INTERxCHANGE
PROGRAMME
Tiny responds to [the Bus] INTERxCHANGE as our 2025/6 curatorial provocation. Join us as we unfold the pathways around this site as a theme and a model of programming.
19th June
Friday
Official Opening:
Mihi Whakatau
6:30-7pm
The official opening of Tiny Fest 2026 with mana whenua.
Bus Interchange
free
Tiny Grem Party
Tiny Fest and Gremlins are reuniting for a 2nd edition of the Tiny Grem Fest, this time to celebrate the opening of the Tiny Fest weekend hosting an evening of Poetry, Performance, and experimental DJ sets. Join us for a multi-format night celebrating a range of Ōtautahi’s artists and creatives.
7:30pm-12am
A Rolling Stone
ticketed, party, experimental, poetry, music
Saturday
20th June
Looking
by Ivan Lupi
10am-10pm
For 12 hours, a body stands in the Bus Interchange and returns every gaze that finds it. No breaks. No words. Just looking.
Bus Interchange
free, durational, experimental,
Band on the Bus
Addington
Brass Band
10:45am-12pm
You are invited to join the local musicians of Addington Brass as they perform entertainment music on one of Ōtautahi’s iconic buses.
Tiny Bus boarding from Bus Interchange, Bay 8
ticketed, live music
Fight and Flight
Fight & Flight
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.
Bus Route 29
Bus Interchange
ticketed/free, comedy, experimental
Nutrient Cycle
Jonty Coulson
12-2pm
Nutrient cycling is the biological process through which organic and inorganic matter is transformed, exchanged, and renewed, sustaining life within an ecosystem. In NUTRIENT CYCLE, Jonty Coulson performs this process at a human scale.
free, experimental, endurance, ecological experiment, participatory
Bus Interchange
Tiny Tipua EP
Listening Party
Mana Tipua
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.
free, music
Tiny Bus, Bay 8
Block Party
by Jolt
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.
Bus Interchange
free, party, dance, participatory
Bodega Mart
Isaac Tait
2:30-4:30pm
A bus trip will take you to the Shed Gallery to view Kiwi absurdist dairy art installation.
Tiny Bus boarding from Bus Interchange, Bay 8 + Shed Gallery
free, experimental, absurd
Resonance - Gayageum
Ek Cho
5-6pm
New encounters lead to resonance: a site-responsive gayageum performance unfolding across buses, station concourses, and public plazas.
Bus Interchange
free, live music
Untitled
Kosta Bogoievski
6-7pm
A dynamic ritual invoking the spirit of waste.
Bus Interchange
free, choreography, intervention
Paoraki
Whakawhitia (Ariana Tikao, Gemma Syme, Nicolas Woollaston)
7-8pm
An exploration of the intersections and the contrasts, the commonalities and the differences, between ancient and modern practices in instrument making, performing, sound making, music making and improvising.
free, experimental, music
Bus Interchange
Journeys
Amelia Long & Short Order
8-10pm
An immersive live rave performance inside a stationary bus, combining improvised movement and DJing to explore travel, transition, and connection. Blurring the boundary between performer and audience, the work transforms the still interior into an open, evolving atmosphere shaped by curiosity, participation, and change.
Tiny Bus, Bay 8
ticketed, party, experimental, poetry, music
Sunday
21st June
12-2pm
Long Table Lunch
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.
Bus Interchange
free, shared meal
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