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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.

5:00 pm - MIDNIGHT

Installation - Water on Mars - Claudia Recorean

Water On Mars 800x800 — Outdoor

Visual Arts

Family

Light

International Art Centre: Front

This years Waitakere Trusts Awards Winner Claudia Recorean is showing her newest work: A monumental Installation of flax structure, plastic pendants, aluminum and light

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

A Rainbow of Light - Tiffany Singh

A Rainbow of Light by Tiffany Singh — Family

Light

Interactive

Wheelchair Access

Visual Arts

Museum Atrium and Special Exhibition Hall, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Join Auckland Museum and social practice artist, Tiffany Singh, to create an artwork that brings a rainbow of light to the Museum atrium in celebration of our local culture.

6pm - MIDNIGHT

Illuminations: The Art of Lighting

Black Door Gallery

Light has the power to enhance an artist’s ideas, bringing the work to another dimension. Explore contemporary artworks that use light in creative and unexpected ways.

6.00 - 9pm

Round and Round the Garden - Flox

Haus of Flox

Flox’s Signature Rounds are often only available as one off commission pieces, thus spurring the need for the exhibition “Round And Round The Garden”.

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).

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

FishMilk

Pierre Peeters Gallery

An exhibition bridging the borders that we set up between each other as individuals as well as nations - across North, South, East and Western.

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 - MIDNIGHT

Night Garden

Stirlings Garden Centre

A celebration of the garden suburb era, this living installation showcases historic images of Greenwoods Corner in a white themed garden.

6pm - Midnight

Installation - But I fly - Paula Egginton

Paula Egginton Chrysallis tree — Family

Light

Interactive

Outdoor

Visual Arts

Heard Park

Consider your transformative power while basking in the glow of Paula Egginton’s chrysalis tree symbolising your shining potential. Borrow butterfly wings for selfies.

6:00 pm - MIDNIGHT

Second Glance - Elle Anderson

Orb Interior Design Group

Focusing on the used, ignored and undervalued plants and vessels, Elle Anderson’s work also attempts to step beyond traditional ways to document the botanical world.

6:00 pm - MIDNIGHT

Surreal Self Portraits - Emma Pottinger

Kismet café

Plus is a photo series of five surreal self-portraits, displayed in custom made light boxes. The images show different conceptual iterations of the artist’s reflection on her identity.

6:00 pm - MIDNIGHT

Exhibition - David McCracken

Remuera Gallery

David McCracken honours and elevates a humble … sometimes utilitarian or banal form or object into a memorable object. He views the language of objects as immeasurably rich and deep.

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.

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.

Sunset approx. 8.30pm - till Late

Algorithmic Allusions – Tim Gruchy

Viewing from Takutai Square (The Grass), Britomart

Without number there is nothing. Maths underlies everything. Tim spreads a little light-ly on (onto the Australis Hous Building Façade, Galway Street side), the ever-changing face of Britomart.

9pm - MIDNIGHT

DIGITAL GARDEN

DZON — Family

Light

Interactive

Visual Arts

Stirling's Garden Centre

Bonsai re-imagined in a digital garden.

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.

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.