Kiriata Me Puoro - An Animation And Music Festival Announced ft. Lips, Grecco Romank, 花溪 Flowerstream + More

Kiriata Me Puoro (Film & Music) is an innovative new animation-meets-music mini-festival, pairing some of Aotearoa's most imaginative sonic talents with next-level moving image artists at Tāmaki Makaurau's Double Whammy on 16th November. Brought to you by SPECK COMICS, Strange News Touring and Misheard Records, the thoughtfully curated, collaborative lineup features Silver Scroll Award winners Lips with animated visuals by Maya K Templer, dungeon techno propagators Grecco Romank with animated visuals by Walters Prize finalist Simon Ward, and dream-pop / psych / soundscape duo 花溪 Flowerstream with animated visuals by Spencer Hall.

Finally bringing the worlds of visual arts and music together again in the live realm, Kiriata me Puoro will "immers(e) the audience into a weird multimedia art exhibition that expands upon what small gigs in Aotearoa could be" — do not miss...

Kiriata Me Puoro - An Animation And Music Festival
featuring...
Lips, with animated visuals by Maya K Templer
花溪 Flowerstream, with animated visuals by Spencer Hall
Grecco Romank, with animated visuals by Simon Ward
Saturday 16th November - Double Whammy, Auckland
Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

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Press release:

Misheard Records, Strange News Touring, and SPECK COMICS present Kiriata me Puoro, an animation-meets-music festival taking place at Double Whammy in Tāmaki Makaurau on the 16th of November.

It’s time to smash the arts, animation, and music scenes of Tāmaki Makaurau into one mighty shindig of an alternative arts exhibition. Auckland Zinefest’s Best Of The Fest/Best Comic Zine winner SPECK COMICS has joined forces with the newly minted Misheard Records and Strange News Touring to launch Kiriata me Puoro, a one-night mini-festival extravaganza of animation and music.

Three of the most innovative bands to come out of Tāmaki Makaurau in recent years have been paired up with animators across the motu, collaboratively developing stage visuals for a series of unique live sets accompanied by spectacular animated displays - telling stories, accompanying music, and immersing the audience into a weird multimedia art exhibition that expands upon what small gigs in Aotearoa could be.

This event was made possible thanks to The Blackbird Foundation and Auckland City of Music.

We look forward to welcoming you into our world <3