Sing along to the words from popular songs recorded in te reo Māori for Waiata Anthems.

How is Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland City described outside of official city maps? What other kinds of wayfinding exist beyond our known pathways? These questions and more will be answered in a series of short artist films mapping out the city across the CBD. Wild Wild Life will launch on the Auckland Live Digital Stage, as well as in other inner-city locations, to create a walking map of the CBD. Read more.

Cascades is a live performance and audio-visual project by French artists Franck Vigroux and Antoine Schmitt inspired by the concept of waterfalls. Featuring flowing light and multiple movement sequences, and an original music score, Cascades is a meditative, impulsive, beautiful, visceral experience. Read more.

Dragon is a new dance-theatre film featuring artists from Japan and Aotearoa. The appearance of the celestial Dragon invokes an ancient connection to the multiverse. This game-like cinema opens alternative pathways, expanding geometries of the cube and hexagon, morphing spatial portals through the fusion of dance, music and digital arts.

Beam with soundtrack: 7-9 March, 15-17 March, 22-24 March at 9pm

Created by David Eversfield, eight searchlights will swirl, dance and light up the Tāmaki Makaurau skyline every night of AKLFEST2024. Come into Aotea Square with a blanket and relax with your friends gazing at the lights searching the sky above.

On selected nights there will also be a soundtrack to complement these spectacular lights. Read more.

Come and relax in Aotea Square with your blanket and friends for free film screenings, animations and music videos created by talented UNITEC School of Creative Industries graduates, plus selected films from Ngā Pakiaka, a collective of rangatahi filmmakers aged 12 – 25 from across Aotearoa.

Featured films are: Waiting, Top 50 Jazz Classics, The Fight Marino, If it's the Last, In Mt Head, Māoriland 3 Brolesque