Around 12,000 people converged on Wellington’s waterfront on Saturday night for the fireworks event at the Lunar New Year Festival.
A new Napier festival is heading into the suburbs for its first event in March.
An estimated 175,000 people visited the TSB Festival of Lights in Taranaki over summer, a 20% increase from the previous year.
The BNZ Auckland Lantern Festival is set to return next month at a new venue after four years of cancellations.
Up to 20,000 music fans per day are expected to converge on Tauranga on Saturday and Sunday to celebrate One Love reggae festival.
Te Matatini Festival is set to bring about $20m in economic benefits for Taranaki in 2025, says the Taranaki Regional Skills Leadership Group.
New Plymouth District Council’s TSB Festival of Lights is returning this month with more than 80 events and 11 light installations.
The biannual Te Hau Kōmaru National Waka Hourua Festival is heading to the South Island next year.
More than 10,000 people are expected at the annual Kāpiti Food Fair this year.
Hamilton City Council is launching a month-long festival to encourage people to get on their bikes and explore the city this October.
The Auckland Lantern Festival and Diwali Festival have established a new naming rights sponsorship agreement with BNZ.
The Bay of Islands It! Festival has confirmed its return to the Paihia Village Green this October.
The Auckland Climate Festival is bringing more than 150 events and tens of thousands of people to the city this September to celebrate and inspire transformative change for the climate.
Northland’s first Brew of Islands beer festival will be held in Kerikeri this month with an array of food, brews and drinks for locals and visitors.
The Auckland Writers Festival has attracted 60,000 attendees and 180 writers at its event in May.
The four-day Te Matatini festival contributed to a $22m boost to New Zealand’s economy, according to a post-event report cited by Eden Park.
Kerikeri host the inaugural Brew of Islands Craft Beer Festival on 21-22 July.
“Tens of thousands” of fans are expected to flock to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland for the Te Matatini Festival of kapa haka, which is returning to the city for the first time in 11 years.
The Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival will now be known as Hamilton Arts Festival Toi Ora ki Kirikiriroa.
Auckland’s Laneway music festival is moving to Western Springs Stadium in 2023.
The annual Diwali festival will return to Auckland’s Aotea Square and Queen Street from 8 – 9 October.
Auckland’s Lantern Festival is moving to the Manukau Sports Bowl in 2023 to better accommodate up to 200,000 people who attend the cultural event every year.
The Walk Waiheke charitable trust has announced dates for its annual Waiheke Walking Festival, which will take place from 10 – 20 November.
Tauranga’s inaugural STEMFest is back after a two-year hiatus, promising a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics activities to inspire children and the whole family.
The Flavours of Plenty Festival in the coastal Bay of Plenty will go ahead 7-10 April.
Wānaka food and wine festival Ripe will take place online on 19 March, the same day the cancelled live event was due to take place.
The organisers of the 2022 Art Deco Festival in Napier, revamped to operate under the red setting of the traffic light system, are declaring the festivities a success.
Wanaka’s Ripe Food & Wine Festival and Ironman NZ in Taupō are the latest events to cancel due to capacity restrictions under Covid-19 red light settings.
The Waikato River Festival can help divert the flow of tourists from traditional routes to support more operators in the region, says Tainui Waka Tourism.
The Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival has been postponed to 4-5 February 2022.
Wellington City Council has cancelled its A Very Welly Christmas festival due to Covid uncertainty.
The Diwali Festival of Lights in Wellington will be held online for 2021 due to Covid-19.
Auckland’s Diwali Festival will not go ahead this year due to uncertainty over Covid.
The Chinese Lantern Festival in Auckland will be held at the Auckland Showgrounds from 10-13 February 2022 as it could not be held on the waterfront due to operational constraints there.
Organisers have decided not to hold the Lumino Light Festival on 15-16 October as planned due to the Delta outbreak.
The Grow Ōtautahi garden festival will be postponed a year to 2023 due to not reaching critical funding levels.
The Eat.Taste.Central festival across Central Otago returns for its fifth year from 24 September to 25 October.
The inaugural Wellington Festival of Fashion will make its debut this Friday.
Wellington’s CubaDupa festival has opened artist applications and expressions of interest for its 2022 festival.
Around 8100 visitor nights are expected to be generated by event
Yoga Festivals Australia will hold a New Zealand event for the first time in Hawke’s Bay on 7-8 August.
Activities range from kite flying to weaving.
Wellington is set to receive a ‘bumper culinary weekend’ from 13-15 August with two coinciding festivals, Beervana and Visa Wellington On a Plate.
Cyclorama e-bike festival set to go ahead on 13-14 November 2021.
Hanmer Springs will hold its first Winter Festival next month.
The inaugural Ōtautahi Christchurch South Island Moon Festival is set to illuminate the central business district with a display of art, lanterns, performances and food in September.
This year’s event was originally planned for March.
Organisers have “flipped the script doing away with scallops altogether,” says Destination Coromandel GM Hadley Dryden.
Wānaka’s inaugural food and wine festival Ripe drew 2000 festival goers on Sunday 21 March at Corbridge Woolshed.
Two new winter music festivals are to hit southern ski slopes in the same week in September.