More links and websites
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ASB Polyfest
Auckland’s Pacific culture is showcased in the annual Polyfest, the largest Pacific festival in the world.
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International Institute of Modern Letters
The creative writing institute at Victoria University has made Wellington a centre of literary life in the 2000s.
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New Zealand Fashion Week
The website of the annual event, held in Auckland.
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New Zealand Festival
The website for the Wellington-based New Zealand Festival, previously the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.
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Tremains Art Deco Weekend
This yearly event in Napier showcases the city’s art deco architecture.
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Weta Workshop
Weta Workshop in Wellington provides special effects and other services to the film industry.
More suggestions and sources
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Bourke, Chris. Blue smoke: the lost dawn of New Zealand popular music, 1918–1964. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.
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Cookson, John, and Graeme Dunstall. Southern capital: Christchurch: towards a city biography, 1850-2000. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2000.
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Olssen, Erik. A history of Otago. Dunedin: McIndoe, 1984.