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.

Our own award-winning playwright, Sam Brooks, has a three-night retrospective of readings of his works coming up at Basement Theatre this month - including the winner of the 2024 Adam NZ Play Award, This is My Story of Us.

We're thrilled to finally announce the 12 artists that together form the 2024 Ockham Collective. They come from all corners of Tāmaki Makaurau's creative community: music, theatre, film, literature and the visual arts.

If you missed it earlier this year, H.R. The Musical – written by the Ockham Collective's Amy Mansfield – is returning for the International Comedy Festival, starting at Auckland's Q Theatre.

It's not long now until New Zealand literature's big night. The winners of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be announced in the usual glittering ceremony on Wednesday 15 May at the Aotea Centre.

Two of our OC whanau will be taking to the stage in Hotel Sol at Covert Theatre as part of the Auckland Improv Festival. Also in April, Amy Mansfield and collaborator Rachel Davies are bringing the Write Club to The Nix

He M A U R I, an exhibition of cyanotypes and paintings by Rangihīroa Panoho, is being launched on Friday 5 April at our Modal space in Mt Albert and continues until Wednesday 24 April.

Although we may have seemed a bit quiet of late, plenty has been happening behind the scenes. We're currently preparing for the official launch of our OC year later this month.

This year at the Ockham Collective we've decided to designate Wednesday nights at The Nix as music nights. Think of it as a little musical bump to get you over the hump.

At risk of sounding like the IOC president at an Olympics closing ceremony, 2023’s Ockham Collective was, once again, the best ever. As we end one year and gear up for the next, we thought we'd take an opportunity to look back.

We're pleased to announce an incredibly special show to cap off this year's Ockham Collective Presents... series at Freida Margolis bar in Grey Lynn: Theia x TE KAAHU performing Girl in a Savage World.