White Night: Festival experience on budget in Napier

The 4m-high Gold of the Kowhai sculpture, created by Paul Dibble, stands on the corner of Tennyson and Herschell streets, opposite MTG Hawke's Bay.

The crowds will be strolling through the arts and culture area of Napier's CBD on Saturday during White Night, the new event in the calendar of this year's Harcourt's Hawke's Bay Arts Festival.

Join friends and family within the space of a few CBD blocks around Hastings and Tennyson streets as they come alive with music, performers and artists in residence.

After sunset and on the hour you can immerse yourself in a surreal and futuristic laser light canopy show down Herschell St, courtesy of Sam Deller from Boom Factory.

MTG is open with free admission and the many galleries in the arts quarter will be open, welcoming the public in to view.

Inspired by Nuit Blanche in Paris, White Night was conceived to make arts and culture accessible to everyone in the community.

The arts festival event is a unique opportunity to engage with the arts in an open and accessible way, as a first-time gallery-goer or arts connoisseur.

Participating venues
Marine Parade:
MTG - Splendour at the Museum. Experience the splendour of the museum at night, with a pop-up bar serving wine and craft beer, with art and live performance. Exhibitions include Freedom and Structure: Cubism and New Zealand Art 1930-1960, Jono Rotman: Ōmarunui and Brett Graham: He taonga te pai & he taonga te kino. Free entry.

Herschell St:
Sam Deller from Boom Factory, Hawke's Bay's own premier laser and pyrotechnics show specialists.

Byron St:
Creative Arts Napier - White Night at the CAN, an art installation designed and installed by Hawke's Bay artist Lisa Feyen; hundreds of illuminated paper boats, a canopy of stars, white sails twisting from floor to ceiling. Live Performance from The Lemons.

Hastings St:
Boyd-Dunlop Gallery- Pop Cult Addict is an exhibition celebrating the popular icons of music, fashion, art and imagery of the last 50 years, eg David Bowie, Grace Jones, Sid Vicious, Andy Warhol, Picasso. An exhibition of vibrant Richard Boyd-Dunlop prints.