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5.30pm - MIDNIGHT

New Zealand Herald Festival Garden (Aotea Square)

Festival Garden2 — Family

Interactive

Performance

Food/Drink

Wheelchair Access

Outdoor

Visual Arts

Open Studio

Heart of the Auckland Arts Festival from March 2-20 - with a variety of entertainment on White Night.

5:30pm - 5:50pm -*Kim Ju Hong's Ensemble, Noreum Machi* - Roving Performance.

6:00pm - MIDNIGHT

Auckland Libraries - Lorne Street

This year the Auckland Library spills out onto the Lorne Street concourse with Roving Performances and Live Entertainment!

5.45pm - *White Face Crew - *Roving Performance.

6:00pm - MIDNIGHT

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Auckland Maritime Museum — Family

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Outdoor

Visual Arts

Open Studio

Watch the Waterfront come alive this White Night!

6:00pm - MIDNIGHT - *Once Upon an Ocean - Stories in Tape Art exh**ibition.*In the spirit of story telling the New Zealand Maritime Museum presents a brand new exhibition ‘Once Upon An Ocean’ with TapeArt NZ.

6pm- 10pm

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Auckland Museum Image — Family

Light

Media/Digital/Film

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Visual Arts

Open late at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

6:00pm - 10:00pm - *Air New Zealand 75 Years -* Meet a couple of ‘high-flying’ characters in our exhibition: Air New Zealand 75 Years.

5pm - 11pm

Auckland Art Gallery

AAGLanternNight LoResColour DWS3717 — Family

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Visual Arts

Media/Digital/Film

Artist Talk

Outdoor

Auckland Art Gallery

5:00pm - 7:00pm - *Family Drop In/ Creative Learning Center - *North atrium

5pm - 10pm

Instock

Garry Currin 2016 This Earth V — Family

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Visual Arts

NORTHART Gallery

“INSTOCK” is a group show by Garry Currin, John Oxborough, Ross Ritchie, Karl Amundsen and Robert Ellis and will open on White Night.

5.15pm - 6:00pm

Kim Ju Hong's Ensemble, Noreum Machi - New Wave Korean music

Performance I @ New Zealand Herald Festival Garden (Aotea Square)

A combination of traditional singing with percussion that’s as punchy and powerful as a million heartbeats.

5.45pm - 10.30pm

Dietrich Soakai – Spoken Word Poetry

Southern Express Bus - from Papakura Art Gallery to Auckland CBD

Dietrich Soakai of South Auckland Poets Collective will entertain the crowd on board the free bus from Papakura Art Gallery to Auckland CBD. Avoid disappointment and book your free seats today.

5.45pm

White Face Crew

Initial Performance @ Auckland Libraries - Lorne Street

Share a bus ride or spot the White Face Crew roving performers at one of our White night venues. The White Face Crew will surprise and delight you with their unique brand of physical comedy and spontaneous interactive performances.

5.50pm-6.05pm

Brouhaha - The New Zealand Dance Company

Brouhaha 800 x 800 — Family

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Outdoor

Roving

New Zealand Herald Festival Garden (Aotea Square)

The New Zealand Dance Company presents an invigorating programme with humour, stunning music and some choice surprises with choreography from Brouhaha by Malia Johnston and Ghost Dance by Tupua Tigafua.

5.50pm - 7:05pm

White Face Crew

Performance I @ Festival Garden

Share a bus ride or spot the White Face Crew roving performers at one of our White night venues. The White Face Crew will surprise and delight you with their unique brand of physical comedy and spontaneous interactive performances.

6:00 pm - MIDNIGHT

TAUTAI | NAVIGATE

Studio One

TAUTAI | NAVIGATE is a celebratory exhibition of Aotearoa -based Pacific artists. For thirty years Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust has been navigating between the realm of Pacific art and the ‘white cube’. TAUTAI | NAVIGATEshowcases a cross-section of some of the artists whose work has contributed to the navigation of Pacific Arts in Aotearoa, curated by Leafa Wilson.

6:15 pm onward

Performances at Pah Homestead

The Pah Homestead,

Performance by Magic Veil Dance/Te Huhu/Performance by Psychic Hotline

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

New Kids on the Block

Te Oro

Performance with New kids on the block, a youth community choir performing for the first time for White Night 2016.

