2025 Festival Calendar

Aotearoa Music Photography Award Digital - East Te Oro Music and Arts Centre 14 April 22 April
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki 17 April 17 August
Aotearoa Music Photo Awards Digital - Rodney Estuary Arts Centre 28 April 25 May
A Photography Podcast: A New Lens on the Industry When Harri Met Sally Online 1 May 15 June
Aotearoa Music Photo Awards - Te Komititanga Te Komititanga Square 1 May 19 May
Aotearoa Music Photo Awards Digital PwC Tower lobby 1 May 16 May
Chalk-Stone-White Monika K. Adler Online 1 May 15 June
Death and Other Belongings Will Green Online 1 May 1 June
EverydayClimateChange Instagram Project EverydayClimateChange Online 1 May 15 June
In The Wake Of The Tide Annette-Karin Richards ART Online 1 May 15 June
Instagrampier Instagrampier Online 1 May 15 June
Postcards From New Zealand - Tatsiana Chypsanava Online - YouTube 1 May 15 June
PPE Pandemic & Conflict Portraits Sarah Cusack Online 1 May 15 June
Sustain - I GRANT YOU REFUGE I GRANT YOU REFUGE Online 1 May 15 June
The Common Room The Strand Arcade 1 May 30 June
Aotearoa Music Photography Award 2024 Digital - City Ellen Melville Centre 5 May 16 May
Aotearoa Music Photography Award 2024 Pop up Ellen Melville Centre 8 May 10 May
Exposure - Auckland Photo Day 20 years Studio One Toi Tu 8 May 5 June
Talk - Time is a developing agent Lopdell House Theatre 10 May
Through Local Eyes: Faces of Glen Innes Town Centre Te Oro Music and Arts Centre  10 May 10 August
A Sacred Journey Little Rosie's Cafe 15 May 15 June
Speaking in Black & White Northart Gallery 17 May 28 June
Cosmos in Your Hood Outdoor/indoor venues across Point Chevalier and at Mt Albert Library 20 May 20 June
MELT: A Strangely Beautiful Interior Skar Image Lab 21 May 31 May
Sustain - NZ Herald Visual Journalists Queens Wharf Fence 22 May 13 June
Dream Diary Two Rooms 23 May 28 June
Night Writing Two Rooms 23 May 28 June
Sustain - Antarctica - Richard Young Karanga Plaza 23 May 12 June
Sustain - Anywhere Out of the World - Ardit Hoxha Te Komititanga Square - Britomart Train Station 23 May 12 June
Sustain - The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values - Clara Watt Te Komititanga Square - Britomart 23 May 12 June
Sustain - VITAL Karanga Plaza 23 May 12 June
Dance, Dance Sanderson Contemporary 27 May 22 June
Sustain - Digital Screen Auckland Central Library 27 May 12 June
Visual Brain Shake & Kumeū in Focus Kumeū Arts 27 May 21 June
Sustain - Healthy Poison - Karl Mancini Gantry - Silo Park 28 May 16 June
Sustain - Lost Forest - Hiroaki Hasumi Gantry - Silo Park 28 May 16 June
Sustain - Validity Period - Roman Butym/Pavlo Kyryk Silo 7 - Silo Park 28 May 16 June
Sustain - ZERO HUNGER - Maurizio Di Pietro Gantry - Silo Park 28 May 16 June
Talking Culture - Artist Talks & Openings Auckland region 28 May 15 June
Fragments of Time: My Journey in Frames Sumi's eye Online 29 May 15 June
Greener Horizons Polish Heritage Trust Museum 29 May 15 June
IMPERMANENCE satellite2 29 May 15 June
Pinhole Photography Highwic 29 May 15 June
Talking Culture - The Eye of Photography Venue - coming soon 29 May 3 June
Tides of Change National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy 29 May 31 October
From Silk to Oil John Kinder House 30 May 30 June
Material World Becroft Gallery, Lake House Arts Centre 30 May 20 June
The Afterglow of Industry PwC Tower, HSBC Tower, Aon Centre, Jarden House and Deloitte Centre lobbies 30 May 19 June
ABOVE/BELOW satellite2 31 May 15 June
From the Collection: Celebrating 50 years of Photography Te Kunenga Ki Purehuroa, Massey University 31 May 1 August
Looking Up Lake House Arts Centre 31 May 19 June
Talk - AI and the Death of Photography Online - Zoom 31 May
Talk - Remarkable Survivors: Saving NZ’s history one photograph at a time Whare Wānanga, Level 2, Central City Library 31 May
Wet Plate Portrait Sessions Highwic 31 May 1 June
Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2024 - City Ellen Melville Centre 1 June 15 June
Renew Matthew Dowman Online 1 June 30 June
Talking Culture - Photobook Sunday Central City Library  Sun 1 June
Wonderful Moments Waitakere Central Library (Henderson) 1 June 30 June
Little Eyes, Big Perspectives Mt Eden Village Centre 2 June 13 June
Sustain - Embrace the Unknown Silo 6 2 June 15 June
Talking Culture - Sustain Helen Clark Room - Ellen Melville Centre 2 June
Joyriders Skar Image Lab 4 June 26 June
Peace Mona Lisa Tawhiao Gallery 5 June 11 June
Festival HQ presented by Harvey Norman Silo 6 6 June 7 June
Pause The Upstairs Gallery 6 June 22 June
There The Dance Is Artor Contemporary 6 June 14 June
Antithesis Art Collective 7 June 14 June
Ecologies The Shutter Room Online 7 June 28 June
Interwoven: Stories of Nature and Us Tangiwai Reserve 8 June
Labyrinth Strand Arcade 8 June 30 June
Woven Worlds: Research, Art, and Sustainability Elam Projectspace Gallery, Elam School of Fine Arts, Main Fine Arts Building 432 9 June 15 June
Arrivals and Departures Myers Park Caretakers Historical Cottage circa 1853 10 June 24 June
f30/Sustain Helensville Art Centre 11 June 28 June
Talk - Documentary Photography Hobsonville Point Students Te Kunenga Ki Purehuroa, Massey University 11 June
Darling – Tēnei Au The Arts House Trust at The Pah Homestead 12 June 2 August
25 Women Photographers Little Rosie's Cafe 17 June 13 July

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