Welcome to the festival of cultures

Festival of Cultures is one of the longest standing community events in Palmerston North. This year it is promising to be bigger and better than previous years it is our City’s chance to celebrate art, culture, lifestyle and explore their connections to each other and New Zealand.

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The World Food, Craft and Music Fair

The World Food, Craft and Music Fair on Saturday 27 March. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the square, starring the Pacific Curls and Sam Manzanza. Here you can enjoy all day local and national music and entertainment and cultural foods, crafts and culture.

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Pacific Curls

Pacific Curls never set out to be a trio. Four years ago when they found themselves in an Auckland studio, recording a Celtic/Maori/Pacific fusion album with two others, they had little idea that after two European tours, untold Australian, several New Zealand and a knock-out Canadian Festival run, they would be the last three standing!?

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Community Lantern Parade

The whole community is invited to join in and celebrate the opening of Festival of Cultures 2010 with an inaugural Community Lantern Parade. Gather your family and friends and join this magical and colourful event to celebrate the diversity of Culture within our community and the start of the 20th Festival of Cultures in our City.

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The Bone Feeder

How far would you go to please your family?
In 1902, the SS Ventnor sank in the Hokianga harbour with the bones of 499 Chinese miners bound for ancestral graves in Canton. A century later Ben, a young man, arrives in the Far North to try to find some link with his past. He finds more than just restless spirits…….

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Travels around New Zealand with Peter Janssen

NZ travel writer Peter Janssen has searched the country from head to tail for a top-notch pavlova – he is yet to find a good serving.  Our national dessert is conspicuous by its absence!

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The inaugural Festival of Cultures, 2010 - “A Taste of Culture”

A Taste of Culture” is the latest in food experiences in Palmerston North. For the first time the Festival of Cultures in association with the Manawatu Chef’s Association will be holding a Cuisine Show – “A Taste of Culture”.

"Hook into the food of a region and you hook into the culture!
I will demonstrate a couple of recipes that remind me of favourite places I have travelled to. I am really looking forward to exploring culture from a culinary point of view."

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