Auckland Pasifika Festival

Pacific Trade Invest shows Pacific path to market

A group of 28 companies from eight Pacific Islands Forum countries will be part of the PT&I NZ Pasifika Festival delegation – the biggest group of small businesses and entrepreneurs organised by PT&I to attend the festival to date. The festival is New Zealand’s largest Polynesian festival.

The delegates offer a wide range of distinctive Pacific Islands products from handicrafts and carvings to various processed food products.They are hoping to test demand and use techniques learnt from the PT&I Path 2 Market programme attended last year.

Pasifika Festival returns to Western Springs

The country's biggest celebration of Pacific culture is back at Auckland's Western Springs after being moved last year because of the Queensland fruit fly scare.

Festival director Blair Jagusch, said about 300 performance groups would take part, representing 11 villages from throughout the Pacific.