6:00 pm - MIDNIGHT

TapeArt NZ Live

Once Upon an Ocean Stories in TapeArt RESIZED2 — Family

Artist Talk

Interactive

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Outdoor

Visual Arts

New Zealand Maritime Museum

To celebrate the opening of the new exhibition, head along to meet the artists from TapeArt NZ as they install a mural outside the Maritime Museum.

6:00 pm - MIDNIGHT

The Grand Doodle - Steve Bolton

New Zealand Herald Festival Garden (Aotea Square)

Steve Bolton, artist, cartoonist and illustrator will be creating a progressive, evolving cartoon and illustrative artwork on perspex and chalk boards framed by a 3.8 x 2.4 m truss structure.

6.00pm - 9:00pm

Depot Artspace presents - Uniform !No venues! Takuranga

Kerr Street Art Space

Depot Artspace presents - Uniform !No Venues! Takarunga: an audio /visual environment of live-lava film and sound, looking out from the Kerr Street Artspace on the slopes of Takarunga (Mt Victoria).

6pm - 9pm

G.G Talk That Talk

Fresh Gallery Ōtara,

A group exhibition of work by six emerging Pacific artists whose art practice spans diverse mediums turning a Pacific lens onto modern masculinity by seeking to re-interpret queer indigeneity and questioning the dominant narratives about identity.

6:00pm - MIDNIGHT

Lost Worlds; Works on Paper and Sound Pieces

Audio Foundation

Longtime and prolific participant in the Wellington music scene, Gerard Crewdson presents an exhibition of works on Paper and Sound at the Audio Foundation for the first time.

hear|say + STAR GOSSAGE /SOLOMON ENOS

Tim Melville Gallery

A meeting of minds between music, avant-garde performance, and the visual art of Star Gossage.

Kades Cognition - Tim Gruchy performs live sound and vision

Kades Cognition Tim Gruchy Trish Clarke — Family

Light

Media/Digital/Film

Performance

Visual Arts

Trish Clarke Gallery

Kade’s Cognition | Tim Gruchy performs live sound and vision - A live set of original sound and vision, utilising sensors and interfaces, creates a striking subtly complex vista. Ambient dub soundscapes integrate to vision traversing artificial life, biomorphology and mathematical visualization.

6:00pm - MIDNIGHT

Canapé Canopy

Canope Canopy — Light

Media/Digital/Film

Performance

Outdoor

Visual Arts

Canada Lane

Canapé Canopy is an outdoor art project space based in Auckland, New Zealand. Initiated and co-organised by Daphne Simons and Mark O'Donnell, it focuses on showing temporary and experimental art practises from both local and international artists. Projects run for approximately 2 weeks.

6:00 pm -10:00 pm

Robert Sullivan and Friends

Auckland Libraries - Lorne Street

Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu, Irish) is head of Creative Writing at Manukau Institute of Technology. His poem Kawe Reo/Voices Carry is on the front steps of the Central City Library.

6:00pm - MIDNIGHT

Christine White

Christine 800x800 — Family

Performance

Outdoor

Visual Arts

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Wellington based sound artist will be accompanying TapeArt NZ with performance throughout the evening. ‘Along the Peninsular’ is the song commissioned to accompany the show, and it brings the experience to life with cheerful warmth and a sense of ‘days gone by’. Christine White is known for her electronic sounds, drum loops, unusual percussion and edgy guitar.

6:00pm - 10:00pm

Book Magic

Womens bookshop 800x800 — Family

Artist Talk

Interactive

Performance

Food/Drink

Wheelchair Access

The Women's Bookshop

Magic happens in bookshops. You often find the thing you didn’t know you were looking for.

6pm - 10pm

Installation - Historic Parnell 1920's - Raymond Jennings

Beside Black Door Gallery

Transport yourself back in time through the detailed historic drawings of Raymond Jennings. Watch the artist at work. Marvel at the changes Parnell has gone through since the 1920s.

