Aigantighe is Scottish Gaelic for ‘at home’ and is pronounced ‘egg and tie’. The gallery offers visitors exciting and inspiring opportunities to view its rich collection along with works by local, national, and international artists. The garden surrounding the gallery showcases a wide variety of permanent sculptures and is always open to the public. They look forward to seeing you at the gallery soon.
The Aigantighe Art Gallery welcomes visitors with disabilities and staff will do everything possible to provide all visitors with a positive experience. Please contact the Gallery on +64 03 688 4424 if you have questions or would like to discuss your access requirements. Access to the surrounding gardens can be challenging because of the sloping site, please contact the Gallery to discuss your access requirements.
Free parking is available outside the Gallery on Wai-iti Road.
The NZIFF 2023 programming team attends film festivals around the world to bring audiences in Aotearoa the very best of global cinema, with the Auckland programme featuring 129 full-length films and seven short film collections, with films hailing from 39 countries, including Uganda, Senegal, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Estonia, Jordan, Iran, Brazil, and of course Aotearoa. The films will screen in six venues and cinemas in Auckland from 19 July to 6 August with the festival rolling out to 15 regions across the motu. The 2023 programme comprises features, Cannes Film Festival winners, documentaries, shorts, retrospectives, films for kids, animation, and the ‘incredibly strange’. Nine films are celebrating their world premiere and all films are making their New Zealand premiere at NZIFF 2023.
The 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and Australia will be on a huge scale. It’s set to become the most-attended women’s sporting event in history, with over a million tickets already sold.
Matariki is a time where people, whānau, and communities gather together to remember the year that has passed, to celebrate the present, and to plan for the next year. It is a time to remember our loved ones who are no longer with us, to feast and celebrate with our relatives and friends, and to look towards the future and the hope of a season full of bounty.