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Hallelujah! Arts festival champions te reo

Auckland festival unveils new programme to champion te reo through the arts.

12 Questions: Auckland Arts Festival's Jonathan Bielski

Bielski has included more music in this year's programme because it can be so unifying.

Classical review: APO triples the enjoyment

Beethoven and Bruckner, composers worlds apart, attract impressive numbers to APO.

Lot of Fringe benefits for theatre fans

Fringe Festival highlights: our critics pick their favourites.

Theatre's vision for the future sees artist on top of the world

From the Basement to top of the world, how one NZ theatre is helping performers succeed.

Local Focus: NZ's last Victorian Theatre needs more Friends

The Royal Wanganui Opera House still going strong. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Japanese performers don NZ-made recycled outfits

Japanese group to perform at Auckland Japan Day 2019

Wild Dogs runs free at Auckland Arts Festival

Six Pasifika actresses talk about what it means to be seen as acclaimed NZ show returns.

UK duo shaking up art and science to visit New Zealand

How to make art from our earthquakes? UK duo set to show in Wellington this autumn.

Auckland Fringe Festival: A sensory riot

Dance, theatre and comedy - it all entertains at Auckland's fringe festival.

Hearts soared as maestro treads air

From Paris to New York, via Spain, the APO delivered a true musical postcard.

The national kapa haka festival is coming to Eden Park

Te Matatini, the national kapa haka festival, will be hosted at Eden Park in 2021.

Walk this way - biennial event gears up to be a triumph again

Need to know: How to make the most of Waiheke Island's stunning Sculpture on the Gulf.

Unflappable Dan O'Leary

Obituary: Dan O'Leary, a man of substance, character and quiet devotion

Silk Road brings sounds of the world to Auckland

Silk Road ensemble to bring 'world music' as you've never heard it before to Auckland.

Shooting stars - the next generation of artists beaming Asian culture and art to Aotearoa

Satellite artists create new spaces to show the world bold new visions for the future.

Festival has 'Māori-ised the capital'

Thousands of people have travelled from around the country to attend the festival.

Watch: Ballerina 20 metres tall dances on Wellington Harbour

The fountain has not been used this way since 1983's Sun Festival.