Newtown Festival / February 2023
This 10 day extravaganza will celebrate the diversity and vibrancy of Newtown, where so many cultures experience a real sense of place, belonging and community.
March 2023 | January 2023-
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Auntie Social
- Newtown Festival
- Auntie Social will be expanding out onto the pavement serving up delicious cold locally brewed beer and a signature cocktail on tap. Our trusty chef will be on the Barbie serving up tasteful Aunties snacks while Tubs Audio sound system and our rotating DJ family serenades us with the good vibes! Mi Casa Su Casa & friends, house music […]
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Peruvian Pōneke Dance Troupe
- Newtown Festival
- The Peruvian Pōneke Dance Troupe bring the traditional folk dances of Peru to the streets of Newtown. Expect to see a selection of performances including Valicha from the region of Cusco, a dance telling the story of the prohibited love of an aristocrat for a beautiful peasant girl and the flirtatious Marinera from the coastal […]
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Bloco Party
- Newtown Festival
- Open Air, Little Monsters DJ and Bebemos bring you ……. Bloco Party Bebemos will be having two different DJ stages throughout Newtown Festival this year. Open Air with Garage Project will be taking over the street while Little Monsters DJ will be hosting a Beer garden event. Open Air street take over 12pm – 6pm Jamie […]
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Buck Rogers
- Newtown Festival
- Buck Rogers has been playing at infamous dance festivals and underground parties around Aotearoa since The Gathering in the late 90’s. Buck’s mission is to connect oneʼs soul to the infinite glorious vibration of the universe. Spanning a kaleidoscope spectrum of genres including indie dance, bedouin tech, bass house, disco halal through to breaks, eastern […]
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Brewhouse Beats
- Newtown Festival
- Fortune Favours presents: Brew House BeatsExperience the ultimate outdoor music event at Newtown Festival 2023, Our state-of-the-art sound system, Great tasting beers and selection of DJ’s guarantees an immersive music & craft beer experience. Our lineup features some of the most talented DJs, including Ethixx, Kaneskies, Tala and the Frederick Crew. Ethixx has a decade of […]
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Tala
- Newtown Festival
- Tala’s journey into the world of music began at a young age, with a fascination for the infectious beats and rhythms of house music. As Tala began to explore the genre further, a particular sub-genre caught Tala’s attention: bass house. Drawn in by the heavy basslines and driving rhythms, Tala’s love for this sub-genre quickly […]
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Ethixx
- Newtown Festival
- Meet Ethixx – the talented DJ who has been perfecting his sound and style for over ten years, playing at some of New Zealand’s top bars, clubs, and festivals. With a knack for keeping the dancefloor packed and the energy high, Ethixx knows how to get your head nodding and your toes tapping with his funky, bass-heavy beats. Ethixx […]
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The Frederick Crew
- Newtown Festival
- The Frederick Crew is a powerhouse trio consisting of Legoman, Rythmatix, and Swanky, who came together after hosting many house parties at the Frederick Street pad in Wellington. Their unique blend of liquid, deep, neuro-funk and jump-up Drum’n’Bass is famous for rocking the biggest crowds and smashing individual results at top-notch competitions like New Zealand’s […]
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Felions Den
- Newtown Festival
- Located in the Garden bar at Auntie Social, Felions Den is bringing you an all femme line up from 10AM onwards. All thanks to Hineraiona and the BigBada Boom Soundsystem.
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Mana Wāhine showcased at Newtown Festival 2023
- Newtown Festival
- “He wāhine, he whenua ka ora te tangata.” This year’s kaupapa for the Tangata Whenua Stage is dedicated to our wāhine, raising the profile of the importance of women, the connection to the land, and well-being of people. At Newtown Festival on Sunday 5 March 2023, come through to check out an all women lineup […]
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Peruvian Pōneke Dance Troupe
- Newtown Festival
- The Peruvian Pōneke Dance Troupe bring the traditional folk dances of Peru to the streets of Newtown. Expect to see a selection of performances including Valicha from the region of Cusco, a dance telling the story of the prohibited love of an aristocrat for a beautiful peasant girl and the flirtatious Marinera from the coastal […]
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Kaneskies
- Newtown Festival
- If you’re looking for a DJ who knows how to get the party started, look no further than Kaneskies! A familiar face on the Wellington dance music scene, Kaneskies has been playing and dancing at clubs, festivals, and events all over New Zealand for the past 15 years. With a vast musical repertoire that spans […]
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Black Coffee
- Newtown Festival
- This year Black Coffee is stoked to present Mi Casa Su Casa & friends! They’ll be bringing house music & electronica from 12noon to 8pm, all thanks to Duncan’s Brewery!
