Happy new year! January is a quiet month for us, but if you listen closely, you may hear the sweet strums of the ukulele emanating from the Nix every weekend. Join in by signing up for one of Sonia Wilson's weekly sessions.

This Friday marks nine years since David Bowie took his final trip to the stars. Celebrate his extraordinary legacy with Let's Dance, hosted by DJs Pennie Black, Kailee Raven, Tina Turntables and the OC’s Peter Drag.

We're delighted that Sonya has decided to host a book drive for Kiwi Christmas Books at our Ockham Collective space at the Nix this month. It's taking the form of a Festive Season Salon on Monday 16 December.

We’re winding down the year with our last Irish sessions, ukulele sessions and Poetry for Pensioners. Plus there’s the Auckland Bluegrass Club’s annual Christmas shindig.

It's that time of the year again when we start the search for next year's Ockham Collective. If you've ever thought about getting involved, or even if you haven't, now is the time to get in touch.

The OC’s Catrin Johnnson would like to warmly invite you to join us at the Nix to welcome in the season of Advent in the Swedish way. Expect traditional songs and music, games, laughter and food.

This month the Auckland Bluegrass Club features a performance by You, Me, (Almost) Everybody, which coincidentally is who is welcome to attend. Plus there are our usual Irish, old-timey, ukulele and poetry sessions.

We're not sure quite how he's doing it, but Ockham Collective's improv maestro Matías Avaca is involved in four different performance projects this month. First up is his regular Spanish-language open-mic comedy night.

Aside from our regular busy programme of Irish, Bluegrass, Old-Time and ukulele sessions, we've got a couple of special gigs coming up at the Nix this month: Adam McGrath (The Eastern) and Paper Dragon.

Talia Pua's free whānau-friendly show Friends Exploring Epic Tales is touring Auckland libraries these school holidays. Plus, Amy Mansfield's H.R. The Musical is returning to Q Theatre in early November.

With the spring school holidays fast approaching, the Ockham Collective's Talia Pua is working on a free whānau-friendly show which will tour libraries across Tāmaki Makaurau.

On Friday 13 September one of Britain's greatest baritones, Roderick Williams OBE, will be performing a recital entitled Songs of Home, where he'll be joined by the Ockham Collective's Catrin Johnsson.

Click here for the dates of our regular sessions. This month's free Ockham Lecture at Objectspace on Thursday 5 September is the special opening event for the Pohewa Pāhewa Māori Design Symposium.

When the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra takes flight on their Fairytales and Broomsticks show later this month, the fairytale component will be coming courtesy of the Ockham Collective's Amy Mansfield.

Our two Ockham Collective filmmakers both have short-film news to report. Amarbir Singh has posted his new short online and Anna Duckworth has alerted us to a premiere screening of eight new shorts.

Don't miss the next instalment of the Ockham Lecture Series at Objectspace on Thursday 15 August. Then get stuck into both poetry and pizza at Grey Lynn Library on Thursday 22 August on National Poetry Day.

If you want to learn more about the causes of performance anxiety and some practical techniques to relieve the symptoms, the Let's Talk About Stage Fright workshop at the Nix is for you.

Entries are now open for the Day One Challenge, an opportunity for youth with a flair for moviemaking and storytelling to share a short film and potentially win some cool prizes.

For this month’s get together at Nix, the Auckland Bluegrass Club presents a concert night featuring singer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Young. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards once again delivered a glittering evening of words and wonder at the Aotea Centre last month. The big winner was Emily Perkins, whose novel Lionness took out the fiction prize.