Acts of Love
Acts of Love are our gift of aroha to you! We’ve lined up a series of free weird, wonderful and wacky pop-up surprises and delights for the whole family.
Acts of Love are our gift of aroha to you! We’ve lined up a series of free weird, wonderful and wacky pop-up surprises and delights for the whole family.
SMITH & CAUGHEY'S WINDOW
A Figure Exhales
Meditative and stylised, A Figure Exhales is a series of site specific performances of considerable visual impact. Choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance’s sheathed figures seek to deconstruct binary readings by playing with what is corporeal and what is spectral allowing the audience to experience something between the everyday and the otherworldly.
• Week 1: Thu 11–Sun 14 March
12.00pm, 2.30pm & 4.30pm
Re-flects
Encounter a wall of many openings, where arms reach, beckon, and wait. Re-flects is an interactive performance installation activating Smith and Caughey’s iconic front window. It invites passersby to interact with another person through the glass, to connect, to play, and to remind each other of their own humanity.
• Week 2: Thu 18–Sun 21 March
12.00pm, 2.30pm & 4.30pm
Kōwhai and the Giants
Kōwhai and the Giants is a lit picture box exhibition by Kate Parker, telling the story of Kōwhai. A wise and beautifully told fable about the decimation of Aotearoa’s mighty forests following human habitation, it's also a story of hope. Kōwhai and the Giants is also available as a picture book and is in stores nationwide from March 10, 2021.
• Week 3: Tue 23–Sun 28 March, All day
CITY WIDE
Active Citizens Marketplace
The Annual Active Citizens Marketplace is a chance to showcase the social enterprise, community activation, creative, cultural and entrepreneurial spirit of the alumni from the Auckland Active Citizens chapter. Expect typewriter poetry, live sound, cultural know-how and engagement stalls, Toi Māori, and a public Paper-Roll temperature check.
• 4 Cross Street: Wed 10–Sat 13 March, 10.00am–4.00pm. Thu/Fri, late nights. Catered food on Thu 11 March from 4pm/5pm.
Essential Twerkers
Keeping us safe while bumping to beats, our very own Essential Twerkers strut their stuff around AKL City. Clearly seen in their flashy, high-vis gear, they’ll make sure you’re moving in the right direction, play some games with you, and help you break into dancing to the concrete jungle’s festive cacophony. Performed by some of Aotearoa’s top street & clown performers, they’ll be sure to delight.
• Queen Street, Aotea Square & Freyberg Place: Fri, Sat & Sun throughout the Festival
I Think You Like Me, But I’ve Been Wrong About These Things Before
Artspace Aotearoa is delighted to present I Think You Like Me, ButI’ve Been Wrong About These Things Before, the first major solo show by Tāmaki Makaurau based artist Natasha Matila-Smith, an exhibition installation in which the gallery presents itself as a sort of meta-space, through the intentional employment of obvious conceptual metaphors connected to the bedroom.
• Artspace Aotearoa: 20 February–1 May
Pedestrian Guiiiiiidance
In this roaming dance performance, Josie and Kosta come equipped with retractable barrier belts that extend beyond their bodies to walls and each other thus creating temporary barriers to re-orientate pedestrians that guide them to engage in site and performeraudience relationships in new ways—in effect, they choreograph foot traffic.
• Queen Street, Aotea Square & Freyberg Place: Fri, Sat & Sun throughout the Festival
The Floomps
Limpy-Limbed sub-human weirdos collectively roam the streets attempting everyday things, but comically fail. They get tangled, their limbs drag, and they most definitely stand on their own bodies. Like comical cartoon characters for kids & adults, these pillowy people are a surreal & imaginative installation.
• Queen Street, Aotea Square, Freyberg Place: Fri, Sat & Sun throughout the Festival
Storytelling and Poetry with Apirana Taylor
Award-winning poet, prose writer and storyteller Apirana Taylor (Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Ruanui) recites some of his well-known poetry, tells stories and plays his guitar, which is aptly named Aroha.
• Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Sat 20 March, 1.00pm–2.00pm - Storytelling and music for children
• Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Sun 21 March, 11.00am–12.00pm - Poetry and music for adults
• Aotea Square: Sun 21 March, 1.00pm–2.00pm - Poetry and music for adults
Waiata Moana – Songs of the Sea
Singer, musician, actor and founding member of Modern Māori Quartet, Maaka Pohatu, sings and plays songs on acoustic guitar inspired by our love of the sea. Relaxed and casual, these performances share the warmth and welcome of Tāmaki Makaurau.
• Aotea Square: Sat 13 & Sat 20 March, 11.30am–3.30pm
• Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Sun 14 March, 1.00–2.00pm and 3.00pm–4.00pm
• Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Sun 21 March, 1.00–2.00pm
• Takutai Square: Fri 19 March at 12.15pm and 1.15pm
Waka Land Rig
Learn and help teach! Using waka as a vehicle for youth-development, Te Toki Voyaging Trust teaches youngsters how to raise and drop sails on a land rig and navigate by the stars.
• BNZ Foyer, Aotea Centre: Sun 14 March
• Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Sun 21 March, 12.00pm–1.00pm, 2.00pm–3pm, 3.30pm–4.30pm
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