Tomorrow's Histories: photographs by Neil Penman marks significant moments in Porirua's history and honours the legacy of local photographer Neil Penman, who dedicated himself to documenting moments of urban transformation.

Working in black and white documentary style, Penman saw photography as a form of social history, preserving the stories of people and places for posterity. Among his photographs are the people who were there throughout it all, including portraits of Ngāti Toa kaumatua.

Tomorrow's Histories will be on display from the 8th of August until the 8th of November at Pātaka Gallery.

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Coming up at the Hannah Playhouse is Big Low Dream, presented by Footnote New Zealand Dance. BIG LOW DREAM is a new contemporary dance work about what we reach for, together, in the dark.

Choreographer Jessie McCall looks to dream logic - unruly, queer, ethically imaginative, as a way to hold onto meaning in a time of overlapping crises. Ominous and funny, intimate and sweeping, BIG LOW DREAM is a rehearsal of possible futures — tender, desperate, and rising.

Wellington season: 10 - 12 September 7pm, Hannah Playhouse. Thursday 10th is Choose Your Price Night! Tickets from www.footnote.org.nz

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ENROLATHON 12 HOURS 12th SEPTEMBER!

Join us at PEG Gallery for a full day of DJs, live performances and good vibes, with the team on hand to help you check (or sort) your enrolment status on the spot.

230 Cuba Street, PEG Gallery

10am – 10pm, Saturday 12 September 2026

Check your enrolment and go in the draw to win goodies from Decoy Knitwear, Turumeke, Gramercy, Coffee Supreme, 15 Minute Bottles, Current Art Magazine and PEG!

Radioactive DJs on the decks all day: DJ Poets, Manakin, Seini, Jasmine, Martyn Pepperell, Subtle Grape, Club Medder & Maximillian, plus local performers Rens and Blip the Siren.

With special thanks to the support of the Electoral Commission.

See you there.

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DJs, dancing and doing good.

Dress up, get down to Moon and boogie all night while helping Kaibosh Food Rescue feed those in our communities that need it most.

Stellar DJs – Flatmate, Hexadecimal, Nam Chucks, Amira, Ché D, The Village Idiot and DJ Danger – spinning all night, with lights and visuals from the legendary Cubeman, Metrokorg and VJ Raskal.

House, breaks, tech house, techno, minimal, rave, bass music and more, with good times guaranteed, and sweet sounds from Torque Sound System.

Raffle, plus spot prizes for the best dressed (costume theme: spring!).

Tickets available at Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/spring-for-kaibosh

Saturday 12 September, 7pm–2am, Moon Bar, tickets from $25.

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Nau mai, haere mai, whakapiri mai, mo tetahi wiki whakahirahira ki te Whare Marama tēnei Mahuru!

Come celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori with us at Moon Bar this September.

Rāapa (Wednesday) 16th - Kenzie From Welly & Nameless & Brainless (hip-hop/soul)

Rāpara (Thursday) 17th - Hine & Flowback (indigenous folk/jazz/soul/singer-songwriter)

Rāmere (Friday) 18th - E Tū - So&So Sophmore EP release w/ ONEROOF, Hone, Vallé, Noé, Casual Healing, Vati & Skulli (hip-hop/rnb/dubstep)

Rāhoroi (Saturday) 19th - Toroa, Te Manu & Awa, powered by Further Sound (hiko/electronic/dub/taonga puoro)

16-19 Mahuru/September. Moon Bar, Newtown. Tickets via www.newtownmoon.co.nz

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Meet our costume artisans! At these exclusive events, step into our cinema in the heart of Wētā Workshop, as two of our costume technicians reveal how a hobby grew into a career and how the skills behind blockbuster films can begin at your own kitchen table.

10AM, Thursday 17, Saturday 19, Sunday 20, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September @ Wētā Workshop Experiences in Miramar.

