A taste of Kiwi ingenuity
Thousands of people walked through the doors at yesterday's Auckland Fair first held in 2010 at Auckland Art Gallery.
Thousands of people walked through the doors at yesterday's Auckland Fair first held in 2010 at Auckland Art Gallery.
Kiwi twin sisters have been celebrated as being among the highlights of major Australian arts festival Vivid Sydney.
Team Rhythm and Vines says it plans to tighten its focus while aiming to widen and freshen the appeal of its new-look summer music festival.
Why go to a music festival when you can watch it from the comfort of your own home? Chris Schulz and Lydia Jenkin have their say.
Photos from the 2015 Coachella music festival in California, USA.
Some come to South by Southwest seeking glory. Others come to roll their eyes at it.
The four-day festival at the Manukau Sports Bowl in Auckland opened yesterday with a 7am flag-raising ceremony and powhiri.
Teaching war dances and chants from the old island ways comes naturally to a family who have been involved in the Auckland Secondary Schools' PolyFest for decades.
Pasifika is celebrating its 23rd birthday at a new home, Hayman Park, after the Queensland fruit fly emergency forced it out of Western Springs.
Auckland's Pasifika Festival is facing a backlash from those who pushed for it in the first place - with some threatening to boycott the event.
Eight thousand people gathered at Hagley Park in Christchurch yesterday for the final of the biennial Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Festival.
Graham Reid speaks to English folk-rock veteran Richard Thompson about his return to Womad.
A wild 24 hours delayed a Cricket World Cup clash, brought flooding to Wellington and the South Island and forced the postponement of a music festival.
The Polynesian Panthers - incensed by the police's dawn raids on Pacific Island families in Ponsonby and Grey Lynn searching for overstayers.
A sea of black T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets welcomed punters at Auckland's second Westfest festival. Chris Schulz and Rachel Bache take in the darkness.
Danik Abishev was born in the circus "I really didn't have a choice about becoming a performer," he says.
To ensure her family continues to be lucky in the coming Year of the Sheep, New Lynn mother Maria Lee keeps true to traditions and age-old Chinese New Year practices.
Tinashe is bringing her sultry sound to New Zealand for the first time with a headlining slot at Splore. She talks to Rachel Bache.
Mr Scruff's signature style is all cups of tea, potato animation and marathon mixes, finds Lydia Jenkin.
With the ongoing diet of gallery exhibitions, theatre and comedy, Auckland's creative offering rivals any of the world's great international cities, writes Heather Shotter.
This year Sundance has impressed moviegoers, critics and industry buyers alike with a 118-feature selection that suggests a new surge of confidence in American independent cinema.
Didn’t get to go to Laneway? Missing the Big Day Out? NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner re-visits some of the legendary Kiwi music festivals of the past.
Did the lack of a Big Day Out go unnoticed this year? Or were you in a puddle of tears on January 16? Chris Schulz and Lydia Jenkin share their thoughts.
Pictures of the artists who performed at the 2015 Laneway Festival in Auckland. Photos courtesy of Laneway and Jonathan Pilkington.
If there's a year that Laneway has come of age, mark it down as this one.
Live music, fireworks, nearly all the oysters in the country and chainsaw-juggling buskers with a backdrop of three days of spectacular weather: Auckland's 175th Anniversary.
Today's fifth Laneway Festival in New Zealand is a sell-out.
Live coverage of today's St Jerome's Laneway festival in Auckland, including updated reviews and photos throughout the day.