Auckland’s Queen Street and Aotea Square will be transformed into a colorful and mouth-watering spectacle when Auckland Diwali Festival takes place on 12 and 13 October. Bright lights, energetic dance performances, incredible Indian delicacies and fireworks will excite and delight...
This February marks the twentieth anniversary of the much-loved Auckland Lantern Festival, New Zealand’s largest cultural festival. Taking place over four days, from 14 to 17 February, over eight hundred handmade lanterns will shine their light in and around the...
The star of Auckland’s winter season, the Matariki Festival, returns with an exciting line-up of more than a hundred events from 30 June to 22 July, from an evocative dawn karakia to a captivating kapa haka, a street party, family...
The thirteenth annual Wairoa Maori Film Festival will be held from 1 to 4 June 2018 in two locations—at Kahungunu Marae (War Memorial Hall) in Nuhaka and the state-of-the-art Gaiety Theatre in Wairoa. The festival is organized by Wairoa Maori...
In its sixteenth year, the Auckland Diwali Festival will be held on 14 and 15 October 2017 at Aotea Square and Queen Street. Diwali or Deepavali (literally “row of lamps”) is an ancient and important Indian festival known colloquially as...