Tiny Fest

Tiny Fest Real. Raw. Radical. Experimental performance art festival in Ōtautahi, NZ.

⚡THIS WEEKEND⚡ From performances taking place aboard a Metro bus to activations unfolding throughout the Bus Interchange...
18/06/2026

⚡THIS WEEKEND⚡ From performances taking place aboard a Metro bus to activations unfolding throughout the Bus Interchange, TinyFest invites you to encounter art where you least expect it.

Public space becomes performance space, and familiar journeys become opportunities for surprise, reflection, and connection.

Browse the programme, plan your journey, or simply stumble across something unexpected.

📅19–21 June
📍📍 Ōtautahi-Christchurch Bus Interchange + A Rolling Stone + The Shed Gallery

Full programme and more info available at tinyfest.org

⚡Long Table Lunch + Curatorial Panel Sunday 21 June, 12-2pm Bring your lunch and join us at the table.Gather with the Ti...
17/06/2026

⚡Long Table Lunch + Curatorial Panel
Sunday 21 June, 12-2pm

Bring your lunch and join us at the table.

Gather with the Tiny Fest artists, and fellow festival-goers for a shared meal and informal conversation before transitioning into a discussion with our curatorial team. Together we'll unpack the process of programming a performance arts festival, and the practical realities of shaping a live programme.

📍 Ōtautahi-Christchurch Bus Interchange.
🎟️ FREE

⚡ Join us as we officially open TinyFest INTERxCHANGE 2026⚡Before the programme unfolds, before the crossings and exchan...
17/06/2026

⚡ Join us as we officially open TinyFest INTERxCHANGE 2026⚡

Before the programme unfolds, before the crossings and exchanges, we invite you to gather with us for a Mihi Whakatau with mana whenua to mark the opening of this year's festival.

🚌 Friday 19 June
⏰ 6:30–7:00pm
📍 Ōtautahi-Christchurch Bus Interchange
🎟️ Free - everyone welcome

⚡ CALLING ALL TINYFEST FRIENDS ⚡We're urgently looking for a few more volunteers to help us bring TinyFest 2026 to life ...
17/06/2026

⚡ CALLING ALL TINYFEST FRIENDS ⚡

We're urgently looking for a few more volunteers to help us bring TinyFest 2026 to life on Saturday 20 June.

If you've been thinking about getting involved, now is the time. A couple of hours can make a huge difference to a small, independent festival like ours. Join the crew, support artists, and help us create a weekend of real, raw and radical performance.

Message us or email [email protected] to jump aboard 🚌

⚡ Tiny Tipua EP Listening Party by Mana TipuaSaturday 20 June, 12:30-1:30pmJoin a listening party on the bus to experien...
14/06/2026

⚡ Tiny Tipua EP Listening Party by Mana Tipua
Saturday 20 June, 12:30-1:30pm

Join a listening party on the bus to experience a bold three-track EP by takatāpui rakatahi (Māori, LGBT+ youth), developed through collaborative wānaka in Ōtautahi.

Given full creative freedom to shape their own stories with mentors, and music production support, each waiata (song) offers a different theme and genre of music.

The result is uncompromising and authentic work demonstrating a range of concerns relevant to their identity, resilience and context. Tiny Tipua stands as a testament to the transformative power of cultural and collaborative artistic approaches within contemporary music and experimental performance practice.

📍 Ōtautahi-Christchurch Bus Interchange.
🎟️ FREE
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Mana Tipua is a kaupapa Māori organisation led by takatāpui, and is the only rangatahi takatāpui focussed organisation in Waitaha. Their purpose is to tautoko (support) the hauora (health & wellbeing) and mana of rangatahi takatāpui and their whānau, including all Māori with diverse genders, s*xualities, and s*x characteristics to enable them to flourish in the fullness of their identity.

⚡ Full programme on our website

⚡Block Party by JoltSaturday 20 June, 2-3:30pmJolt brings their Block Party to the people. Become part of the choreograp...
13/06/2026

⚡Block Party by Jolt
Saturday 20 June, 2-3:30pm

Jolt brings their Block Party to the people. Become part of the choreography by guiding the energy and unlocking new moments every time you move onto a coloured dot.

It is seriously addictive. Step onto a coloured dot and the dancers burst into action. Shift to another dot and the whole flow of movement changes. You become part of the choreography, guiding the energy and unlocking new moments every time you move.

Block Party shifts the narrative around disability by seeing the individual, reimagining inclusion, and respecting difference. Along the way, expect connection, creativity, and a whole lot of dancing.

📍 Ōtautahi-Christchurch Bus Interchange.
🎟️ FREE
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Jolt has been pioneering bold, inclusive dance since 2001, with programmes and performers that rethink what dance can be. Their work challenges mainstream ideas about disability and difference, creating movement that is expressive, surprising, and completely their own.

⚡Fight and FlightSaturday 20 June, 12-2pm & 3-5pmFight and Flight are a clown performance duo compelled to share with y...
13/06/2026

⚡Fight and Flight
Saturday 20 June, 12-2pm & 3-5pm

Fight and Flight are a clown performance duo compelled to share with you a surreal and enchanting experience through their souls, and subsequently yours. Join this dynamic comedy-duo on a guided bus experience you're sure to remember!

