English projectTopic: Festivals around the world

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Table of contains Essay (page 3)

Australia(page 4)

National Folk Festival (page 5-6)

National Multicultural Festival (page 7-8)

Fringe Festival (page 8)

Stonefest (page 9)

Skyfire Canberra (page 10-11)

Enlighten Canberra (page 12-13)

Australia Day Live Concert (page 13)

Summernat (page 14)

World’s Funniest Island(page 15-16)

Tropfest(page 17)

New Zealand (page 18)

Parachute music festival (page 19-20)

Swampfest (page 20)

Womad (page 20)

Timaro Festival of Roses (page 21)

Bannock burn Music Festival (page 21)

Rhythm & Alps (page 22)

Meet the Family (page 22)

Essay

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Festivals are an expressive way to celebrate glorious heritage, culture and traditions.  They are meant to rejoice special moments and emotions in our lives with our loved ones. Festivals are part of one’s custom, culture and tradition. They are there for us to celebrate. It helps us forget our routine. It gives us some momentary, mental and physical relaxation and thus frees us from die shackles of monotonous work. They play an important role to add structure to our social lives, and connect us with our families and backgrounds. They give us a distraction from our day to day, exhausting routine of life, and give us some inspiration to remember the important things and moments in life.  Festivals were started to pass the legends, knowledge and traditions onto the next generation.All festivals are cultural in one way or another.  There are many types of cultural festivals such as National, Religious and Seasonal.  They all serve the purpose of bringing happiness to our lives, and strengthen our sense of community.National Festivals:  They connect us as a people of a nation. National festivals connect citizens to important moments of a nation’s history such as: the founding day of a nation, our independence day or in Europe VE day (Victory of Europe during WWII) is celebrated throughout the continent, with many nations having a public holiday.  They solidify patriotic spirits in the society.Religious Festivals: religious festivals are important for families. To keep this simple we can all agree that religious festivals help us to teach principles and ethics to our next generations.  All different religious festivals bring the same message of love, tolerance and understanding.  On these occasions we express our gratitude to God, for the special thing or event that originated on this particular festival.Seasonal Festivals: Seasonal festivals reflect attitude of people towards nature.  These festivals are important because they are related to food supply.  Human beings should adore the nature and acknowledge its beneficence before partaking any of its gifts.Overall in simple terms, universally all festivals are related to harmony, peace and happiness.

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National Folk Festival (Australia)The National Folk Festival is an Australian family-orientated celebration attended by over 50,000 people.

Winner of the National Qantas Australian Tourism Award for Best Festival in 2009, it features over 20 stages with vibrant world-class artists, ‘blackboard’ opportunities, workshops, craft, themed bars and cafes and delectable food. The festival is staged at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) every Easter from Easter Thursday - Easter Monday.

HistoryThe festival was first held in Melbourne in 1967- initiated by The Victorian Folk Music Club, The Monash Traditional Music Society, the Burwood Teachers Folk Club and performers Martin Wyndham Reed and Glen Tomasetti, it was inspired by the Newport Folk Festival in the United States From 1969 until 1991 the festival traveled interstate each year. It was hosted at least once in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide,Canberra, Brisbane,Fremantle,Alice Springs,Perth, Kurunda and Maleny. The increasing size of the festival made it harder for the hosting states to organise the festival every year, so since 1992 the festival has been held each year in Canberra, with a 'feature state' on the program - providing increased performance opportunities for artists from that state.

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The Festival takes place at Exhibition Park in Canberra, which for the duration resembles a small, vibrant and colourful village full of music and dance venues, cafes, themed bars and stalls, as well as a unique 'Community Arts' area for demonstrating and workshopping a range of arts disciplines, as well as the 'Tradition Bearers' demonstration area where visitors can view the making of a range of Australian craft and purchase unique gifts. There is a traditional Stockman's Camp that resembles an archetypal bush scenario with authentic performances and delectable bush-style damper and stew and Billy Tea. Camping is provided adjacent to the Festival grounds for up to 5,000 people. In 2011 the event was attended by approx 50,000 people. Upwards of twelve hundred volunteers make the festival possible.

The festival has over 100 concerts, a film festival, numerous impromptu street performances, workshops on making, playing and repairing musical instruments, visual art, storytelling and poetry, and many dance workshops. There are at least 60 craft stalls, 30+ food vendors and 4 delightfully themed bars with dedicated restaurant areas. For the 5 days of the festival, there is also an almost continuous Session in the world-famous "Session Bar", known as the 'London Underground' of folk music, that only stops briefly due to alcohol licence restrictions in the early morning and kicks off again in mid morning for another round the clock session of music and culture.

