
Wellington Pride Festival to paint the town rainbow this month
Drag brunches, pool parties and marches with 'glamaphones' are coming to the capital.
Drag brunches, pool parties and marches with 'glamaphones' are coming to the capital.
The down-low on Sound Valley. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
The festival at Hagley Park has been sold out for a month with 25,000 people expected.
Festival organisers were unable to import special coloured powder from India in time.
For contact tracing and crowd control at the annual Chinese New Year celebration
There are numerous performers and programmes set down for the festival.
Soundsplash organiser says stringent drug checking process paid off.
Many events, including Auckland's three largest, were cancelled last year due to Covid.
Pill testers report that more than half of samples tested included dangerous cathinones.
Testers dub this 'the summer of cathinones' after substance discovered in place of MDMA.
Organisers did not know until the morning of the event whether it would go ahead.
Festival-goers are being urged to get their drugs tested this summer.
New Plymouth-based music and arts festival will be back in 2022, say organisers.
A drug-checking group says new legislation is too late to help young people this year.
It would be too soon to organise pill testing, but the organisers supported the bill .
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Six60 frontman Matiu Walters explains why the band's fighting to play at the iconic venue. Video / Michael Craig / Sky Sport
Running a safe event is the highest priority for those organising Rhythm and Vines.
Organisers announce the event is cancelled this year after weighing up Covid-19 risks.
Waipū-based internationally-successful band release concert video for Māori Language Week.
"After one hell of a year, we're looking forward to having something to be excited about".
Organisers trying to work it into diverse Auckland's cultural calendar
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The US Marshal Service is putting seized festival merchandise up for auction.
Sophie Tea aka 'glitter boobs' has caused another frenzy with her latest nude venture.
Events and public gatherings can resume as normal as the 100-person cap lifts.
Some of the country's major summer music festivals are nearly sold out.