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Find your way to the best gigs, festivals, exhibitions, and more with your Activity Guide!

April 2024

XYZZY @ Space Place

Elevate your next night out with XYZZY – an immersive, award-winning art-based experience at Space Place. Created by leading contemporary artist Jess Johnson and director Simon Ward, Johnson’s hand-drawn compositions are transformed into an animated web of flesh mandalas, self-replicating architecture, undulating worms, hallucinogenic patterns, and messianic alien deities charged with 90s-inspired electronic synthesiser tracks.

Sit back as the dome theatre envelopes you in a psychedelic journey, all set to 90s-inspired synth tracks from musicians Lachlan Anderson and Stef Animal to name a few.

Friday and Saturday nights at Space Place.

Get your tickets at spaceplace.nz ...
10 Apr - 26 Apr
Space Place
40 Salamanca Road, Kelburn, Wellington 6012

Revulva – FREE GIG @ Parrotdog Bar

Revulva is here to bring huge grins to your knees on the d-floor. Nu-wave, nu-jazz, nu-pop goodness served up hot in Wellington NZ since July 2020.

Support act to come.

Friday 19 April.
Doors from 8pm.
Free Entry.

Nice. ...
19 Apr
8:00 pm
Parrotdog Bar
60-66 Kingsford Smith Street, Lyall Bay, Wellington

Does The Dog Die? @ The Dowse

Animals in pop culture are beloved and polarising. They can have us rooting for them, terrify us, and break our hearts.

This Saturday at 2pm, join writer Pip Adam, whose award-winning novel The New Animals included creatures of both land and sea, and actor and stuntman Allan Henry, who played the titular Cocaine Bear in the 2023 movie. Adam and Henry will be discussing how their own work intersects with the themes of Good Bones, in which artist Michele Beevors presents life-sized sculptures of knitted animals, each with a tragic backstory. Delve into why we often have more compassion for animals than humans, and find out whether Adam and Henry think all dogs go to heaven.

Saturday 20 April, 2pm

Free ...
20 Apr
2:00 pm
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt

Dinosaurs – Katreena Erin’s Single Release Party

Join us at BATS Theatre on the 20th of April in celebrating the release of Katreena Erin's next single, Dinosaurs. Come along for an evening of intimate folk music, including a sneak peek preview of the song before it's officially released!

Dinosaurs will also be performed live for the first time.

Katreena Erin is a Wellington born singer, songwriter and visual artist. Her music and art are deeply spiritual, often exploring themes of spirit and love.

Personal yet universal, her songs range from dreamy and biopic interspersed with touches of light humour - to haunting and sometimes other-worldly.

Tickets available at bats.co.nz.

You can check out Katreena's music at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYNDk8S6Oh4 ...
20 Apr
6:00 pm
BATS Theatre

GARAGE SALE: DELUSIONAL DREAMLAND TAKEOVER ft. HYAN & FRIENDS

GARAGE SALE are linking up with Tamaki Makaurau's DELUSIONAL DREAMLAND to bring you a night to remember at Newtown's Moon Bar, with live DJs and a pop-up clothing store in the middle of the dancefloor. 

Headlining, we have the big dog HYAN presenting his unique brand of UK garage with a spin of pop culture. He will be working the floor alongside Garage Sale alumni GHO$T & NOYER, as well as Redline Records-associated upstarts LIMBO & FE, and the techno princess herself PORK CRACKLE.

We will also have a range of clothing on sale from Hyan, Delusional Dreamland, Studio One and the Garage Sale crew. Prepare for some serious boutique bizness!

Tickets are available online at a competitive rate - $10 early birds and $15 general admission! Choose your price based on whatever you can afford and head on down for a boogie! ...
20 Apr
9:00 pm - 2:00 am
Moon 1
Newtown, Wellington

RadioActive.FM Presents: The Nomad ‘Infinite’ 25 Anniversary Tour, The Grand Finale @ San Fran

Watch out Wellington, hold tight: one of the greatest line-ups of homegrown dance music legends is set to quake the Capital for The Nomad’s final show of his 25-year anniversary Infinite Tour.

After a quarter century of pushing boundaries and frequencies Daimon Schwalger, aka The Nomad, is a pioneer of electronica in Aotearoa New Zealand. For this special event, he’s joined by dance floor legends Greg Churchill, Sunshine Sound System and Downtown Brown and Babetech, with MC Antsman (Rhombus/Audio Mechanics), Tehimana Kerr (Fat Freddys Drop), live visuals by WarpTV (Shapeshifter) and special guest vocalists.

SAT 27th APRIL @ SAN FRAN, WELLINGTON 9-3am

TICKETS FROM MOSHTIX.CO.NZ ...
27 Apr
9:00 am
San Fran
Wellington
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