International and Australian performers are featured, with the organisers firmly committed to representing the full spectrum of folk/ethnic/Indigenous music.

The festival has an exciting Opening and Closing Concert in the 3,000 seat Budawang Pavilion - and every night the festival has a grand dance, starting with a Scottish Ball on the Friday night, an Irish Ceili on the Saturday, and an Australian Colonial Ball on the Sunday night - as well as a colourful range of diverse dance styles including Latin, Tango, Flamenco and Contra Dance.

The National Folk Festival features several large permanent indoor venues where concert-goers can enjoy music and performances in all weather conditions.

National Multicultural Festival

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The National Multicultural Festival is a free community festival held annually each February in  Canberra.

The first National Multicultural Festival was held in 1981 as a one-day event on Australia Day hosted by the ACT Ethnic Communities Council. Over 30 years on, the festival has become one of the most successful multicultural festivals in Australia. The festival is held in the Canberra summer, and weather is often hot and dry.

The Festival is supported by the ACT Government and is administered by the Office of Multicultural Affairs an Community Development, a division of the ACT Government Community Services Directorate.

HistoryIn 1981, the ACT Ethnic Communities Council held the first Multicultural Festival, a one-day event in Civic to celebrate Australia Day. By 1988, the festival had grown to host about 40 international food stalls, music and dancing. That year it was held in the Civic end of Ainslie Avenue, and along London Circuit in front of Civic Square, and also included a parade led by Chinese lion dancers.

In 1997, the newly established ACT Office of Multicultural Affairs staged the first week-long Festival as a means of celebrating Canberra and Australia's Cultural diversity. In 2010, the Festival became a three-day event and remains that duration.

In 2012, the festival hosted a record 350 stalls. The 2012 festival was also the first to allow cultural kava use, as a trial. The ACT Government announced in 2013 that the kava trial had been a success and there would be a permanent lifting of the ban on the drink at the National Multicultural Festival.

The Out In Canberra People's Choice Awards in 2013 named the National Multicultural Festival Favourite Attraction and Event.

Weather at the festival is usually hot and dry,

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 with organisers handing out 18,000 bottles of water to patrons at the 2014 festival.

The festival has grown over time to become one of the most successful multicultural festivals in Australia The 2014 event reportedly injected $5 million into the ACT economy and contributed to an additional 10,000 overnight stays in Canberra by interstate and international visitors.

Fringe FestivalBetween 2004 and 2009, the Fringe Festival was a free event forming part of the Multicultural Festival. In 2009, then Minister for Multicultural Affairs John  announced that the Multicultural Festival would be reduced to a three-day event and the Fringe Festival moved to become a part of the National Folk Festival.

The 2013 National Multicultural Festival was the first to take place in conjunction with a fringe festival since 2009. The 2013 Fringe ran for just one night; its budget was allocated from ACT Government arts funding on a competitive basis.

In 2014 the Fringe Festival continued; that year, the Fringe Festival was directed by Jorian Gardner, who the ACT Arts and Multicultural Affairs Minister Joy for the position without a competitive selection process. Jorian Gardner hosted, among other performances, a Hitler-themed burlesque strip-tease featuring a female dancer dressed as Hitler with gold wings performing to the song Gangnam Style. The performance attracted significant controversy, with ACT Opposition Leader Jeremy Hanson calling for Arts and Multicultural Minister Joy Burch to resign or be sacked for hiring the man who oversaw the performance, and opposition multicultural affairs spokesperson Giulia Jones labeling the performance offensive and racist.

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Stonefest

Stonefest - now known as Stone Day - is an annual festival held at the University of Canberra at the end of October to celebrate the laying of the University's Foundation Stone. Stone Day is run by UC Live! - the music and live entertainment division of the University of Canberra Union, who have been responsible for the event for its entire life span.

HistoryStone Day started as a celebration at the University of Canberra held annually to mark the laying of the foundation stone by Prime Ministre John Gorton on 28 October 1968. This founded the Canberra College of Advanced Education, which became the University of Canberra in 1990.

