Ngaio Marsh Awards, mending and a festival for the kids: The Spinoff event guide
A photograph from the show Creation, Creation in the We the Young festival at Auckland Live.
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the week September 25 – October 2.
Welcome to The Spinoff event guide, your weekly, curated selection of gigs, events and exhibitions happening across Aotearoa. If you want to pitch your event for future guides then please use this handy form.
Hokianga
Music: Hokianga Country Music Festival
Opononi Hotel, Hokianga
5pm Friday–Sunday, September 26–28
$40 (for a weekend badge)
“Three days of continuous country music over five great venues along the Hokianga Harbour.”
Tāmaki Makaurau
Arts festival: We the Young
Aotea Centre & Town Hall
Thurs–Sun, September 25–28
$0–$35
An artist festival aimed at families and kids with a gorgeous range of shows and activities in the city centre.
Karenema & Heretaunga
Sustainability/Fashion: Visible Mending Workshop
Havelock North Library & Hastings Library
1pm Tues, Sept 30 (HNL); and 1pm Wed, October 1 (HL)
Free (but register here for Havelock, and here for Hastings. Age 13+)
Visible mending workshops, as part of a series of great events created for the school holidays.
Taitoko
Music: Levin Music Fair
Firebird Cafe, 54 Oxford St
4pm–7pm Thurs, September 25
Free
Vendors from all over the motu are converging in Levin with CDs, vinyl, tapes and more.
Ōtautahi
Literature: The Ngaio Marsh Awards and the Murderous Mystery
Tūranga TSB Space
6pm Thurs, September 25
$20–$25
The 15th annual Ngaio Marsh awards for crime writing are afoot! (Includes an interactive murder mystery with the Court Jesters).
Ōtepoti
Theatre/Musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar
Regent Theatre
7.30pm Thurs–Sat, September 25–27
$50–$80
“The greatest rock musical of all time, as you’ve never seen it before.”
Aparima
Music: Douce Ambience
St Mary’s Church, Riverton
7.30pm Thurs, October 2
$10
An ensemble of talented musicians perform “rustic medieval dances, sublime classical music, light jazz, Irish, Tango with a little meditative Sting.”
Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey is a children's author of The Raven's Eye Runaways, The Raven's Eye Rebellion, and a picture book Cass and the Beast illustrated by Jill Calder. For a long time Claire worked on literary festivals and is the founder of Verb Wellington. She lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with her partner and son.
