Coffee Festival

Sunday 19 September, 10am – 4pm

$10 Adult Entry to Event Centre and Auditorium  |  Children Free

All coffee tastings are included with entry  

Short, tall, black, white and everything in-between — indulge your coffee obsession at the inaugural Auckland Museum Coffee Festival, organised as part of the Kai to Pie exhibition.

Explore the many ways to enjoy coffee from the Ethiopian coffee ceremony to Affogato; listen to music from DJ Selecta Sam and jazz-funk band Foghorn while you caffeinate yourselves; enjoy latte art, talks, samplings and fluffies for the kids.

Coffee drinking arrived in New Zealand with the earliest European colonists but it wasn’t until the influx of American soldiers during World War II that Aucklanders truly began to embrace it. The Auckland Museum Coffee Festival showcases the glorious history of coffee in Auckland.

EVENT CENTRE

10am - 4pm

Take the lift to level 3 under the dome, and experience an authentic Ethiopian Coffee ceremony. Learn about how parts of coffee machines function to create our beloved espressos.

But there is more than one way to make a coffee; so check out live demonstrations as coffee masters present the art of Affogato, Stove Top, Turkish, French press, Aeropress, Chemex, Siphon coffee and more.

And for the more creative; witness some of New Zealand’s best as they produce works of art out of Latte foam.

Want more of a caffeine fix? Enjoy free cups of espresso coffee from some of Auckland’s best coffee aficionado’s including Altura, Toasted Espresso, L’Affare, Ben Café, Atomic, Gravity, Kokako, Espresso Workshop, Coffee Supreme, Alp Ice, Coffee Lab, and Columbus.

And not forgetting the children, our under-age coffee drinkers can enjoy fluffies from the Columbus fluffy cart all day.

TAKE THE COPROSMA CHALLENGE AND BE IN TO WIN!

Coprosma is a native NZ plant that early European settlers used to make a coffee-smelling brew.

Find a coprosma plant, photograph it (why not capture yourself on a coprosma coffee date?), and tell us where you snapped it. You could win a great coffee festival prize package. Find out more »

ATRIUM

10am - 4pm

Follow the aroma of coffee roasting to experience the action inside. Check out coffee facts, live coffee plants, and witness the creation of coffee art as almost 3000 cups of coffee become transformed into a mosaic of the Auckland Museum façade.

FREE ALL DAY ACTIVITIES

10am - 4pm

Get into the action with a with a cup-and-saucer fairground ride outside the Atrium entrance.

AUDITORIUM

10am – 4pm
Foyer

Journey up the lift to level 2 and step inside Craig Miller’s ‘Coffee and Conversations’. Himself a coffee legend, Miller tells fascinating tales about how New Zealand became a nation of coffee addicts, as he creates espressos for you.

Enjoy these short films and panel discussion on coffee, between coffees:

	Film — Coffee & Allah by Sima Urale (dir) 2007 10am - 4pm Run time 14 min When a cup of coffee is a gift from Allah. An Ethiopian Muslim woman’s appetite for coffee, Islam and a good game of badminton.
	Film — Coffee & Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch (dir) 2003 10am - 4pm Run time 95 min A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
	Panel Discussion — The Social Responsibility of the Coffee Industry 2pm – 3pm Auditorium Fair Trade’s Steve Knapp, Trade Aid’s Justin Purser, Cup of Excellence representative Fraser Lovell and coffee importer Garth Blair go head-to-head to discuss the magnitude and changing values of the coffee industry.
	Film — Black Gold by Marc Francis & Nick Francis (dir) 2007 3pm – 5pm Run time 78 mins An in-depth look at the world of coffee and global trade.