events

Ika is thrilled to team up with the Council of Trade Unions to host three great speakers at a special…

Ika might still be Auckland’s only Living Wage eating place, but we welcomed Rotorua bar, Posonby Rd, to the accredited employers group this month and continue to encourage others to consider the case for better pay in an industry dominated by minimum wage work.

The Daily Blog monthly drinks this month are on Thursday, 30th at IKA, 2 Mt Eden Rd from 7pm. Mix and mingle with TDBs bloggers and friends and gossip about Politics.

Join Hassan and Ika “Salonistas” for a window into Islam in New Zealand. The evening, which includes your main meal (seafood and vegetarian options, no red meat at this event) is $32. Doors open 5.30 pm, main meal served at approx 6.15, followed by talk, questions and discussion.

Dr Russel Norman, Executive Director of Greenpeace Aoteaora/NZ and former Co-Leader of the Greens, completes Ika’s “Cooler Together” lunch & lecture series next Wednesday 8 June, with a policy and action focused challenge to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Ain’t That A Bitch is Anthea Hill’s debut as a playwright. Originally a 2010 writing exercise in Witi Ihimaera’s creative writing course at Auckland University, with the help of Jonathan Hodge it was developed into a piece for Short+Sweet 2015, and has now been crafted into an hour-long, two-handed play.

Table Talk is current affairs cabaret-style with Ika’s full (and fully delicious) menu on offer.

Musicians are banding together to raise funds towards ending child poverty in New Zealand, with a series of collaborative performances…

A generation of kiwis are being locked out of the kiwi dream by out of control house prices and rising rents. We are all being effected, so how can we solve Auckland’s Housing Crisis?