The first foundation celebrations were held in 1971. In 1973 Stone Day celebrations were held over two days, which was expanded to take up a whole week in 1976. In the 1980s and 1990s Stoneweek became a popular Canberra entertainment event. In the 1990s it was given themes such as "Return to Woodstock", "Circus", "Back to the Beach", "Alien Abduction", "Oktoberfest", "Halloween" and "Stoneage". In the year 2000 the festival became Stonefest.

For many years Stonefest was the largest music festival in Canberra and a popular one in Australia. In recent years other festivals have made their way onto the Canberra scene, including Groovin' The Moo (also on the University of Canberra Campus) and Foreshore Summer Music Festival, contributing to declining numbers for Stonefest. In 2012, organisers made the decision to return the festival to its roots as a University celebration, re-branding the event as Stone Day, giving it a fresh new look and feel and returning tickets to the student-friendly price of $25.

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Skyfire (Canberra)

Skyfire is an annual March fireworks show held over Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia  since 1989. The event is funded by local radio station FM 104.7, and the display is synchronised to a soundtrack of music broadcast on the station.

History of the eventThe first Skyfire was held on 18 March 1989, as FM 104.7's contribution to the Canberra Festival that year Around 60,000 people attended the second Skyfire on 11 March 1990, which was put on at a cost of around $100,000.

On 10 March 1991, Skyfire III saw more than 2.5 tonnes of fireworks launched into the sky for Canberra's viewing pleasure In 1992, Skirefire was held on 8 March. It featured three tonnes of pyrotechnics and lasted for 35 minutes.

Skyfire Mark V, on 7 March 1993, featured 436 separate shots, coordinated to music by artists including Madonna, Midnight Oil and Prince. The show used more than five tonnes of fireworks, launched from 10 pontoons floating in the middle of the lake. In 1994, Skyfire was held on 13 March and featured six tonnes of aerial and water fireworks worth almost $250,000.

Skyfire X, on 8 March 1998, attracted an estimated 120,000 visitors. Skyfire XI, held on 7 March 1999, had grown to attract an estimated 180,000 visitors.

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The 2006 Skyfire was held on 4 March, and called "Skyfire 18" because it was the eighteenth year of the fireworks. The day has become a large event with other activities including a display by the Roulettes aerobatic squadron and a performance byLee Harding. There were around 35,000 individual fireworks used, with approximately 6,000 shooting comets and almost 3,000 shells. More than 170,000 visitors turned out to see Skyfire 19 in 2007.

Skyfire 21 was held on 21 March 2009, with fireworks commencing at 8.33pm and lasting for 21 minutes. The firing zone was down the center basin of Lake Burley Griffin up to Anzac Parade and Parliament House down to Regatta Point.Fortunato Foti and a band of pyrotechnicians from Foti International Fireworks provided the show which was "at least 30 per cent bigger than the previous years," with "over 3,000 aerial fireworks, 15 to 20,000 shooting comets". One barge shot off a few more fireworks for 5–10 minutes after the show completed.

On 19 March 2011 around 80,000 people attended Skyfire. That year over 30 youths were taken into custody by police for underage drinking at the event. The following year, 130 police were employed to patrol Skyfire, and youth reception stations were set up at the event. The 2012 event featured more than 2500 aerial fireworks.

Skyfire 25 in 2013 featured displays by the Royal Australian Navy, the Federation Guard and the Snowy Hydro Rescue Helicopter.

Skyfire in 2014 utilised around 3000 individual cues and approximately eight kilometres of cabling.

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Enlighten CanberraEnlighten Canberra is an outdoor annual art and cultural festival featuring illuminating light installations and projections, performances from local and interstate musicians, dining and film events.

The festival is an ACT Government initiative held annually in early March, encouraging people to "See Canberra in a whole new light." The centrepiece of Enlighten Canberra is the illuminating of Canberra's cultural institutions after dark, including Old Parliament House, Questacon and the National Gallery of Australia. There is also live music, film screenings and after-hours tours.

Since its inception, Enlighten has become increasingly popular, attracting 115,000 visitors in 2013, and 131,500 in 2014, despite poor weather.

History of the eventThe beginnings of Enlighten could be said to be 2008, when ACT Labor made an election promise to deliver a new autumn event for Canberra. In December 2010,Andrew Bar, ACT Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, announced Enlighten would be a major annual event, commencing in March 2011.

