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Te Papa believes Matariki should be celebrated by all New Zealanders as an indigenous event of national identity.

Te Papa wants Matariki celebrated as an event of national identity

Two great works by two of the giants of classical music will be performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Napier, Tauranga, Auckland and New Plymouth in June.

A winter feast of Mozart and Beethoven with the NZSO

To celebrate the completion of a 4 year restoration of the National War Memorial Carillon, we invite you to Pukeahu to hear National Carillonist, Timothy Hurd QSM, playing the Carillon bells at a series of free recitals. Spice up your weekday lunchtime or Sunday afternoon with the sounds of the Carillon.

National War Memorial Carillon recitals

Great music inspires great dance this winter, as the Royal New Zealand Ballet brings works by two of the greatest choreographers of the 20th and 21st centuries to New Zealand stages, together with an exciting new commission from New Zealander Corey Baker, the first ballet ever created in the frozen wilderness of Antarctica.

RNZB's Dancing with Mozart

Exceptional New Zealand artists Billy Apple, Fred Graham, Bill Manhire, Maualaivao Albert Wendt and Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead have been awarded the Arts Foundation of New Zealand's highest honour, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award – Whakamana Hiranga.

Icon Awards 2018: Five new Icon Award recipients announced

A world first sensory experience will be officially opened at The Great War Exhibition to the public on Saturday April 14. Set at Quinn’s Post, a tenuously held frontline position on the Gallipoli Peninsula, visitors will enter another world of the grit and hardship experienced by New Zealand soldiers during this ill-fated campaign.

Peter Jackson uses cutting edge technology to bring Quinn’s Post Trench Experience to The Great War Exhibition

Once the guns fell silent on 11 November 1918, communities went to monumental lengths to remember those who had served and died in the First World War. WW100 New Zealand has put together some resources to help you discover the history and significance of the 500 or so memorials that still cover our landscape.

Monumental – Understanding New Zealand's First World War memorials

In 2019, New Zealand will mark 250 years since the first meetings between Māori and Europeans during James Cook and the Endeavour's 1769 voyage to Aotearoa New Zealand. Funding is available for community projects that align with the kaupapa of Tuia – Encounters 250.

Tuia - Encounters 250 Lottery Grants funding

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