It's one of the city's most popular festivals, but you can enjoy the Pasifika feeling any time of year, writes Catherine Smith.

Audiences are wowed in New Zealand’s cultural hotspot, writes Sarah Lang.

Rachel Bache battles aching feet to take in as much of Melbourne's White Night Festival as she can before sunrise.

Spectators and supporters lined the length of Ponsonby Rd to watch the Pride Parade on Saturday night. More than 40 floats and groups partied their way from Karangahape Rd to Victoria Park, where the Proud after-party carried on into the night.

Mayoress Shan Inglis yesterday accompanied her husband Len Brown to the Howick Military Tattoo - an event from which the mayor had been told to stay away.

From calypso to virtuoso Indian music, the festival showcased some astonishing acts, with punters to match.

Auckland's favourite Chinese festival is celebrated this weekend around the city.

Art, music and sporting fans have been spoiled for choice with the NRL Auckland Nines, Rapture 2014 and Splore events occurring in the city this weekend.

Jennifer Ennion rounds up some lesser-known Australian festivals.

The Big Day Out has returned to New Zealand this year. Check out the photos from the festival.

It's shaping up to be a great New Year's Eve at popular summer music festivals, with the weather forecast to be fine for most, with only the odd shower at Gisborne's Rhythm and Vines.

Take a look at some of the acts that will be performing at the 2014 NZ Festival.

Join the Indian community as it celebrates the renewal of life with an explosion of colour, dance and food, writes Catherine Smith.

Rhythm & Vines founder Hamish Pinkham has won the Pacific Asia Travel Association's award for young tourism leader of the year.

Take a look at some of the artists that will be playing at the 2014 Laneway Festival on January 27.

If the annual cheese roll in England or wife carrying competition in Finland is too boring for you, here are five very strange ones that might be worth visiting, even if it's just to tweet a pic from.

The Gympie Music Muster is held in the Sunshine Coast's Amamoor State Forest Park, with nine stages and 50,000 people in attendance.

Elisabeth Easther has found some stellar ways to observe Matariki this year.

Another year, another northern summer of music festivals approaches.

Talented young pianists performed for the crowds along the Auckland waterfront at the weekend, in a taster for an international festival.

Let your taste buds run free in Hong Kong - a food destination full of surprises.