Two of our favourite semiregular musical events are returning to the Nix this month on consecutive Saturday afternoons: Pop Up Folk Club on Saturday 16 August followed the next week by the Classical Chill-out Session.

On Friday 8 August the Nix's is hosting its first-ever comedy night, courtesy of the Comedy Collective. It promises to be Tāmaki Makaurau's hottest new comedy night.

In honour of the extraordinary Auckland author Maurice Gee, who passed away in June, the Ockham Collective's Bridget van der Zijpp has arranged a special tribute as part of her popular Writers Write: Actors Read series.

If you're looking for a special treat for the kids this school holidays, check out Talia Pua in Taniwha at the Auckland’s Herald Theatre and Tom Knowles in All The Things I Wish I Could Be at Wellington’s Circa Theatre.

Another welcome return comes in the form of Virginia Frankovich's Creative Wellbeing Studio. Virginia is a registered creative arts therapist and the founder of Evoke Arts Therapy.

After a very successful launch event last month featuring Jamie Irvine and Elisabeth Easther, Bridget van der Zijpp is bringing Writers Write: Actors Read back to the Nix on Thursday 3 July.

We’re preparing to sail towards Matariki with The Tīwhas, a Māori drag troupe performing with a live band including the Ockham Collective's Tom Knowles. They're playing at the Civic’s Wintergarden as part of the Cabaret Festival.

Hosted by the Ockham Collective's Bridget van der Zijpp, Writers Write: Actors Read is an evening when well-known actors read from recently published, homegrown, short stories.

As part of his OC year, Jamie Irivine is bringing a series of six-week Actors Scene Study courses to the Nix. The other regular craft-enhancing programme we host for actors and directors is Sandbox Sessions.

It you enjoyed HR: The Musical, don't miss I Didn't Invite You Here to Lecture Me, a new show by Amy Mansfield which is playing at Q Theatre for three nights as part of the NZ Intl Comedy Festival.

For ten years now, our big sister Ockham Residential has been sponsoring the New Zealand Book Awards and we're proud to bask in the reflected glow. This year's ceremony is taking place on Wednesday 14 May.

Do you find yourself wound up at the end of your working week? New Ockham Collective musician Rachel Fuller has a solution to ease you into your weekend. On Friday 11 April she's hosting a Classical Chill-out Session at the Nix.

We're thrilled to finally introduce you to the very talented bunch that are joining us on the Ockham Collective in 2025. Meet Tom, Hinekoia, Bridget, Leea, Virginia, Tim, Rachel and Jamie.

Hot on the heels of completing her Masters and a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapy, new Ockham Collective member Virginia Frankovich has launched an 'expressive wellbeing studio' at the Nix.

Hot on the heels of completing her Masters and a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapy, new Ockham Collective member Virginia Frankovich has launched an 'expressive wellbeing studio' at the Nix.

It's February already? How did that happen? We've been hard at work behind the scenes finalising our Ockham Collective line up for 2025, so keep eye out for the big reveal in March.

Billed as ‘a radical live multimedia experience’, Three Days in February is a work by multimedia artist Serena Stevenson combining footage filmed over five years at Splore with live music and an original score.

If you had money on a Nordic Folk Singing Workshop being the Ockham Collective's first new event of 2025, the drinks are on you. This Sunday session will showcase the skills of Finnish/Swedish singer, Anna Fält.

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.