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Planting 20 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.

Development 28 Feb 2025

A night at the theatre, from one century to another

When the much-adored St James Theatre opens again, it will open to a city centre re-designed and responsive to changing times, a century after the theatre’s 1927 opening.

Pride Festival 21 Feb 2025

Multi-sensory artwork Waimahara brings Auckland Pride Festival to a reflective close 

On Saturday 1 March the 2025 Auckland Pride Festival will conclude, completing the city’s month-long celebrations in a thoughtful, restful and reflective way.

Hauraki Gulf 3 Feb 2025

Designated dog area decisions

Aotea residents are being encouraged to give feedback on council’s review of dog policies and bylaws including local dog access rules.

Events

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...

29 May 2025 - 06 Jun 2025

La bohème

Join Mimi, Rodolfo, Marcello, Musetta and the rest as they’re joined by the NZ Opera Chorus and s...

31 May 2025

Remarkable Survivors: Saving New Zealand’s history one photograph at a time

Photograph curator Keith Giles takes a look at why some studio collections no longer exist and ho...

17 Jun 2025 - 05 Jul 2025

Roger Hall's end of summer time

New Zealand’s most successful playwright, Sir Roger Hall, is back with an affectionate skewering...

22 Jun 2025

Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor & C.P.E.Bach Magnificat

The concert is conducted by Bach Musica NZ's Music & Artistic Director, Rita Paczian.