Ki Tua: Beyond Paradise

Festival Highlights

Come revisit your favourite memories with some of our favourite festival photos below. This year we kicked off the festival with Te Tīmatanga, offering a new work built within te ao Māori that intertwines dance, performance art, circus, kapa haka, taonga pūoro and ritual.

Through Pride Elevates, we presented the work of some of the city's best independent artists through, including The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave (left) and The Perfect Image (right).

Along with our curated programming, the festival was brought to life by the community as part of our Open Access programme which makes up the bulk of our festival every year. This year included the return of Hugo Grrrl's Trans Pride Drag Show.

Through our Pride and Spark Empowerment initiative we were able to support other arts and community organisations such as the Audio Foundation to deliver Loud and Proud (left) and Same Same But Different in their annual literary festival (right).

We welcomed a new generation of Rainbow Youth into the space, before the journey of reclamation, power and queer joy flows down Queen Street to Takutai Square, Britomart.

For the festival closing, we launched self-guided audio tour Te Ara Aronui at Albert Park, which is available year round on our website. Immerse yourselves in the layered histories that make Albert Park so uniquely fabulous.

Festival Highlights

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