2025 Festival Programme

The 2025 Festival is happening October 9-19. Check out our Full Programme BELOW!

The Hawke's Bay Readers & Writers Programme is available by clicking HERE.

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The Blyth Performing Arts Centre

HBAF 2025 - SCENA - Project Prima Volta

Opera

Hastings Arts Centre

HBAF 2025 - Firing Season

Contemporary Art

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Toitoi - Hawke's Bay Arts & Events Centre

HBAF 2025 - The Emerging Arts Advocates Programme (EAAP)

Education

Toitoi - Opera House

HBAF 2025 - Deva Mahal

Blues

Hastings Arts Centre

110 Years of the Opera House - Art Exhibition

Contemporary Art

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Hastings

HBAF 2025 - ArtsFest Heretaunga

Family Entertainment

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Martin House, Kamaka Pottery and Kilns

HBAF 2025 - Tour of the Martin House and Kilns

Contemporary Art

Toitoi - Opera House

HBAF 2025 - Guru of Chai - Indian Ink Theatre Company

Theatre

MTG Century Theatre

HBAF 2025 - Hysterical

Theatre

Toitoi - Opera House

HBAF 2025 - The Velvet Rebels

Festivals

National Aquarium of New Zealand

HBAF 2025 - Of Sea and Sky

Classical Music

MTG Century Theatre

HBAF 2025 - Master of None: Brown Fala

Theatre

Hastings Arts Centre

HBAF 2025 - Streams of Consciousness

Theatre

Toitoi - Opera House

HBAF 2025 - Pecha Kucha

Public Talks & Tours

Napier Municipal Theatre

HBAF 2025 - Holding Ground and Intensional Particle

Dance

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Toitoi - Opera House

HBAF 2025 - Cirque Bon Bon

Circus

Paisley Stage

HBAF 2025 - Fables

Folk

Toitoi - Assembly Ballroom

HBAF 2025 The Performing Arts Exchange

Education

Hastings Arts Centre

HBAF 2025 - This, In Here

Theatre

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