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Wellington International Jazz Festival |  Wellington
Mar 2010 (annual)
First held in 1997, the Wellington International Jazz Festival welcomes the Antipodean autumn with performances from a variety of local and international talent at venues throughout the city. |
New Zealand International Arts Festival |  Wellington
Feb - Mar 2010 (biennial)
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. |
Wellington Dragon Boat Festival |  Wellington Waterfront
Mar 2010 (annual)
The Wellington Dragon Boat Festival draws around 60,000 people to the city's Waterfront to enjoy the buzzing atmosphere as competitors thrash it out on the water. |
Sandwiches Summerset |  Basin Reserve
Apr 2010 (annual)
Day-night music festival Sandwiches Summerset takes place in Wellington's cricket ground, the Basin Reserve. Festival-goers are entertained from noon till midnight with live music performances and dancing in the marquee disco arena, The Club House. |
New Zealand Film Festival: Wellington |  Wellington
Jul - Aug 2010 (annual)
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. |
Montana New Zealand Wearable Art Awards |  Wellington Convention Centre
Sep - Oct 2010; not Mon or Tue (annual)
First staged in Nelson in 1987, the Montana New Zealand Wearable Art Awards has become an international event, featuring a multicultural art and performance extravaganza at the Wellington Convention Centre's TSB Bank Arena. |
Te Papa Museum |  Te Papa Museum
Daily
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. |
St James Theatre |  St James Theatre
Daily
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. |
Wellington Zoo |  Wellington Zoo
Daily
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. |
Karori Wildlife Sanctuary |  Karori Wildlife Sanctuary
Daily
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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