Motat is holding a Steam Fair this weekend, head down and dress in Steampunk fashion. Photo / Supplied
Motat is holding a Steam Fair this weekend, head down and dress in Steampunk fashion. Photo / Supplied
No plans for the weekend yet? We've handpicked the top five things to do around Auckland this weekend.
1. Eat, then eat some more
You can head down to the 'tron for the Great NZ Food Show - there's an Artisan Alley, the Great New Zealand Dining Room, Mystery Bag Cook Off and cooking classes with some of your favourite telly chefs. Enjoy the best of the food bowl of the south.
Or if healthy is more your bag, the Shore is hosting Gluten Free Food and Allergy Show. Lots of ideas for allergy and intolerance issues, new products from food to cleaning, beauty and homewares, and plenty of handy seminars and demonstrations with the folks from Healthy Food Guide.
Great NZ food show at Mystery Creek. Photo / supplied
Details: Food Show, today (10am-5pm) and tomorrow (10am-4pm), Mystery Creek Events Centre. Gluten and Allergy, today and tomorrow, 10am-5pm. North Shore Events Centre.
2. Thinking thinking thinking
This year's Documentary Edge Film Festival is celebrating an inspiring decade of documentaries from home and abroad. As well as the usual wonderful, weird and enlightening offerings there are free talks on activism, arts funding and more.
Details: Until June 1. Q Theatre.
3. Steam players
The increasingly groovy Motat puts on a Steam Fair with a difference, when blokes and their steam power meet the weird and wonderful world of Steampunk (costumes encouraged). There's hands-on time, fascinating displays and rides on those lovingly restored steam trains.
Details: Tomorrow, 10am-5pm. Museum of Transport and Technology.
4. Horrifying
When comedy meets cult movie, this is what happens. Those crazy kids from Live Live Cinema have turned off the sound to the original 1960 Little Shop of Horrors film to create their own live soundtrack: lip-syncing, creating sound effects and a brand new music score. Insanely break-neck speed, screamingly funny. Just turn off the telly, shut down your laptop and see where real old-school cinema takes you. Critics are raving.
Details: Today and tomorrow, Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre.
5. Play ball
Aucklanders, get down and support the Blues at Eden Park. Photo / Jason Oxenham
Get behind the Blues when they take on the Hurricanes at Eden Park this evening - you know they need your help. Gates open at 4.45pm with heaps of entertainment to keep the troops amused 'til the start of the game. Public transport included with your ticket.
