Event Details
Oct 8
Toitoi - Assembly Ballroom
WINNER 2025 Billy T Award.
Hoani Hotene (Ngāti Hauā) is bringing his Billy T Award winning show to town for the 2026 Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival.
The world's heating up, going wild, and Hoani Hotene is trying to get through it all with what...? Jokes? Yep.
Asking big questions about politics, religion, and breakfast. Growing up in a kura kaupapa Hoani comes with a different lens of Aotearoa and everything that’s going on.
Hoani is one of Aotearoa’s fastest up and coming comedians. Selling out shows throughout the country and opening on tour with some of Aotearoa’s biggest names including Joe Daymond and Tofiga Fepulea’i.
Guaranteed to crack you up, catch this award-winning Kiwi comedian in Hastings while you can.
“It’s clear big things are on the horizon for him” - NZ Herald
“Hoani Hotene is a charming ray of sunshine full of upbeat, sometimes silly, positivity” - Chortle (UK)`