North Shore Times (New Zealand)
Arts roundup: For the female gaze
Next month sees a series of events aimed at women, says Edna Heled in her latest Auckland arts round-up.
On the weekend of the April 1 and 2, the boutique mini-festival Brazen, initiated and organised by Sarah Crowther and Amanda Wright, will get together a collective of extraordinary top-of-their-game women and nonbinary artists, DJ’s and live performers to present more than 24 hours of voluptuous, vibrant and visceral event experiences. With indoor and outdoor areas and a big fire pit for warmth, at a beautiful site by the lake at Te Arai, just over an hour from Auckland.
brazenevents.co.nz
HER festival is a new, free nine-day multifaceted festival for all who identify as wom*n to connect, create and celebrate. There will be talks, workshops, sports, theatre, experiences, art and conversations between April 13 and 22, in multiple locations around Auckland. Free entry to all events.
herfestival.co.nz
The traditional Easter Waiheke Jazz Festival will see the island dotted with jazz music concerts. From the Good Friday Allpress Olive Groves afternoon concert featuring Hello Sailor, White Chapel Jak, Hipstamatics & Midge Marsden and the evening Artworks Theatre concert with Neon Quaver, P J Koopman (Australia) & George Washingmachine (Australia), to the various vineyards gigs on Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets at waihekejazzfestival.co. nz
Shiva Shakti Festival has been postponed till Easter due to the floods. The healing-focused event, with yoga, meditation, sound baths and more, will now take place between April 7 and 9 at Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre, 14 Mills Lane (off Oteha Valley Rd), Albany.
shivashakti.nz
The Auckland Art Gallery special exhibition Light from Tate: 1700s to Now runs until June 25. Curated from the collections of the famous Tate Gallery, UK, it features nearly 100 works by celebrated artists across the globe from the 18th century to the present day, including JMW Turner and John Constable, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Bridget Riley and Josef Albers.
aucklandartgallery.com
There are several shows in the Q Theatre in April, including Waiting For Waiting For Godot from March 30 to April 6, directed by Michael Hurst, a play about boredom that is anything BUT boring. Michael Hurst himself can be seen in his solo funny and philosophical show The Golden Ass, from April 11-15, where the renowned actor completely transforms into ‘‘you name it, an Ass’’ . . . A timeless world of witches, bandits, goddesses, circuses, slaves and sex. The Wild by Julia Croft and Virginia Frankovich is a new universe of endless and moving materials, shapes and colours, and a lot of dancing for the whole family. From April 19 to 23.
qtheatre.co.nz/