Art awards winning entries on display
The 2025 Cleveland National Art Awards, featuring 220 selected works by artists from across New Zealand, are on display at the Otago Art Society galleries as part of the Dunedin Arts Festival.
Dunedin Arts Festival
A showcase of artistic triumphs
A showcase of artistic triumphs
The Dunedin Arts Festival is in full swing across the city, with big audiences lapping up an impressive array of dance, music, theatre and visual arts events.
Improvised music at heart of show
Improvised music at heart of show
Davey’s Backyard Skiffle Band is visiting six primary schools across Dunedin this week, before a public instrument-making session and show on Saturday.
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Answers to life’s questions given loudly
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Answers to life’s questions given loudly
What is the secret to happiness?
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Finding magic in the light
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Finding magic in the light
A family trip to the South Island during breaks in Covid-19 lockdowns has inspired the work of Wellington artist Juliet Best being shown in her first solo exhibition in Dunedin.
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Meshing poetry and theatre
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Meshing poetry and theatre
Actor and director Fasitua Amosa had never come across poetry until he was asked to help turn a piece of poetry into theatre.
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Illuminating streets with nature
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Illuminating streets with nature
Dunedin is home to many marine mammals, but typically not ones that float three storeys in the air on the side of a building.
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Suitcase-sized show inspired by globetrotting surprises
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Suitcase-sized show inspired by globetrotting surprises
Hannah Smith says she is often taking "strange things" on to aeroplanes.
Works to make you think, contemplate, yearn for more
Works to make you think, contemplate, yearn for more
If I could simply say this work was amazing, that would be my review done.
Monologue brings novella to life
Monologue brings novella to life
A man alone in the dark imagines he is not a man alone in the dark.
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New and old worlds joined for performance
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New and old worlds joined for performance
A multimedia Dunedin performance company are combining Māori instruments with digital cinema to celebrate the beauty of a traditional art form.
Four-concert chamber music series begins
Four-concert chamber music series begins
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra will take audiences on a journey through elegant, witty and daring chamber music in its four-concert DSO at Six series at Hanover Hall during the Dunedin Arts Festival.
Guitarist goes classical
Guitarist goes classical
A local musician has embarked on a personal journey from classic rock to classical guitar.
Award-winning show home for fest
Award-winning show home for fest
Internationally award-winning show Pōtaka Nautilus & Pepe returns home with a hybrid fusion of dance, music, theatre and cinematic artistry for the Dunedin Arts Festival.
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Playwright looks to her ancestor to help others reflect
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Playwright looks to her ancestor to help others reflect
A Dunedin playwright who has penned a performance about her great, great, great, great, great grandmother hopes it will encourage audiences to examine their own ancestors’ stories.
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Ode to youth the real deal
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Ode to youth the real deal
Friends of choreographer Jeremy Beck may not consider themselves dancers, but their talents will be part of the opening show for the Dunedin Arts Festival.
‘Celestial’ inspiration
‘Celestial’ inspiration
A creative artist has turned to his home town to develop a ground-breaking dance project.
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Mozart in context — and not
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Mozart in context — and not
Singer, composer and teacher Robert Wiremu believes the southern performances of his piece Reimagining Mozart will be "magical".
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Age no bar for veteran dancer
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Age no bar for veteran dancer
Leading New Zealand dancer and choreographer Michael Parmenter presented his first choreographic work at Allen Hall at the University of Otago in 1979.
Juggling life and the farm
Juggling life and the farm
The worldwide circus sensation, Cirque Alfonse, is finally on its way to NZ. Bruce Munro talks to co-founder Antoine Carabinier-Lepin.