What's on this weekend

Martin Henderson is participating in Auckland Museum's Illuminate Peace Day.

Handpicked, the best activities for your weekend agenda.

Yes, of course we'll all have headed out to vote. But then there are some hours to fill until the results come in around 9pm (follow our booth by booth results on our interactive map here). Here's how to take your mind off things:

1. Find world peace

Pack a picnic and grab a blanket and head to the Museum for Peace out Illuminate Peace Day: a film projection on its Northern facade by New Zealand photographer Stu Robertson. For his global art project 'Peace in 10,000 Hands' Stu photographs a white rose - symbol of peace - with people from all over the world. A conversation on peace, pretty apt.

Details: Saturday and Sunday, 6pm-10pm. Auckland War Memorial Museum.

2. Save the planet, 1

Auckland Zoo is celebrating World Rhino Day (you had it in your diary for Monday, right?) with a Rhino Weekend. That means finding more about these extraordinary pachyderms with rhino encounters, rhino themed story time, face painting and more.

Details: Saturday and Sunday, 10am-2pm.

3. Save the planet, 2

Things may get ugly by Sunday, but in the meantime, you can do your bit to keep New Zealand beautiful by joining clean ups for Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week. Friends of the Waterfront at Clendon are hosting on Saturday, while Sunday it's Torbay's turn
(Saturday, 8.30am - 11am, Clendon Reserve; Sunday from 9.30am,meet at Barfoot & Thompson Torbay Office). Or just spread a little kindness by tidying up your own patch of street front, park or bus-stop.

4. See a libertine get his just reward

Immerse yourself in the best opera you will ever see - the New Zealand Opera production of Don Giovanni. Watching a wicked man who thinks he can get away with disgraceful behaviour finally be burned in hell - just the ticket before you rush home to scream at your screen as the results pour in and you wish the same fate on certain modern day types. Clever staging, brilliant acting, the glory of Mozart in voice and orchestra, the perfect antidote to the last few crazy weeks.

Details: Tickets here from Ticketmaster.

5. Groove on Ponsonby Road

Nothing like a bit of a shop and an eat and some more shopping to steady the nerves. The kind people on Ponsonby Road have you in mind when they staged the Ponsonby Spring Market.

Details: Starts 11am on Saturday.