Starting from Wednesday 11 October, the Auckland Bluegrass club will meet at The Nix on every second Wednesday. NB: The Pipipickers have now replaced Butter Wouldn’t Melt on the bill.

Our stars aligned in August when Hiwa, a new collection of Māori short stories edited by the Ockham Collective's Paula Morris, was launched in the Ockham Gallery at Objectspace.

Hanna Wiskari is brining another Transglobal Music Session to The Nix on Sunday 17 September. She’s then popping up again as one of the guest artists at Louise Evan's Pop-Up Folk Club on Saturday 23 September.

On Saturday 16 September Going West, helmed by OC creative James Littlewood, will be launching the second in their series of collaborations between poets and filmmakers at the Lopdell Precinct in Titirangi.

In September and October Lucie Blaze is gracing the walls of The Nix with her Emotions in Motion exhibition of abstract paintings. Coinciding with the exhibition she's reviving her Born to Create series of panel discussions.

On Wednesday 23 August, Tim Heath will be hosting The Great Grey Lynn Poetry & Pizza Congress at Grey Lynn Library as part of National Poetry Day. The kaupapa is simple: "Bring friends. Hear poetry. Eat pizza. All free."

The Ockham Collective presents... series at Freida Margolis bar in Grey Lynn has already proven to be a magical small-venue showcase for some of our nation's greatest talents. Our next performer will be the extraordinary Nadia Reid.

The rollicking rhythms of Indian music will be filling the The Nix twice this month, with events on consecutive Sunday afternoons. On Sunday 20 August, Ben Fernandez and Manjit Singh will lead a Masterclass on Indian Music.

Are you looking for some warm sounds to keep the winter blues away? This Friday, Women About Sound come to The Nix with a line-up led by Ava & Leov – a new project by singer-songwriters Avalon Hewitt and the OC's Jessie Leov. Joining them will be Madeleine Worsley with Samantha Cheong, Maddy South, ABBIE and Scarlett Lashes.

Ockham Collective alumni Hanna Wiskari is bringing her Transglobal Music Sessions back to The Nix, starting on Sunday 9 July. As usual, there will be time put aside for everyone to share tunes and jam, followed by a shared meal. The special guest for this month is Melbourne-based Hana Zreikat.

After the success of the first Pop-Up Folk Club at The Nix in May, the OC's Louise Evans is shaking things up for another pop on Saturday 29 July. This month's guests will be Marcus Lawson and Ben Collier (Old-Time/Americana), Eimear Connolly and Bláithín Claffey (trad Irish tunes and song) and Adam Ogle (Celtic, folk, song).

Team OC has had some wins lately, and we're proud as a pūkeko to share them with you. Martin Roberts has been accepted to a role within the cello section of the APO, and Dan Musgrove and Marina Alofagia McCartney both have shows screening on TVNZ+ this month. Season 2 of critically acclaimed series Creamerie debuts on 14 July.

Fiction Fundamentals is a craft-intensive, ten-week, evening course designed for aspiring novelists and story writers which will run at The Nix from 23 July to 20 September. It's part of a new series devised by Ockham Collective member Paula Morris, director of the Master of Creative Writing programme at the University of Auckland.

It was a grey and dreary Sunday afternoon in late May, the kind that seems designed for curling up on the couch. Yet a sold-out crowd braved the elements and packed out the Aotea Centre's Limelight Room to hear four of our musicians performing alongside the nominated poets from the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Check out the Auckland Writers Festival programme and book your tickets for a week packed with Booker and Pulitzer Prize winners. The glittering night of nights is the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards on Wednesday 17 May, when winners will be announced for the best books published in NZ in the last year.

It's finally time for us to announce the full line up for the 2023 Ockham Collective. And with a list that includes an Emmy winner, an Arts Laureate and the co-director of only the second-ever feature film to have been helmed by Pasifika women, it's already shaping up to be an exceptional year.

Sunday singing-and-ukulele sessions have returned to the Ockham Collective, with Collective alumni Sonia Wilson bringing her popular group lessons back to The Nix. A one-hour lesson for beginners and newcomers kicks off at 11am, followed by a session for seasoned beginners and intermediate-level players at 12.30pm.

While we're still drip-feeding who's new to the Ockham Collective ahead of our March announcement, meet James Littlewood. James is the festival director of Going West, the oldest litfest in the land, and we're delighted to have him on the Collective this year. James and Going West are currently producing Season 2 of Different Out Loud.

The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi has just named seven laureates who they identify as Aotearoa New Zealand’s most outstanding artists for 2022, 'recognised for their outstanding practice as well as their significant impact'. Among them is our very own Paula Morris, lauded for her contribution to the nation's literature.