It’s Showtime

Tauranga Arts Festival has released tickets to two shows expected to be in high demand — the Auckland Theatre Company’s The Haka Party Incident (pictured) and an evening of music with Troy Kingi and Delaney Davidson. An innovative piece of documentary theatre, The Haka Party Incident (29 October) retells the events of 1 May, 1979 when activist group He Taua confronted Auckland University engineering students as they rehearsed an annual mock haka, a long-held tradition of the department. The incident resulted in a reset of race relations in New Zealand. Award-winning musician Kingi is making 10 albums in 10 genres in 10 years and will perform his latest work, Black Sea Golden Ladder, a folk-inspired collaboration with Davidson, on 23 October. Earlybird prices for both shows apply until 12 August.
→ Tickets, taurangafestival.co.nz and Baycourt box office. All other tickets for the festival, which runs 21 to 31 October 2021, are on sale from 6 August.

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