6:00 pm - MIDNIGHT

Open Mic + More

The Vic Devonport

Open Mic night at the Vic as well as works by Josh Westley and Sparrow Philips, showing a fantastic large image of 1920's film star Mary Pickford. Mary will be hanging in the foyer and Josh has a series of nine pencil drawings of people's faces who are like idols to him.

6:30 pm - 11:30 pm

A White Night - SABA Ballet

Street Performance

The dancers of SABA Ballet share the oldest of human art forms - the contemplative art of ballet.

6pm - MIDNIGHT

Artspace Presents - Black Cracker

BC Waterfall 10 — Media/Digital/Film

Performance

in Collaboration with Gerald Friedrich Spelsberg

As part of THE BILL programme Artspace presents two forms of performance by Berlin based, American artist and musician Black Cracker, in collaboration with Berlin based art director/designer Gerald Friedrich Spelsberg (GFS). Rather than any form of image making or a visual reference, in this project Artspace develops a sound based production that aims to extend our imagination and rediscover our landscape through another contemporary voice. Artspace is interested in not only connecting with another potential audience, but also utilises a new form of event that we have not considered yet; a hip hop gig.

6.15pm - 6.30pm

White Face Crew

Performance II @ Auckland Art Gallery

Share a bus ride or spot the White Face Crew roving performers at one of our White night venues. The White Face Crew will surprise and delight you with their unique brand of physical comedy and spontaneous interactive performances.

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Mahuika Theatre Mask Performers

Mahuika 800x800 new — Family

Interactive

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Roving

Performance I @ Silo Park

Mahuika Theatre Company shows you new faces and a new world of theatrical possibilities. With characters that are full of game and life we are sure they will touch your hearts.

6:30pm - 8.30pm

The Souls Choir

Roving along Parnell Road

Find White Night harmony as The Souls take you on an a capella trip through space and time with Parnell-inspired pop-up and processional performances. From Renaissance Latin to colonial kisses to mixed-up grunge to the mashed-up now, and with dulcet nods to Parnell’s cultural past and present, this Auckland-based group sing songs of love, of loss, of rosy days and lonely nights to soundtrack your White Night wanderings.

6.45pm - 7:00 pm

50/50 Dance Crew

New Zealand Herald Festival Garden (Aotea Square)

Take a little bit of bhangra, bollywood and hip-hop - what do you get – an all male energetic dance team. Do not miss this burst of colour, energetic dance and music to start of your White Night at the New Zealand Herald Festival Garden.

Velociteers on Te Ara | Whiti

VIEW FROM West Terrace or the K Road Overbridge

Have the pink and white terraces returned, changed into bicycles and danced? Not quite. But the Velociteers will perform on the beautiful Te Ara I Whiti, celebrating the illuminating life and creativity of David Bowie.

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Live analogue electronica - Dubtext

Roving through the Remuera precinct

Every Dubtext analogue electronica performance is a set of unique compositions and styles ranging from ambient dub to psychedelic techno.

Sustainable BodyPlay

Roving throughout Greenwoods Corner

We research with our bodies,

7:00 pm

White Face Crew

Performance III @ East Bus - Auckland Museum

Share a bus ride or spot the White Face Crew roving performers at one of our White night venues. The White Face Crew will surprise and delight you with their unique brand of physical comedy and spontaneous interactive performances.

7pm - 8pm - 9pm - 10pm - 11pm

Slipping down life

Q Theatre (Vault)

*Slipping down life *is constructed by award winning performance maker *Kate Bartlett*. In this work Kate will place herself in a room to perform some of her ‘coping’ techniques for L.I.V.I.N.G.

7:05 pm

A Taste of Bollywood- Prayas Theatre Company

A taste of Bollywwod with Prayas Theatre — Family

Performance

Roving

Performance 1 @ West Bus from Pah Homestead

Come and enjoy a taste of foot-tapping, eye-catching, Bollywood themed music and dance with a theatrical twist.

7.15pm - 7.45pm

Kim Ju Hong's Ensemble, Noreum Machi - New Wave Korean music

Noreum Machi2 — Family

Performance

Roving

Wheelchair Access

Outdoor

Performance II @ Karanga Plaza, Waterfront

A combination of traditional singing with percussion that’s as punchy and powerful as a million heartbeats.

