The popular Te Karanga a Hape street party returns on Thursday 13 July to celebrate Matariki 2023 in distinctive Karangahape Road style!

This year’s event theme is He Ara Matarau / Pathway of Diversity, which celebrates the kaleidoscope of cultures, identities, colours, sounds, flavours, unforgettable sights and sensory delights that combine to create the iconic, all-inclusive thoroughfare we love, Karangahape Road.

The Karangahape Road Business Association is working alongside a team of local event creatives to curate a full and fabulous programme of music, art, food, fashion, performances and workshops from 3pm onward on July 13th, the eve of the 2023 Matariki public holiday.

View the full event programme below...

Hallo Queen

📍 Family Bar, 270 K Road

🕰  10pm – 4am

Horror Shows, Freak Shows, Costume Parade and prizes for the best dressed.

Free entry.

Halloween Markets hosted by Celestial

📍 St Kevins Arcade, 184 K Road

🕰  6pm – 9:30pm

Halloween Market, BodyFX Face Painting, Costume Competition & DJs – all curated by Celestial Corner.

Free to attend.

Train to Nowhere… The very end of the line

📍  Northern Line Bar, 6 Beresford Square

🕰  6pm – 2am

Northern Line and Monster Valley present a night of murderous mayhem and spooky shenanigans, with terrifying tunes courtesy of DJ Killa Karl!

Free entry.

The Howl Down

📍 The Wine Cellar, St Kevins Arcade

🕰  8pm – 1am

Get ready for a good old fashioned HOWL DOWN! Come dressed in your spookiest wares, as there will be prizes for best dressed. It’s time for some ghoulish tunes - featuring Kendall Elise and the Bel-graves, Thee Golden Geese, and Little Weird.

Tickets $20+bf.

Propaganda Halloween

📍 Studio The Venue, 340 K Road

🕰  10pm – 4am

Attention all sexy ghouls, slutty zombies, and wicked witches – New Zealand’s biggest gay party is back this Halloween with another extravagant, multi-room spectacular!

Taking over all levels of the newly renovated Studio The Venue, with surprise shows and Propaganda’s signature over-the-top production.

Only final release tickets left at $69+bf.

Karangahape Creep Show

📍 George Courts

🕰  6pm –  8pm

An eclectic group exhibition curated by Monster Valley, showcasing Karangahape Road’s finest collaborators through a variety of mediums and twisted thoughts.

At the new pop-up space of Studio One Toi Tū.

Free to attend.

Donut Decorating & Face Painting

📍 The Pie Piper, 321 K Road

🕰  1pm – 4pm

Kids and adults alike can participate in donut decorating for $10. Kids can also get their face painted in-store, while the adults purchase some haunted treats.

Walk-in only.

Fright Night Halloween Party

📍 Beats 'n' Brushes, 

🕰  7pm – 12am

Beats 'n' Brushes are dropping the paint for this one and throwing a HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY with some of Tāmaki Makaurau's top DJ's!

Tickets $25+bf.

Club Ritmo, Halloween Special

📍 SOAP Dancehall, 12 Beresford Square

🕰  8pm – 3am

Club Ritmo returns to SOAP Dancehall for a super freaky Halloween special. Join while the veil is thin for weird and wonderful sounds, with your hosts DJ Jazz Cigarette, M-Tron and Boomio.
Free entry. Dress up is highly recommended.

Free entry.

bFM Halloween Party

📍 Whammy Bar, St Kevins Arcade

🕰  8pm – 4am

Ghouls, goblins, and other eldritch creatures of the night, rise up and get your groove on at the 95bFM Halloween Party! With spooks, scares, screams, and terrifying musical performances from: Amamelia, Dalyan RD, Ellay W, Grecco Romank, Half Hexagon, and Slumbug.

Tickets $20+bf

Queens of the Damned

📍  G.A.Y., 262 K Road

🕰  9pm – 4am

Hosted by Miss Geena, with five Halloween shows curated by Aaron Von Phillippe. Costume contest at 1.30am.

Entry $10 on the door.

Halloween

📍 The Eagle, 259 K Road

🕰  10pm – 4am

Spot prizes for the most impressive costumes.

Free entry.

Crimson

📍  Verona, 169 K Road

🕰  10pm – Late

Verona’s very first Halloween night, brought to you by local Artists and DJs - DREUCE, POM & DIRTY KNEES. A night to bring out your best and worst costumes and dance moves.

Plus, share your Verona pics on Instagram to go in for a $150 tattoo voucher from @colours.ltd - winner announced at midnight!

Earlybird - $15  /  Door sales - $20

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Halloween

📍  Bozo, 309 K Road

🕰  4pm – 1am

Costumes and prizes, creepy cocktails, DJ and dance floor from 10pm.

Free entry.

Hot Suppers Served to Chill

📍 Coco's Cantina, 374 K Road

🕰  4pm –  midnight

Staff attire will be deliciously devilish. Booking recommended.

Killer Night

📍 Atelier, 292 K Road

🕰  5pm – 11:30pm

Booking recommended.

Samoan x Acho

📍  Achos, Food Workshop, 309 K Road

🕰  5pm – 2am

Samoan x Acho bao buns served all evening with LEAO performing live from 8-9pm. No booking required.

FREAKOUT Hairdos

📍 Gilt Hair, 59 Pitt Street

🕰  4:30pm – 6:30pm

Freakout hairdos by Gilt. Arrive with your hair washed and ready to style. $10 for a 20-minute session.

Kra KoTo Kra & Afriky Dancers

📍 Starting at the Mobil Garage, ending on the Pocket Park Stage, top of Pitt Street

🕰  6:45pm – 7:45pm

Kra KoTo Kra drumming ensemble and Afriky Dancers will perform on the move, leaving from the Mobil Garage to join more performers on Pitt Street’s Pocket Park Stage.

Shovaav

📍  Pocket Park Stage, top of Pitt Street

🕰  7:30pm – 8:30pm

Shovaav is a DJ and percussionist, previously part of Kra KoTo Kra. The early stages of his set will fuse will the drummers. 

FREAKOUT Costume Contest

📍 Pocket Park Stage, top of Pitt Street

🕰  8:30pm – 9pm

FREAKOUT Costume Contest, hosted by those gorgeous G.A.Y show-ghouls Miss Geena and Shavorn Aborealis. Prizes for the sexiest vampires, the most charming monsters and the freakiest of freaks!

Juan Balsani

📍 Pocket Park Stage, top of Pitt Street

🕰  9pm – 10pm

Juan Balsani is respected in many fields - music being one of them. Originally from Argentina, now headlines New Zealand festivals and runs the music events brand Say No More.

Spider Dancers

📍  St Kevins Arcade

🕰  7pm – 10pm

Spider Dancers from Dance Plant Collective perform below the giant K Road spider and it's disco ball chain web.

Skating Tricksters

📍  Roaming Karangahape Road

🕰 7pm – 10pm

Roller Skaters unleashed by Hey! Macarena will roam the strip. Watch out as their tricks are treats not to be missed.

Trick or Treat?

📍 Roaming Karangahape Road

🕰  7pm – 10pm

Trick or Treat, Karangahape Darlings? Performers from The Human Agency will roam the strip. But be warned: interacting with them could result in laughter, surprise and unexpected treasures

Halloween Caricaturist

📍  Roaming Karangahape Road

🕰  7pm – 10pm

Look out for Darren, a caricaturist from Bloomfield Art. He'll be roaming the strip, completing a drawing every 10 minutes. Drawings are free to take home. Post a photo of your caricature on Instagram, tagging @kroadnz, to be in to win a top Halloween prize.