A treat for World of Wearable Art fans and makers alike. Sessions available across WOW festival. Secure your booking from wetaworkshop.com

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Following the release of their recent singles, “I Do Mine” and "Brand New Lovers", Wellington indie/alt rock band Debt Club have announced their first Aotearoa nationwide tour.

The tour will celebrate the release of their debut album “Foothold” which is out now; available for Vinyl and CD now on Bandcamp.

Debt Club's Wellington show is on September 18th at San Fran with support from First Reserve & Dillon Jo - tickets are on sale now at moshtix.co.nz  ...

Wellington's monthly residency of exploratory music is back at Cuba St Tavern's garden courtyard, with four musicians coming together to build something new in real time.

abey sparks (drums), Chris Beernink (bass), Dave Wilson (alto saxophone & bass clarinet) and Aslan (guitar) will spend the night uncovering grooves as they go - no setlist, just musicians listening and responding to each other live. Expect the unexpected: a set that shifts and shapes itself as it unfolds.

Grab a drink, settle into the courtyard, and let the night take you wherever it goes.

Thursday 24th September, 8pm - 10pm

$10 waged / $5 students / unwaged

Tickets available from humanitix.com

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Warning: contains monsters (and the young makers who create them).

Fangs. Claws. Scales, and a few too many eyes. These school holidays, kids can sculpt them all from a single lump of clay.

In this new workshop, they'll become a monster maker for an hour. Working with the same modelling clay used by our Wētā Workshop crew, they'll shape and sculpt their very own creature, then take it home... if they dare.

Book on the Wētā website!

Price: $29, parents and caregivers go free.

Want to make a day of it? Add a tour with our Junior Combo for $49 per person: Monster Makers & Tour Combo | Wētā Workshop Experiences

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Hailing from the Wetlands of Otautahi Christchurch, Single Malt are bringing their unique groove and undeniable swag to Pōneke, marking their first North Island show yet!

“Wetlands” is a gig where all can come and boogie, sing, connect, and get a taste of the unique vibe born from the East of Christchurch.

Single Malt have teamed up with incredible local talent:
Nameless and Brainless - a 5 piece soul/hiphop band bringing high-energy Kiwi raps and an insane rhythm section.
Z.F.C and HAZ - Welly local DJs bringing a mix of soulful house and groovy dance music guaranteed to make ya move.

Hosted at the iconic Moon Bar in Newtown, “Wetlands” will embody the good vibes of Spring, goodbyes of Winter, and the great nights of memories.

Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz ...

After two decades Wellington has finally gifted us an appropriate venue from which Music Without Subtitles can host its first ever live-to-air radio show, It's all going down at Octo & Herbs this Saturday the 26th of September from 9-11pm!

Marking TV DiSKO's twenty-year stint with RadioActive.FM, the city's best little community radio station, Octo and Herb’s as the show’s sponsor have graciously allowed us to mark this auspicious anniversary with a live broadcast from their bar.

Join us in person and come on down to Octo & Herbs for this free event, and if you can't make it down you can tune in to 88.6FM to hear it all unfold over the airwaves! 

Octo & Herbs
26th September
Music Without Subtitles live
9-11pm
Free Entry ...

Music & The City at Cuba Street Tavern in collaboration with RadioActive.FM

Hosted by NZIA, NZILA, and SEGD, Music & the City is an event series designed to dive into a hot topic with city shaping voices.

The next iteration: Music & the City will explore the spaces where music happens—town halls, old churches, basements, parks, beaches, street corners, recording studios, record stores, radio stations—and asks how people make those spaces special, what architects, landscape architects, and experiential designers can add for the future of music and the city.

We’ll be marking the final weekend of Aotearoa Festival of Architecture 2026 at Cuba Street Tavern, with a live broadcast of the Late Late Breakfast show, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A about how we best design spaces for music in our city, and kick-ons with RadioActive DJs to see you deep into the night. 

Cuba Street Tavern Saturday 3rd October

1pm-1am Free Entry ...