In its first year, along with other events, Enlighten hosted rock band INXS, jazz guitarist George Benson, and world-music supergroup Afro Celt Sound System. To help promote Enlighten, INXS arrived in Canberra in a helicopter, landing on the lawns of Old Parliament House two weeks before their concert appearance. INXS band member Kirk Pengilly told reporters that the show planned for Enlighten 2011 was "probably the biggest production that we've put on at any show in Australia."

Despite the big-ticket performances and media stunts, the inaugural festival cost $2.4 million and there was poor community interest, with just 8600 visitors. The first Enlighten did however attract 2400 visitors from interstate or overseas who came to

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Canberra specifically for Enlighten or extended their stay because of it.In its second year, Enlighten was made a part of the Canberra Festival. The merging of the festivals was met with criticism from the Canberra Liberals, with Brendan Smyth describing the Labor Government's attempt to create a new festival as "embarrassing". The Enlighten entertainment lineup featured in the 2012 event was scaled back significantly from the 2011 event to instead feature local Canberra artists Of the nearly 100 artists contracted to perform in the 2012 festival, 53 per cent were local artists, paid 11.5 per cent of the Enlighten programming budget that year. In 2013, Enlighten hosted a spiegeltent, which put on dozens of shows featuring comics, acrobats and musicians. The festival also included Canberra's first Dîner en Blanc, a pop-up picnic in which all guests dress in white and bring their own food, table, table-setting and chair. More than 700 people attended the picnic, the third Dîner en Blanc to be held in Australia.

The creative director for Enlighten 2014 was Peter Milne, he had also worked on the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

In November 2014, the ACT Government announced the Night Noodle Markets would be coming to Canberra during the Enlighten Festival in 2015.

 ACT Tourism Minister Andrew Bar told media that Canberra's Night Noodle Markets were expected to host up to 25 hawker style food stalls,

 and that the ACT Government had committed $200,000 to bring the 2015 noodle markets to the city. Around 156,000 peoples visited the inaugural Enlighten Night Noodle Markets—of whom 24,000 visited on the opening night.

Australia Day Live ConcertAustralia Day Live is a concert on the grounds of Parliament House  in Canberra,Australia, hosted each year on 25 January. The concert, first launched in 2004, features music from Australian artists and musicians. Australia Day Live is preceded by the Australian of the Year Awards. The name of the concert was changed in 2012 to 'Australia Celebrates Live'.

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]Australia Celebrates Live concertAustralia Celebrates Live is a free concert held on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra every Australia Day eve (25 January). It features a line-up of Australian acts.

On the afternoon of the concert people arrive at the venue and settle in to have some fun with family and friends.

The concert is an after 5pm event and goes into the night. The concert includes tributes to the outgoing Australians of the Year with songs chosen by the previous Australians of the Year. This is followed by the Australian of the Year Awards ceremony.

Once the Awards ceremony is complete, the concert continues with each artist performing a full set of music.

SummernatSummernats, short for Summer Nationals, is a car festival held in Canberra, Australia since 1987. Summernats is held annually, usually at the start of the year. Summernats is the best known car festival in Australia, and an event which attracts many tourists to Canberra, bringing about $12–$15 million to the ACT economy. It has increasingly been promoted as an event for families. The Summernats attendance record was set in 2005 with 119,000 people.

Summernats features many street machines with airbrushed artwork, and restored and modified cars. It is held over a four-day period, with many events, with prizes in competitions such as for burnouts, parades of cars around the track, a Miss Summernats competition, and fireworks at night.

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World's Funniest Island

World’s Funniest Island was an Australian comedy event held on the third weekend in October on Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour. The first World’s Funniest Island event took place 17–18 October 2009. It consisted of approximately 200 shows and involving over 250 performers in 12 indoor venues, and three outdoor stages, playing to 12,000 punters.The team behind World’s Funniest Island is John Pinder, Director; Nick Murray, CEO Jigsaw Entertainment;Michael Chugg and Matthew Lazarus Hall, Chugg Entertainment; and Greg James, Investor and Chairman of the Board. The Executive Producer of World’s Funniest Island is Gina Hall. Mark Ford was Executive Producer of the 2009 event.John Pinder has worked extensively in the comedy industry, having begun as a venue owner and producer of both music and comedy events. He was the founding director of both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Big Laugh Comedy Festival in Western Sydney, and had a hand in founding the Comedy Channel. Pinder worked Nick Murray, both during Murray’s time as founding CEO of the Comedy Channel, and in the production of a number of comedy shows for stage and television. Michael Chugg is an agent, manager and concert promoter.

