream-like ambience, surrounded by the audience. This intimate music has been curated and sensitively immersed in glowing sonic landscapes by Ambient...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Award-winning artist Duane Forrest expertly blends Bob Marley’s music with powerful storytelling in a captivating, heartfelt celebration of identity, love, and the healing rhythm of reggae. From Off Broadway to a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning artist Duane Forrest takes audiences on an uplifting, deeply human journey through the music and...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival The Rebel Alliance Presents: The Valentina. A live radio play. With pictures! A gorgeous interstellar adventure for anyone who’s looked to the stars and imagined the cosmos. With the help of her awesome parents, 8-year-old Ellen paints a spaceship she has drawn at school on her bedroom ceiling. As darkness...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Award-winning artist Duane Forrest expertly blends Bob Marley’s music with powerful storytelling in a captivating, heartfelt celebration of identity, love, and the healing rhythm of reggae. From Off Broadway to a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe, award-winning artist Duane Forrest takes audiences on an uplifting, deeply human journey through the music and...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Bold. Bilingual. Beautifully Māori. An extraordinary theatrical experience that will shimmer in your bones and ignite the fire within. Tāne Rore is a critically acclaimed bilingual theatre work inspired by the Māori atua of performing arts that weaves together haka, waiata, poetry, movement and heartfelt storytelling in a theatrical experience...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Slam returns for its sixth year and coming back to its spiritual home of Toi Tauranga Art Gallery. A high-energy, competitive poetry event where poets perform their original work.An exhilarating blend of poetry, performance, theatre and storytelling with an emphasis on authentic voice, emotion, and audience connection. Over three rounds,...
Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival An extraordinary mapping of Aotearoa New Zealand through the eyes of Te Tiriti o Waitangi Mahana. Creator of the acclaimed The Haka Party Incident, Katie Wolfe (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama), in association with Auckland Theatre Company, directs this epic tale of Tiri Mahana, a 186-year-old matriarch, from her birth at the signing of...
