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Urban Art Village

Thursday 13 October 2022

Freyberg Place, Auckland

It was 5:45pm Thursday at Freyberg Place, downtown Auckland. Catchy segments of audio from synchronised drag and K-pop dance performances reverberated up Isthmus’ One Hundred and Eighty-nine Steps. One of many events taking place that evening as part of ‘Late Night Art’, the ‘Urban Art Village’ occupied O’Connell Street with a series of nine installations designed and

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