Wellington Pasifika Festival 2025

The Wellington Pasifika Festival attracts over 15,000 people each year and is a standout event in the Wellington regional and national calendar.

Āhea | When  12 noon–6pm, Saturday 8 February 2025
Ki hea | Where  Waitangi Park, Wellington waterfront | View on Google Maps
Te utu | Cost  Free

Bring your friends and whānau, and enjoy an award-winning line-up of multi-cultural performers, food, and culture.  

This free whānau-friendly festival celebrates our unique Pacific communities. From art and language to performance and food – the Pasifika Festival is all about acknowledging the richness of our Pacific cultures.

In 2024 we introduced a theme ’Homeland’, the start of a three-year festival journey from our homes in the Pacific to our home here in New Zealand.

The theme for 2025 is ‘The Journey’. Join us as we explore migration stories across the sea with performances, food, art installations and more.

In 2026, the ‘Arrival’ theme will be represented with our commissioned Pasifika artwork, a stone sculpture, that is being transformed and developed across three festivals.

In 2024, the artwork was a blank canvas. Festival attendees could see the stone and meet artist Leo Semau. In 2025, Leo will be back with a carving half finished. Come and see him, talk to him about the artwork and try your hand at stone carving!  We can’t wait to see you there.

Keep an eye on this page for the performance programme and more.

Presented by Wellington City Council.

Woman looking at a stall for a Niue carving workshop at Pasifika Festival

Pasifika Festival food truck and stall applications

Stall applications have now closed. For any questions on the status of your application, please email events@wcc.govt.nz.

Highlights from previous event

Check out images from Wellington Pasifika Festival 2024.