Comedy festival, Italian films, and international dance day: The Spinoff event guide
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week April 30-May…
Cuba Dupa, Aspiring Conversations and jazz: The Spinoff event guide
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week March 26…
The 2026 Auckland Arts Festival, wrapped
For three weeks, the Auckland Arts Festival has brought a bevy of local and international artworks to Tāmaki…
Review: Synthony was at once joyous and a bit depressing
The festival features some amazing musicianship. It can also feel like the world’s most elevated school disco. One…
Capital Crime, Bic Runga, Prima Facie and more: The Spinoff event guide
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week March 19-26.…
Fringe festivals, Fur Patrol, and Fonotī Pati Umaga: The Spinoff event guide
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week March 12–19.…
The Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts: The Spinoff event guide
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week February 26–March…
Goodbye Splore. We’ll try to hang on to the memories
At the last ever Splore, Simon Day reflects on the end of the festival that was so much…
Review: Lorde’s sweaty, sublime, superstar return to Christchurch
Seeing Lorde is to feel like you’ve seen God, Alex Casey finds as she joins the Wolfbrook Arena,…
Waitangi Day, Laneway, Nick Cave and Nostalgia: The Spinoff event guide
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week February 5–12.…
Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Summer Actually and Opera in the Park: The Spinoff event guide
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week January 29–February…
Review: New Zealand rain kills Ed Sheeran’s guitars
Alex Casey reviews Ed Sheeran’s very rainy show at Christchurch’s Apollo Projects Stadium. When Ed Sheeran sauntered through…