Festival Stories – the perfect Harcourts Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival companion.

Here we’ll be sharing festival tips, the juice on different shows and artists, behind-the-scenes tales, video and audio content, along with coverage of the Festival as it happens.

Bookmark this page as your portal into two weeks of festival magic.

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Festival Finale

Labour Day

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Ten Festival Tips for Labour Weekend

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FOUND SPACE GIVES NEW STAGE

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Culture Canvas

celebrating art in Hastings CBD

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Cameron Jones' award-winning show High Rise comes home

Radio New Zealand

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Sxip Shirey and his bizarre orchestra

Radio New Zealand

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SHOOGLENIFTY

A Pitsch Leiser favourite for over 20 years

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Rants in the Dark

Audience Reactions

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SLAM BATTLE

Poets are as much dream dashers as they are visionaries

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Ricks Terstappen

Forty Years in the Making