Events in the region this weekend

The Kia Mau Festival is starting to wind down, but Sunday offers lots of music options.

Kia Mau Festival UPU

Circa 1, Circa Theatre, until June 19, 6.30pm & 8pm, $10-$45

Curated by award-winning poet Grace Iwashita-Taylor and led by powerhouse director Fasitua Amosa, UPU gives the stage to Oceania’s most electrifying poetry. Tickets: circa.co.nz

O Le Pa’a Ma Ona Vae

Heyday Dome, BATS Theatre, until June 19, 7pm, $15-$40

This evolving piece from Samoana Nokise speaks on the relationship between the physical and spiritual. Tickets: bats.co.nz

He Tangata

Random Stage, BATS Theatre, until June 19, 8.30pm, $15-$40 Weaving takatapui and Ma¯oritanga back together, He Tangata looks backwards whilst moving forwards as we travel within the past, present and future of Takatapuitanga. Tickets: bats.co.nz

Daughter

Circa 2, Circa Theatre, until June 19, 7.30pm, 4.30pm, $25-$30

Get a rare glimpse into the creative world of frequency-bending polymath Teremoana Rapley as she presents her anticipated debut album Daughter of a Housegirl. Tickets: circa.co.nz

Breaking Ground

Te Auaha, until June 19

A festival of ideas, crafted into life by playwrights from across Aotearoa. This year the festival is hosting five playwrights who will be developing five new stage plays. Breakfast with Hades

Te Whaea National Dance & Drama Centre, June 19, 9.30pm, $15

With the release of her debut album Breakfast With Hades, upand-coming musician MAA is emerging from her bedroom studio to share some tunes. Tickets: iticket. co.nz

Other events

TODAY Documentary Edge International Film Festival 2021 (Doc Edge)

The Roxy until June 27, online until July 11, $20

Over 80 feature-length and short films, giving audiences a chance to experience the very best documentaries from NZ and around the world.

TOMORROW

Within the Hours of Darkness: Astrophotography

Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, June 19-August 8, free Six Wellington and Wairarapabased

artists celebrate darkness, the depths of winter and the shortest day, marked by the rising of the star cluster Matariki.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen Queen Margaret College Hall, 3pm, $10-$30

Join Nota Bene to celebrate the joys of a classic British summer with a touch of the Proms thrown in! Led by music director Maaike Christie-Beekman, and featuring the indomitable Mark Hadlow as Master of Ceremonies. Tickets: eventfinda.co.nz and door sales. Poems by Cleaners Performing Arts Studio, Pataka, 3-4pm, free

Hear the poetic cleaners from Porirua and beyond reading their poems from Landing Press’s latest collection, Somewhere a cleaner.

With live music by Don Franks (former cleaner and poet). Epilogue (Loemis Festival)

St Peter’s on Willis, 8pm, from $25 Five writers accompanied by musicians explore a series of unrelated events, evoking ideas around transition, inevitability, rest, activity, optimism and general doom. Music by Nigel Collins and Andrew Laking, in collaboration with Simon Christie and Maaike Beekman. Tickets: humantix.com SUNDAY

Afternoon of Song and Music

St Patrick’s Church, Stanley St, Wainuiomata, 2.30pm, $20

Come and hear the well-known and lovely Choir of St Mary of the Angels. Tickets: ph Alan 04564 6904, or door sales.

NRJ

Days Bay Pavilion, Eastbourne, 6pm-8pm, free

NRJ take blues, jive, pop, and soul tunes and twist them around, swapping swing for classic rock and much more.

Jade String Quartet

Waikanae Memorial Hall, 2.30pm, $30

The programme includes a rare opportunity to hear some of Haydn’s seldom-performed Seven Last Words. Tickets: waikanaemusic.org.nz and door sales.

Octogenarians with Palliser Viols and friends.

St Mary of the Angels, 7.30pm, $30, $15, door sales

Music by Heinrich Schu¨ tz and John Jenkins, contemporaries who both lived to their 80s in the dangerous times of the 17th century. Viols, violins, voices and organ. Songwriters Showcase #26 Moon1, 167 Riddiford St Newtown, 7pm, $10

Featuring Jo Sheffield, Bill Hickman and Vince Cabrera. Tickets: eventfinda.co.nz