ASB Polyfest

2023 - 3 - 10

Polyfest Polyfest

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Highlights from day three at ASB Polyfest 2023 (The Spinoff)

The prime minister performs at his first Polyfest, while the Sāmoan stage gets off to an amazing start.

This is a dance item performed with sticks to the beat of the drum, very similar to the English Morris dance. The mā’ulu’ulu section has the most participating schools this year and it’s a dance where the performers are seated in staggered rows, with a mix of singing and dance gestures. The girls are the last to perform around 1.35pm. The Cook Islands stage continues with their division two and one schools including Manurewa High School and Māngere College who are not strangers to this stage. “Celebrating your culture is a big part of your identity,” he emphasised to the students present. Tutor Itagia Faavaoga says their performance highlights the journey each of the students have had embracing their culture.

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Polyfest 2023: Sun comes out to shine on last day of festival (New Zealand Herald)

Sunny skies will guarantee an epic final day of competition at what has been a hugely successful Auckland Secondary Schools' Polyfest this year.

Niuean stage spectators will see seven groups from around Auckland. As well as the performances, members of the public will be treated to delicious foods from around the Pacific region and Aotearoa at the many food stalls at the festival. Students will be performing on all the Pacific stages that opened yesterday - Samoan, Tongan, Cook Islands and Niuean - from 9am to 3pm.

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Final Day of ASB Polyfest's 48th Anniversary Event (waateanews.com)

In looking ahead to the final day of the 2023 festival, ASB Polyfest event director Seiuli Terri Leo-Mauu says ““we've had so many disruptions over the past ...

This year’s festival has once again shone a light of Maori & Pacific culture, and youth performance. This year has seen 55 schools, 181 cultural groups, 8,000 students performing traditional speech, song and dance on five stages, to a crowd of approximately 60,000 people. Groups compete in three divisions – boys schools, girls schools and co-educational schools.

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'Dance my heart out': Polyfest wraps up with Pasifika dancing and ... (Stuff.co.nz)

A group of McAuley High School students squealed and ran into each other's arms after stepping off the Samoa stage on the final day of ASB Polyfest at the ...

We are going out, win or lose, as a team.” This is where I’m from.” *

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