Upcoming Events
We can't wait to share with you, all the amazing accessible events throughout Aotearoa in 2023!
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
Mountain
Thursday 9 March 2023 | 9:15pm
Aotea Square, South End Lawn, Auckland CBD
Outdoor event. Free event
25 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of audience play time
Very Visual Performance
Taking over Aotea Square in a spectacular free opening week event, an out-of-this-world aerial theatre performance integrated with state-of-the-art interactive technology you can play with. Lighting up the heart of the Festival for four nights only, Mountain is a truly unique outdoor show. Dancers perform above the ground and against the vertical surfaces around them, responding to a projected digital environment that organically shifts and flows with their movement. Experience these dynamic infrared tracking and mapping technologies for yourself, too, and mingle with the projected play space and giant wall on stage after each performance. This stunning combination of choreography and interactivity is an innovative, physical, visual spectacle, stirring you to consider our digital dependence and its impact on the biosphere.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
Mountain
Friday 10 March 2023 | 8:15pm & 9:30pm
Aotea Square,South End Lawn, CBD
Outdoor event. Free event.
25 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of audience play time
Very Visual Performance, Outdoors.
Taking over Aotea Square in a spectacular free opening week event, an out-of-this-world aerial theatre performance integrated with state-of-the-art interactive technology you can play with. Lighting up the heart of the Festival for four nights only, Mountain is a truly unique outdoor show. Dancers perform above the ground and against the vertical surfaces around them, responding to a projected digital environment that organically shifts and flows with their movement. Experience these dynamic infrared tracking and mapping technologies for yourself, too, and mingle with the projected play space and giant wall on stage after each performance. This stunning combination of choreography and interactivity is an innovative, physical, visual spectacle, stirring you to consider our digital dependence and its impact on the biosphere.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
Scored In Silence
Saturday 11 March 2023 | 2:00pm
Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, Auckland CBD
NZSL Interpreted Event
Captioned Film with BSL Interpretation (50 minutes)
Post Show talk with NZS Access (55 minutes)
This stunning solo theatre performance tells the astonishing story of the Deaf survivors of Hiroshima using beautifully crafted animation, movement and sound. Through research, interviews and the study of original film footage, London-based Deaf Japanese artist Chisato Minamimura unpacks the hidden perspectives of Deaf people from the small number that survived the horrors of the atomic bomb atrocity in Japan in 1945.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
Mountain
Saturday 11 March 2023 | 8:15pm & 9:30pm
Aotea Square,South End Lawn, CBD
Outdoor event. Free event.
25 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of audience play time
Very Visual Performance, Outdoors.
Taking over Aotea Square in a spectacular free opening week event, an out-of-this-world aerial theatre performance integrated with state-of-the-art interactive technology you can play with. Lighting up the heart of the Festival for four nights only, Mountain is a truly unique outdoor show. Dancers perform above the ground and against the vertical surfaces around them, responding to a projected digital environment that organically shifts and flows with their movement. Experience these dynamic infrared tracking and mapping technologies for yourself, too, and mingle with the projected play space and giant wall on stage after each performance. This stunning combination of choreography and interactivity is an innovative, physical, visual spectacle, stirring you to consider our digital dependence and its impact on the biosphere.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
The Savage Coloniser
Sunday 12 March 2023 | 4:00pm
Rangatira, Q Theatre, Auckland CBD
NZSL Interpreted Event
Live Theatre
1 hour 10 minutes
NZSL Interpreted performance and Post-show talk - CANCELLED
Fierce, furious and fabulously unforgiving, we’re proud to premiere the hugely anticipated stage adaptation of Tusiata Avia’s blistering poetry collection. Following on from the internationally triumphant production of Tusiata Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, FCC theatre company brings to ferocious life the acclaimed writer’s The Savage Coloniser Book, for which she became the first female Pasifika poet to take out the Ockham Award for poetry. Under the artful direction of the equally formidable Anapela Polata’ivao, Avia’s unapologetic examination of race and racism is full of bold humour, courage and lacerating truths: where red-sequinned dusky maidens train their sights on James Cook, Samoan school girls play an innocent game of patty-cake as they describe the atrocities on Nauru, and a Tour Guide offers instructions on how to be in a room full of white people. The Savage Coloniser Show is theatre that is as provocative as it is necessary – and a red-hot Festival ticket you should fear missing out on.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
Blanc de Blanc Encore
Saturday 18 March 2023 | 2:00pm
Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, Aotea Square
NZSL Interpreted Event
The smash hit cabaret/circus extravaganza gatecrashes our Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent for a brand new season of naughty, opulent, edge-of-your-seat entertainment. It’s time to re-immerse yourself in the glitzy, glamorous and hedonistic world of vintage French burlesque, risqué humour, astonishing aerials, sparkling comedy and ballsy dance numbers – Blanc de Blanc is back with an Encore!
