REFINERY ARTSPACE
Weekdays | 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Saturdays | 10.00 am - 2.00 pm
Ko Te Ākau — Poetics of Land, Water and Sky is a new installation and performance work created by visionary and internationally renowned artist Charles Koroneho in collaboration with Filament Eleven 11.
NELSON CBD & PARTICIPATING GALLERIES
Thurs 21 Oct | 5pm - 9pm
Spring. Daylight Savings. Arts Festival. Opening night. What better way to celebrate than watching the city unfurl after dark?
NELSON CBD
Fri 29 Oct | 5.30pm - 10pm
A forever festival favourite, this magical community celebration is how we welcome the start of summer in Whakatū Nelson. 2021 is all about connection - the theme for this year’s parade!
THE SUTER THEATRE
Sat 30 Oct | 6.30pm
This is the news, but not as you know it.
News News News is a television news show made by children for adults, presented live from the stage of Tauranga’s Baycourt Theatre to viewers across the globe (and Whakatū).
DIGITAL
Throughout the Festival
There are – in the tradition of Katherine Mansfield, Robin Hyde and Janet Frame – many Aotearoa writers who live beyond our shores. What message would they like us to hear?
OLD ST JOHN'S HALL
Thurs 21 Oct | 8pm
What would the love child of Courtney Love and The Gathering look like?
Starting at CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS
Sat 23 Oct - Mon 25 Oct | 11am - 7.15pm (every 15 minutes)
What does your town look like from someone else’s perspective? How intimate can you be with someone you’ve just met?
NELSON CENTRE OF MUSICAL ARTS (NCMA)
Fri 22 Oct | 6.30pm
Both deeply immersed in classical piano and masterful improvisation, Nils Frahm and Flavio Villani have the same worldview.