Family-friendly Splore a 'festival like no other'

Splore offers more than just music, with a number of workshops, installations and family-friendly activities promised for the weekend. Photo / Jason Burgess

Splore, recently named as one of the worlds 36 greenest festivals, is about more than just music.

The annual event, set for the Tapapakanga Regional Park this weekend, calls itself "a boutique music and arts festival like no other" where "the Splore community is as much a part of the show as the performers".

The theme this year is 'home' and festival goers can expect to see fifty or so installations dotting the site, performances from some of New Zealand's leading theatre and dance companies, and a range of workshops and talks. Plus, of course, an eclectic mix of some of the biggest names in music.

Splore for Kids

Boasting a private family-friendly camping area, and a rumpus room with free activities to keep the kids entertained, Splore is the perfect place to take the whole family. Kids under 12 are free too.

The unicycle and circus workshop sounds particularly fun.

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Splore Art

If you are heading to the festival this weekend schedule a good chunk of time to discover the diverse installations curated to compliment the festival's pristine site. No doubt you'll happen to stumble across a number of them en-route to the next music act though.

Make sure you check out Auckland's resident sycnhronised swimming troupe The Wet Hot Beauties performing its ode to the 1930s and the Hollywood director and water musical choreographer, Busby Berkeley.

Always wanted to be a mermaid? Following the performance the group will lead a workshop in the basics of synchro.

Splore 2015, 20-22 February at Tapapakanga Regional Park.
Find out more about Splore and buy your tickets here.