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Tala
- Newtown Festival
- Tala’s journey into the world of music began at a young age, with a fascination for the infectious beats and rhythms of house music. As Tala began to explore the genre further, a particular sub-genre caught Tala’s attention: bass house. Drawn in by the heavy basslines and driving rhythms, Tala’s love for this sub-genre quickly […]
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Buck Rogers
- Newtown Festival
- Buck Rogers has been playing at infamous dance festivals and underground parties around Aotearoa since The Gathering in the late 90’s. Buck’s mission is to connect oneʼs soul to the infinite glorious vibration of the universe. Spanning a kaleidoscope spectrum of genres including indie dance, bedouin tech, bass house, disco halal through to breaks, eastern […]
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Brewhouse Beats
- Newtown Festival
- Fortune Favours presents: Brew House BeatsExperience the ultimate outdoor music event at Newtown Festival 2023, Our state-of-the-art sound system, Great tasting beers and selection of DJ’s guarantees an immersive music & craft beer experience. Our lineup features some of the most talented DJs, including Ethixx, Kaneskies, Tala and the Frederick Crew. Ethixx has a decade of […]
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Auntie Social
- Newtown Festival
- Auntie Social will be expanding out onto the pavement serving up delicious cold locally brewed beer and a signature cocktail on tap. Our trusty chef will be on the Barbie serving up tasteful Aunties snacks while Tubs Audio sound system and our rotating DJ family serenades us with the good vibes! Mi Casa Su Casa & friends, house music […]
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Bebemos Bloco Party
- Newtown Festival
- Open Air, Little Monsters DJ and Bebemos bring you ……. Bloco Party Bebemos will be having two different DJ stages throughout Newtown Festival this year. Open Air with Garage Project will be taking over the street while Little Monsters DJ will be hosting a Beer garden event. Open Air street take over 12pm – 6pm Jamie […]
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Serious Happiness
- Newtown Festival
- With good beer deals and great bands, Serious Happiness will be providing just that from 7pm onwards! 7pm – 7:45pm Shack Band Blues and boogie from Moon jam night regulars Ian, Drew and Mike. There will be guitars and harmonica and foot stomping and stuff. They’ll sock your rocks off. 8pm – 8:45pm Thornberries Thornberries […]
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Mo Etc.
- Newtown Festival
- Straight out of Wellington, multidisciplinary act Mo Etc. creates music for the soul. With formal theatre training and acting under her belt, local singer-songwriter Moana fell in love with the music scene – spending hours upon hours writing tunes to feed our inner soul and emotions. Her 2022 release ‘Underwater’. Accompanying the release is its […]
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Parrotdog’s Newtown Festival Beer & Stage Launch Party
- Newtown Festival
- FREE ENTRY at Parrotdog Bar – 60-66 Kingsford Smith Street in Lyall Bay. Launching our Newtown Festival Hazy Pale Ale – the official beer of Newtown Festival with the help of some of Aotearoa’s finest. Come along for a taste of what’s to come at Newtown Festival 2023. FEATURING Womb Mirror Ritual Hemi Hemingway Visit […]
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Normanby St Stage
- Newtown Festival
- The Normanby St Stage is excited to offer something different this year. This stage features artists performing traditional and folk music from all over the world. Get ready to be transported to a world of mesmerising music and unforgettable performances from Polish to Brasilian, Americana to African and more! Programme: 10:00 – 10:45 Kubatana & The […]
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Erika Grant
- Newtown Festival
- A gong bath is a unique experience in which you are bathed (clothes on)….. in the sounds and vibrations of the gongs and bowls, which lend themselves to enhanced states of well-being, relaxation, happiness and pleasure. All you need to do is relax and let the gongs do the work! The gong bath is part of […]
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Festival Map
- Newtown Festival
- This Newtown Festival 2023 map shows the road closures in blue, the traffic diversions in yellow and all the stages and other attractions.
