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Free family Tech Week events with Brain Play!

14 May 2022 to 22 May 2022

Everyday we have something different on offer!

Join Brain Play for free science & technology activities across Tech Week 2022 - family coding workshop, free open day, free trials, Minecraft Online Club

Event type:

Workshop/Seminar

Price:

Free! All events free.

Venue:

Online NZ wide + in person across Auckland

Address:

Check out each event in the large description to know where it is taking place & to read how to book.

Region:

Online, Auckland

Post date:

Friday, April 1, 2022 - 09:11

Join Brain Play for some Tech Week fun!

Saturday 14th - Free Minecraft workshop, online, NZ wide ages 8 - 13.

Sunday 15th - Free Open Day, online, NZ wide ages 8 - 13 + families.

Monday 16th - Friday 21st - Free trials of after-school classes, online NZ wide + in our 7+ Auckland locations in-person, ages 5 -13.

Sunday 21st - Free coding workshop at New Lynn Library, ages 5 - 13 + families.

Jump on our website to register for any or all of our events - https://www.brainplay.co.nz/events.

Links:

Brain Play Event Page

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1 Apr 2022

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2022 Matariki Dish Challenge

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Venue:

Various

Bay of Plenty

9.30am - 12.30pm Mondays

Art

Bridge (abridged) : a professional development course for visual artists

A 10 week course designed for makers in any visual arts discipline that provides tools and strategies to develop and accelerate your art practice.

Venue:

Studio One Toi Tū (meeting Room 5)

Auckland

Susan Williams in Illegally Blind - NOT the inspo Porn you are looking for. Basement Theatre, 27 - 30 July. Susan Williams has long dark hair parted in the middle, with aviator glasses and a rainbow-striped shirt, with a bag over their right shoulder. Around Susan are drawn sock puppets. Sponsors are Elemental AKL, Creative NZ.

8-9pm Wed 27-Sat 30 July; also 1-2pm Sat 30 July

Comedy

Illegally Blind

Tragedy! Hardship!! Inspiration!!! This. Is. NOT. That. Show. Susan is a perfectly normal queer, fat, functionally blind, Autistic, chronically and mentally ill, nonbinary person, who just happens

Venue:

Basement Theatre

Auckland

8.00-9.00am, Friday, 8 July

Live event

Creative Mornings Auckland presents Charlie Thomas

Charlie Thomas is a 20-year-old bird lover and artist with a passion for the environment, especially the impact that humans are having on it.

Venue:

Studio One

Auckland

The Human Kind / Lopdell Theatre Show / Matariki Festival / 7pm Sunday 10th July / Lopdell Theatre Titirangi/

7pm-8.30pm Sunday 10th July (Doors open at 6pm)

Live event

Solacium

The Human Kind presents 'Solacium', an immersive live music, audio-visual experience to saturate your senses, with 100% profits being donated to The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.

Venue:

Lopdell Theatre Titirangi

Auckland

Various

Cultural

Matariki 2022 - Te Waipounamu (South Island) events

Matariki 2022 Guide - Te Waipounamu (South Island) events

Venue:

Various

Canterbury, Otago, Southland

Various

Cultural

Matariki 2022 - Te Ika-a-māui South (Wellington) events

Matariki Guide 2022 - Te Ika-a-māui South (Wellington) events

Venue:

Various

Wellington

Various

Cultural

Matariki 2022 - Te Ika-a-māui Central (Central North Island) events

Matariki 2022 Guide - more Te Ika-a-māui Central (Central North Island) events

Venue:

Various

National

Various

Cultural

Matariki 2022 - Te Ika-a-māui North (Northland and Auckland) events

Matariki 2022 Guide - Te Ika-a-māui North (Northland and Auckland) events

Venue:

Various

Northland, Auckland

Nationwide

Live event

Glow Show on tour 2022

The Glow Show’s magical glow-in-the-dark characters are getting ready to celebrate with you at 40 theatres around Aotearoa, alongside the first-ever nationwide Matariki holiday!

Venue:

Varies

National

Mana Puriri, a manu rere kite designed by Ruth Woodbury, shown from above as it flies over grassland at twilight.

10am - 4pm, Mon - Sun, 24 June - 24 July

Art

Whiria: Ngā Manu Rere

A special pop-up exhibition of Manu Rere, traditionally-made flying kites, lands at Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa for Matariki.

Venue:

New Zealand Maritime Museum

Auckland

From 22 June

Public Art

Midnight Sun - a new public artwork by Sara Hughes

Midnight Sun - a new public artwork by Sara Hughes opening 22 June

Venue:

Willow and Wharf Streets, Tauranga City

Bay of Plenty

Open daily, 10am - 5pm

Exhibition

Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Wellington Museum's new ground floor exhibition

Venue:

Wellington Museum

Wellington

Fridays, 7pm, July 1st - Sep 16th

Comedy

Club Burlesque

Escape to Auckland's most champagne soaked extravaganza!

Venue:

Las Vegas Nite Club

Auckland

10AM - 5PM Daily

Exhibition

Nature Boy: The Photography of Olaf Petersen

See your world through Olaf’s eyes. Explore the captivating work of award-winning photographer Olaf Petersen, one of Aotearoa's finest nature photographers.

Venue:

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Auckland

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