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

After 523 Years - Vicente Ovalle

523 Years by Vicente Ovalle RESIZED2 — Performance

Wheelchair Access

Outdoor

Visual Arts

Roving from K Road to CBD

A descendant of the Muiscas tribe in Colombia, Ovalle has a profound respect for the tribe’s connection with the Earth and the land, which has also greatly inspired his philosophy. The connection between the land and culture is a theme that permeates his artwork. Each piece Ovalle creates tells a story that links back to his indigenous roots and combines influences from Maori and Pacific Island culture.

7.30pm - 9pm

Childrens musical theatre studio show choir

Parnell Whitenight chior2 — Family

Performance

Roving

Outdoor

Roving along Parnell Road

Coming to you straight from their performance at the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival, the Children's Musical Theatre Studio Show Choir, based in Howick, will weave magic with song and movement for your pleasure. The choir sings songs from shows and popular music and performs at local and some not so local venues.

8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Monster Valley presents: DJ Jimmy Olsen's Live Vinyl Cinema

The heart of the Remuera shopping centre

After debuting at 'The Experiment' last year, DJ Jimmy Olsen is back to mix another vinyl only soundtrack to a silver screen classic. Cinema taking a whole new spin.

7:50 pm

A Taste of Bollywood- Prayas Theatre Company

FillWyI2NDAiLCI2NDAiXQ A taste of Bollywwod with Prayas Theatre — Family

Performance

Roving

Performance II @ Te Uru

Come and enjoy a taste of foot-tapping, eye-catching, Bollywood themed music and dance with a theatrical twist.

8pm- 8.17pm

In Transit - The New Zealand Dance Company

InTransit 800 x 800 — Family

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Roving

Auckland Art Gallery (North Atrium)

Fresh from their European Tour, The New Zealand Dance Company performs excerpts from Louise Potiki Bryant and Paddy Free’s work, In Transit.

8:00 pm - 8.15pm

Glitter Runs In Our Veins – Street Catwalk

La Gonda Arcade, Karangahape

Nick Von K[mailto:nick@nickvonk.com] curates a street catwalk show all about a spaceman exploring new frontiers in space, surrounded by the stars. Endorphins of passion and excitement flow through his blood, like glitter in his veins. He is trailed by a procession of graceful and glittering followers each adorned with a larger than life sized version of the latest Nick Von K jewellery collection.

8:00pm - MIDNIGHT

Christoph el’ Truento, Petrichor, & Julien Dyne - Live Electronics

Audio Foundation

Christoph el’ Truento, Petrichor, & Julien Dyne present; Live Electronics at Audio Foundation. A showcase of analogue and digital electronic performance.

8.15pm - 9.45pm

Installation - The White Wall - The White Box

Parnell

A Living, Breathing, Moving Art Installation. Explore the idiosyncracies of human nature as you watch the White Wall recreate a unique dining experience. The White Wall : poetic-kinetic-sculpture improvisation movement ensemble who engage with their immediate environment in a very unique way. Their performances are candid and responsive. The White Wall are moving in nature and reflecting that through movement and stillness. Nature! - whether it is the urban nature or the green nature or human nature or.... Nature!

Uncaged - NZ Trio

Performance

Auckland Art Gallery (Mackelvie Gallery - Mezzanine )

NZTrio - Justine Cormack (violin), Ashley Brown (cello), and Sarah Watkins (piano) – is New Zealand’s top professional ensemble in contemporary classical music and have been inspiring audiences around the world for over a decade.

8:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Auckland Street Choir

Performance

The Ground Floor, Auckland City Library

The Auckland Street Choir got together in 2015 and are now in our second year. We're a group of singers from all walks of life and we meet every Tuesday evening to sing an eclectic mix of pop, soul, blues, R&B, folk and more. We aim to be inclusive and accessible in every way, and we specifically invite homeless and marginalised people to participate. There is no cost to join and everybody is welcome. The choir is supported by both Splice and the Auckland City Mission, and we're grateful for their assistance.

