Arts Market 2025 Programme
The full PANNZ Arts Market 2025 Programme will be released in early 2025.
Full-Length Showcases and Wheako Showings
The PANNZ Arts Market 2025 features full-length works and tasters (Wheako) of works from a variety of genres and artforms.
Across the three days are sessions with multiple options and delegates are asked to pre-book their spots for the different sessions. The Full-Length Showcases and Wheako showings that you book are included as part of your registration fee.
Please note when registering that some Full-Length Showcases and Wheako showings have limited capacity.
Below is a brief description of each work available to book as part of your registration to the Arts Market 2025.
Full-Length Showcases
14 Malone Road
Dance Theatre | Q Loft | 5 Mar, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
(Le Moana)
14 Malone Road, is an ode to the old neighbourhoods of Aotearoa, which are slowly starting to disappear with property development throughout the country. As children of the Pacific Islands migration, these neighbourhood’s were our foundation, the first layer of cultural and social education informing how we would dream and navigate the rest of the world.
Taking Our Music To The World:
An Aotearoa Showcase
Music | Q Rangatira | 5 Mar, 8:30pm - 10pm
(New Zealand Music Commission | Te Reo Reka o Aotearoa)
Experience an electrifying convergence of musical talent in an unforgettable showcase of diverse sounds showcasing the best of Aotearoa.
Speed is Emotional
Theatre | Herald Theatre | 6 Mar, 5pm - 6pm
(Barbarian Productions)
Featuring Barbarian Productions' Jo Randerson - a truly original playwright, devisor, director, author, and film-maker. In Speed is Emotional, Jo returns to the stage with a fresh mix of karaoke, clown, performance poetry, and stand-up. Why can't she stick to one genre? Because she has ADHD – as she discovered in her 40s shortly after her son received the same diagnosis.
BELLE: A Performance of Air
Circus / Dance | Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre | 6 Mar, 7.30pm - 8.30pm
(Movement Of The Human as part of
Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival)
This monumental collision of theatre and aerial transforms the theatre into a whole other world. An all-female cast exhibits spectacular strength and skill, emerging and vanishing from portals of light and shadow, all of it enveloped in a gorgeous soundscape. Belle is a visual and atmospheric wonder.
a mix tape for maladies
Theatre | ASB Waterfront Theatre | 6 & 7 Mar, 7pm - 9pm
(Agaram Productions with Auckland Theatre Company as part of
Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival)
The songs we connect to our memories just hit differently. Theatre-maker Ahi Karunaharan has picked 17 nostalgic pop tracks to chart the deeply moving journey of Sangeetha and her family in 1950s Sri Lanka. Taking us from innocent times through to decades of civil war, to a new life in modern-day Aotearoa, this unforgettable saga with an all-South Asian cast is a testament to the storytelling power of good music.
Suitcase Show
Theatre | Q Loft | 6 & 7 Mar, 8pm - 9pm
(Trick of the Light Theatre as part of
Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival)
A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered cases.
From within them, whole worlds will emerge…Suitcase Show is an eclectic box set of short stories. Dark, spiky, and comic, each one is told out of a suitcase. The staging is inventive, from lo-fi shadowplay to wireless projection, from dancing disembodied hands to narratives that crackle from a 70s stereo suitcase. Tiny in scale, but expansive in story, each case is a self-contained world.
THE TROJAN WAR
Interactive Theatre | Herald Theatre | 7 Mar, 7.30pm - 8.30pm
(A Slightly Isolated Dog)
Following the success of DON JUAN & JEKYLL & HYDE, A Slightly isolated Dog brings you the third piece in the trilogy. Theatrical magic, wicked pop songs & explosive wit is combined to create a delightful romp through a twisted classic tale, where the audience plays along.
THE TROJAN WAR tells the story of Troy and its tragic fall. It is an explosive & joyous celebration of our ridiculous lives.
Sons of Vao
Theatre | Supper Room, Town Hall | 6 Mar, 10am - 11am
(Vela Manusaute)
From a small village in Niue to the expansive plains of Auckland, New Zealand. Three brothers unpack their stories, and at the centre of it all is their father, VAO. Derived from Manusaute’s own lived experiences, ‘Sons of Vao’ scribes a 40-year-long journey to exonerating pain and embracing forgiveness.
The story of my...?
Theatre | Aotea Centre | 6 Mar, 10am - 11am
(Nightsong)
What happens when you begin to tell the story of your life and your life starts talking back? It’s ‘Readers and Writers’ week. An evening with the great novelist Simon Busby. It's a packed house, hanging on the man’s every word. But as he starts to tell them the story of his life from behind a lectern, his life starts to talk back and the lectern contains a host of surprises.
Dimensions in Black
Theatre / Multi-media | Aotea Centre | 6 Mar, 10am - 11am
(Black Creatives)
Dimensions in Black spans centuries, exploring colonisation, migration and celebration of a people, from a distinctive Black experience. In 2121, two Black women are stuck in a shuttle together - they are waste-management specialists ('trashers') nearing the end of their 3-year space mission. A migrant Zimbabwean family in Tāmaki Makaurau in 2051 are desperate to make a home as comfortable and safe as possible. It is 1561 in the kingdom of Mutapa, the arrival of the first Jesuit missionary to the kingdom has set the place abuzz with talk: the king and his mother seem to be taken with this white man's story of a white God and his punishments.
Tangihanga
Theatre | Supper Room, Town Hall | 7 Mar, 10am - 11am
(Wahanui Productions)
Tangihanga follows Jess, a loving daughter whose father Karanipa passes away, leading his whanau and friends to gather at the Marae to mourn his loss. As the tangi progresses, tensions rise, family dynamics unravel, and secrets are exposed, all while Jess and the whanau grapple with their grief and differences. The show explores whanau relationships, identity, cultural traditions, and the importance of family and community in times of grief and loss.
The Tantrum
Dance Theatre with Live Music | Aotea Centre | 7 Mar, 10am - 11am
(Java Dance)
The Tantrum is a show for young people and their families about dealing with huge emotions and searching for an equilibrium in a topsy-turvy world. Daring to step out from the cosy comfort of home, a sister and brother are thrown into the wild ups and downs of the world outside their little house. Bringing you Java Dance Theatre’s signature style of interactive dance and live music, this is a show for anyone who has ever lost control.
Only Bones
Theatre / Physical Theatre | Herald Theatre | 7 Mar, 10am - 11am
(Daniel Nodder)
Only Bones is an original contemporary physical theatre performance in which a solo performer wordlessly explores a microscopic universe; stepping from world to world; from creation to destruction to recreation. This galaxy-spanning performance has no text, no set, no props, no narrative, only one light, all within one metre squared to be taken on a journey across the cosmos.
