Wanaka Festival

Wanaka — The NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival has announced its 2024 dates and opened competition entries.

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Wanaka — The speaker line up has been announced for the 2023 NZ Mountain Film and Book Festival and includes an exciting mix of international explorers and storytellers as well as some local legends, all set to entertain adventure-loving audiences in Wānaka and Queenstown between 23 and 30 June.

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Wanaka — The dates for 2023 NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival have been released, with the popular seven-day event scheduled to run in Wānaka from 23 to 27 June, in Queenstown 29 to 30 June and online from 23 June to 23 July.

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Wanaka — The iconic NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year with a line-up of inspirational adventurers from New Zealand and Australia.

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Wanaka — Rhythm and Alps, in its first year at its new location in the beautiful Cardrona Valley, Wanaka, is experiencing overwhelming demand for tickets.  Increased interest in the festival has meant there are now less than 200 general admission tickets for the 2 day  festival and only limited availability for 2 day tickets with camping.

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Wanaka — Willowridge Wanakafest organisers have announced they will be taking over town for a breathtaking finale of the Urban Downhill mountain biking race this Saturday 26 October.

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Wanaka — Wanaka event management company EveNZ has retained the contract to manage the Summerdaze Festival for another three years.

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Wanaka — Sixty-eight performances in seven towns and 10 venues with 12,000 tickets sold and 31 performances sold out – audiences and organisers alike have declared the fourth Festival of Colour a huge success.

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Wanaka — Renowned historian, theologist and accused (and acquitted) heretic, Lloyd Geering opened the second day of the Festival of Colour as part of the Aspiring Conversations programme.

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Wanaka — Described by festival director, Philip Tremewan, as a “festival that highlights new work”, the Festival of Colour lived up to its reputation on its first day with sell out performances of two world premieres.

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Wanaka — The Festival of Colour today announced it will donate the proceeds of the Island Summer concert to the Christchurch arts community affected by the February earthquake.

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Wanaka — Aspiring Conversations returns to the Festival of Colour providing a stimulating programme of thought provoking discussions from some of the country’s keenest minds as part of the six-day celebration of the arts in Lake Wanaka from 12-17 April.

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Wanaka — The Southern Lakes Festival of Colour today announced its 2011 programme that features an international mix of theatre, art, dance, aspiring conversations, music and film against the spectacular setting of Lake Wanaka in autumn.

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Wanaka — LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand (October 5, 2010) Treble Cone closed on a high note on Sunday afternoon with a record number of final-day visitors and the fancy dress Slush Cup, bringing to an end a successful 2010 season.

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Wanaka — Sixty four performances in eight towns and 10 venues, over 12,000 tickets sold and over half the performances sold out – the third Festival of Colour was declared a resounding success by organisers and audiences alike.

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Wanaka —  The penultimate day of the Festival of Colour saw the streets of Lake Wanaka come alive with street artist, stilt walkers, buskers and tango dancer, with hundreds of people crowding into downtown Wanaka to enjoy the free entertainment.

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Wanaka — Lake Wanaka turned French today with accordion players on the street, café owners and shop staff dressed å la francais, served French food and in the evening crowded into the world premiere of Le Sud, the new political satire by renowned playwright, Dave Armstrong.

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Wanaka — It was a day of contrasts on the third day of the Festival of Colour with dogs, columnists, poets and some slightly loopy sisters packing the venues.

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Wanaka — Renowned environmentalist, Bill McKibben from the USA, today marked the start of the Festival of Colour’s Aspiring Conversations programme.

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Wanaka — The third Festival of Colour opened today to sell out performances and the first of five world premieres.

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Wanaka — The third Festival of Colour launched officially last night to an audience of patrons, sponsors and benefactors with a special preview of Grahame Sydneys new documentary, Dreaming of El Dorado: the Old Dunstan Road.

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Wanaka — The environment, underwear and war are just some of the topics that make up the 2009 Festival of Colour’s new Aspiring Conversations, a programme of ideas, discussion and debate.

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