Welcome to the festival of cultures

Festival of Cultures is one of the longest standing community events in Palmerston North. This coming year it is promising to be its strongest line-up yet. It is our City’s chance to celebrate art, culture, lifestyle and explore their connections to each other and New Zealand. The event is fully accessible to all of the community and offers free entertainment, food and arts and craft stalls

The Festival will open again in 2012 with a Community Cultural Lantern Parade and concert on Friday 23 March 2012 at 6.30 p.m. This Parade will follow weeks of work and workshops around the community in order to encourage the community to get behind this still relatively new initiative for the Festival. The parade will be after dark around the Square.

This will be followed the next day on Saturday 24 March 2012 by the World Food Craft and Music Fair, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. in The Square. Here you can enjoy all day local and national music and entertainment and cultural foods, crafts and culture. The music line up for the stage has not yet been finalised and will be available towards the end of the year. Certainly a day not to be missed.

For more information on the Festival please sign up to receive our Newsletter “Cultural Corner”.

If you or your group would like to be part of this festival please contact us through this website.