HistoryCockatoo Island, situated at the mouth of the Parramatta and the Lane Cove Rivers, is the largest island in Sydney Harbour. Having served as a colonial prison from 1839 and then as the Commonwealth Naval Dockyard from 1913, it was opened to the public in 2008.[1] Shortly before being declared public parkland, a handful of people involved with the Australian comedy industry undertook a private tour of the island and recognised its potential as the ideal space for a comedy event. It offered unique indoor and outdoor spaces – including dozens of heritage-listed buildings that once served the island’s specific needs as a prison and then a dockyard – as well as breathtaking views of the Sydney skyline and Sydney Harbour. Its location, a short ferry ride from central Sydney made Cockatoo Island a perfect events location. The Island has also hosted two music festivals, most recently one curated by Nick Cave - All Tomorrow’s Parties. The island is an important location for The Biennale of Sydney, the city’s major contemporary art event.The second World's Funniest Island event, slated for 16–17 October 2010, was cancelled due to a sponsorship shortfall.[2]News of the event's cancellation appeared on 6 October.

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FormatUnlike traditional comedy festivals, World’s Funniest Island is an event loosely built on the weekend music festival template, with several stages and indoor venues operating concurrently. A single ticket offers unlimited access to the various shows and include transport to and from the island – via a ferry service operating all day from Darling Harbour, in Sydney’s CBD. There are also a number of bars, food and market stalls operating during the festival. In 2010 a camping package will be available for Friday, Saturday and Sunday night.

VenuesThe venues on the island vary in size and shape, catering to a wide variety of comedy shows and audiences. The Turbine Hall, for example, is a large capacity venue presenting acts that require space for audiences of 2000 plus. In 2009 acts in The Turbine Hall included The Goodies (UK), Alexei Sayle (UK) and Allah Made Me Funny (USA). Some

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venues are programmed around a theme. For example, in 2009 the Naval Store offered a selection of Australian acts that had begun life as university revues. That same year, other venues were run as extensions of independent Sydney comedy rooms, with the General Store operating as Comedy On The Edge and the Bomb Shelter, as the Laugh Garage Comedy Club. The complete list of venues and the acts that performed in them in 2009 are listed below.

ProgrammingThe World’s Funniest Island presents a wide range of comedy genres, including stand-up, sketch shows, circus, musical comedy, comic burlesque, movie parodies, comic literary readings, plays, and roving entertainment. There are also exhibitions, workshops and some participation activities designed for adults and children.Artists are selected by the producers. The event is not an open ‘fringe style’ festival.

TropfestTropfest is the world's largest short film festival. It has also become known as the world's first global film festival.

Tropfest began in 1993 as a screening for 200 people in a cafe in Sydney but has since become the largest platform for short films in the world. Tropfest Australia takes place in December each year and is broadcast live to an audience of approximately 150,000. The main event takes place in Sydney but live satellite events are also staged in Melbourne Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide Hobart, Perth and other cities. The event is broadcast live on television by SBS Two and webcast to viewers around Australia and the world.Tropfest has expanded to locations around the world including Japan, Turkey, Africa, Abu Dhabi , London, Berlin,Toronto , Bangkok, and New York. The inaugural Tropfest Arabia, encompassing approximately 33 countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa, took place in Abu Dhabi in November 2011. Tropfest launched into the United States in June 2012, with a weekend-long event in Las Vegas and a fully-fledged Tropfest New York competition in New York on 23 June 2012 at Manhattan's Bryanr Park. Tropfest New Zealand launched in 2013 and Tropfest South East Asia atPenang, Malaysia in 2014.

Tropfest differs from other cinema events by being a "content generation" platform, rather than an exhibition platform. Filmmakers are required to create new works for the

festival which must include an item, known as the "Tropfest Signature Item" (TSI) and which changes each year. The films must be less than 7 minutes (including titles and credits) and be world premieres at the Tropfest event.

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Tropfest's prize pool is one of the richest in the short film arena, and includes international trips to develop filmmaking careers and "work experience" with top filmmakers. As a result, Tropfest has become known as a launch pad for filmmaking careers, although to date this has been most notable in Australia, where many commercial and critical successes are directed by Tropfest alumni.

