- free
COVER ME
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Thu 24 Oct, 6.30pm
Cover Me returns with their mix of funk, soul, jazz, dance, RnB and rock influences.
Free & Koha
- free
- international
CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS
BHUTANESE, COLOMBIAN & SRI LANKAN in AOTEAROAUPPER TRAFALGAR STREET
Sat 19 – Mon 28 Oct
Please note the venue is different from what’s listed in the printed Festival brochure.
This year’s Festival has a designated space hosted by communities from different cultural backgrounds, to encourage informal conversations around arts and culture.
- free
- international
CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS PERFORMANCE
Top of Trafalgar Street
Mon 28 Oct, 7pm
Come and see the works created during Cultural Conversations.
- free
DUST & GOLD
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Sun 27 Oct, 6.30pm
Dust & Gold blends Nikita Fountain’s beautiful songbird voice and Mark McKenzie’s rich baritone over a wholesome and raw acoustic accompaniment of original material.
- free
FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE
BANK LANE, between Trafalgar Street & Montgomery Carpark
Tue 1 Oct – Mon 28 Oct
This year we turn 25! To mark this special occasion, images from the past 24 Nelson Arts Festivals will be displayed on the walls of Bank Lane.
- free
HERELESSNESS
FOUNDERS HERITAGE PARK
Thu 24 – Sun 27 Oct, 8.30pm
A mesmerising outdoor performance featuring bungee-assisted dance and landscape design.
- free
MEDICINE WOMAN
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Fri 25 Oct, 6.30pm
Medicine Woman serves up blues inspired toe-tapping, full vocal harmony, rock originals with lyrics that provoke, inspire, and reach into your soul.
- free
PIC’S PIKI MAI
UPPER TRAFALGAR STREET & CHURCH STEPS
Fri 18 – Mon 28 Oct, dusk to midnight
In celebration of the 25th Nelson Arts Festival we’re thrilled to bring back crowd favourite Piki Mai, sponsored by none other than Pic’s Peanut Butter.
- free
PIKI MAI REMAP PROJECT
Piki Mai is returning and mappers and animators are invited to create a 10-30 second work using the Piki Mai map.
- free
PITCH BLACK LIVE
CHURCH STEPS, UPPER TRAFALGAR STREET
Fri 25 Oct, 9-10pm
See ‘NZ’s Godfathers of Electronica’ playing their newest work inside the largest live-triggered video performance created in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- koha
PUBLISHING’S NEW FRONTIERS
JOHNNY CASH ROOM, NMIT, 57 Nile Street, Nelson
Thu 24 Oct, 5.15pm
An evening for aspiring and established writers.
- free
RABBIT HŌLE
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Fri 25 Oct, 10pm
Rabbit Hōle is the musical collaboration of multi-instrumentalist and singer Sahn Bishop, drummer Bruce McGregor and saxophonist/EWI artist Simon Williams.
- free
SCULPTURE IN THE PARK
FOUNDERS HERITAGE PARK
Sat 19-Mon 28 Oct, 1pm – dusk
Throughout the Festival, Nelson artist Lee Woodman will be working on a piece focused on utilising recycled materials.
- free
STREET THEATRE WITH ROLLICKING ENTERTAINMENT!
VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN MARLBOROUGH, TASMAN & NELSON
Tue 22 – Fri 25 Oct
Roll up and join the exciting, terrifying and genuinely funny dastardly duo of Rollicking Entertainment. Come laugh, gasp and cheer – the carnival is in town!
- free
SUN CITY SOUL
GRANARY FESTIVAL CAFÉ
Sat 26 Oct, 6.30pm
Sun City Soul is a six-piece soul band, complete with a funked-up horn section and fine home-grown and international musicians.
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