BirdCare Aotearoa wild bird hospital risks closure in 2024 without additional financial support. The rehabilitation centre is the largest in NZ by admissions, caring for over 6,000 rescued wild birds every year, including many endangered species, and hundreds of orphaned baby birds.

Laughs on Tour presents Saturday Laughs, a two-hour comedy showcase of some top Kiwi talent, right in the heart of the Greymouth! The line-up of hilarious comedy stars is taking over the Regent Theatre on Saturday 11th November.

Silo Theatre returns to the stage with a frightful and hilarious reimagining of cult classic zombie film Night of the Living Dead. Performed by two fearless actors set against the screening of the original 1968 film, the production runs at the iconic Hollywood Avondale for a limited Halloween season from 2 – 12 November.

A joint initiative by Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora, the Protect Your Breath campaign to reduce youth vaping harm launches the Later Vaper Arcade in South Auckland. The arcade will be live during the September school holidays, from 23 September to 1 October.

Palmy’s Centrepoint theatre, known for their reputation of delivering crowd pleasing comedies are stoked to present Michael Galvin’s MannBannd, for their Christmas season. Delving deep into the hilarious inner workings of a boyband well past its prime, this premiere season runs Saturday the 18th of November - Saturday the 16th of December.

The family friendly event that is Halloween in Mt Eden Village returns for its 14th ghostly year at Mt Eden Village on Sunday 29th of October 2023, with FREE entertainment and activities for kids of all ages. Come along in costume and get your ghoul on with spot prizes, creepy craft, fortune telling, graveyard tunes and so much more from 12 – 2pm. 

The Outlook for Someday presents the first short film directed by Actor’s Program graduate Georgia-May Russ (Waikato-Maniapoto), and produced by Jewels King (Waikato-Tainui, Taranaki, Ngāti Hine), releasing online on Wednesday 13 September 2023 as part of Someday Stories Series 7 on The Outlook For Someday Website and YouTube.

The Outlook for Someday and Caravan Carpark Films present The World Around Me, the new offering of writer & director Hasan Arslan and debut of producer Gretchen Hatton.

The high-octane one-woman rock ‘n’ roll theatre-gig We’ve Got So Much To Talk About, exploring the challenges and complexities of motherhood through a mashup of sound, song, movement and rebellion returns to Christchurch from 20 - 22 October and Auckland on 8 - 10 December.

A stunning line-up of theatre, dance, comedy, music, poetry, visual art, literary talks, cultural conversations, and community events are set to transform and fire-up residents and visitors to Whakatū Nelson from 19 - 29 October 2023.

Developed from its first outing at Basement Theatre in 2018 and following further award-winning large-scale productions in both Auckland and Wellington, UPU will tour to five centres across Aotearoa from 6 - 25 October as part of the Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ) touring programme.

After a survey exposes the extent of sexual harm at her former high school, a filmmaker returns to amplify the student's call for change and ask a pivotal question:  Why is consent education still not compulsory in Aotearoa?

Dai Henwood announces one night only home coming show at the Wellington Opera House on November 30.

Written, directed and with music composed by Sophie Lindsay, ÉMILIE is the world premiere of a high-energy comedy-drama about a brilliant and mostly forgotten scientist, and her great love, Voltaire.

Someday Stories, a yearly short-film series run by The Outlook for Someday, has six short films being released this September as the seventh series of the program.