Culture Galore Festival

Culture Galore is an outdoor multicultural held each March at Ray Blank Park, in Ilam. This page gives a brief history of the event and links to this year’s festival information.

2012 festival

Culture galore is scheduled for 12pm to 4pm, Saturday 10 March at Ray Blank Park. Find out more on its Facebook.

About the festival

Culture Galore celebrates our city’s diversity with food, art, crafts and music and dance performances from more than 50 cultures who call Christchurch home. The event takes place in the lead-up to Race Relations Day on 21 March.

Started in 2001, Culture Galore is part of the Garden City SummerTimes festival. It is organised by Christchurch City Council Recreation Unit staff, and is funded by the Fendalton/Waimairi and Riccarton/Wigram Community Boards. Staff from Fendalton Library attend each year.

Performances and activities

Groups perform continuously on the main stage, and a bouncy castle, rock climbing and face painting provide entertainment for children.

The Christchurch Multicultural Council demonstrate different cultural games and several community agencies will have information booths at the event.

Online resources

• New Settlers page on the library’s website — also available in:
• Arabic
• Chinese simplified
• Chinese traditional
• Persian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian
• Somali
• Thai
• Vietnamese
• Ethnic groups in Christchurch from community information directory CINCH
• Profile of Ray Blank, from our heritage section

Internet Gateway

• New Zealand Ethnic Communities websites, including
• The New Zealand Federation of Multicultural Councils
• Directory on cultural diversity from the NZ Diversity Action Programme
• Websites for New Migrants, including
• Migrants’ Guide to Christchurch from Christchurch City Council