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
The Chosen Haram
Friday 24 March 2023 | 8:00pm
Rangatira, Q Theatre
Very Visual Event with Hearing Loop Access
An award-winning, emotionally candid work about sexuality, faith, addiction and connection that’s also a unique and complex take on circus. Something that is ‘Haram’ is forbidden by Islam. The Chosen Haram tells the story of two gay men and their chance meeting through a dating app, portraying the highs and lows of their relationship and the social, cultural and personal barriers they face in seeking happiness and fulfilment. Based on Edinburgh-born artist Sadiq Ali’s experience, combined with interviews with members of the LGBTQ+ community who identify as (ex) Muslim, The Chosen Haram explores the struggles faced by many people whose upbringing contradicts their personal truths, and how this can lead to self-destructive behaviour.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Saturday 25 March 2023 | 2:00pm
Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Aotea Centre
Captioned Event with Hearing Loop Access
Sydney Theatre Company’s exhilarating “reinvention of theatre” (Time Out) arrives hot on the heels of sold-out Australian seasons. Don’t miss the international cine-theatre event of the year before it takes the world by storm. Immoral. Immortal. Immense. Hailed as a “dizzyingly beautiful tour de force” (The Guardian), The Picture of Dorian Gray is an odyssey of theatrical storytelling. Featuring a “brilliant, breathtaking, bravura performance” (ArtsHub) from Eryn Jean Norvill – who plays 26 characters in an audacious cascade of theatrical transformations – this justifiably lauded play continues to be met with widespread critical acclaim.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
A Bee Story
Saturday 25 March 2023 | 4:00pm
Rangatira, Q Theatre
Very Visual Event with Hearing Loop Access
Kids and their families will get a buzzy buzz out of this delightful, gravity-defying circus show celebrating the amazing talents, resourcefulness and resilience of bees. It’s a sticky situation, all right. After a bushfire wreaks havoc, a Queen Bee and Worker Bee must work together to rebuild their hive, despite things never quite going to plan… Brilliantly performed by Robbie Curtis (Cirque du Soleil) and talented musician, clown and acrobat Liz McRae, A Bee Story is a veritable juggling act of circus, acrobatic, dance and live music entertainment. This instantly enchanting show is an ode to the pollen-collecting, honey-making, super-bee powers of the world’s most versatile insect – and an enlightening modern-day message on environmentalism, sustainability and community spirit.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
The Chosen Haram
Saturday 25 March 2023 | 8:00pm
Rangatira, Q Theatre
Very Visual Event with Hearing Loop Access
An award-winning, emotionally candid work about sexuality, faith, addiction and connection that’s also a unique and complex take on circus. Something that is ‘Haram’ is forbidden by Islam. The Chosen Haram tells the story of two gay men and their chance meeting through a dating app, portraying the highs and lows of their relationship and the social, cultural and personal barriers they face in seeking happiness and fulfilment. Based on Edinburgh-born artist Sadiq Ali’s experience, combined with interviews with members of the LGBTQ+ community who identify as (ex) Muslim, The Chosen Haram explores the struggles faced by many people whose upbringing contradicts their personal truths, and how this can lead to self-destructive behaviour.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
Spark
Friday 24 - Sunday 26 March 2023 | 8:00pm
Auckland Domain, Outdoors
Very Visual - FREE Event
Marvel at thousands of biodegradable sparks as they come to life to illuminate Pukekawa/Auckland Domain for three special evenings this summer. Inspired by the breathtaking lights of fireflies, flocks of birds and galaxies of stars, famed design lab Studio Roosegaarde draws on state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly technology to present SPARK Auckland, a night-time spectacle for the senses. This free, relaxed outdoor event invites Aucklanders to revel in the interconnectedness of humans and nature. As the dazzling display rises and falls on natural air currents before us, it creates a stunning alternative to traditional communal celebrations – and a feeling of child-like wonder that can bring us all together
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form:
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
The Chosen Haram
Sunday 26 March 2023 | 4:00pm & 8:00pm
Rangatira, Q Theatre
Very Visual Event with Hearing Loop Access
An award-winning, emotionally candid work about sexuality, faith, addiction and connection that’s also a unique and complex take on circus. Something that is ‘Haram’ is forbidden by Islam. The Chosen Haram tells the story of two gay men and their chance meeting through a dating app, portraying the highs and lows of their relationship and the social, cultural and personal barriers they face in seeking happiness and fulfilment. Based on Edinburgh-born artist Sadiq Ali’s experience, combined with interviews with members of the LGBTQ+ community who identify as (ex) Muslim, The Chosen Haram explores the struggles faced by many people whose upbringing contradicts their personal truths, and how this can lead to self-destructive behaviour.
To book Access tickets or for Access programme queries, contact our Access Programme Coordinator:
Email: natalie.braid@aaf.co.nz or access@aaf.co.nz
Website: aaf.co.nz/access
Phone & Text: 022 306 2206
NZ Relay Service: nzrelay.co.nz
Access tickets are $20, plus a companion seat if needed is offered free of charge.
Booking form: