The Piano

03/09/2025

📣 Kia ora e te whānau - join the team!

We're on the lookout for two superstars to join us in delivering awesome events here at The Piano. From performances to workshops, conferences and events and everything in between - we're looking for two people who share our love of event management, with the skills and experience to back it up.

👉 Venue & Events Manager (maternity cover) | Fixed term 12 months, 30 hours p/w
👉 Events & Marketing Coordinator | Permanent, 25 hours p/w

Head to our website for full details, and how to apply: www.thepiano.nz

Applications close Thursday 25 September, 11.59pm, with interviews taking place on 6, 7, & 8 October.
Toi Ōtautahi

02/09/2025

🔶🔷 This week at The Piano - competition to debate, classical to comedy. Get amongst it!

📣 Fair warning - Michael Houstoun's concert has nearly SOLD OUT! Book your tickets quick.

👉 The Press will be live streaming the Mayoral Forum from their website www.thepress.co.nz
Woolston Brass The KoolPals

27/08/2025

✨ A Sunday edit that's equal parts thought-provoking and motivational - WORD Christchurch's closing day will get you thinking about Te Tiriti and our natural world, what makes the All Blacks tick, and Aotearoa's highest profile murder case in modern history.

📅 Sunday 31 August
10.00am Te Tiriti for Beginners
12.00pm Steve Braunias: Inside the Trial of the Century
2.00pm Catherine Chidgey: The Book of Guilt
4.00pm Gilbert Enoka: Become Unstoppable
6.00pm Atholl Anderson: The Welcome of Strangers

👉 For full info, tickets and the festival line up head to www.wordchristchurch.co.nz

26/08/2025

🔥 Your Saturday lineup at WORD Christchurch is brought to you via cliff hangers, investigative journalism, pasifika connections and glam fashion!

📅 Sat 30 August
12.00pm Queens of Atmosphere: Charlotte Wood, Catherine Chidgey, and Michelle Duff
2.00pm The Spinoff's Gone by Lunchtime: Live!
3.30pm Elements of Fiction: Your Questions Answered with Charlotte Wood and Emily Perkins
4.00pm String Minded: Ali Mau & Susie Ferguson
6.00pm Eden H**e: Central Otago Couture
8.00pm Confluence

👉For more info, tickets and the full festival line up head to www.wordchristchurch.co.nz

25/08/2025

📚 It's WORD Christchurch week e te whānau - get amongst some seriously good, and seriously entertaining events this week.

From slam poetry to risky women, state of the media to the golden age of TV - here's your Wednesday—Friday lineup here at The Piano:

📅 Weds 27 August
7.00pm WORD - The Front Line High Schools Grand Slam

📅 Thurs 28 August
6.00pm Hot Mess: Navigating Midlife and Menopause
8.00pm Tom Sainsbury's Reading Enthusiasts' Soiree

📅 Fri 29 August
12.00pm State f the Nation's Media
2.00pm Diana Wichtel: Unreel
4.00pm Dame Anne Salmond: Knowledge is a Blessing
6.00pm Charlotte Wood: Stone Yard Devotional
8.00pm Risky Women hosted by Stacey Morrison (Te Arawa Ngāi Tahu)

👉Check out more info, tickets and the full festival line up at www.wordchristchurch.co.nz

23/08/2025

🎊 This month we're officially nine years young!

Check out these snaps from our build phase led by Leighs Construction, Wilkie+Bruce Architects, Ruamoko Solutions and Marshall Day Acoustics.

✨Rising from post-quake Ōtautahi in August 2016 we opened our doors with the vision of being an inspirational music and arts facility for communities, professionals, young people and audiences from all walks of life.

Through dedication, tenacity and vision our founding Director Bronwyn Bijl, family and founding Trustees; staff; sponsors and supporters; contractors; generous volunteers and the City of Christchurch brought to life your centre for music and the arts — The Piano!

🤲 Ngā mihi nui, a huge thank you to the exceptional individuals, Trusts and Foundations, businesses, partners and Christchurch City Council who enabled our build and chattels back in 2016.

👉 We couldn't have done this without our fabulous whānau of supporters: https://thepiano.nz/our-supporters/

Today we host over 600 events annually, and welcome over 125,000 people through our doors every year. From music to kōrero, theatre and dance, comedy to film, conferences and events.

💛 Thank you to our team, clients, artists in residence, performers and creatives, and audiences for coming on this journey with us. You make The Piano the vibrant destination that it is for Christchurch, Canterbury and Aotearoa. Mauri ora!

22/08/2025

📰 Did you catch Monday's awesome write up about our two Bronwyn Bijl Scholarship stars?

The Press profiled Kaitlyn Rodley and Myah Eve about their projects with us, what inspired their start in music and what's coming up for them both!

✨ Have a read and then book your tickets to Kaitlyn's EP Launch on September 13, and look out for Myah's music vid drop on September 19.

📅 Kaitlyn Rodley 'What Grows Here' Debut EP Release - 13 September

The financial support will enable singer-songwriter Kaitlyn Rodley to release a live version of her forthcoming EP and pop artist Myah Eve to release a music video.

20/08/2025

🎹 A very special hour of music and artistry awaits as Michael Houstoun makes his welcome return to The Piano stage for a gorgeous concert of Schubert and Beethoven. Experience the magic this September.

Michael Houstoun — Sundays at Four
📅 Sunday 07 September, 4.00-5.00pm
🎟️ www.thepiano.nz
☕ Complimentary tea & coffee

18/08/2025

🔥 A week of all the good stuff — folk, improv theatre, jazz, classical and poetry. Get amongst it!

🎟 www.thepiano.nz
Jenny Mitchell / Impulse Theatre NZ / Rutene Spooner & Shea Kokaua / Christchurch City Choir / The Jubilate Singers

17/08/2025

In a brilliant WORD week warm up, it is National Poetry Day this Friday! We're particularly excited by a marriage of words and music: In Praise Of Living Poets with Jubilate Singers at The Piano on Sunday afternoon. We'll see you there?

Twelve composers have teamed up with twelve poets to create a collection of songs that sings of our region, and the list of poets is pretty magnificent, including Tusiata Avia, Bernadette Hall, Gail Ingram, Claudia Jardine, Joanne Preston and Ariana Tikao...

17/08/2025

🌺 A host of creative Cantabrians are at the heart of The Jubilate Singers's latest project with Music Director Philip Norman and Arts Laureate Tusiata Avia.

In Praise of Living Poets - Jubilate Singers
📅 Sunday 24 August, 2.30pm (with pre concert talk at 1.45pm)
🎟️ www.thepiano.nz

Twelve composers and twelve poets have teamed up to create a collection of songs that sings of Ōtautahi and its surrounds. This immersive concert is preceded by a panel discussion with the poets and composers about their works.

SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music
RNZ Concert

16/08/2025

🎙️ Don't miss country folk star Jenny Mitchell next week - An Aotearoa Music Award Winner and gifted storyteller from the deep south of New Zealand.

Jenny Mitchell - The Forest House Tour
📅 Thursday 21 August, 7.00pm
🎟️ www.thepiano.nz

Now based in Melbourne, the AU Review describes Jenny’s music as a “sublime slice of folk” and her new highly anticipated album, Forest House, is capturing fans across the motu and the globe. Jenny is thrilled to welcome very special guest Katie Thompson to The Forest House Tour.

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