Crackerjack Events

27/01/2024

The festival is going off!! 👍
Amazing talent we have this year at the festival, come on down today and tomorrow to enjoy the shows 😊☀️☺️
Auckland International Buskers Festival

19/12/2023

Crackerjack Events have been delivering Christmas in the Pavilion at Te Komititanga Square for the last 4 weeks bringing that Christmas cheer to Auckland CBD 🎅

This week marks the finale! Join us for the last week to celebrate Christmas in the City! 🎄💚⭐️

Auckland Council

03/12/2023

Crackerjack Events team delivered the super heros PJ Masks Stage Show and Meet and Greet's to Botany Town Centre last weekend. It was a fun filled morning with so many PJ Masks fans turning up to meet Catboy, Owlette and Gekko and learned how to be a hero and a member of the PJ Masks team. So many memories created for the all PJ Masks fans. ☀😀

27/04/2023

Over the April School Holidays, the team at Crackerjack Events helped Botany Town Centre deliver 'Learn to Skateboard' workshops over 2 weeks with the help and expertise of Young Guns Skate School. 🛹
So many kids learned to skateboard or improve their skills and had so much fun.
If you're looking for a fun school holiday activity, get in touch with the Crackerjack Events team 🛹😁

23/03/2023

Auckland 'Got their Green On'! The Crackerjack Events team helped the St Patrick's Festival NZ deliver their 29th annual Hugh Green Group St Patrick's Parade and Music & Dance Festival last weekend. ☘️

A brilliant day it was, the sun came out and so many people came out dressed in all things green and enjoyed watching the parade come down Queen Street ending with a pop up Irish Music & Dance Festival in Fort Street.

Thanks to everyone involved that helped make this another successful St Patrick's Festival. ☘️💚

19/09/2022

The Crackerjack Events team helped deliver the Ellerslie Fairy Festival and Pirate Party a few weekends ago. A day of beautiful fairies and princesses dancing and singing and pirates entertaining, unicorn photos, family rides, facepaintng and lots of candy floss. A magical fun family event that attracted thousands of people to the main street of Ellerslie, we are looking forward to delivering the magic again in 2023. 🧚‍♀️🦄 💜

05/09/2022

Over the weekend, The Saint Kentigern Distinguished Alumni Awards took place at The Auckland Museum - Under the Dome and the Crackerjack Events team were very honoured to help deliver this very special event for Saint Kentigern College, a night of recognising alumni that have achieved excellence in their professional lives and have lived the values of Saint Kentigern in their pursuits, whilst simultaneously showcasing great role models to whom current students can aspire to emulate.

This very special event looked spectacular from the beautiful ceiling lighting to the lush furniture to the delicious food, and we couldn't of done it without the help of our fabulous suppliers Auckland Museum Darby & Grey La Lumiere Insphire Group Multi-Media Systems Limited Urban Gourmet White Door Photography

24/07/2022

Working together with Auckland Transport and Auckland One Rail the Crackerjack Events team successfully just completed a fun family event over the weekend at Papakura Train Station, celebrating the end of the diesel trains. 🚂

Lots of families and train enthusiasts came down to celebrate and enjoy free face painting, Sammy the Steam train rides, 3 piece jazz band entertainment, kids craft and chatted to Auckland Transport, Kiwi Rail and Auckland One Rail. 🚂 😊

Thanks to all our suppliers Act One Productions Sammy The Steam Train and Platinum Hire in helping us make it another successful event.

11/07/2022

Another fun school holiday activity underway for the next few weeks - Tie Dye Workshops, a fun creative workshop and first day was a sell out ☺️, lots of vibrant colour being used to create fabulous brightly coloured tie dye t-shirts and lots of happy children. 😊💕

14/01/2022

Only 2 weeks to go until all our amazing and talented Buskers hit Auckland CBD and Viaduct Harbour. Guaranteed to be an action packed 4 days of laughing, acrobatics, fire breathing, balancing acts, rola bola and so much more, mark it in your dairies now! 🤣😊

That’s right! For all the info on where you can find the acts and when they’re on, head here - https://www.aucklandbuskersfestival.co.nz/

21/09/2021

Since its inception, we have had the honour of delivering the Pink Ribbon Walks on behalf of the Breast Cancer Foundation NZ NZ in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Tickets are on sale now; so come and walk with us! 🎀

17/09/2021

Lockdown has got us reminiscing about our last corporate event. The University of Auckland, Department of Property Awards Dinner. Such a fun night celebrating the success of their recent graduates.

