The visual arts programme's core is instead the Pacific exchange of ideas and imagery, the melding of art-forms and the way the past informs present and future.
At Q Theatre, the stunning new addition in my window landscape, the Kila Kokonut Krew bring back memories of the Dawn Raids with their musical The Factory.
Props to Te Tuhi on the opening function front. First, director James McCarthy does his short speech with a megaphone and secondly, they've created their own homebrew for the occasion.
Mark Amery's roving diary of shows and exhibitions across the city, with more than a few personal asides thrown in. "There will, I hope, be no regurgitated media pap from me."