The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week April 9-16.
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.
Tāmaki Makaurau
Visual arts: Aotearoa Art Fair Sculpture Trail
Viaduct Harbour
April 10 – May 4
Free
“The Aotearoa Art Fair Sculpture Trail brings together a lineup of 18 extraordinary artists pushing the boundaries of three-dimensional work throughout Viaduct Harbour, including international artists Braddon Snape and James Rodgers, a floating work by Gregor Kregar, and a shimmering installation by Lisa Reihana.”
Te Tairāwhiti
Film: The Weed Eaters
Odeon Cinemas
6.30pm Sun, April 12
$12–$16
“The Weed Eaters is a perfect example of what can be achieved when creative people have a vision and just really, really want to make it so don’t wait around for permission (or funding). There is the obvious caveat of the filmmakers acknowledging their parents’ support in providing accommodation and filming locations for the movie, but even so, The Weed Eaters releases with a budget a cool million dollars cheaper (at least) than other local features of recent years.” – Mad Chapman, The Spinoff.
So, basically, don’t miss this film.
Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Music: Georgia Knight
San Fran
8pm Thurs, April 9
$48.28
Georgia Knight was a stand-out at The Others Way in Tāmaki last year. Here’s a chance to catch her with her full live band. (Also playing in Christchurch on April 9 and in Tāmaki April 11.)
Ōtautahi
Theatre: Fresh off the Page – Play Reading
Isaac Theatre Royal
6pm Sat, April 11
$10
Proudly Asian Theatre presents an evening with Ruth Agnew’s script-in-development. Come along to be among the first to hear a new play in development, and for kai and community.
Ōtepoti
Music: Miserere – Lamentations for Easter
St Joseph’s Cathedral Chapel
3pm Sat, April 11
$0–$28.29
“Join the Southern Consort of Voices for an intimate and deeply moving Easter‑season concert. At the heart of the programme is Gregorio Allegri’s hauntingly beautiful Miserere Mei, Deus — a timeless masterpiece renowned for its soaring melodies and ethereal serenity. Audiences will also experience an excerpt of Thomas Tallis’s Lamentations of Jeremiah and the deep emotions of Thomas Tomkins’s When David Heard, a powerful setting of grief and lament.”
