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Waitematā & Gulf Ward

Waitematā & Gulf Ward News

City Centre Waterfront 2 Apr 2025

Midtown street party unveils hidden art gems

April’s midtown street party on Thursday 17 April is packed full of art, music, food, live painting and stories. It will also celebrate street culture now, and from decades past.

Arts 1 Apr 2025

Opera in the Strand returns to Strand Arcade

It’s New Zealand Music Month in May and people will flood into midtown’s streets, lanes and public spaces, further cementing our place in the world as a UNESCO City of Music.

Pest Free 31 Mar 2025

Giving our biodiversity a helping hand

Thousands of pests have been removed thanks to an organisation which receives funding from Albert-Eden and Waitematā local boards.

Planting 31 Mar 2025

Grant funding nurtures native nursery

Find out how grants helped Motu Community Nursery.

Arts 20 Mar 2025

Sisters, aunties, daughters and mothers to celebrate Myers Park  

Bring your daughters, mothers, aunties and female friends!

Arts 13 Mar 2025

Federal Street - unique lights illuminate artwork to create outdoor gallery experience

A once reflective, quiet urban backyard, used mainly by the residents of upper Federal Street, has become a living art experience.

Elections 6 Mar 2025

Want women to have an equal voice? Stand in Auckland's local elections

When it comes to speaking up, her-story shows that a woman’s voice can be powerful enough to make waves that change the world.

People of Midtown
City Centre Waterfront 4 Mar 2025

Strand Arcade opens an elegant new food and beverage chapter

Heritage architects describe Strand Arcade as one of the grandest surviving shopping arcades in New Zealand.

Waitematā & Gulf Ward Events

24 Feb 2025 - 24 Nov 2025

Parnell Library Shared Reading Group

Join us to read a short story and poem aloud, and chat about it in a friendly environment, with a...

29 Apr 2025 - 08 Jun 2025

The Big Bike Film Night 2025

Bringing the best short cycling films from around the world together for you.

29 Apr 2025 - 17 Jun 2025

Adult Learning | Observational Life-drawing

Join us in the studio to flex your creative skills in a friendly, inspiring, hands-on learning en...

01 May 2025

Mozart's Jupiter

In a programme designed to pay tribute to musical predecessors, the evening opens with Tchaikovsk...

08 May 2025 - 10 May 2025

Me, My Mother and Suzy Cato

This darkly goofy one-woman show is written and performed by elder millennial and apocalypse worr...

08 May 2025 - 10 May 2025

Merely Beloved

Performed and written by International Emmy Award Winner Shoshana McCallum, Merely Beloved is a d...

12 May 2025 - 15 May 2025

Vector Lights for Road Safety Week 2025

Vector Lights on the Auckland Harbour Bridge will shine bright yellow for Road Safety Week.

15 May 2025

Tchaikovsky 5

With a melting love song and a gentle waltz, subsumed by the hand of fate, this expansive piece n...