They were first sighted when they were performing a Grease Medley in the middle of the Avon river. Since then, they’ve been sighted counselling crowds of pigeons, inciting rebellion in retirement villages, and chasing a more balanced society.

Their mission: to explore the human condition, disrupt the status quo, and inspire hope in their audiences. Although we haven’t yet figured out exactly who or what they are, Fight and Flight are unlike anything you've likely encountered.



🚌 12-2pm (ticketed)
You will be on a personal guided performance/tour with a maximum of four people for a 30 minutes session on a public bus route travelling from and then back to the Bus Interchange. *please arrive 10 min before

Save your spot now!

📍3-5pm (free)
Further iteration of this performance will take place at the Bus Interchange

⚡Resonance - Gayageum by Ek ChoSaturday 20 June, 5-6pmA site-responsive gayageum performance unfolding across buses, sta...
13/06/2026

⚡Resonance - Gayageum by Ek Cho
Saturday 20 June, 5-6pm

A site-responsive gayageum performance unfolding across buses, station concourses, and public plazas, this work reimagines traditional Korean music within the rhythms of the city. As the gayageum moves through spaces of transit, sound becomes a vehicle for encounter, reflection, and connection.

Structured through four musical movements—circulation, reflection, threshold, and resonance—the performance explores movement not simply as transportation, but as a series of transitions, rituals, and shared experiences. Traditional and contemporary Korean music transform everyday transit environments into places of listening, where journeys become moments of connection and the city itself becomes part of the score.

📍 Ōtautahi-Christchurch Bus Interchange.
🎟️ FREE
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가야금(Gayageum) performer and educator Eun Kyeol Cho bridges traditional and contemporary Korean music through performance, education, and interdisciplinary artistic practice. She studied Korean traditional music at Seoul National University and its Graduate School of Music, and has taught at Jeonbuk National University and the National High School of Traditional Arts.

Through performances, lecture concerts, and international festivals, she continues to share the beauty of Korean music with global audiences. Her work is recognized for its delicate gayageum sound, expressive artistry, and contemporary interpretation of traditional music.

⚡Bodega Mart by Isaac TaitSaturday 20 June, 2:30-4:30pmA bus trip will take you to the Shed Gallery to view Kiwi absurdi...
12/06/2026

⚡Bodega Mart by Isaac Tait
Saturday 20 June, 2:30-4:30pm

A bus trip will take you to the Shed Gallery to view Kiwi absurdist dairy art installation.

Bodega Mart is an art exhibition masked as a classic Kiwi convenience store, but with a twist. The concept arose when artist Isaac Tait did a podcast with one of the arts facilitator The White Room Creative Space, a community creative space where he practices his art.

One of the questions he was asked was “What would you like to see in disabled spaces?”, his response “They should be run by disabled people”. Following this he was asked what he would do if he ran The White Room. He laughed and responded “Turn it into a dairy.” This is where the seed spawned for the concept.

Isaac's dairy will open on Saturday, 20th June from 3pm - 5pm, as part of Tiny Fest, with parody art 'products' on the shelves, and other mysterious creations intended to create an immersive experience invoking nostalgia, embracing the bizarre and absurd, as well as leaning into his commentary on New Zealand and American culture, and social issues such as capitalism and ableism. He wishes to challenge people’s perceptions of disability, and reality itself.

Come along to the opening night for art, live music, free mystery ice cream, and miscellaneous strangeness.

The exhibition will run beyond the festival, until the 5th of July and will be open Wednesdays - Sundays, 10am - 1pm.

📍 Tiny Bus Boarding from Bay 8 towards The Shed Gallery (and back)
🎟️ FREE (bookings essential)
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Isaac is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based absurdist artist, performer, and poet whose work challenges societal norms and perceptions of disability. Drawing inspiration from nightlife, avant-garde jazz, pop culture, and everyday experiences, his practice moves fluidly across painting, poetry, performance, and installation.

Known for his sharp humour and prolific creativity, Isaac has exhibited widely through The White Room, the Christchurch Art Show, CoCA Toi Moroki, and solo and performance projects across the city.

⚡Untitled by Kosta BogoievskiSaturday 20 June, 6-7pmA site-responsive solo performance in two parts: a choreographic wor...
12/06/2026

⚡Untitled by Kosta Bogoievski
Saturday 20 June, 6-7pm

A site-responsive solo performance in two parts: a choreographic work followed by an improvised roaming intervention through the bus interchange.

Drawing on years of working within public space, Kosta gathers traces of conversations, collaborations, and artistic lineages into a living collage. Influences overlap and drift apart, creating a work that is less a statement than a meeting point.

The performance searches for moments of convergence—between bodies, ideas, architectures, and chance encounters. Offered as a proposition rather than a conclusion, the work remains open, responsive, and unfinished; discovering what it is through the act of being performed.

📍 Ōtautahi-Christchurch Bus Interchange.
🎟️ FREE

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Kosta Bogoievski is an Ōtautahi (Christchurch)-based contemporary dancer, choreographer, and writer. After graduating with a BA in Performing and Screen Arts from Unitec in 2014, he established a collaborative career deeply rooted in somatic practices, blending dance with poetry, prose, and everyday movement.

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