Venue: twentyone (SKYCITY)

Propaganda returns Saturday, Jan 16 2021

Tickets on sale 9am Friday 13 November.

WE’RE CELEBRATING 7 YEARS OF PROPAGANDA!

7 incredible years of gay partying in New Zealand!

Auckland’s hottest gay party series launched in 2013 and has since played host to DJs and performers from all over the world. We are beyond grateful for the continued support and can’t wait to celebrate on Saturday, October 17th.

Tickets on-sale Friday, August 7th at 9am.

PROPAGANDA is back!

The first post-lockdown gay dance party!

We have assembled our team and we cannot wait to throw a massive party for our big gay family to celebrate our new, well deserved, freedom.

We have DJ Donald Bennett kicking off the night with his famous camp and vocal house tunes followed by our very own DJ Jordan Eskra spinning a massive 4 hour set. He’s bringing along all the biggest tracks from PROPAGANDAs past, along with special lockdown-produced remixes – this is guaranteed to be a non-stop hands-in-the-air kind of night.

See you all very soon! Tickets on sale 9am Friday 12 June.

For the first time ever PROPAGANDA features a DJ duo – two of the fastest rising stars in the gay party world, the Jawbreakers!

This camp and colourful duo consists of two of Australia’s hottest award winning drag queens; Melbourne Drag royalty Kali Fornikate and Sabrina Babyslut – both performing in Auckland for the first time.

Jawbreakers are in-demand party starters on the gay club circuit. They have played at gay clubs throughout Australia and recently returned from their first world tour, spinning at London’s infamous Heaven Night club, as well as Amsterdam, Belgrave and more.

The Jawbreakers bring so much energy to their sets and matched with their elevated music taste they will have the entire dance floor partying with them. We can’t wait to have them hit the decks at PROPAGANDA on February 15.

DJs Donald Bennett and Jordan Eskra will also hit the decks – this is guaranteed to be a huge night!

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Check out Jawbreakers on SoundCloud:

WE’RE CELEBRATING 6 YEARS OF PROPAGANDA!

Auckland’s hottest gay party series launched in 2013 and has since played host to DJs and performers from all over the world. This is our last party of 2019, our 30th event, AND we’re celebrating six incredible years of gay partying in New Zealand. So many reasons to party this October!

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Our celebration line-up:   DANI TORO (SPAIN)  •  JORDAN ESKRA  •  DONALD BENNETT

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We are stoked to announce our headline DJ, DANI TORO, direct from Spain. Dani is one of the most in-demand gay DJs internationally and he has spun at major gay parties the world over including WE Party, Madrid Pride, White Party Palm Springs, XLSIOR Mykonos and Amsterdam Pride to name but a few. He was the headline DJ at Candyland 2019 – the closing party of Sydney Mardi Gras – and has already been announced to return in 2020.

With a unique music style Dani Toro is an artist that doesn’t fit into one musical box. His sets are always strong and energetic, delighting the most demanding crowd with a style that drifts between Tribal House and Progressive, blended with mainstream house. We can’t wait to have him spin at our 6 year anniversary bash!

Kiwi favourites DJ Jordan Eskra and DJ Donald Bennett will also hit the decks so this will most definitely be a high-energy, hands-in-the-air kind of night.

The venue for our birthday bash is the luxurious twentyone nightclub inside SKYCITY, with our renowned over-the-top production and custom built LED DJ booth.

This will be our biggest birthday party to date – don’t miss out!

Tickets on sale 9am Thursday 29 August at thetaproject.co.nz.

PROPAGANDA will be Auckland’s biggest, gayest and hottest party this winter!

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DJs:   DOM DE SOUSA (AUS)  •  JORDAN ESKRA  •  DONALD BENNETT

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We are very excited to have DJ DOM DE SOUSA spin in Auckland for the very first time. Dom is one of Australia’s most popular DJs, with current residences at ARQ, The Beresford, The Columbian, The Oxford, and Stonewall, and has spun at some of Sydney’s hottest events including Tropical Fruits and the massive RHI at Sydney Mardi Gras. Dom has productions with multiple labels and has played Europe, Asia and the US. He played his first NZ gig last year at the closing party of Winter Pride – Propaganda Galaxy. We are so excited for his first Auckland performance!

