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  • Louis Baker

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    TOTARA STREET Totara Street, 11 Totara St, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga 3116, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $39 – $49

  • Tauranga Fringe Fest

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    The Incubator Creative Hub The Incubator Creative Hub, 159 17th Avenue, Tauranga South, Tauranga 3112, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: The Incubator Creative Hub Tauranga Fringe Festival is a one-day extravaganza of strange creativity, alternative art, live music, Pasifika performance, puppetry, fashion, poetry, circus and everything gloriously in...

    $15 – $20

  • Machine de Cirque

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    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $60 – $280

  • Machine de Cirque

    Featured Machine de Cirque
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $63.50 – $295

  • Extra Lives

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    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $25 – $40

  • Astrolabe Live Music Weekends

    Astrolabe Live Music Weekends
    Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe Brewbar, 82 Maunganui Road, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga 3116, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe has had the best New Zealand music, cold beers and good times since ‘94. Music has always been a huge part of who we...

  • Machine de Cirque

    Featured Machine de Cirque
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $60 – $280

  • Machine de Cirque

    Featured Machine de Cirque
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $63.50 – $295

  • Waihī Beach Holistic Wellbeing Expo

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    Waihi Beach Community Centre Waihi Beach Community Centre, Waihi Beach 3611, Waihi Beach, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Pop-up Marketeers We are super excited to be coming to Waihī Beach during Labour Weekend 2026. Sun 25th Oct 2026, Waihī Beach Community Centre, Beach Road from 10am...

    Free

  • Machine de Cirque

    Featured Machine de Cirque
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $60 – $280

  • Machine de Cirque

    Featured Machine de Cirque
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $63.50 – $295

  • Paris in the Rain

    Featured Paris in the Rain
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $55

  • Paris in the Rain

    Featured Paris in the Rain
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $55

  • The Valentina

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    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $15 – $70

  • Read Between

    Read Between
    The Jam Factory The Jam Factory, 17th Ave West, Tauranga South, Tauranga 3112, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Read Between the Rhymes On the last Tuesday of each month, we gather to share poetry. You can bring your own poetry or a piece of poetry you...

    Koha

  • Learn Cuban Salsa – Beginners

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    Elizabeth Street Community Hall 169 Elizabeth Street, Tauranga

    Presented by: Salsa ¡Agua! Experience the rhythm, energy, and warmth of Cuba right here in Tauranga with Salsa Agua, the city’s only Cuban-based Salsa school. Every Tuesday night, Elizabeth Street Community...

    $39.18

  • Tāne Rore

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    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $15 – $200

  • Letter Never Sent | Film Screening

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    Luxe Cinema Tauranga 21 Devonport Road, Tauranga

    Presented by: Tauranga Film Society Mikhail Kalatozov • USSR • 1960 • 96 mins • HD, B&W • PG violence • In Russian with English subtitles. ​Four Soviet geologists discover...

    $40 – $120

  • Wham Bam Tauranga Poetry Slam

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    Toi Tauranga Art Gallery Tauranga Art Gallery, 108 Willow St, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    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...

    $20 – $30

  • The Feedback Lab

    The Feedback Lab
    The Creative Community Campus 159, Historic Village, 17th Ave, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: The Incubator Creative Hub STOP MARKING YOUR OWN HOMEWORK! It's time to unlock your creative noncritical voice. Introducing the Feedback Lab 2026/27 monthly sessions. The Feedback Lab invites...

    $5

  • Touch tour performance | Tauranga Arts Festival 2026

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    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Blind and low vision patrons will get the chance to engage in a “touch tour” before one of the Tauranga Art Festival performances. To promote...

  • Astrolabe Live Music Weekends

    Astrolabe Live Music Weekends
    Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe Brewbar, 82 Maunganui Road, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga 3116, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe has had the best New Zealand music, cold beers and good times since ‘94. Music has always been a huge part of who we...

  • Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking

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    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    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,...

    $25 – $65

  • Hinengaro’s Way: Dr Hinemoa Elder

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    Tauranga City Library Tauranga City Library, 91 Willow St, Tauranga, 3110, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival In her latest best-selling and perceptive book, Ara, Dr Hinemoa Elder MNZM (Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa, Ngāi Takoto, Ngāpuhi nui tonu) introduces us...

    $30

  • Home Again with Jon Toogood

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    Tauranga City Library Tauranga City Library, 91 Willow St, Tauranga, 3110, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Tauranga Arts Festival is thrilled to welcome Aotearoa legend Jon Toogood, former frontman of iconic band Shihad, lead singer of The Adults and author of...

    $30

  • Werewolf

    Featured Werewolf
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Attention: Multiple new occurrences are now confirmed and verified. Healthy citizens must report to their safehouses by sunset and shelter in place. A lycanthropy outbreak...

    $25 – $40

  • Astrolabe Live Music Weekends

    Astrolabe Live Music Weekends
    Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe Brewbar, 82 Maunganui Road, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga 3116, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe has had the best New Zealand music, cold beers and good times since ‘94. Music has always been a huge part of who we...

