Kōanga Festival | Te Arero Toi 2025

Kōanga Festival 2025 | Te Arero ToiA free writing wānanga for Māori kaituhi 21 Sep, 2024 Te Pou Theatre Kore Utu | Free Register Here Āhea | When Sunday 21 Sep, 10am – 3pm Ki hea | Where Te Pou Theatre Utu | Cost Kore Utu | Free Roanga | Duration 5hrs breaks included Ngā… Continue reading Kōanga Festival | Te Arero Toi 2025

Kōanga Festival | Kia Pohewatia | Samara Reweti

A unique work-in-development showing from Atamira Dance Company’s ‘Kia Pōhewatia’ choreographic residencies, exploring the politics of the gaze—investigating surveillance, intimacy, and perception.

Kōanga Festival | Kia Pohewatia | Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann

A unique work-in-development showing from Atamira Dance Company’s ‘Kia Pōhewatia’ choreographic residencies, activating space through whakapapa, memory, and embodied storytelling.

Kōanga Festival | Pōhoroi Playreading | Lila Black & Zody Takurua

Two bold and exciting new Māori theatre works exploring Aliens and dystopian AI futures!

Kōanga Festival | Pōmere Playreading | Leigh Minarapa & Ngahiriwa Rauhina

Two new witty Māori theatre thrillers exploring past and future hauntings, digital marae, robots and “tohunga” who are all teka!

Kōanga Festival | Whānau Day 2025

A fun filled day for the whole whānau!

A Niu Dawn

A fun filled day for the whole whānau!

The Visitors | Indigenous Exchange Play Reading | Kōanga Festival 2024

Award winning Australian play The Visitors by Jane Harrison, workshopped and read by Māori creatives in a Our Stories Your People exchange with Moogahlin Performing Arts.

Te Arero Toi | Kōanga Festival 2024

A Free Te Reo Māori playwrighting Wānanga with leading playwrights.

Tōiri | Kōanga Festival 2024

An evening of Te Reo Māori Opera, kia tōiri anō ai te reo, hosted by Kawiti Waetford. Presented in partnership with New Zealand Opera at Kōanga Festival 2024.

Ngā Rorirori | Kōanga Festival 2024

A comical foray into one whānau’s relationship with their whenua, and their quest to turn their coastline into a cash cow. Kōanga Festival 2024.

Whānau Day 2024 | Kōanga Festival 2024

A fun filled day for the whole whānau!

Kōanga Play Readings | Pōmere | Tawhi Thomas & Tūī Matelau

Celebrate the development of new works by Māori playwrights Tawhi Thomas & Tūī Matelau at Kōanga Festival 2024.

Kōanga Play Readings | Pōhoroi | Turene Jones & Rainton Oneroa

Celebrate the development of new works by Turene Jones & Rainton Oneroa at Kōanga Festival 2024.

Rutene Spooner’s Be Like Billy? | Kōanga Festival 2024

Join award winning entertainer Rutene Spooner as he celebrates showband legacy, idolises the greatest Māori showman, and tussles with the future of Māori in entertainment.

NEKE | Kōanga Festival 2024

A powerful mix of movement, theatre, song, and Māori humour that will captivate and uplift.

Ngā Tohu o te Taiao – Kōanga | Kōanga Festival 2024

The Handlers, by Alvie Poata McKree is a Māori Crown Lynn story about our most iconic mugs, and the hands that made them.

Māori Krishna + AltarNative | Kōanga Festival 2024

Two solo shows about alternative upbringings and “far superior” ways to live by Acacia O’Connor and Hone Taukiri.

Kōanga Festival 2025

Kōanga Festival 2025 | Our eleventh Kōanga Festival, Save the date 12 – 28 September 2025. Celebrating new Māori storytelling for the stage with shows, readings and whānau fun.