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Dimanche

Keeping up appearances in a world on thin ice

Theatre Selling fast

MÁM

A wild celebration of life’s peaks and valleys

Dance Music Selling fast

Kate Tempest

An explosion of verse and song raging against apathy

Music Selling fast

القدس Jerusalem

Extremes exist in one metaphorical place

Dance Theatre

Släpstick

Flying violins! Speed skating ballerinos! Astonishing musical buffoonery!

Theatre Music Selling fast

Trois Grandes Fugues

Three major choreographers interpret one masterpiece from Beethoven

Dance Selling fast

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

A surreal musical satire on tyranny

Theatre Music Sold out

The Calling

Improvisational and incantatory music with Laurie Anderson’s ensemble

Music

Peter Sellars – Kopernikus

A ritual opera of death made for the living

Opera

FLEXN

As much a dance movement as a social revolution

Te Ata Dance Theatre

In Search of Dinozord

Intrepid imaginings transform a war-ravaged Congo

Dance Theatre Selling fast

BLACK TIES

Two families, two cultures ... tu meke

Theatre Music Selling fast
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One Festival, Many Voices

Three guest curators have selected many of the events in the 2020 Festival. Experience their worldview through their signature selections.

More about the curatorial process

Article Magazine

  • Meet the Makers: Blair Latham

    In our final Meet the Makers series talking to the four artists commissioned by the 2020 Wellington Jazz Festival, we catch up with Blair Latham, who's got soprano saxophones and social divides on the mind. Blair's new suite Karla and the Divide will premiere at the Wellington Jazz Festival next week on Wednesday 18 November.

  • Three Picks from the Kāpiti Arts Trail

    Celebrating its twentieth year in 2020, the Kāpiti Arts Trail is an annual celebration of art and artists. The self-guided tour takes place over two weekends (7-8 and 14-15 November) and invites arts lovers into galleries, studios and more to explore the region's diverse range of arts and crafts. We get the low down from three of this years artists Studio Reset, Micheline Robinson and Lisa Call on beeswax and Beethoven.

  • Meet the Makers: Anita Schwabe

    Lecturer, pianist and composer Anita Schwabe is a familiar face in the Aotearoa Jazz scene. She'll be bringing new music to the Wellington Jazz Festival (18 - 22 November) as part of the Jazz Premiere Series. She sits down with ARTicle to talk composition and keeping it in the family.