10:00 am - 5:00 pm AWE+ Open Rehearsals October 2 at 10:00 am - 5:00 pm AWE+ Open Rehearsals Join us at our open rehearsals anytime between 10am - 5pm, and experience the sights and sounds of our At the World's Edge Festival Artists deep within their performance preparation. Free to attend, no bookings required.
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Extra Lives – The Interactive Video Game Concert October 4 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Extra Lives – The Interactive Video Game Concert Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, Extra Lives is a live interactive adventure where your choices shape the story and you are the main character. Runs for 60 minutes. $25 adult, $15 concession
6:15 pm - 7:00 pm AWE+ Scholars Showcase October 5 at 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm AWE+ Scholars Showcase Celebrate the arrival of AWE 2026 into Tāhuna Queenstown with a free performance from the 2026 AWE Pettman Scholars Christine Jeon (cello) and Matthew Seinafo (piano) for this 45 minute showcase.
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Strung October 5 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Strung Welcoming internationally renowned pianist David Fung to the AWE stage for the first time, Strung traces connections across generations, where musical lines are passed, reshaped, and renewed. Part of the At the World's Edge Festival of Chamber music, this performance runs from 7:30 - 9pm. $70 adult, $25 student
10:00 am - 6:30 pm AWE+ Open Rehearsals October 7 at 10:00 am - 6:30 pm AWE+ Open Rehearsals Join us at our open rehearsals anytime between 10am - 6:30pm, and experience the sights and sounds of our At the World's Edge Festival Artists deep within their performance preparation. Free to attend, no bookings required.
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm AWE+ Emerging Artist Showcase October 9 at 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm AWE+ Emerging Artist Showcase An AWE+ Free Performance showcasing our 2026 Emerging Artists and composer, this programme traces lines of friendship, place and musical inheritance. This free showcase runs from 4:45 - 5:30pm.
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Radiance October 9 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Radiance Radiance explores music drawn along the threshold between presence and distance, memory and vastness. From the incomprehensible scale of deep space to the intimacy of nocturnal reflection, musical lines drift, suspend, and hover between what is present and what is remembered, what is near and what lies beyond the reach of human scale. Part of the At the World's Edge Festival of Chamber music, this performance runs from 7:30 - 9pm. $70 adult, $25 student
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm The Line October 11 at 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm The Line Te Atamira brings the festival to a close with The Line, a programme that traces music's most essential journey: from a single footprint in an empty landscape, through voices shaped by love, loss, and encounter, to a musical line forcibly rewritten by history, revealing music's enduring ability to connect us across time. Running for 90minutes, there are two performances of The Line: 2pm or 5pm. $70 adult, $25 student
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm The Line October 11 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm The Line Te Atamira brings the festival to a close with The Line, a programme that traces music's most essential journey: from a single footprint in an empty landscape, through voices shaped by love, loss, and encounter, to a musical line forcibly rewritten by history, revealing music's enduring ability to connect us across time. Running for 90minutes, there are two performances of The Line: 2pm or 5pm. $70 adult, $25 student
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Inside the GP Consultation by Lucy O’Hagan October 31 at 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Inside the GP Consultation by Lucy O’Hagan GP Lucy O'Hagan's one woman show takes you inside a morning of general practice. Lucy plays 32 different characters in 55 minutes in a performance that is both funny and poignant. $25 waged, $15 unwaged
