Festivals in Oceania
Oceanic Festivals
13 Oceania Festival Articles 12 Oceania Festival Snippets 61 Oceania Festival Photo Galleries 11 Oceania Festival Videos 182 Oceania Festival Websites
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Article Title: French Festival Akaroa
Festival Name: French Festival Akaroa
Festival Country: New Zealand
Festival Type(s): Multicultural, Food and Wine, Family
Join Akaroa people as they paint the town red, white and blue for a town-wide market day with French food and wine stalls, market stalls, entertainment, fun and frivolous competitions and a re-enactment of the first French landing in Akaroa
Article Title: World Buskers Festival
Festival Name: World Buskers Festival
Festival Country: New Zealand
Festival Type(s): Busking, Juggling, Performing Art
Each January locals and visitors of all ages flock to open-air city malls, the city's cultural precinct, and out to the seaside suburb New Brighton to witness the world's very best busker talent: the World Buskers Festival
Article Title: The Dreaming - Australia's International Indigenous Festival
Festival Name: The Dreaming Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Indigenous, Cultural, Music - Traditional
Something very special is happening in the hills behind the Sunshine Coast.
Something that turns dreams into reality.
Article Title: Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Festival Name: Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Comedy
With 1,500 comedians performing in 288 shows over three-and-half weeks, this ranks among the top three comedy festivals in the world, alongside Edinburgh's Festival Fringe and Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.
Article Title: Woodford Connects Folks Down Under
Festival Name: Woodford Folk Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Folk, Music - Folk, New Year
Woodford, held on Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland one hour north of Brisbane, is now one of the largest folk festivals in the world, hosting more than 2,000 performers and 120,000 visitors from throughout Australia and overseas for six days from December 27 to January 1 each year.
Article Title: Sevens Heaven
Festival Name: New Zealand International Sevens
Festival Country: New Zealand
Festival Type(s): Sport - Football, Sport - Ball
As I approached the Westpac ticket office I became nervous. There were already hundreds of people queuing up outside the main gates, most of whom had booked their tickets in October or November last year. It seemed infeasible that I should be able to walk up to the counter and collect a ticket I'd paid for over the telephone yesterday morning.
Article Title: Santa Claus Pub Crawl
Festival Name: Santa Claus Pub Crawl
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Christmas, Party, Drink
The Santa Claus Pub Crawl takes place on the last working Friday before Christmas. There is only one requirement: each crawler must be dressed head to toe in full Santa suit. Leeway can be given for home jobs performed on the suits such as cutting off trousers to keep cool and wearing thongs instead of gumboots, but every man, woman and over tanned Nordic backpacker must be fully Santa-ed to join in.
Article Title: Roach Racin'
Festival Name: World Championship Cockroach Racing
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, National, Bizarre
Only in Australia would they celebrate their national holiday by racing cockroaches. Yes, that's right I'm talking about those pooey brown, hairy legged, skin crawling, under the fridge indulgers and lights out kitchen partiers that infest much of the land Down Under.
Article Title: Yowah Opal Festival
Festival Name: Yowah Opal Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Local, Collectors
With all this devastation there is a strange beauty about the place. There is certainly a beauty about the gemstone that the locals find here. Yowah is the home of the Yowah Nut. A nondescript brown stone on the outside , but when split in two, can reveal a beautiful iron stone centre with strange patterns and crystal opal either in a pocket or often spread throughout the stone.
Article Title: Two Up in Kalgoorlie
Festival Name: Two Up in Kalgoorlie
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Traditional, National
It's a well-known fact that Australians will bet on anything. Two flies climbing a wall will attract a bet on which one will reach a particular position first. There's also a well-known Australian pastime of dividing a sports-field into a number of squares and letting a cow loose after priming it with large amounts of food. Punters then select a square and place their bets.
Article Title: Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival
Festival Name: Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Party
Whilst travelling through Central Queensland we heard of the upcoming Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival and felt we just had to be there. We made a dash to Charleville risking life and limb, travelling at night through the kangaroo infested outback.
Article Title: ANZAC Day - April 25th
Festival Name: ANZAC Day
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Remembrance, Historical
Anzac Day, April 25th, is significant for both New Zealand and Australia where, in Australia, at least, it has become far more than a commemoration of war dead. The history of this day is relatively simple but its symbolism is extremely complex.
Article Title: Woodford Festival (and a bit more)
Festival Name: Woodford Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Folk, Music - Folk, Music - World
The event is a complex and heady mix of music - folk, blues, tribal and world - oodles of street performers too. This is complemented with literally hundreds of talks, poetry, alto comedy, demonstrations and hands-on craft and arts workshops.
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