A 6am powhiri for two hundred international artists kicked off the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival on Wellington's waterfront this morning.

Fresh Gallery - Pelenato Liufau, to Mar 13; Otara Town Centre.

Former festival junkie Mark Amery re-emerges as a critic and commentator for the NZ International Arts Festival opening in Wellington today.

Swedish contemporary circus perform to live rock.

Movement and acrobatics performed by monks from the Shaolin Temple.

It's called Fresh Produce but it has nothing to do with farmers' markets or the current vogue for home-grown vegetables.

Hundreds of festival-goers slapped on sunscreen and absorbed three days of music and art by the sea at the biannual Splore festival at the weekend.

When Eugene Mursky makes his New Zealand debut on Thursday, he couldn't wish for a more theatrical launch than Prokofiev's glittering Third Concerto.

In Rotorua with Chinese Ambassador Zhang Limin, the Prime Minister took a mallet and chisel to what will be a 10m kauri waharoa, or gateway.

Terry Pratchett's alternate world as seen in the latest National Theatre film offering has a Kiwi tang.

The pioneering band who gave us Nature - regarded as the best Kiwi song ever.