Literary-art Events in Auckland

Check out happening literary-art events all around Auckland, AU

Mountain Goats | Powerstation, Auckland - VENUE UPGRADED!

 Fri, 10 Apr at 09:00 am Powerstation

Anzac Day 2026

 Fri, 24 Apr at 08:00 pm Auckland Domain, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand 1021

Deafheaven & Nothing | Auckland | The Powerstation

 Fri, 03 Jul at 10:00 am Powerstation

Celestial Events Starfall Ball™ (Auckland Soiree)

 Sat, 19 Sep at 07:00 pm Auckland Art Gallery AUD 398

72. R. F. Kuang

 Sat, 16 May at 02:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

4. Lunch with Patrick Radden Keefe

 Wed, 13 May at 12:30 pm Metita

113. To Hell and Back

 Sun, 17 May at 02:10 pm Rangatira, Q Theatre

Rosebud Baker - Auckland

 Sat, 18 Apr at 09:30 am The Tuning Fork

Conversations with Friends: Tradition, Value & The Future of Art

 Wed, 13 May at 06:00 pm The French Cafe NZD 187

91. Roddy Doyle

 Sat, 16 May at 08:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

45. (VIRTUAL) Ian McEwan

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

The Stage: Unbuttoned

 Thu, 16 Apr at 07:00 pm The Button Factory NZD 49

2. (VIRTUAL) Maggie O'Farrell

 Tue, 12 May at 06:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

116. Weird Girl Lit

 Sun, 17 May at 03:40 pm Rangatira, Q Theatre

78. S. A. Cosby

 Sat, 16 May at 04:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

83. Tayari Jones

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

82. Elizabeth Knox: Plausibility, Tone and Truth

 Sat, 16 May at 05:00 pm Waihorotiu

103. Betsy Balloon

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

77. Amitav Ghosh

 Sat, 16 May at 04:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

127. Louise Erdrich

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

5. Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2026

 Wed, 13 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

68. Charlotte McConaghy

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

3. Patrick Radden Keefe

 Tue, 12 May at 08:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

136. The 2025 Booker Prize Winner: David Szalay

 Sun, 17 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

40. Yann Martel

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

137. Lessons on Living: A Tribute to Nigel Latta

 Sun, 17 May at 05:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

132. Lyse Doucet

 Sun, 17 May at 04:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

49. Down the Rabbithole...

 Fri, 15 May at 09:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

88. Helen Garner: How to End a Story

 Sat, 16 May at 07:00 pm Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

128. The Mushroom Tapes

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

47. Mieko Kawakami

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

CreativeMornings Auckland

Thu, 23 Apr at 09:00 pm 2 Freyberg Place, Auckland, New Zealand 1010

Workshops with Jane Wrigglesworth

 Sat, 18 Apr at 12:00 am Epsom Community Centre

92. The Spice Salon

 Sat, 16 May at 09:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

123. Elizabeth Knox: Night, Ma

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

30. Authors and AI: A Moment of Reckoning?

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

Storytime Stitching April book club Milford

 Fri, 17 Apr at 05:30 pm The Booklover Bookshop NZD 130

70. The Chief and The Empire

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

129. No Country for Middle-Aged Men?

 Sun, 17 May at 02:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

107. Tareq Baconi

 Sun, 17 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

124. Hannah Kent: A Love Letter to Iceland

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

14. The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2026 Winner

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

Artist Talk: Makyla Curtis | Printmaking with Nature

 Sun, 03 May at 10:00 am Studio One Toi Tu Free

133. Sliding Doors

 Sun, 17 May at 04:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

13. Inside the Story

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

110. The Rise of Romance

 Sun, 17 May at 12:40 pm Rangatira, Q Theatre

99. Lily King: Heart the Lover

 Sun, 17 May at 10:00 am Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre

86. Bora Chung

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

22. The Mother of All Journeys

 Fri, 15 May at 11:30 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

Evacuation Tapes, a reading by Ruth Buchanan

 Thu, 02 Jul at 06:00 pm 292 Karangahape Road Free

Unity Books in Conversation With Charlotte Grimshaw

 Sun, 12 Apr at 05:45 pm 19 High Street NZD 10

43. Small Towns, Dark Truths

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

The Stage: Unbuttoned

 Thu, 16 Apr at 09:00 am 2 Abbey Street, Auckland, New Zealand

90. Grieving Together: Tusiata Avia and Nafanua Purcell Kersel

 Sat, 16 May at 07:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

75. Deepa Bhasthi: Translating with an Accent

 Sat, 16 May at 02:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

126. Zines NZ: From Punk to Present

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

85. Art in the Time of War

 Sat, 16 May at 05:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

117. Hot Takes, Sharp Lines: A Spoken Word Round Table

 Sun, 17 May at 04:00 pm Loft, Q Theatre

65. Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

46. Florence Knapp

 Fri, 15 May at 07:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

35. Charlotte Grimshaw

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

69. Maria Reva

 Sat, 16 May at 01:00 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

Mini Course on Information Diffusion in Social Networks

 Tue, 14 Apr at 10:00 am Sir Owen G Glenn Building Free

Secrets by the Seaside - St Heliers MITL

 Thu, 07 May at 08:00 am St Heliers Community Library (Saint Heliers)

Horses & Us Author Talk with Johanna Emeney

 Sat, 11 Apr at 04:30 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

42. Tony Tulathimutte: Rejection

 Fri, 15 May at 05:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

131. Bryan Walpert: Digging Sideways into Character

 Sun, 17 May at 03:00 pm Waihorotiu

64. Retelling Female Histories

 Sat, 16 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

15. The Cost of Care

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

21. Discovering Medieval Manuscripts in Aotearoa New Zealand

 Fri, 15 May at 11:30 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

32. From East to West and Back Again

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

25. Vincent O'Malley: From Aotearoa New Zealand to the Emerald Isle

 Fri, 15 May at 01:00 pm Hunua Room, Level 1, Aotea Centre

12. Daniel Hahn: An Introduction to Translation

 Fri, 15 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

38. Gertrude Stein and a Companion

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

16. Alexandra Lapierre

 Fri, 15 May at 10:00 am Limelight, Aotea Centre

58. If This Be Magic: Shakespeare in Translation

 Sat, 16 May at 10:00 am Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

37. Saltwater, Solitude and Songs of the Sea

 Fri, 15 May at 04:00 pm Limelight, Aotea Centre

Guided Walk: Poetry for Tamariki

 Sun, 31 May at 10:00 am Huia Lodge, Cornwall Park Free

98. Breton Dukes: Writing Fact into Fiction

 Sun, 17 May at 09:00 am Waihorotiu

31. The Happenstance Historians

 Fri, 15 May at 02:30 pm Waitakere Room, Aotea Centre

104. Thammika Songkaeo: Writing Fear, Anger, and Sadness

 Sun, 17 May at 11:00 am Waihorotiu

18. Siobhan Harvey: Mastering Place and Space

 Fri, 15 May at 11:00 am Waihorotiu

121. Victor Rodger: Putting Your Rage on the Page

 Sun, 17 May at 01:00 pm Waihorotiu

Archangel's Eternity Book Launch with Nalini Singh

 Tue, 05 May at 09:00 am Chapter Book & Tea Shop

Wednesdy Book Chat

 Wed, 06 May at 12:00 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630

From the Author's Mouth

 Thu, 30 Apr at 12:00 am 8 Bute Road, Browns Bay, Auckland, New Zealand 0630