Story: Regional cultural life

More links and websites

• ASB Polyfest

  Auckland’s Pacific culture is showcased in the annual Polyfest, the largest Pacific festival in the world.

• International Institute of Modern Letters

  The creative writing institute at Victoria University has made Wellington a centre of literary life in the 2000s.

• New Zealand Fashion Week

  The website of the annual event, held in Auckland.

• New Zealand Festival

  The website for the Wellington-based New Zealand Festival, previously the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.

• Tremains Art Deco Weekend

  This yearly event in Napier showcases the city’s art deco architecture.

• Weta Workshop

  Weta Workshop in Wellington provides special effects and other services to the film industry.

More suggestions and sources

• Bourke, Chris. Blue smoke: the lost dawn of New Zealand popular music, 1918–1964. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2010.

• Cookson, John, and Graeme Dunstall. Southern capital: Christchurch: towards a city biography, 1850-2000. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2000.

• Olssen, Erik. A history of Otago. Dunedin: McIndoe, 1984.