21st August 2026 Festival / FoodThe Marlborough Wine & Food Festival will not go ahead in 2027 after organiser Wine Marlborough put the event on hold after 41 years.
9th April 2026 Festival / ULTRAThe first ULTRA festival will kick off in the capital tomorrow, with around 23,000 dance music fans expected to attend, half of them from outside Wellington.
27th February 2026 Festival / MoanaNew Zealand’s Ocean Festival opens tomorrow at Auckland’s Eastern Viaduct.
9th February 2026 Festival / LanewayThe event on Thursday was held at Western Springs on Thursday.
5th February 2026 Enterprise Dunedin / FestivalDunedin City Council and the Southern Heritage Trust have unveiled a new city-wide festival celebrating Dunedin’s heritage and evolving cultural identity.
16th December 2025 Festival / SploreAuckland’s Splore festival is finishing after 20 years as the cost of living bites and it fails to secure government funding.
10th November 2025 Festival / FoodNearly 12,000 people attended Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival 2025 on Friday and Saturday.
7th October 2025 Festival / MeatstockBarbecue and music festival Meatstock is due to return to Hamilton from 13 to 14 February next year at Mystery Creek.
21st February 2025 Electric Avenue / FestivalMore than 70,000 music festival fans are expected to attend Electric Avenue at Christchurch’s Hagley Park this weekend.
18th February 2025 Data / FestivalThe 2024 Centuria Taranaki Garden Festival generated new spend of $6.5m, up from $5.6m in both 2022 and 2020, according to a BERL report.
3rd December 2024 Festival / TAUThe dates have been announced for next year’s BNZ Auckland Lantern Festival.
21st October 2024 Festival / NZEANZ also compares unfavourably with Australia when it comes to support, meaning big music acts prefer to perform across the ditch.