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Putu Evie Suyadnyani
- Newtown Festival
- Born in Bali into a family of dancers Evie has been performing and creating choreographies since she was in kindergarten. At age 10 she was awarded first prize for the highly acclaimed Legong Condong competition at the Bali Arts Festival. Evie is the founder of Mekar Bhuana Centre (est 2000) in Denpasar and Mekar Bhuana […]
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花溪 (Flower Stream)
- Newtown Festival
- 花溪 (Flower Stream) are a Chinese/Pākehā/Māori duo from Tāmaki Makaurau. Maxwell brings energy and versatility to the band as the drummer, as well as being a multi-instrumentalist in the studio. Huiming, originally from China, plays bass, guitar, guzheng, and provides lead vocals. 花溪’s music blends elements of psychedelic dream pop, punk, noise, and hip-hop with […]
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Ripship
- Newtown Festival
- Ripship are a sci-fi psych-rock duo hailing originally from Tāmaki Makaurau, now Pōneke. The prolific performers shake venues with heavy riffs, off-kilter beats and deep synth loops. Science fiction and technological anxiety influence both the timbre and subject matter of Ripship’s songs, with vocoded lyrics touching on AI uprising, interstellar travel and the heat death […]
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SlavFest
- Newtown Festival
- Join us for the first-ever pan-Slavic event that unites people of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Find out more about our traditions, crafts, cuisine, dances and, of course, the MUSIC! FREE DAYTIME FESTIVAL– Food fair, workshops and dancing from 10 am – 4.30pm. FREE!– Slavic/Balkan bands performing free during the daytime are KrackerJack and Vox […]
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Parrotdog Beer & Stage Launch Party
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- FREE ENTRY Launching our Newtown Festival Hazy Pale Ale – the official beer of Newtown Festival with the help of some of Aotearoa’s finest. Come along for a taste of what’s to come at Newtown Festival 2023. FEATURING Womb Mirror Ritual Hemi Hemingway
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Yann le Dorre
- Newtown Festival
- Yann Le Dorré sings saturnine folk songs for modern times and the stars too high in the sky. Drawing from 70’s singer-songwriters, outlaw country legends and 90’s grunge acts, he writes for the divorces and drunkards in a series of acoustic reports from the rain-drenched capital. Known for his work with Wellington’s ‘gutter folk’ band, […]
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Rio Trio
- Newtown Festival
- Rio Trio are a Wellington based 3-piece comprised of Bryn van Vliet on woodwinds, Felicien Houet on guitar & Taciano Milfont on percussion. Inspired by the world of Brazilian music, they have been performing in Wellington for the past five years.
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The Circus Hub Show
- Newtown Festival
- The Circus Hub is proud to present performances by some of their trainers and most experienced students. The performers will provide a taste of what circus has to offer with a fantastic selection of aerial acts, including aerial rope, trapeze, and more.
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Xani Hall
- Newtown Festival
- Xani Hall is a Gen Z singer-songwriter born and raised in the Auckland city fringe suburb of Grey Lynn. From the bedroom in her 100-year-old house that she’s lived in all her life, she spends most of her time writing music and poetry. After the success of Xani’s first single “Sindy With An S” recorded […]
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The Amazing Miss Maisey
- Newtown Festival
- Nicole is a multidisciplinary circus artist incorporating ground skills and aerial acrobatics into original works. Originally trained in show girl aerial she has since enjoyed breaking that mold and using aerial dance to portray emotions, ranging from comedy aerial acts to beautiful, moody pieces. Nicole has performed in a wide variety of shows over New […]
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Ben Hammond
- Newtown Festival
- Born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau now residing in Newtown Pōneke, 13x New Zealand street Latin and Salsa champion Ben Hammond is proud to be partnering with @sets™️ to MC the Gordon Pl stage.