With what is shaping up to be a very busy end of the year, the Crackerjack team can't wait to get back to doing what we love!

05/07/2021

Our team were busy on Saturday bringing a special Matariki Star craft to Botany Town Centre. Children had so much fun making beautiful Matariki Stars embossed with a special Maori design and then painted them in pretty gold glitter paint.

Looking for a themed craft activity for your event, get in touch with the Crackerjack Events team now!

14/04/2021

The Crackerjack Events team are really excited to be working with and in bringing Kidchella to both Westfield Centre's during the first week of the April School Holidays.

Bring your kids down and get them busy with tie dying their own cool t-shirt, all for FREE (you just need to be a Westfield Plus member)
Guaranteed fun for the School Holidays! We can’t wait to see everyone’s cool Tie Dye creations.

Pre-book your kids in now to avoid disappointment – pre-bookings are open now via Eventbrite, during the event, bookings will be taken onsite only.

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/kidchella-at-westfield-st-lukes-registration-150479888397?aff=ebdssbeac

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/kidchella-at-westfield-albany-registration-150440306005?aff=ebdssbeac

Looking for something different at your event, one of Crackerjack Events many specialty's is creating School Holiday entertainment, get in-contact now www.crackerjackevents.co.nz

Kidchella at Westfield St Lukes

07/04/2021

Each month the Crackerjack Events team work with Westfield Riccarton in creating a fun themed craft for their Monty Morning event, last month’s theme was Easter – the kids had so much fun making cute Easter Bunny masks and of course Monty always makes an appearance.

Looking for some fun ideas for your craft event - contact Crackerjack Events now www.crackerjackevents.co.nz

01/04/2021

The Crackerjack Events team hope you all have an ‘Eggcellent’ long weekend! Have fun, be safe, and enjoy some time with your family and friends 🐰🐣

29/03/2021

This Easter Saturday the Crackerjack Team are working with Pakuranga Plaza and bringing a whole day of Easter Entertainment. A beautiful Easter Fairy and Bunny will roaming the Plaza, Circus Alice, The Mad Hatter and Circus Bunny will be all showing off their weird and wonderful circus tricks and of course Easter Bunny will be hopping around handing out Easter treats, so much is happening at Pakuranga Plaza so make sure you hop hop on down from 11am – 4pm this Saturday 3rd April https://www.pakurangaplaza.co.nz/events/join-the-easter-hunt/

Looking for some fun roaming entertainment at your next event, get in touch with the Crackerjack Event team www.crackerjackevents.co.nz

25/03/2021

Check out this amazing video of the Hugh Green Group St Patrick’s Festival 2021 that was shot and edited by the very talented Ocean Oriya – https://fb.watch/4s97vR1Kz5/

Ocean has done such an outstanding job capturing the St Patrick’s Festival, so good to look back on and see so many spectators turn out for a day of Irish celebration, we really did turn Auckland green for the day! ☘️

23/03/2021

Such an honour to deliver our 27th St Patrick's Festival on behalf of St Patrick's Festival NZ. So great to see so many people turn Queen Street green and celebrate all things Irish! 🍀

02/02/2021

That's a wrap on the 21st Auckland International Buskers Festival!
Thank you to all our amazing performers for bringing so much laughter and energy to the city!

22/01/2021

One week to go until our Buskers hit Auckland's CBD and the America's Cup Village. Get ready for an action packed weekend full of acrobatics, juggling and plenty more entertainment!
For more information visit: https://www.aucklandbuskersfestival.co.nz/

The Auckland International Buskers Festival 2021 starts in ONE WEEK! Get ready for an action-packed Auckland Anniversary Weekend in the CBD and America's Cup Village with comedy, magic, acrobatics and more! Check out the full line up and schedule at www.aucklandbuskersfestival.co.nz 🎉