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The festival's main objectives are to engage Aucklanders in the arts, to support New Zealand art and artists, and to reflect what is unique about Auckland.<ref name="About Us?">{{cite web|title=About Us |publisher=Auckland Festival 2007 |year=2007 |url=http://www.aucklandfestival.co.nz/AboutUs/TheFestival/ |accessdate=2008-05-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720222937/http://www.aucklandfestival.co.nz/AboutUs/TheFestival/ |archivedate=July 20, 2007 }}</ref> Its program features many events including [[dance]], [[music]], [[cabaret]], [[burlesque]], [[theatre]], [[ballet]], [[visual arts]], [[film]], and public forums, occupying most of Auckland's theatres, galleries and concert halls.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}
The festival programme features international acts and the Auckland Festival Trust also commission up to six new works each year. In 2017, they presented the new opera ''The Bone Feeder'' at the ASB Waterfront Theatre with music by [[Gareth Farr]], based on a book by [[Renee Liang|Renee Laing]].<ref name=":0" /> In 2021 the festival programme was greatly affected by travel restrictions because of COVID-19. The programme of 70-plus events were therefore all from New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-06|title=Auckland Arts Festival - coping with Covid|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018775907/auckland-arts-festival-coping-with-covid|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206211148/https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018775907/auckland-arts-festival-coping-with-covid |archive-date=2020-12-06 |access-date=2021-02-02|website=Radio New Zealand|language=en-nz}}</ref>
==Festival Directors==
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