Auckland Festival

6-22 March 2009

The Auckland Festival is a biennial arts and cultural festival run by an independent, not for profit trust, the Auckland Festival Trust.

Works from New Zealand, the Pacific, Asia and beyond, including world premieres of new works and international performing arts events were featured at the 2007 Auckland Festival.

In total, the festival hosted more than 100 events between 9-25 March 2007, including:

• dance
• music
• cabaret
• burlesque
• theatre
• ballet
• visual arts
• film
• public forums

and much more. Over 340,000 people attended the events offered in the two week long festival.

Auckland Festival, AK07, saw a record number of shows sell-out, including local seasons of Taki Rua's new production Strange Resting Places, Tusiata Avia's Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, Black Graces' AMATA, Silo Theatre's Ensemble Project, NZSO's Mahler-The Resurrection, Jennifer Ward-Lealand's Falling in Love Again.

We are proud to be a core funder of the Auckland Festival and have taken a major leadership role in getting this event off the ground. Our role has included creating a strategic platform for the festival in the Arts Agenda, commissioning the 1999 feasibility research, establishing the festival trust and providing core funding to the festival organisation.

A city with strong arts and culture is a city that's great to live in and a must to visit. The Auckland Festival gives us a chance to celebrate everything that's unique about Auckland.

Published December 2007