The ultra-luxurious twentyone goes gay for another night! Inside of SKYCITY, twentyone is one of the most fabulous clubs in New Zealand and is the perfect setting for Propaganda. So far it’s one of our favourite venues, with a massive dance floor coupled with two chill out zones and a smoking deck overlooking Auckland’s CBD.

Our top production team has been planning to make sure we deliver you an awesome experience including a few new tricks. Naturally, we’ve secured a state of the art sound system which produces the finest commercially available sound.

There will be a free coat check at twentyone, and like last time, there is no dress code inside of twentyone – but as usual please keep your clothes on throughout the SKYCITY complex.

Tickets on sale 9am Friday 10 May at thetaproject.co.nz.

PROPAGANDA hits Auckland summer for the first time, continuing our summer party series and set to be our biggest, gayest party this summer!

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Our fabulous line-up:

Wayne G (UK)  •  Jordan Eskra  •  Donald Bennett  •  Tess Tickle  •  Buckwheat  •  and more!

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We are stoked to announce our headline DJ, Wayne G, direct from the UK. Wayne has spun at every major gay party in the world including Sydney Mardi Gras Party, Sydney Harbour Party, White Party Palm Springs, World Pride, Berlin Love Parade, White Party Miami – and the list goes on!

Wayne is one of the globe’s top remixers and has worked with the likes of Cher, Madonna, Katy Perry, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and Whitney Houston, to name a few. Averse to categorisation in any one particular musical style, Wayne takes the crowd on a musical journey starting with house, electro, tribal, tech and anthemic vocal house, bringing percussive beats and uplifting infectious riffs seamlessly together to create a melodic, high energy journey. His sets are known to include his own productions, many of which remain unheard unless you get to experience one of his marathon sets first-hand.

DJ Jordan Eskra and DJ Donald Bennett also hit the decks so this will most definitely be a high-energy, hands in the air night.

We’re excited to have a special appearance and performance by New Zealand drag legends Tess Tickle and Buckwheat.

The venue for this summer bang is the luxurious twentyone nightclub inside SKYCITY, with all-new production and a custom built LED DJ booth.

This will be our biggest party of the summer – don’t miss out!

Tickets on sale 9am Thursday 20 December at thetaproject.co.nz.

THE UNOFFICIAL CHER AFTER PARTY – FIVE YEARS OF PROPAGANDA!

KITTY GLITTER is coming back to Auckland to spin at the fifth anniversary edition of PROPAGANDA.

So many reasons to party on Friday, 21 September. Legendary gay icon Cher is performing a sold out concert at Spark Arena and guys will be flocking to Auckland to see her, and party after the show!

We are also celebrating FIVE YEARS of PROPAGANDA! New Zealand’s hottest gay dance party was first launched in the Spring of 2013 and has always played host to the best gay DJs from around the globe.

It is beyond fitting that we celebrate this night with the fabulous DJ Kitty Glitter. Kitty has spun at all the major Pride parties around the world and is in high demand throughout the USA and Europe. We are so excited to have her back in NZ for this night!

DJ Jordan Eskra will also hit the decks and more to be announced.

Goodbye winter, and hello to the gayest night in Auckland this Spring.

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Some pics from our last party:

INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR JODIE HARSH at her first ever New Zealand performance!

Jodie Harsh, DJ Jordan Eskra and DJ Donald Bennett hit the decks at the upcoming PROPAGANDA.

The glamorous London drag icon reigns queen supreme over international nightlife and is jetting in from London to pop her NZ cherry. Jodie is a drag queen, DJ, producer and club brand creator, famous for her trademark blonde beehive and thumping DJ sets at clubs, festivals and A-list parties across the planet. Beyoncé, Fergie, Cher and Justin Timberlake have had the Harsh treatment on remixes (including three US Billboard Dance Chart No. 1s), and Jodie’s writing and production credits are building up into quite an aural portfolio with songs for artists like Charli XCX released this year.

Over the years Harsh has become established as a prominent DJ,spinning records at clubs, festivals, and large-scale events all over the globe such as Sydney Mardi Gras, Bestival, Lovebox, Glastonbury Festival. Jodie has performed around the globe including New York City, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Sydney, Milan, Russia, Singapore and Ibiza, where she played alongside Swedish House Mafia at Pacha and a residency at Manumission which took her on a world tour. She recently made her Hollywood debut with an appearance in the recent Absolutely Fabulous movie!