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Parachute music festival

The Parachute Music Festival was a Christian music festival held annually at Mystery Creek Events Centre,Hamilton, New Zealand, between 1992 - 2014. The festival was run by Parachute Music and usually lasted for three nights and four days. It was held the weekend before Auckland Anniversary Day, in late January. 'Parachute' was one of the largest Christian music festivals outside of the United States and it was one of the largest multi-day festivals in the Southern Hemisphere. Primarily featuring musicians and guest speakers, the festival was also the longest running festival of any kind in New Zealand. The Parachute Music Festival attracted around 25,000 people each year. The largest crowd came in 2007, with 27,813 attendees. Most people who attend stay on-site in tents and caravans, and a large village area supplies food, amenities and band merchandise. Each year artists apply to play at Parachute which gives an opportunity for musicians to have their music heard by a large audience at a popular event. Bands applying must have a pastoral reference, that is a reference from a church leader, to ensure that the core members of any act are committed Christians. In some cases individual members of a band will not be Christian but Parachute see this as a good way to involve people in the festival community. While many local bands from New Zealand apply, Parachute receive applications from all over the world. Parachute Music also invite a number of headline artists each year to perform at the festival. Around 100 bands from many different genres play at Parachute each year. The festival is aimed at a wide demographic ranging from families to teenagers. It is classified as a non-denominational Christian event, with enforced bans on drugs or alcohol and unmarried couples being discouraged from tenting together. However, a large percentage of non-Christian people do attend. Because Parachute is a non-denominational Christian festival, events such as Catholic Mass and Anglican Eucharist take place over the weekend.The Festival is covered by most New Zealand media

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and is a well known event of the New Zealand summer. It has also been supported by and has been in partnerships with a number of businesses and organisations - Some examples are Coca-Cola, Sanitarium, V, Pepsi, Vodafone and The NZ Police.Parachute is often in partnerships with charities such as, World Vision. Parachute Music have been working with World Vision since 2006 to sponsor a village inRwanda called Tubehoneza. Over the last six festivals, festival-goers have donated $303,000 to the area. This money has been used to build five water tanks, three classrooms,a maternity unit and a health centre for Tubehoneza. Also through the festival 1,900 children have been sponsored.

Swampfest

Swampfest is an annual musical festival that showcases Palmerston North bands. Swampfest was originally timed to coincide with New Zealand Music Month (May), but in 2009 Switched to September to match The Stomach's 21st birthday. Swampfest is known for showcasing up-and-coming as well as established artists, all from the Palmerston North area, and the artists must play original music. The music played is often guitar based and of the Rock genre however punk, ska,electronic, hip hop, metal, pop, solo and acoustic have all featured in the festival.

The festival is named after Palmerston North's primordial origins as a swamp.

WOMADWOMAD - World of Music, Arts and Dance is an internationally established festival which brings together artists from all over the globe to celebrate music, arts and dance. The three-day festival is held at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands, a natural outdoor amphitheatre and its surrounding gardens. One child under 12 receives free entry with each paying adult.

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Timaru Festival of RosesTimaru has a long association with the rose. The famous Trevor Griffiths Rose garden is home to around 1200 roses; Timaru's Botanic Gardens is one of the oldest in the country (established 1864). The Timaru Festival of Roses is a vibrant and entertaining fiesta of creativity in celebration of the Queen of Flowers. Combining public and private garden displays, tours, floral art creations, children's activities, music, theatre and more, the festival is an annual favourite each November.

Bannockburn Music FestivalBasically, the Bannockburn Music Festival is an opportunity to sit in afternoon in the sun, surrounded by mountains, having a few beers and listening to live music. It's a relaxed atmosphere with a busker-ish type feel, set at the Cromwell Racecourse with expansive views of Bendigo, Northburn, Bannockburn and the Pisa Ranges.

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Rhythm & AlpsLovers of music who have an appreciation for beautiful locations can rock their way into the New Year at Rhythm and Alps. This two-day music festival is in Cardrona Valley, 15 minutes south of Wanaka, on a site between the famous Cardrona Alpine Ski Resort and the high rolling terrain of the Pisa Plateau.

Tyrannosaurs: Meet the FamilyThese prehistoric predators have captured the imagination of young and old, who can now discover more about them at this interactive exhibition featuring augmented reality, multimedia and hands-on fun. Exhibition at Te Papa until Feb 8, 2015

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australia http://www.eventfinda.com.au/music-festivals/events/australia http://www.aatravel.co.nz/101/search/location/New-Zealand/category/Festivals-

and-Events/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_music_festivals http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-australian-music-

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