  • An Evening Without Kate Bush

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    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Enter Strange Phenomena, howl with the Hounds Of Love and dance on the moors with Wuthering Heights. Kate's not there, but you are. This award-winning...

    $25 – $50

  • Werewolf

    Featured Werewolf
    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Attention: Multiple new occurrences are now confirmed and verified. Healthy citizens must report to their safehouses by sunset and shelter in place. A lycanthropy outbreak...

    $25 – $40

  • The Roots of Resilience

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    Tauranga City Library Tauranga City Library, 91 Willow St, Tauranga, 3110, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival How do we keep on keeping on through the rollercoaster of life? We’re in a chaotic world at a chaotic time politically, economically, environmentally and...

    $30

  • All the Little (and Big) Beasts!

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    Tauranga City Library Tauranga City Library, 91 Willow St, Tauranga, 3110, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival Cass and the Beast by Claire Mabey and illustrated by Jill Calder is a sumptuous celebration of bravery, beauty … and beasts! In this interactive...

    Free

  • The Nowhere Boy: Anne Cleary

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    Te Ao Mārama - Tauranga Library 91 Willow Street, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival A child disappears in broad daylight—and no one sees a thing… This is the premise of Anne Cleary’s first, already award-winning crime novel taking Aotearoa...

    $30

  • Find The Lost Words

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    Tauranga City Library Tauranga City Library, 91 Willow St, Tauranga, 3110, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Tauranga Arts Festival The Lost Words by Kimberley Kearney (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tūhoe) and illustrated by Taylor Terewai Tiave (Ngāpuhi) is a spellbinding story of recovering treasures that have...

    Free

  • Katikati Concert Band presents 2026 Concert Series 3 – Movie Music

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    St Pauls Presbyterian Church 1 Mulgan Street, Katikati, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Katikati Concert Band Join us on Sunday 1st November for our final concert of the year as we perform unforgettable themes from some of your favourite movies! From...

    Free – $10

  • Learn Cuban Salsa – Beginners

    Featured Learn Cuban Salsa – Beginners
    Elizabeth Street Community Hall 169 Elizabeth Street, Tauranga

    Presented by: Salsa ¡Agua! Experience the rhythm, energy, and warmth of Cuba right here in Tauranga with Salsa Agua, the city’s only Cuban-based Salsa school. Every Tuesday night, Elizabeth Street Community...

    $39.18

  • Kapu & Kōrero – November 2026

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    The Kollective - The Classroom 145 17th Avenue, Tauranga, New Zealand

    Presented by: Creative Bay of Plenty - Te Waka Auaha Toi Kapu & Kōrero invites all emerging and established artists from around the Bay of Plenty to an informal gathering over...

    Free

  • Astrolabe Live Music Weekends

    Astrolabe Live Music Weekends
    Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe Brewbar, 82 Maunganui Road, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga 3116, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe has had the best New Zealand music, cold beers and good times since ‘94. Music has always been a huge part of who we...

  • Tauranga Diwali Festival 2026

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    Historic Village The Historic Village, 17th Ave West, Tauranga South, Tauranga 3112, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: One Love Charity The clock is counting down for this Tauranga Diwali Festival for 2026 and preparations are well underway behind the scenes! We're already dreaming, planning, and...

    Free

  • Astrolabe Live Music Weekends

    Astrolabe Live Music Weekends
    Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe Brewbar, 82 Maunganui Road, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga 3116, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Astrolabe Brew Bar Astrolabe has had the best New Zealand music, cold beers and good times since ‘94. Music has always been a huge part of who we...

  • Beatlemania On Tour

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    Baycourt Community & Arts Centre 38 Durham Street, Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

    Presented by: Showtime Australia The sound of a generation, and the music that has influenced every generation since – that’s The Beatles. And now you can relive the heyday of...

    $72.73 – $83.48

  • Lines and Lyrics – Tauranga

    Te Ao Mārama - Tauranga Library 91 Willow Street, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand +1 more

    Presented by: Te Ao Mārama - Tauranga Library Lines and Lyrics runs twice a month, at Greerton and Tauranga library. An invitation to poets and poets-to-be. Meetings are informal, but...

    Free

  • Learn Cuban Salsa – Beginners

    Featured Learn Cuban Salsa – Beginners
    Elizabeth Street Community Hall 169 Elizabeth Street, Tauranga

    Presented by: Salsa ¡Agua! Experience the rhythm, energy, and warmth of Cuba right here in Tauranga with Salsa Agua, the city’s only Cuban-based Salsa school. Every Tuesday night, Elizabeth Street Community...

    $39.18

  • Creative Business 101 – Maximising Your Opportunities

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    The Kollective - The Classroom 145 17th Avenue, Tauranga, New Zealand

    Presented by: Creative Bay of Plenty - Te Waka Auaha Toi Are you an emerging creative looking to grow your practice and make the most of new opportunities? Join Arohanoa...

    $23