The annual Auckland Brick show will feature awesome LEGO® models, displays and amazing MOC’s (My own creations) brought to you by members of the Auckland LEGO® User Group, as well as guests from around New Zealand.

A massive LEGO® Playbrick area where thekids (and adults..) can put their creativity to the test.

NOTE: This event is not affiliated with The LEGO Group. LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of The LEGO Group. © 2019 The LEGO Group.

Be prepared for a cool but not cold ice skating experience.

The Ice Skate Tour travels around New Zealand with state of the art, artificial ice rinks. They look like ice and have 97% same gliding capacity as natural ice. Surrounded by an inflatable boarding and helmets + gloves provided at no charge (both compulsory for kids) it’s the safest possible way to try ice skating.

Join Auckland Museum this Labour Weekend at the Viaduct Harbour for free family activities and interactive talks for the Tuia 250 commemoration.

Throughout the long weekend, kids can cut out their own edible/medicinal native flora from the selection of templates, puzzle them together, colour them in and add them to the Native Forest.

This is a chance to get creative and re-create native flora like manuka flowers and leaves, kumarahou (gum diggers soap), watercress, lacebark, kawakawa, piko piko.

On Saturday, Sunday and Monday at  11am and 2pm, guest speakers will offer talks.

An interactive live plant table (kindly supplied by Kaipara Coast Nursery) offers taste tests of these native edible in an area for relaxing and reading.

Carried Away: Bags Unpacked showcases over 150 individual bags from Auckland Museum’s collection, many on display for the first time.

Every bag has a history, a story to tell – from haute couture fashion to cultural traditions. Bags can convey social standing, practical needs or be a statement of art.

From curious creations such as an albatross foot purse and bear gut bag with fur trim, to taonga imbued with Māori and Pacific cultural values such as kete and bilum, the exhibition explores the stories associated with their creation and the people who used them.

Carried Away: Bags Unpacked exhibition is on until 1 December 2019 in the Special Exhibition Hall.

The biggest show of the year is approaching, with three and a half days of madness and mayhem over Labour Long Weekend (October 25-28th).

This year’s event will have tremendous displays from Nintendo and PlayStation as well as a massive Esports arena to name just a few of the gaming displays, added to Amusements, trading card tournaments, giveaways, contests, cosplay, wrestling, music and more.

The event will be host to a wide array international celebrity guests from such shows are Supernatural, Lucifer, Lost Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Preacher, Highlander, WWE, Iron Fist, Game of Thrones, Star Wars Rebels, Invader Zim, My Hero Academia and more!

The event is your gateway to meet TV and Movie stars, Animation voices, comic creators, WWE Wrestlers, Cosplayers, YouTube stars and more, participating in panels, photos and autographs.

My Art Time is a fun and free, drop-in weekend workshop where you can enjoy art-making as a family. Make a piece of art you can take home and explore ideas and themes related to the Gallery’s current exhibitions.

My Art Time is on each Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 2pm.

WestCity invites you to celebrate Halloween and dress up in your favourite costume and join
Explorers Fern & Nikau in the dark forest.  Come and enjoy spooky games, crafty activities, face painting and more!

The Halloween party will be held at Centre Court Level 1.

Grab your ghouls and ghosts and join us for the Spooktacular Tea Party this Halloween at Stamford Plaza Auckland hotel.

Enjoy a horrific yet delicious spooky high tea featuring a wide selection of handmade sweet and savoury treats with a spooky twist, artisan teas and other spine tingling Halloween delicacies. All guests will receive a spooky mocktail on arrival.

Be sure to wear your best Halloween costume as there will be prizes for best dressed. Plus, have your face painted ready for the photobooth.

Halloween High Tea Menu

Ghoul Green Tea Cheese Cake
Mini Pumpkin Pie
Scary Macaroon, White Chocolate Ganache
Dead Velvet Cake

Frightening Cranberry Scones with Bloody Jam and Clotted Cream

Monster Mushroom Quiche
Slippery Salmon Slider
Devil’s Egg Sand-witch
Witches Fingers Sandwich
Chattering Chicken Curry Puff
Monster Mud Chocolate Fountain

Bookings are essential.

*Menu items correct at time of publishing but may be subject to change.

Special dietary requests welcomed, just indicate your request on the order form when booking.

For further information, please contact 09 309 8888 or bookings@spak.stamford.com.au.

Be prepared for a cool but not cold ice skating experience.

The Ice Skate Tour travels around New Zealand with state of the art, artificial ice rinks. They look like ice and have 97% same gliding capacity as natural ice. Surrounded by an inflatable boarding and helmets + gloves provided at no charge (both compulsory for kids) it’s the safest possible way to try ice skating.

Get into your best costume and come along to Henderson Park for a Halloween Treat. Complete the spooky quiz whilst, riding, walking or scooting along the fantastic Project Twin Streams path and be in to win some great spot prizes and finish up with a trick or treat game.

Meet at Mount Lebanon Lane entrance ( near Corban Estate Art Centre) to Henderson Park.

Fun on the rides and a bag of treats, a night in Kidz Kingdom is the perfect treat for under 8s!

Get a Tricks & Treat pass and your little one will get a free treat bag on entry and enjoy Kidz Kingdom outdoor rides:

o  Choco Express

o  Jumpin’ Star

o  Magic Bikes

o  Space Shuttles

o  The Carousel

o  Car Wash Convoy

Some ride height restrictions may mean you need to ride with your child, like Magic Bikes, the Choco Express Roller Coaster and the Surf and Swing. These are all special and fun experiences to share together!

The Kidz Kingdom indoor zone is closed but you’ll find plenty of places to grab a bite to eat in the Main Park.

Gates will open from 5:30pm for processing, please enter through the main Rainbow’s End gate, rides kick off at 6pm.

If you’re visiting Kidz Kingdom during the day, upgrade to a Kidz Kingdom Tricks & Treats Megapass for all the Kidz Kingdom rides and activities during
the day and a pass to the night event too!

Double, double thrills and fear; dare you enter the Witch’s Lair? Dark Rides comes with witchy fun, face your fears or turn and run.

Spin at the top of Stratosfear, plunge to the ground on the Fearfall or drift through the Enchanted Forest in the dark on the Log Flume.  Bring your friends for a night of spine-tingling fun at Dark Rides.

Manic Manor

The haunted Manic Manor has been taken over by the Witches Lair.  Journey through and meet the residents if you dare.
R14, parental discretion advised, open 6pm to 10:30pm.

Entertainment

Halloween Horror Circus, presented by Andre Vegas on 12, 19  and 26 October.
Halloween Dance Party with DJ Fr3quency: 7-10pm on 2 November

Chainsaw Madness: 8pm
Dreams and Screams: 9pm
Inferno: 10pm

Gates will open from 5:30pm for processing with the event starting at 6pm.

If you’re visiting during the day, get a Dark Rides Megapass for all the rides and activities during the day, a pass to Dark Rides at night and $5 to spend in park!

Written and directed by Tavita Nielsen-Mamea ‘Au Ko Tuvalu‘ takes the audience to Tuvalu, the homeland of the world’s first climate change refugees, now on its final day of evacuations…

Sitting just metres above sea level, the rising seas are dangerously lapping at the door step of three siblings, who must pack up their lives and flee to “Niu Sila” Aotearoa.

Although Maleko and Lifa try to look to the future and their new lives, Fetau finds it hard to say goodbye…

Au Ko Tuvalu follows a family watching their history, culture, and beloved homeland swept away in front of their eyes.

Suitable for families with children aged 7 years plus.