A city blossoms in explosive art

Group F perform Skin of Fire Photo / Michael Craig

Auckland's Art Festival is filling the streets, parks and theatres for the next two weeks with light, colour and music.

Today's potted highlights

10.30am-12.30pm: Family garden time-giant games and more at Aotea Square

12.30pm: Jazzamatazz-jazz music for kids up to 7 at Paradiso Spiegeltent, Aotea Square 5pm:

Songs of Love and War

- Monteverdi's classical music at Leigh Sawmill

6.30pm:

Blam

-comedy theatre show at the Civic

This week

Monday 6.30pm:

The Mooncake and the Kumara

-myth and fable combine in Maori/Chinese play at Q Theatre

Tuesday 7pm:

Pah

-music, dance and art at Wallace Arts Centre

Wednesday 8pm: The Gloaming -Irish five-piece band at Auckland Town Hall

Thursday 7.30pm: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet-NewYork Ballet Company at the Civic

Friday 9.30pm:

Lake Street Dive

-US music showat Paradiso Spiegeltent, Aotea Square

Don't miss

•Acrobatics, music and illusions at

Limbo

at Paradiso Spiegeltent, running until March 22

•Hip-hop version of Shakespeare's

Othello

at the Bruce Mason Centre, March 13-16

•Nanogirl Dr Michelle Dickinson blows things up at Think Science, Auckland Town Hall, March 14

•UK comedian Mark Thomas in Bravo Figaro, Q Theatre, March 16-22

Find out more

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aaf.co.nz

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facebook.com/Aklfestival

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ticketmaster.co.nz