menu of 9,000 sharks and 11,000 baskets of potatoes – to picnics under a chorus call of cicadas, from the White Lady pie cart to conversations about the future of food, the free exhibition Kai to Pie reveals and revels in what it means to be an Aucklander. Accompanying the exhibition is a full programme of activities and events that tell this city’s unique story. It’s a story that can be told through the dining tables of the 181 ethnic groups that call New Zealand’s largest city home.

platforms New Zealand's hottest up and coming fashion designers.  The markets trade on Fridays 9am – 6pm, Saturdays 10am – 5pm.   To find the City Designers Market, head to: Freyberg Square, off High Street.

sell their wares directly to consumers. Vendors may only sell what they grow, farm, pickle, preserve, bake, smoke or catch themselves from within a defined local area.

each day with a smile, rummaging around in her handbag, applying makeup, brushing her teeth and nattering away to her husband. She’s always got a loaded revolver stashed away should it all get too much. Hers might not be the ideal life, but should a happy day come her way she’ll seize it with both hands. Buried slowly beneath the mire of an indifferent universe, Winnie offers the bravest response possible. She persists.

When he suddenly goes missing, the Weston clan return to the family home in Osage County, Oklahoma,to confront their lies, secrets, guilt and the lacerating tongue of their pill-popping mother Violet.   They wound each other and tolerate each other’s aberrations as families do - and somewhere under all the dysfunction lurks a kind of love. With a cast of 13 actors, three explosive acts and enough revelations to power several soap operas, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a corrosively funny, brilliant, bitter indictment on where the American Dream went wrong.

have a chance to make their mark in this year’s Westfield Style Pasifika New Zealand Fashion Awards. Westfield Style Pasifika gives new and emerging designers a platform to showcase ground breaking garments to the New Zealand public and fashion industry.

Vector Arena on the 5th of September. Last year the Silver Ferns showed their potential to be superior over the Australian Diamonds in their final match in Auckland, but it was the Diamonds who took out the series 3-2. 

In these concerts he will perform fellow Scotsman, and well known composer, James MacMillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, already a contemporary classic. This concerto is a stunning demonstration of Colin Currie’s skill and athleticism: he plays dozens of drums, gongs, marimba and bells. Conductor Alexander Shelley is back conducting the Orchestra after his 2008 visit.

Currie has established a unique reputation for his charismatic and virtuosic performances. Conductor Alexander Shelley is back with the Orchestra after his 2008 visit, to lead this selection of landscape-inspired repertoire.

Centre in Auckland. Verdi’s Macbeth, one of the greatest operas Shakespeare’s work has inspired, is the classic tale of ambition, corruption and bloody revenge.

a chain of gem-like pieces for strings. This is your chance to enjoy the interplay and spontaneity of your Orchestra in some intimate moments. Vesa has selected a programme of music from the 18th to 20th Centuries giving the NZSO’s principal musicians a chance to shine as soloists.

THE EDGE on Saturday 2 October for a strictly limited season. This spectacular stage classic features dazzling set, costumes and choreography direct from the latest Tony Award winning Broadway revival. With a full live orchestra and an all-singing, all-dancing New Zealand cast,42nd Street will make you want to get up and dance! Those memories will come flooding back with its hit show tunes including You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me, Dames, Only Have Eyes for You, Lullaby of Broadway, Shuffle Off to Buffalo, Forty-Second Street and We're In the Money - lucky for many Kiwis as Lotto’s original anthem!