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Cultural festivals

The Festival of Asia brings artists from overseas to perform in New Zealand. One of the aims of the festival is to foster understanding between Asian and non-Asian New Zealanders. These students from the Xiao Xiang Yu Art School in China are performing ‘Drunken boxing’ in Aotea Square, Auckland, 2001.

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Reference: 24 March 2001

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Nancy Swarbrick, Creative life – New Zealand creativity, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1793/cultural-festivals (accessed 9 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 3 March 2009.