festival

Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Poetry:Voices of Africa

    Two/Fifty Seven Willis Street Level 2/57 Willis Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Poetry: Voices of Africa. More info coming soon!

  • Panel discussion: Led by Te Hā

    Two/Fifty Seven Willis Street Level 2/57 Willis Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Panel discussion: Te Hā. More info coming soon.

  • Songs of Solidarity 2026 – Anthems of Resistance

    songs of solidarity 115 Taranaki Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Anthems are epics sung together. They carry memory through time: stories of what people survived, what they fought for, what they refused to surrender, and the worlds they were able to imagine from within the conditions of their own lives. The theme of Songs of Solidarity Festival 2026, Anthems of Resistance, takes its name from […]

  • Gone but not gone: A kōrero on Indigenous histories with Singaporean artist and researcher ila

    Two/Fifty Seven Willis Street Level 2/57 Willis Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    How does the body remember a land and sea stolen? Watch a short film, ‘Animacies of Absence’, by Singaporean artist & researcher, ila, and participate in a kōrero from across the seas. Animacies of Absence traces the flow of water inward and along the coast through Indigenous stories of embodied knowledges, fractured kinships and impacts […]

  • Little Nemo in Aotearoa, a workshop in collective comic translation, 1 of 4

    Silver linings, Two/Fifty Seven Willis Street Level 2/57 Willis Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Translation is said to be the oldest trade in the world.  And like any trade, it is learnt through practice. Over the course of four sessions, we will work on different episodes from one of the earliest comics in history, Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905), and collectively explore some strategies for overcoming the challenges posed […]

  • Poetry Portals — online session

    Poetry and self-reflective writing can be powerful forms of resistance, solidarity, and movement-building. While we each carry our own stories and truths, we explore and create them in community. This session offers a gentle, welcoming space to reflect and create through poetry. Guided prompts will help you explore your thoughts, stories, and creativity on the page. No […]

  • Mutual aid fundraiser for Sudan – Khartoum (Film Screening)

    Light House Cuba 29 Wigan Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Songs of Solidarity (SoS), in collaboration with Sudan Advocacy Network Aotearoa (SANA) and African Diaspora for Indigenous Rights in Aotearoa (ADIR), invite you to the Pōneke screening of Khartoum. This screening is one of the mutual aid fundraising events forming part of the exhibition Sudan, Do You Still Dream?, led by SANA and supported by SoS […]

  • Africa, Art & Aotearoa: Past, Present, and Future

    Ngā Pou Ruahine, Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui 65 Victoria Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Join us for a special edition of ‘The African Book Club’, a regular monthly book club that celebrates Africa and its diaspora in art and literature. Every month our participants meet to discuss the books and art that is shaping the conversation around the continent that is often forgotten. In our final session for the […]

  • Poetry portals – in person

    165 Stoddard Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland 165 Stoddard Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Poetry and self-reflective writing can be powerful forms of resistance, solidarity, and movement-building. While we each carry our own stories and truths, we explore and create them in community. This session offers a gentle, welcoming space to reflect and create through poetry. Guided prompts will help you explore your thoughts, stories, and creativity on the page. No […]

  • Shut the Pax Down Toolkit: Zine-making, Slogan T- Shirt and Tote Bag Printing

    Two/Fifty Seven Willis Street Level 2/57 Willis Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Gabriela and Anakbayan Aotearoa invites our kababayans and all peace-loving people of Pōneke to take part in a reflexive and collaborative zine-making, T-shirt and tote bag printing workshop centred on creating counter narratives around AI, data centres and Pax Silica. We will conclude the event with a cultural performance and everyone is welcome to sing […]

  • Resist and remember through collage

    165 Stoddard Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland 165 Stoddard Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    What we remember, and what is made difficult to remember can become a powerful form of resistance. In this two-hour, hands-on workshop, participants will explore memory, identity, and collective histories through collage. Working with images, words, textures, and fragments, we will create visual responses to the experiences, stories, and places that shape us. The workshop […]

  • Little Nemo in Aotearoa, a workshop in collective comic translation, 2 of 4

    Silver linings, Two/Fifty Seven Willis Street Level 2/57 Willis Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Translation is said to be the oldest trade in the world.  And like any trade, it is learnt through practice. Over the course of four sessions, we will work on different episodes from one of the earliest comics in history, Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905), and collectively explore some strategies for overcoming the challenges posed […]