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To The Front Stage
- Newtown Festival
- Brought to you by Girls Rock! Aotearoa the To The Front Stage showcases some of Aotearoa’s talented wāhine, trans, intersex, takatāpui, and gender-diverse fronted acts. Programme: MC: Ella Doty & Tamar AnsticeDJ: impress 10:00 – 10:40 To The Front Campers 11:00 – 11:30 Hannah Davenport 11:50 – 12:35 Danica Bryant 12:55 – 1:40 Belladonna 2:00 […]
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Te Whaea – National Dance & Drama Centre Open Day
- Newtown Festival
- A new addition to the Newtown Festival will be Te Whaea – New Zealand’s National Dance and Drama Centre. Te Whaea will be holding an Open Day as part of the Festival featuring performances from the New Zealand School of Dance, displays from Toi Whakaari throughout the day, and you might also get to see […]
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Te Whaea: National Dance and Drama Centre, 11, Hutchison Road, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Flying Femmes
- Newtown Festival
- ‘The Flying Femmes’ is here to bring the joy and allure of traditional circus to the Newtown community. The accomplished all-female cast will take the audience on a journey to explore the history and progression of circus as an artform, paying tribute to its roots but offering a modern twist. With a vintage feel and […]
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DJ Kerb
- Newtown Festival
- DJ Kerb has been involved in local Hip Hop culture for over 30 years, first as a B-boy (Breakdancer) then as an Aerosol Artist and Turntablist/DJ. Kerb is a veteran of the DMC, ITF and Wellington DJ battle scene of the late 90s and has many years of experience as a club and live show […]
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Julia Deans
- Newtown Festival
- Having first carved a path in local and international musical landscapes as the front woman for early 2000s band Fur Patrol, Julia Deans has since secured her reputation as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most celebrated musicians. Following the early success of 00’s Fur Patrol and their critically acclaimed album PET, Deans’s solo albums Modern […]
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Cotton Daisy Backstep
- Newtown Festival
- Cotton Daisy Backstep play the old ‘hillbilly’ music of the Appalachian Mountains, their homestead music evokes that old 78 bacon-frying sound no book-learning can give. They sing the haunting songs of the pioneers, old gospels, shotgun totin’ moonshiners and tub-thumping dance tunes with 3 part harmonies and driving rhythms. Helena’s enduring commitment to the Old-time music […]
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Birdmann & Egg
- Newtown Festival
- International comedy variety legends from Australia and Japan! Direct from ten world tours from the Glastonbury Music Festival to the New York Clown Festival comes a superstar duo like you’ve never seen before. Award-winners on three different continents, they are the winners of “Best Circus” at the Melbourne Fringe and nominees for “Most Original Comedy” […]
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impress
- Newtown Festival
- Apparently, the story goes: impress began to DJ upon realising that playing multiple songs at once was the final end point of listening to music. She has not stopped since, surprising absolutely no one who knows her. When asked why she chose this name, her best answer was “coz im press’n buttons :)” Impress’ dearest […]
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Twentysix Gallery
- Newtown Festival
- We’re so excited to present our collaboration event Susurrations: An exhibition and event run by Women in Photography NZ + AU and Twentysix Gallery. Come see demonstrations of sustainable analogue photography with The Handmade Darkroom or have your portrait taken with the Wanderkamera all the way from Berlin. Talk with the artists, book a portfolio […]
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The Handmade Darkroom makes with tea and coffee!
- Newtown Festival
- The Handmade Darkroom is a photographic collective based in Te Whanganui-a-tara focused on exploring and expanding on the sustainability of analogue photography in the face of the enduring climate crisis. We use the word sustainability cautiously, understanding that it isn’t a state of being, but instead a consideration of the way photography could be practiced differently, […]
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Wanderkamera
- Newtown Festival
- Wanderkamera is a wooden large-format camera built in Aotearoa and based in Berlin. Visitors can have their portrait taken and developed on the spot. The portrait can then be purchased and immediately taken home. Bob Jones’ long-term project Wanderkamera integrates into various public spaces as a site for artistic exchange. In a fun way, they […]
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Susurrations photo exhibition and happenings
- Newtown Festival
- Join us for a vibrant celebration of Women in Photography NZ + AU in collaboration with Twentysix Gallery. 10:00- 18:00 Relax with a non-alcoholic drink in the shade and immerse yourself in the music of our DJs Mystori, Manisah and Libby K.WIP NZ + AU, the successful online platform for Female Identifying and Non Binary […]
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Outer Space Food Fight
- Newtown Festival
- Spawned in the timeless bubble days of 2022, OSFF is an electronic/mechanical surrealiist Club music duo.
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DJ Ayesha
- Newtown Festival
- Ayesha started in the music industry through retail over 20 years ago. This enhanced her love of music. Throughout those years she was the manager of different music retail stores which created an interest of other parts of the industry. A band management opportunity was created through a hip hop group based in Hamilton called […]
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Jaedyn Randell
- Newtown Festival
- Raised in the heart of the Waikato region, Jaedyn Randell is a recording artist from Aotearoa, best known for voicing Moana in Disney’s Moana Reo Māori in 2017. Jaedyn was cast as the titular role in Disney’s Moana Reo Māori in 2017 after she was plucked from hundreds of auditions in an open casting call. […]
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