Festival of Live Art - F.O.L.A.

Full Programme: fola.co.nz

Due to unforeseen power outages caused by the Cyclone, we are deeply saddened to announce the cancellation of the Festival of Live Art (FOLA) performances tonight till Friday 17 February. 

The following shows have therefore been cancelled:

NSA : Libation

Their feet did not touch the ground

MĀRAMA

Takirua - Two Together - Double Bill 

Vinay Hira by Morticia Antoinette Godiva by Vinay Hira

Extanz vol 1.5

Vast

Once More, With Feeling

First Buzzard At the Body 

The following shows are rescheduled/continuing:

Into the Well: Sounds From the Deep, Saturday 18 Feb, (rescheduling - time TBC)

SADBOI (rescheduling to Saturday 18 Feb, - time TBC)

A Rain Walk

Free FOLA events on the 18 Feb are still going ahead including the HULLA GULLA Chaos Party (10PM), Liquid Light, Diaspora Rendered, Flea Pit & the Moonrise Keynote Speech (online). We would love to see you there.

If you would like to support FOLA in another way, please consider supporting the artists or the Festival by visiting the store: www.fola.co.nz/store 

Tāmaki Makaurau is set to host the inaugural Festival of Live Art (F.O.L.A.) - AKL in 2023, a wild, celebratory mash up of subversive, playful, and daring art. Local and international independent artists will come together from 14 – 19 February at Basement Theatre and digitally, to challenge perceptions and push the boundaries of performance and art. Welcome to the artistic underground. The art rats are out to play.

The ambitious programme will feature over 30 leading experimental and forward thinking, feminist, queer, and BIPOC artists, including 5 international performers, across 10 full-length shows and a full free public program. This is work that takes over and sits between the spaces of traditional live performance genres of theatre, dance, performance, art, music, installation, and spoken word.

The 2023 programme is shaped around the sun and moon cycles, with each live work programmed during the exact timings of moonrise and sunset, with the whole festival ending in a lavish artist’s banquet on the night of the new moon at Auckland’s iconic Satya Chai Lounge. The result is a festival that takes the audience on a journey that encourages clandestine pockets of darkness and transcendent moments of lightness that lean in our planet's celestial cycles.