Onehunga Arts Festival 2019

Celebrating the diversity of arts in Onehunga: A brand new festival launched on 22 June 2019.

Onehunga’s thriving artistic community was showcased in a brand new bi-annual Arts Festival, taking place 22nd to 30th June. The event looked to celebrate our diversity with a wide variety of over 35 events taking place.

Onehunga Business Association Manager Amanda Wellgreen says “Onehunga is a really creative suburb with so much great activity taking place. To harness this, and emphasise that Onehunga is an attractive destination, we organised this 9-day festival to celebrate our exciting diversity.”

“There was a range of events designed to appeal to the whole family and, with a few exceptions, the majority are involving local people from the Onehunga area. These events included art exhibitions highlighting the work of local artists, New Zealand premiere theatre, a photography exhibition, storytelling, art walks and an exhibition featuring portraits of local families from artist-in-residence photographer Tom Ang.

Alongside this, visitors enjoyed creative workshop

s including weaving, dance, clothes upcycling, poetry writing and mural art as well as live demonstrations that included yarn bombing, wood carving and sewing.

The Festival launched on Saturday 22 June with a music event outside the Onehunga Community Library that featured local performers including Onehunga High School’s kapa haka group.