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Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff and experienced comics a place to try new material
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Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic
Hawkes Bay Comedy Open Mic Nights provide budding comedians with a safe place to strut their stuff, and experienced comics a place to try new material
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Hastings Music Society
Hastings Music Society Concerts, held every second Sunday of the month, March-November at St Matthew's Anglican Church, feature local vocal, instrumental and group musicians performing varied musical styles representing centuries of beautiful music
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Live at The Cabana
Hawke's Bay is churning out some awesome comedic talent, so it's time we start seeing them regularly!
We're bringing monthly shows to the home of live comedy in Napier, The Cabana! October's show is hosted by Rhian Wood-Hill and features:
James Fulton
Sean Koch
Jayda McIndoe
Karen Leslie
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HBAF 2021 - Faces of Nature: CANCELLED
Faces of Nature
Ta'alili
Led by award winning artists Aloali'i Tapu and Tori Manley-Tapu, Ta’alili are a company that work in theatre, dance, stage design, film and visual art, exploring how perceptions shape communities and reflecting on personal experiences of tension between cultures, systems and stereotypes
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HBAF 2021 Whare Kōrero: Stories Within Stories
A Thousand Thoughts A Minute
A guide into the unequivocal world of Kristyl Neho, a self-confessed Drama Queen
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HBAF 2021 - The Trojan War: CANCELLED
The Trojan War
A Slightly Isolated Dog
Following the success of Don Juan and Jekyll & Hyde, A Slightly Isolated Dog brings you the third installment in the trilogy of very sexy works: The Trojan War! This explosive and hilarious work uses a cast of faux-French performers to create a joyful interactive celebration
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HBAF 2021 - Tierra y Mar Flamenco Project
Tierra y Mar Flamenco Project
Paul Bosauder
[Please note that an additional performance of 'Tierra y Mar Flamenco Project' has been added on the 29th of October 2021 in the Toitoi Opera House
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HBAF 2021 - Strauss, Pärt and Mendelssohn
Strauss, Pärt and Mendelssohn - HBO and Friends
This concert explores the most-loved chamber music of the string repertoire, making it a joy for classical fans as well as for people who want an experience of live classical music for the first time
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HBAF 2021 - WERK IT: CANCELLED
WERK IT
Circus Trick Tease
WERK IT is an all-new, late-night, high-energy, acrobatic comedy romp
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Standup comedy: Oo Gish and Benjamin Crellin
Two veteran kiwi jokers come together to tickle your funny bone in all the right places ( and probably some wrong ones as well-no promises)
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HBAF 2021 - Motuhake: CANCELLED
Motuhake
Jandel J & The Funky Friends
“You are Special / I am Special (Motuhake)” is a highly interactive and magical show for children and families
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Halloween House
Can you handle the horror?
Find out! Come along to our Halloween House on the 30th of October
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HBAF 2021 - The End of the Golden Weather
The End of the Golden Weather
[Due to Covid 19 level restrictions, the venue for this show has changed from Toitoi Opera House to St
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HBAF 2021 - Not Christmas, but Guy Fawkes: CANCELLED
Not Christmas, but Guy Fawkes
A richly autobiographical monologue in which an adolescent boy tries to find his place in an adult-dominated world; a young man retraces an intensely felt boyhood experience of bullying; and a playwright, in his last days, reconciles the value of an artistic life and challenges the idea of New Zealand identity
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Terror from the Deep
A liveplay survival horror RPG featuring:
- Paul Shaw (GM)
- ??
- Benjamin Crellin
- Christer Eriksson
- Mike Shaw
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Speak up the Peak - Hawke's Bay Poetry Slam 2021
EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW - POETS WHO TAKE PART DON'T NEED A TICKET, BUT SPACE IS LIMITED SO SIGN UP NOW!
Motif Poetry is proud to present the fourth annual Hawke's Bay Poetry Slam! A friendly, inclusive space for poets to come together and share their work
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Equus
“A Galvanizing Psychological Thriller” - Time Magazine
‘Equus’ is a psychological drama about Dr
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: CANCELLED
Let the Royal New Zealand Ballet transport you to a fantastical world of dazzling dance, music and enchantment
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Tom Sainsbury - Snapchat Dude Live
Comedian, snapchat satirist and now unmasked as the dancing Alien on The Masked Singer NZ, Tom Sainsbury is about to add another string to his bow
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HBAF 2021 - April's Fool: POSTPONED
April's Fool
By David Burton
[Due to Covid 19 level restrictions we have had to reschedule these performances to Tuesday 9th - Saturday 13th of November 2021
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One Day I'll Fly Away
COVID-19 Update:
Following the 4th Oct Covid-19 announcement and the changes made to the regulations applicable to each level, we are very pleased to confirm that the production of 'One Day I'll Fly Away' will be able to take place at Level 1 or Level 2
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West End to Waipawa. Musical revue;
The Waipawa Musical &Dramatics Club winter Musical Revue
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Let's Sing Together Again! - A Sing-in and Concert: POSTPONED
Preparations are underway for a 2021 SING-IN in the Waiapu Cathedral in Napier, the third one we have held in recent years
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Booze and Craic - A Night of Scottish and Irish Comedy
Following September's sell out show Booze and Craic is bringing the laughs back to Napier with a line up of award winning, world travelled hilarious comedians from Bonnie Scotland and the Emerald Isle
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MTG Movie Club - Strangers On A Train
In Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is enraged by his trampy wife's refusal to finalize their divorce so he can wed senator's daughter Anne (Ruth Roman)
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NZ String Quartet | National Tour 2021
***RESCHEDULED TO FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER, 7
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Wonderland Glow Show
The GLOW SHOW team is back with WONDERLAND GLOW SHOW, a ‘kiwified’ interpretation of the classic ‘Alice in Wonderland' tale for tamariki, educators and whanau! Let your imagination soar as you're transported by the magic of giant scale glow-in-the-dark puppetry
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Curtain Call
Curtain Call is a showcase of some of the performers that have taken part in our shows throughout the year
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A Celtic Christmas by A Taste of Ireland
"Jingle Jigs, Reels a Treat
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HBAF 2021 - Mana Wahine: POSTPONED
Mana Wahine - Ōkāreka Dance Company
[Due to Covid 19 level restrictions we have had to reschedule this performance
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Glitter Boomb - Burlesque Show
Glitter Boomb
This show will be a supercharged spectacle for the senses
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HBAF 2021 - Urzila Carlson: It's Personal: POSTPONED
Urzila Carlson: It's Personal
[Due to Covid 19 level restrictions we have had to reschedule this performance (Day Month Year)
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HBAF 2021 - Hello Darkness: POSTPONED
Hello Darkness
By Peter Wells, Adapted by Victor Rodger
[Due to Covid 19 level restrictions we have had to reschedule this performance to Sunday 13th of March 2022
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