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Simon Wilson: The amazing return of the Auckland Arts Festival
25 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
7 minutes to read
OPINION:
What an astonishing thing, that we are about to welcome the return of the Auckland Arts Festival. Covid struck right in the middle of the 2020 festival, cancelling shows, stranding performers, forcing audiences home. Most famously, American singer Amanda Palmer had to cancel, and then holed up for the duration in Hawke s Bay with her daughter and her husband, writer Neil Gaiman. Until Gaiman couldn t cope any longer and found a way to flee to Scotland.
It was dramatic, in its own way, but it wasn t the same as having an actual arts festival.