Roger Hall – Fifteen years to be an overnight success
For most writers, recognition comes some distance down the track. Roger Hall chronicles his own experience and discusses how writing works. Roger?s li …
Truth, History and Drama
Graeme Tetley and Sara Brodie Graeme wrote the script for Riverside Drive and Sara is directing its world premiere at the Festival of Colour. The play …
Truth, Biography and Drama
Jill Trevelyan,?Jennifer Ward-Lealand,?Dave Armstrong and?Michael Houstoun These four speakers have collaborated on the world premiere of the play Rit …
Kate De Goldi and Glenn Colquhoun
The questions in the middle of the night Those questions that loom up in the darkness about the meaning of life. Are we all daylight atheists and secr …

Lloyd Geering – Where is God when we need him?
The idea of who or what God is has changed radically through the ages. Yet it enabled us humans to unify our understanding of the world we live in and …
Visual Artists Going Commercial
Flox, Michel Tuffery, Fleur Elise Noble, Lonnie Hutchinson and Simon Kaan Five artists will be painting large billboards along the Wanaka lake front. …

HOTEL
What goes on behind the closed doors of room 301? Walk in and find out ? this is as intimate as theatre gets. Like a proverbial fly on the wall, you a …

Riverside Drive
Come and see this stunning and unique production! Riverside Drive opens up the New Zealand that we often boast about ? a great little place to bring u …

Guru of Chai
Once a millennium there comes a teacher who awakens us all to the power of the divine. But if you can?t wait that long, book an audience with the Guru …

Rita and Douglas
The letters of Rita Angus to Douglas ?Gordon? Lilburn, adapted for the stage by Dave Armstrong Featuring Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Michael Houstoun Di …

C?Mon Black!
by Roger Hall Following a hugely successful national tour in the 1990s, Roger Hall?s Rugby World Cup comedy C?Mon Black! is back. This brand new produ …

2 Dimensional Life of Her – Fleur Elise Noble
Puppets punch through their paper walls; drawings transform themselves before your eyes to take on lives of their own. An imaginary world manages to e …

Passing Wind
Bring the family to watch Linsey Pollak make and play wind instruments using some pretty unexpected materials. He makes bagpipes from kitchen rubber g …

Ol? Ola
Salsa and rumba to tango and lambada ? a journey through Latin American dance Enjoy a fabulous journey through Central and South American dance. Exper …

Rosy Tin Teacaddy
Wooing audiences with their wry lyrical flavour since 2007, Betty Grey and Billy Earl are best known for their interlacing harmonies and penchant for …

Paul McLaney
Paul McLaney has been making an impact with his critically acclaimed solo debut Edin, which garnered him a nomination for Best Male Music Performer at …

Blyde Lasses
Blyde Lasses (Glad Girls) are a dynamic young female duo who showcase traditional Shetland songs and tunes on fiddle and concertina. Their performance …

Richard Nunns
Richard Nunns is one of New Zealand?s most remarkable musicians. From his early days playing avant-garde jazz, this red-haired Pakeha has become a liv …

Elixir
An exciting new ensemble featuring some of New Zealand?s most versatile and well-known chamber musicians. Sit back and be taken on a magical journey t …

Jazzing it up
Michael Houstoun returns to Wanaka with a very different sort of programme. He will be playing music that carries a strong jazz influence. Some of the …

Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir – Autumn landscapes
Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir is NZ?s only nationally auditioned chamber choir. They have sung at concerts nationally and internationally to high c …

Anna Coddington
Anna Coddington is one of New Zealand?s foremost heroines of independent pop music, as is evident on her debut album The Lake. Her second album Cat an …

Songs of Kurt Weill
These are not your average love songs. Kurt Weill was one of the most accomplished theatre composers of the 20th century, best known for writing Mack …

The Phoenix Foundation
Named Best Group at the 2010 Vodafone NZ Music Awards, with four acclaimed albums and two movie soundtracks to their name, as well as recent rave revi …
Island Summer
Listen to this wonderfully tropical sound from Pacific Underground. Island Summer is dedicated to that wave of Pacific migrants who settled in New Zea …

Bellbirds
The Bellbirds are an all-new combination of top New Zealand musicians. Their live show has captured the hearts and imaginations of their audiences and …

Micheline
Micheline Van Hautem has captivated audiences around the world with her smouldering versions of the songs of fellow countryman Jacques Brel. Layer by …