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Tu Tangata Wellington Secondary Schools Poly Festival 2016

Tu Tangata Wellington Secondary Schools Poly Festival 2016

The festival is in its 38th year and is still considered the biggest, Wellington Schools’ Pacific festival. The quality of the performances is second to none. Testament to this, is that the events sells out as soon as the ticket sales open.

This year there are ten local schools participating : Rongotai College (2016 Hosting school), St Catherine’s College, St Mary’s College, St Patrick’s College, Taita College , Wellington East Girls’ College, St Bernard’s College, Wellington Girls’ College, Wellington College and we welcome first time participants, Scots College.

The festival is organised and managed by a volunteer komiti which consists of one teacher and two students from each of the participating schools. Although the main focuses of the festival is to celebrate and embrace Pacific culture through music and dance, a key focus for the komiti is to develop and foster student leadership. The students are an integral part of the komiti and are fully involved in all decisions. Each participating school is also awarded a Leadership Award to present to one of their student leaders who have shown true leadership with their group and within their school community. The award is only given to students who are continuing their education after secondary school.

A poster design competition is also held in conjunction with the festival and the winning design is used in the promotion of the event. This was won by Katherine Rayasi from St Mary’s college in 2016.

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This year the Wellington Secondary Schools Tu Tangata Festival will be held on Wednesday, 27th of July 2012, at the Michael Fowler Centre. The event starts at 7.00pm. Tickets will go on sale from Ticketek from the 18 th July; $30 for adults and $15 for children up to 18.

We would like to thank all the stakeholders for their on-going support: Ministry of Pacific Peoples, Ministry of Education, Connect Global, Victoria University and Auckland University of Technology.

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