9:00 pm

Tahiti Ia Ora - Tahitian Music and Dance

TAHITI IA ORA WHITE NIGHTS — Family

Interactive

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Community Space - car park at Greenwoods Corner

Fast shaking hips and live drums from Polynesia, come and witness the excitement of Tahitian cultural music and dance. Feel free to dance along and join in during audience participation.

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Mahuika Theatre Mask Performers

Performance II @ Auckland Art Gallery

Mahuika Theatre Company shows you new faces and a new world of theatrical possibilities. With characters that are full of game and life we are sure they will touch your hearts.

9.15pm - 9.45pm

Kim Ju Hong's Ensemble, Noreum Machi - New Wave Korean music

Noreum Machi3 — Family

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Roving

Performance III @ NORTHART

A combination of traditional singing with percussion that’s as punchy and powerful as a million heartbeats.

9.15pm - 9.30pm

Glitter runs in our veins - street catwalk

New Zealand Festival Garden (Aotea Square) / Auckland Libraries, Lorne Street

Nick Von K curates a street catwalk show all about a spaceman exploring new frontiers in space, surrounded by the stars. Endorphins of passion and excitement flow through his blood, like glitter in his veins. He is trailed by a procession of graceful and glittering followers each adorned with a larger than life sized version of the latest Nick Von K jewellery collection.

9.30pm - 11.15pm

fledgling

Q Theatre (Barfoot & Thompson Lounge)

Fledgling is a pint-sized experimental wing of the larger flock of musicians - the Blackbird Ensemble. Fledgling tests the waters for interesting and experimental covers tackled by its larger counterpart, and also new material by Blackbird creator and composer Claire Cowan. Featuring Tristan Deck on Drums, Tom Dennison on Bass, Mikey Brown on vocals and synthesizers, Charmian Keay on violin and Claire Cowan on banjo, vocals, and keys.

9:45pm - 10:15pm

White Face Crew

Performance IV @ Festival Garden

Share a bus ride or spot the White Face Crew roving performers at one of our White night venues. The White Face Crew will surprise and delight you with their unique brand of physical comedy and spontaneous interactive performances.

10:00 pm

Nostalgia with Fire

Charlotte Museum Trust

Lesbian music and fire spitting show in Charlotte Museum Trust car park space.

10pm-10.15pm

Geography - The New Zealand Dance Company

Geography 800 x 800 — Family

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Outdoor

Roving

Silo Park

The New Zealand Dance Company performs excerpts from Geography of an Archipeligo plus Ghost Dance.

10.00pm - 10.45pm

Adams & Gavin + One

Adams and Gavin plus Special Guest — Performance

Auckland Art Gallery (North Atrium)

New Zealand's number one jazz guitarist and violinist duo Nigel Gavin and Richard Adams are a special pairing renowned nationally and internationally for their virtuosity and musicianship. Their original compositions take the listener on a musical and visual journey like no other. Painting with notes is how some reviewers describe their music. Elements of Gipsy swing, mixed with music for a lively jazz bar in down town New York with a just hint of being in a deserted marketplace at night somewhere in the Middle East.

10:00pm

MIT Words

Q Theatre

Share words with MIT’s Creative Writing students. They’ll be on the move around White Night recording and connecting the city in language, then as the witching hour looms they will perform at the Q Theatre Loft.

Fire Performance: 10.30pm

TahiMana Polynesian Fire Warriors

TAHIMANA WHITE NIGHTS — Family

Light

Performance

Wheelchair Access

Outdoor

Outside Kiwi Roast

A street performance from Auckland’s Polynesian Fire Collective called TahiMana, lighting up Greenwoods Corner – at 10:30pm with the speed and skill of the warriors twirling their flamed knives.

Ballot box - a show for one

BALLOT BOX TWO PRODUCTIONS — Performance

Q Theatre (Lounge)

Come on a surreal and dream like journey of theatre for one; a post dramatic rabbit hole for free, for everyone and for one night only. From the company who brought you Open for Business and The Disaster Brothers, Two Productions brings you BALLOT BOX: A SHOW FOR ONE. Each audience member observes an intimate epic that will never be performed again. This whirlwind from ticket to finale features Brynley Stent (Funny Girls) , Alice Canton (Orangutan) and Tom Eason (Dust Pilgrim).