Dunedin Arts Festival

02/02/2025

So it is with much delight I can now confirm all of the following festival dates for CookBookery!

Hamilton Arts Festival Toi Ora ki Kirikiriroa
Medici Court, Hamilton Gardens
Sat 22 February 6:30pm
Sun 23 February 2025 5:30pm

Dunedin Arts Festival
Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin, Sun 30 March, 7:00pm
Ōamaru Opera House, Mon 31 March, 7:00pm

Wānaka Festival of Colour
Bannockburn Hall Tue 1 April, 6:30pm
Hāwea Flat Hall, Hawea, Wed 2 April, 6:30pm
Te Atamira, Queenstown, Friday 4 April, 7:00pm

01/02/2025

Got your tickets to a Festival show and were wondering what else to see? Here are some great suggestions for you:

March 26 to April 6 Wahine Mātātoa: The (Mostly) True Story Of Erihāpeti Pātahi A time-travelling comedy in which our protagonist, Elizabeth,...

01/02/2025

A little behind the (farm) scenes on Animal, coming to us all the way from Canada for you. Read the article then see the show!

The worldwide circus sensation, Cirque Alfonse, is finally on its way to New Zealand. Bruce Munro talks to co-founder Antoine Carabinier-Lepin...

01/02/2025

Kicking off the Dunedin Arts Festival 2025, we have nationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer, Jeremy Beck returning to Dunedin to premiere his highly anticipated new work ‘Commentary Of Dreaming’ at the The Regent Theatre, proudly sponsored by BB&S.
Inspired by the astrological concept of Saturn Returns, it meditates on subconscious rites of passage and our conscious perception of ageing, culminating in a bittersweet ode to a youth spent in Ōtepoti.

Six of Aotearoa’s finest contemporary dancers will take the stage alongside 15 non-dance-trained friends. This performance has been three years in the making and will be an evening to remember.

Beck’s acclaimed choreographic style and stunning scenography is enriched by a new sound score from sonic artist Hominid, Benny Jennings and lighting design by Marty Roberts
Tickets on sale now, https://tr.ee/5y_b2HTJSP
Commentary Of Dreaming
7pm
Wed 26 March
The Regent Theatre
One night only!

31/01/2025

Only two weeks until the opening night of this incredible live performance ‘The Night Has A Thousand Eyes’ - a stunning pre-Festival taster of what’s to come in March/April.

An elegant exploration by two of New Zealand's most celebrated dance luminaries, Michael Parmenter and Lucy-Margaux Marinkovich.

Paris-based concert pianist Jeffrey Grice and lighting designer Martyn Roberts bring to life acclaimed composer Lucien Johnson's luxurious and melancholic nocturnes as the ensemble explores the intimacy, sensuality and quietness of the darkest hours of the night.
Borderline Arts Ensemble

Tickets on sale now https://www.dunedinartsfestival.co.nz/programme/the-night-has-a-thousand-eyes

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
7pm, Fri 14 Feb
2pm & 7pm, Sat 15 Feb
6pm, Sun 15 Feb
Allen Hall

Proudly sponsored by Virtual Eye

31/01/2025

The amazing Christine and BB&S!

30/01/2025

What an amazing launch - thanks to Te Radar for MCing for us!

The programmes have gone from here to a location near you! They’re spreading out around the city - and further afield - so keep an eye out.

If your favourite cafe or workplace would like some, please let us know.

29/01/2025

And we're live!

The Dunedin Arts Festival is back — and bringing with it shows from as far as Canada, the United Kingdom and Austria. The festival, which calls...

29/01/2025

We are live for 25! - https://mailchi.mp/1412bc121851/the-night-has-a-thousand-eyes-17986805

29/01/2025

Getting ready to launch the programme in a couple of hours. Can't wait for Dunedin to see it!

27/01/2025

The Festival launches tomorrow night with an amazing programme for you filled to the brim with music, dance, theatre, comedy, visual arts and circus from all around the world - including some great shows from here in Dunedin!
So, look out for our brochures around the place, and check out our website to see the line up (www.dunedinartsfestival.co.nz).
In the meantime, here's some 'barnyard brilliance' from the crazy Canadians already on sale with the show Animal.

22/01/2025

One week until the Festival programme is launched! - https://mailchi.mp/e8731693fcb8/the-night-has-a-thousand-eyes-17986750
In exactly one week we launch the 13th Dunedin Arts Festival programme, celebrating our 25th birthday - yay!
From 7pm on Wednesday 29th January, you'll be able to peruse and purchase tickets to all of your favourite shows - but what are those shows, I hear you ask?
Well, obviously we can't tell you everything just yet, but look out for our shiny new brochures around town and check our website after the 29th!

21/01/2025

Want to come and work for the coolest festival in the country, in the world even?
We're currently have two roles that need filling:
- Volunteer Coordinator
- Social Media Coordinator

If you think that either of those sounds like you, then email us at [email protected] for a chat.

14/01/2025

Next on The Night Has A Thousand Eyes creative team is Paris based pianist Jeffrey Grice.

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, he attended Sacred Heart College in Glen Innes, counting among his classmates the future founding members of NZ's iconic rock band Split Enz.

With a Queen Elizabeth Arts Council grant and a French Government scholarship, Grice left New Zealand in October 1976 to further his piano studies in Paris with Yvonne Loriod, obtaining the Licence de Concert at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique in 1978 in the class of Germaine Mounier.

Resident in France for over forty years and a French citizen since 2005, a former laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, the Cziffra Foundation and the Sophia-Antipolis Foundation, Jeffrey Grice performs regularly throughout Europe and abroad as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist.

In 1984, he was awarded the Prix de l'Académie du disque français for his recording Le Tombeau de Ronsard with baritone Jacques Herbillon. In 1999, he was made an "Officier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government for services in the field of music.

He has premiered contemporary works by composers from New Zealand, Jenny McLeod (seven Tone Clock Pieces, in 1988), Lucien Johnson (To the sea, in 2007, Addis Nocturnes, in 2017) Nigel Keay (the dancer leads the procession, in 2007), France (Kirill Zaborov and David Chaillou), and Japan (Karen Tanaka).