The festival has grown into the largest Maori & Pacific Islands Festival in the world, featuring traditional music, dance and speech from Auckland secondary school students.
It is a celebration of youth performance, and an important showcase of New Zealand’s diverse cultures.
Students compete in traditional speech, song and dance on six stages – Cook Islands, Maori, Niue, Samoan, Tongan, and the Diversity stage which features cultures such as Chinese, Fijian, Tokelau, Indian, Korean and Sri Lankan.
