Premiere season of 360 offers audiences a brand new theatrical experience!
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Live musical performance to 13 of Andy Warhol’s famous screen tests.
Pattrick will talk about her hugely successful early novels, including The Denniston Rose and Heart of Coal, and her increasingly international reputation.
Geoff Dyer has been called a "counter tourist", a "restless polymath" and a prolific slacker.
The spirited members of Antibalas have brought afrobeat to a new generation.
APOLLO 13: Mission Control takes audiences on a rollicking caper through space and beyond.
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, made its author a literary superstar.
Huck Finn got to light out, and in doing so invent his future. For boys who run away, the road is an adventure, for girls it is often a more perilous place.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
It's a paradoxical that a writer with such a distase for dogma as Bill Manhire should have come to occupy such an influential position.
Russia’s Borodin Quartet commands a special position of respect in the chamber music world.
Three-time Grammy Award winner Branford Marsalis is one of music’s brightest luminaries.
Geoff Dyer and Philip Hoare The expression ‘creative non-fiction’ is one of those elusive terms intended to cover many different kinds of writing.
Calexico’s musical sound is influenced by traditional sounds of Mexico.
Discover the art of character with Fifi Colston in this workshop where kids will create a character.
Provocation Grimshaw turned her considerable talents to short fiction and has produced two collections of interlinked stories.
A family favourite for the young, and young at heart. Join in the fun and sing a long
Kamila Shamsie and Ilija Trojanow Kamila Shamsie and Ilija Trojanow are travellers who have written novels in which characters find themselves in crucial historical moments.
Derek Johns and Joan London Many novels revolve around a ‘rite of passage’ for their main characters but mastering the sensitive issues of emerging adulthood is a rare skill.
Awakening This former bookseller, editor and publisher is today a literary agent and celebrated novelist.
A five-piece troupe of deceased and downtrodden music hall artistes take you on a tour through performers’ purgatory.
Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann’s best-selling fifth novel Measuring the World depicts the encounter of mathematical genius Carl Friedrich Gauss.
What happened to Little Red Riding Hood as she went through the forest?
No one predicted the resultant musical alchemy when these three virtuosic musicians first met.
Don McGlashan is recognised as one of New Zealand’s foremost songwriters, artists and performers.
Great music, exhilarating dance and fabulous invention make this the perfect show for children.
An Innocent Abroad Emily Perkins is a New Zealand writer with an international reputation.Her early fiction chronicled the aimless and often bittersweet lives of twenty-somethings.
Peter Brook brings to life this epic tale of an Africa shaken by colonialism.
Original live music score to a screening of Bruce Lee’s cult classic: Enter the Dragon.
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (FBO), deemed one of the finest period ensembles in the world.
Experience Frisky and Mannish’s School of Pop and you will never think of The Bangles the same way again.
New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week begins with the fine art of fiction.
The Ongoing Moment Geoff Dyer is an essayist, travel writer, and novelist whose range of subject matter is distinctly idiosyncratic.
The ultimate tribute to American composer George Gershwin in this exhilarating performance.
The Outlander Gil Adamson’s haunting debut novel The Outlander began as “a flash of an image” of a young woman dressed in black, running.
Time’s Fool Gyn Maxwell has the knack of combining ordinary speech with extraordinary mastery of complex forms which speak directly from the heart.
Mumbai to Mecca Ilija Trojanow’s compelling fictional biography, The Collector of Worlds, depicts this complex and brilliant man.
Happy As Larry is a dynamic, playful and multilayered new dance work investigating the nature of human happiness.
He Reo Aroha weaves the beauty of original waiata, with a compelling story of love and music.
Inside out is an exhilarating creation from Sweden’s dynamic and contemporary circus ensemble, Cirkus Cirkör.
Sweden’s indie rock darlings Irya’s Playground are wowing fans on their second world tour.
Making Peoples James Belich has been an historian very much in the public eye.
New Zealand-born singer Jenny Morris has sung enough hit pop songs to clock up record sales of 500,000.
Runaway Girls Joan London is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers; her work has been compared to stylists Shirley Hazzard, Alice Munro and Katherine Mansfield.
Lost Histories Trying to understand history across cultural differences has been a life-long interest for historian Judith Binney.
General Zia’s Children Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie has produced a body of work set largely in Karachi, but which also explores modern global politics.
Tenor Keith Lewis and pianist Michael Houstoun present this recital which spans over 300 years of song.
