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March 6

If I had super powers it would be the power to talk Māori
Hīkoi
4 - 8 March Q Rangatira Nancy Brunning’s award-winning play, Hīkoi, is an emotional road trip deep into the heart of our country’s history, led by two generations of the utterly relatable Miller whānau.
Her art practice is a living expression of her faith in the legacy and power of ...
Tai Whetuki / House of Death
4 - 22 March TimeOut Festival Garden, Aotea Square A powerful new video work by leading multi-media artist Lisa Reihana which delves into Māori and Pacific cultural practices pertaining to death and mourning.
Chilling and thrilling... so close to the action you can smell the sweat ****
LIMBO
4 - 22 March Paradiso Spiegeltent, Aotea Square Dirty, dangerous and daring LIMBO is a circus/cabaret of mind-numbing contortion, aerial acrobatics, fantastical illusions and flames straight from Dante’s inferno – all set to a live band.
Her work is provocative, beautiful and playful.
Fale Ula
4 - 22 March TimeOut Festival Garden, Aotea Square Using synthetic lei, Niki Hastings-McFall 'polynises' the green space of Aotea Square into a vibrant, living artwork based on the Samoan fale.
Field was one of five major projects in the 2013 Sydney Art and About Festival.
Field
4 - 22 March Daldy Street North An ever-changing outdoor installation formed by a grid of mirrored towers, Field reflects the world around it in visually stunning and provocative ways.
Six contemporary Japanese artists practising in the aftermath of the Tohoku eart...
Invisible Energy
4 - 21 March ST PAUL St Gallery, AUT University A lively and illuminating exhibition featuring the work of six contemporary Japanese artists practising in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Judy Millar is one of New Zealand’s foremost painters. Her large scale paintings...
Model World
4 - 22 March Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery Recent works from New Zealand's 2009 Venice Biennale artist Judy Millar twist and contort in the surrounds and provoke new experiences of space.
I am not normal, I am Chinese
The Mooncake and the Kūmara
5 - 10 March Q Loft Award-winning Māori-Chinese playwright Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen brings us a cross-cultural love affair sprouted amongst rows of potatoes, whilst revealing a page from our history rarely told.
An explosive love letter to Auckland
Skin of Fire
5 - 7 March Auckland Domain The makers of the 2013 sell-out hit Breath of the Volcano, the French maestros of fire, light, projections and pyrotechnics return to Auckland Domain with a brand new show for the whole family.
A Delicate Balance / Rongo Taketake a Tāne examines the relationship between peo...
A Delicate Balance
5 - 22 March Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery Bringing together artists from across the North Island, A Delicate Balance examines the relationship between people, landscape and the kauri forest ecology.
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Blissfully, jaw-crackingly funny
BLAM!
6 - 10 March The Civic ‘Die Hard’ meets ‘The Office’. BLAM! is the hilarious, action-packed story of a cheeky troupe of underpaid, overworked office workers whose imaginations run wild.
It is impossible to encapsulate fully this mesmeric performance
I AM
6 - 7 March ASB Theatre Lemi Ponifasio and MAU stun with their extreme physicality and dramatic, singular storytelling. I AM explores the legacy of WWI and the wave of impact the conflict had around the world.