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Wellington Dragon Boat Festival draws around 60,000 people to the city's Waterfront to enjoy the buzzing atmosphere as open, corporate and school teams thrash it out on the water. Onshore fun includes roving entertainers, cultural performances, children's activities and food.
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First held in 1997, Wellington International Jazz Festival welcomes the Antipodean autumn with performances from local and international talent at venues throughout the city. The line-up is revealed on the Wellington International Jazz Festival website the November before.
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This important biennial international arts festival in Wellington brings together the best home-grown and touring talent in the Southern Hemisphere. A Fringe Festival runs concurrently with the main celebration of performing arts, visual arts, music, literature and dance.
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As part of the countrywide tour, Wellington hosts its leg of the New Zealand Film Festival, which visits 15 different cities. Expect more or less the same programme as the Auckland Festival earlier in the month.
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First staged in Nelson in 1987, Montana New Zealand Wearable Art Awards has become an international event, featuring a multicultural art and performance extravaganza at Wellington Convention Centre's TSB Bank Arena. There are various categories, with prizes ranging from NZ$1000-NZ$10,000.
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Te Papa is one of the few museums in the world that can claim to have been built from scratch in the last decade. Opened in 1998, New Zealand's National Museum is widely regarded as one of the finest in the world.
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Built in 1912, His Majesty's Theatre (as it was then called) was the largest vaudeville theatre and cinema in Australasia, ornate and sumptuous. Now the Westpac St James Theatre, it has been recognised by New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category 1 building of outstanding cultural and historical significance.
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Wellington Zoo is home to around 350 exotic and unusual animals including New Zealand's very own prehistoric reptile, the Tuatara, which in Maori means "spiny-backed". It's a must if travelling to the city with kids.
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A wildlife reserve for endangered species is not the kind of attraction you expect to find in a country's political and cultural capital, but this is New Zealand and the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary is just two kilometres from the country's Parliament complex in Wellington.
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Opened on Easter Saturday 1914, and originally known as the Grand Opera House, Wellington's Opera House was designed by Melbourne architect William Pitt and supervised by architect Albert Liddy.
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