Revolver Kevin Connolly is one of those rare poets, read by poets and people who don’t think they enjoy poetry at all.
Degrees of Nakedness Twice nominated for the Giller Prize, Lisa Moore has been described as a writer with a “feel for place as gritty as dirt under your fingernails”.
Los Amigos Invisibles will thrill you with their infectious blend of latin rhythms, funk, disco and acid jazz.
World-renowned conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy joins the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Have fun with rhyme, colour and clothes pegs while helping acclaimed illustrator Gavin Bishop.
Enjoy a magical hour of story and conversation with Joy Cowley, one of our most celebrated writers.
Simon Schama, Daniel Kehlmann & Margo Lanagan Writing about history takes many forms, some fictional, some fact, and many somewhere in between.
Tender Morsels Herlyricism and inventiveness combine with a robust approach to the subject matter for young readers.
Weaving historical fact with magical realism, Mark Twain & Me in Māoriland fuses a spaghetti western with a love story.
Seduction, greed and deception lie at the heart of this thrilling account of an extraordinary relationship.
Intoxicating dance production is a moving exploration of the search for calm amid life’s chaos.
Say What? Neil Cross, novelist and script-writer, is preoccupied with families, their secrets, the limits of responsibility and the implications of complicity.
Neil Gaiman is a prolific creator of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics and drama.
A 200-year view of the string quartet, with works written in 1810, 1910 and 2010.
Gems of the piano trio repertoire are woven together on this musical journey through the ages.
Neil Gaiman and Margo Lanagan Join them in conversation with Kate De Goldi as she asks: What makes it children’s literature?
Radical Chic Animal Liberation was first published in 1975 and immediately became the founding philosophical manifesto of the animal liberation movement.
In the Belly of the Whale Hoare’s account is both a whaler’s dictionary and unlike any book that came before it. Hoare’s signature style is a powerful, entrancing approach.
Come along and make words come to life as Paula Green introduces her magical picture poems.
Sam Elworthy, Laurie Chittenden, Michael Heyward, Derek Johns The 21st century, the once familiar environment of author, agent, publisher and bookseller is in flux.
Legendary sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar is a loved and respected musical phenomenon.
Celebrated and controversial biologist, Richard Dawkins comfortably wears the mantle “Revolutionary Evolutionist”.
History’s Darling To describe Sarah Waters’ work as historical fiction is to acknowledge the redefining and complexity of that genre in contemporary writing.
Few tenors have reached the summit of singing as quickly and decisively as New Zealand’s own Simon O’Neill.
Epic tales, roguish folklore, spirited sea shanties and soulful ballads merge with exquisite animation.
Award-winning animated and live-action short films from around the world.
One of the worlds’ most renowned historians, Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History.
Nina Simone was an inspiring woman, musician and activist who made an unforgettable mark on the world.
Innovative director Alvis Hermanis captures the idealism and social utopia of the 60s in his latest theatrical offering.
Texan musician Annie Clark is renowned as a new generation songwriter, her music is an indie dreamscape of lush orchestration and tuneful, precise pop songs.
One Last Look Celebrated American novelist Susanna Moore’s reputation was confirmed by three early novels, often called the Hawaiian trilogy.
Sutra is a breathtaking sequence of movement and acrobatics.
T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. is the latest creation from multiaward winning Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna.
The Arrival is an emotive and inspiring account of one man’s quest to belong.
A young exile engages a professional ‘Letter Writer’ to write love letters to the wife he has left behind.
Tex Perkins takes the stage as the legendary Johnny Cash in a show which traces the compelling life story of the hard living hero of country music.
Exploration of the social taboos that bind us, a cult-classic film Theorem (Teorema) from director Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Patricia Grace and Briar Grace-Smith Join these two writers in conversation with Mark Amery about the different ways of inventing and exploring the idea of place.
The Swell Season brings together Oscar-winning duo Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
Step inside an enchanting travelling theatre tent to discover the weird and wonderful world of Cheeseboy.
A fun-filled 3D animated adventure comedy, with a twist on the classic Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale.
The Walworth Farce is a blend of madcap humour and the darker, deeper concerns pivotal to human existence.
Peter Singer and Rod Oram This session asks how we as a global community can create our future, and how we might do that responsibly.
Writers Upfront brings the world of words to Wellington for six days of fiction, fantasy, history, politics, and poetry.
Their contemporary blend of jazz and funk often invites comparisons with Spyro Gyra and other smooth jazz artists.
