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Webby Award for Festival website

Festival website wins Webby Award

2006-05-11

Springload�s New Zealand International Arts Festival Web Site Heads Off Global Competition to Bring Home a Webby. The Webby Awards, the leading international honour for Web sites, named the New Zealand International Arts Festival site as the Best Event Web Site of 2006.

 
Aterballetto

From tarantula bites to Bach - Italian contemporary ballet

2006-03-15

Italy’s leading contemporary ballet company Aterballetto brings its ensemble of 20 dynamic and beautiful dancers to the Festival stage in their first New Zealand appearance.

 
photo credit Jose Luis Alvarez

Eva Yerbabuena - Festival Debut for Flamenco’s Finest

2006-03-07

Hailed as one of the major forces in the flamenco world today, Eva Yerbabuena’s Festival performance will showcase her intimate and powerful dance Eva – the piece that secured her success and reputation.

 
Earth from Above exhibition in Waitangi Park is now open

Lights, camera, action!

2006-02-23

The world famous photographic exhibition Earth from Above will make its Australasian debut tonight at 8:30pm at the new Waitangi Park on the Wellington waterfront to kick off Festival celebrations!

 

Festival update - tickets hot but many still available

2006-02-14

With only ten days to go, tickets to the New Zealand International Arts Festival are hot but there are still plenty available to the majority of the 275 performances on offer.

 

Arts Festival pulls off military coup

2006-02-06

Members of New Zealand’s only professional brass band, The New Zealand Army Band, will be taking part in the New Zealand International Arts Festival.

 
Shaun Tan

Illustrator of the future - not to mention great young persons’ writer

2006-02-03

Acclaimed author-illustrator Shaun Tan is an exciting new addition to the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week. Over the last decade, Tan has produced genre-breaking and multiple prize-winning picture books. His books have quickly become cult favourites with children, teenagers and adults alike.

 
Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis – heads an ‘A-list’ cast in The Holy Sinner

2006-02-01

Direct from the premiere of River Queen – Cliff Curtis makes his return to the stage in the iconic New Zealand theatre work - The Holy Sinner at the New Zealand International Arts Festival.

 
Jan Mark

Writer Jan Mark dies unexpectedly

2006-01-19

It is with sadness that the New Zealand International Arts Festival announces that Jan Mark, a guest of the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week, has died unexpectedly in England at the age of 62.

 
Jan Morris

Jan Morris cancels trip to New Zealand due to ill health

2006-01-13

Festival guest Jan Morris has had to withdraw from New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week due to ill health. However, the Festival is pleased to announce that this event will proceed with John Campbell hosting writer, rare book dealer and raconteur Dr Rick Gekoski.