Paint Vine will provide the knowledge, equipment, expertise, and everything else needed for a great night. Tickets are essential and can be purchased from the Paint Vine website.
Dr Rudi’s is a wheelchair-accessible venue. Wheelchair access is via the lift in the 204 Quay St building. Take the ramp in between Danny Doolans and Coops (to the left of the escalators) off the main Viaduct Harbour promenade. Take the lift up to level 1 and head to the left to find the main entrance to Dr Rudi’s. Alternatively access is via the air bridge fom the Downtown Carpark. Please make use of the ‘requests’ option when making a booking to inform staff of any special requirements.
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.