Ambitious Polynesian festival
PA Auckland A festival of South Pacific art and culture is expected to draw between 15,000 and 20,000 people to the Orakei Domain next month. The week-long festival will feature the world’s first international outrigger canoe race across the Waitemata Harbour on November 24. Other highlights will be an open-air church service,
a fashion show and a parade of floats and brass hands. The organiser, Mr Sefulu loane, said the new festival would be bigger and better than previous Polynesian festivals. Invitations have been sent to Tahiti, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomons, Tuvalu and Papua New Guinea. Each festival day will be named after a different country and will highlight its culture.
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