Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 10:20 am
WELLINGTON, NZ CubaDupa, New Zealand s most diverse
and creative street festival, has released its final line up
and daily schedule for the festival which will be held on
the weekend of March 27-28, 2021
The final line-up
brings the festival to a massive 19+ hours of curated
entertainment across 46 stages and creative zones,
delivering 500+ performances and 20 parades with over 1750
artists. A comprehensive daily schedule has been released on
the CubaDupa website for audiences to begin planning
now.
The newest addition to the beloved festival is
Ngā Toi o Te Aro in Te Aro Park. The park
will be transformed to showcase Māori artists, te reo and
As part of this year’s festival, the park will be transformed to showcase 32 acts and 18 hours of programming across the two days, with the majority of its performances in te reo Māori. “Kia rongohia te reo, kia kōrerohia te reo, kia kitea te reo, kia Māori te reo. Let the Māori language and culture be heard, in conversation, and seen worldwide so that it becomes normalised,” said Ngā Toi Māori director Noel Woods (Te Āti Awa/Ngāti Porou/Ngāruahine).
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Ngā Toi Māori director Noel Woods says it’s important te reo Māori is normalised.
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by S. Skandakumar
As the clock moved towards 10.50 a.m ,on January 31, 2021, my mind went back 25 years to that fateful day.
It was a Wednesday, and having finished our weekly meeting of the Parent Board of Directors in the Board Room on the eighth floor of Steuart House around 10.30 am, we sat around to exchange views on matters of a non-official nature as was customary, before returning to our rooms.
Enjoying the view of the sea beyond the Central Bank that faced us from the opposite side of Janadipathi Mawatha, was a favourite pastime of ours on such occasions.
Janadipathi Mawatha on that last day of January was as busy as always as people flocked into the banks, business offices and hotels that stood imposingly along it . Yes, The human traffic on this busy street was as heavy as the vehicular.