To discover more about our Executive Director, we put the infamous Proust Questionnaire to her to reveal her personality, tastes and aspirations.

We were thrilled to announce earlier this year New Zealand Festival will be joining forces with Wellington literary giants Verb for the delivery of the 2020 Writers Programme.

Art historian and editor of New Zealand Art at Te Papa Mark Stocker shares his favourites from this impressive new collection. 

New Zealand Festival friends share their cultural picks.

Kirsten Johnstone, RNZ Music producer shares her pick of the Summer music festival season line-up, with plenty to recommend.

Grammy Award-winning opera singer Jonathan Lemalu enjoys watching high-flying dunks as much as he enjoys singing sonorous low-lying notes.

In an exclusive preview of two upcoming Te Auaha graduate exhibitions, Aotearoa's emerging artists and designers share insights into their work and creative practice.

By his books we will know Iranian-American poet, Kaveh Akbar.

Dr Rebecca Rice, curator of Te Papa's upcoming Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality exhibition, shares a personal account of the journey to bring some of China's greatest treasures to New Zealand.