Festival Events - Early Release
MACHINE DE CIRQUE
Machine de Cirque
Trafalgar Centre
Fri 30 Oct | 7.00pm | 70 min
Sat 31 Oct | 2.00pm | 70 min
$60 – $79
Endlessly inventive and ridiculously energetic circus for the whole whānau.
THE SWIMMER & THE WHALES
Witi Ihimaera Smiler
NCMA
Fri 23 Oct | 12.30pm | 60 min
$18.50 – $25
Witi Ihimaera Smiler will kōrero with filmmaker Hamish Bennett about how he reclaimed his voice, history and whakapapa by studying te reo Māori. Today a youthful 82-year-old, Witi is more prolific than ever, with three books out in 2026.
TOWARDS THE TRUTH
Shehan Karunatilaka
NCMA
Fri 23 Oct | 7.30pm | 60 min
$25
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka discusses his life and literary adventures since winning the 2022 Booker Prize for his astonishing novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Chaired by Ahmed Osman.
