Matariki, music and movies to keep you busy this weekend.

Free workshops are open for people in the Hutt to get involved in.

It's the music of yesteryear for the kids of today.

Meet the 10 young hopefuls wanting to win NZ's most prestigious classical singing contest.

The English Patient voted best Man Booker Prize winner.

The Royal New Zealand Ballet delivers a show with panache and impeccable timing.

School holidays mean that Tim Bray Productions will stage one of its plays for children.

Barbering expo in Auckland the largest event of its kind in New Zealand.

The Dust Palace, our biggest cirque theatre company, aims to take its work to new heights.

Consequences for wider Pacific community could be enormous, says researcher.

The Basement Theatre celebrates Matariki with two very different plays worth seeing.

The Wizard of Otahuhu is theatre to make you laugh, sing and be proud to be an Aucklander.

In a world first, local theatre-makers will stage same play in four different languages.

Parisian-style cabaret gives New Zealand dancers a chance to sparkle and shine.

Artists explore how technology separates us from the sights and sounds of nature.

Black Grace has long been a dance outfit that takes risks; its next show is no exception.

NZSO and conductor Harth-Bedoya came to town with a curious (and rather short) programme.

Murky depths of Jacobean drama are chillingly illuminated in Michael Hurst's production.

It's how The Wizard of Oz might have been had it come from South Auckland circa 2018.

The cloak was made in the traditional method and has been at the gallery for 10 years.

Theatre, dance and festivals - there's no excuse to stay home this weekend.

Wintec artist gets PM's Scholarship for Asia. Made with funding from NZ on Air.

An Antarctica requiem finds its way into a Mozart programme, writes Raewyn Whyte.

Theatre stars come out to play in Matariki theatre that champions diversity and difference

The evening was entitled Brahms & Tchaikovsky, but NZ composer Gareth Farr shone.

Young composer Josiah Carr talks about wrestling, letting go and tiptoeing through trees.

An acclaimed Māori astronomer is heartened to see more Kiwis celebrating Matariki.

Weber's F minor concerto might have been written to showcase this man's talent for lithe.

The programme opened with three chorale preludes from Bach's Orgel-buchlein.

Art collector Milly Paris reflects on the joy of collecting.