The ultra-luxurious twentyone goes gay for another night and we can’t wait to host Jodie Harsh there. Inside of SKYCITY, twentyone is one of the most fabulous clubs in New Zealand and is the perfect setting for Propaganda. So far it’s one of our favourite venues, with a massive dance floor coupled with two chill out zones and a smoking deck overlooking Auckland’s CBD.

Our top production team has been planning to make sure we deliver you an awesome experience including a few new tricks. We are once again raising the bar in production quality and we are working with New Zealand’s best VJ to produce graphics for the main stage LED screens. Naturally, we’ve secured a state of the art sound system which produces the finest commercially available sound.

There will be a coat check at twentyone, and like last time, there is no dress code inside of twentyone – but as usual please keep your clothes on throughout the SKYCITY complex.

A NIGHT OF FREEMASONS CLASSICS!

What better way to end a sell-out year of parties than to bring the FREEMASONS to Auckland from the UK! Arguably the biggest name to ever hit the decks at PROPAGANDA!

Originally a duo, Freemasons now consist of solo original member Russell Small (who is also one half of the legendary house production duo Phats & Small). Russell is one of the most sought after remixers/producers in the world and an official remixer for artists such artists such as Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé, Kylie, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Freemasons have regularly topped the charts worldwide with their remixes.

We’ve been dancing to their multitude of chart topping hits including Love on My Mind, Rain Down Love, and Uninvited. You could not enter a gay bar in the late noughties without hearing a Freemasons track or remix – tracks such as Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer) with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ring the Alarm and Green Light (Beyoncé), Mesmerised (Faith Evans), Work (Kelly Rowland), One (Kylie Minogue) and so many more!

Freemasons headline parties all over the world and will be in Auckland for one night of classic anthems and amazing house music.

New Zealand legend Dick Johnson will kick off the night and our very own Jordan Eskra will close the night. This is going to be huge!

PROPAGANDA will be held at one of our favourite venues – twentyone, inside the SKYCITY complex. We’re already underway planning the experience with our production team.

This is our final party of 2017 and it’s going to be our biggest.

Tickets on sale 9am Wednesday, September 27.

PROPAGANDA is proudly sponsored by Ending HIV.

PROPAGANDA returns with two international superstar DJs – our biggest line up to date!

Internationally acclaimed DJ and producer HECTOR FONSECA is jetting in from Los Angeles for his first ever NZ performance. This 20 time #1 Billboard remixer has worked with Sia, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and more, and is in demand all over the world at some of the globe’s biggest parties; MATINEE (Ibiza, NYC, Las Vegs), Ultra Miami, World Pride, NYC Pride, Sydney Mardi Gras and Circuit Festival (Barcelona). Hector has a weekly radio show in Sao Paulo, Brazil with over 2 million listeners each week. We are thrilled to have this global trendsetting force hit the decks in Auckland.

Propaganda will also feature Australian Superstar DJ and glamourpuss DJ Kitty Glitter, our most requested return DJ. Kitty is a crowd favourite and hits New Zealand from her recent European shows and a week before she embarks on her 2017 US tour. Local favourite DJ Jordan Eskra will be kicking off the night.

The ultra-luxurious twentyone goes gay for another night! This venue was a highlight of our 2016 party year and we cannot wait to party there again. Inside of SKYCITY, twentyone is one of the most fabulous clubs in New Zealand. It is the perfect setting for Propaganda and so far one of our favourite venues. The massive dance floor coupled with two chill out zones and a smoking deck overlooking Auckland’s CBD make this a very special venue.

Our top production team has been planning to make sure we deliver you an awesome experience. We are once again raising the bar in production quality and we are working with New Zealand’s best VJ to produce graphics for the main stage LED screens. We have secured a state of the art sound system which produces the finest commercially available sound.

There will be a coat check at twentyone, and like last time, there is no dress code inside of twentyone – but please keep your clothes on throughout the SKYCITY building.

All of our events in 2016 sold out. Tickets are limited and we expect another sell out.