The week is dominated by the launch of the NZ International Comedy Festival – our picks for the week are…
WEDNESDAY 23rd
Sunrise Yoga on Queens Wharf
7am-8.15am
Queens Wharf, 89 Quay Street (bottom of Queen Street)
Free
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THURSDAY 24th
5 STAR COMEDY PREVIEW
Kicking off the 2014 Festival, John Gordillo, Sara Pascoe, John Robins, Tim FitzHigham, Carl Donnelly and the return of James Acaster, Markus Birdman and Stuart Goldsmith. Plus Northern Irishman, Michael Legge.
SKYCITY Theatre, Auckland
8pm
Tickets $49.50
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FRIDAY 25th
JEREMY ELWOOD
One of the best comedians in NZ, manages to merge politics and current affairs and humour effortlessly.
Vault at Q Theatre, Auckland
8.45pm/em>
Tickets: $25.00
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SATURDAY 26th
STAND-UP FOR KIDS
Adults laugh an average of five times a day, but kids laugh over 150 times! Stand-Up For Kids is guaranteed to blow your laugh quota and theirs. International and local comedians will create giggles galore for your little monsters.
2pm
Loft at Q Theatre, Auckland
Tickets: $19.50
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SUNDAY 27th
My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia
See the largest and most significant exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian art ever shown in New Zealand at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki this autumn with My Country: Contemporary Art from Black Australia, opening Friday 28 March.
Level 1 exhibition spaces. Exhibition entry charge applies
Auckland Art Gallery
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