Celebrating 20 years in 2012, make sure you come along to Pasifika Festival 2012 to experience the vibrant hospitality of Auckland's Pacific cultures.

Pasifika Festival 2012 is made up of the Pasifika Festival Opening Night Concert and Pasifika Festival Day.

Pasifika Festival Opening Night Concert

9 March, 7pm-9pm
Western Springs Park outer fields

The Pasifika Festival Opening Night Concert features the best of the Pacific's stories, dances and songs about this year's theme - the noddy tern and the gardenia.

It's a great chance to see all of the villages of the festival - Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Cook Islands, Tokelau, Niue, Tahiti, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Aotearoa - perform at one time, as well as special guests.

Pasifika Festival Day

10 March, 10am-5pm
Western Springs Park

Pasifika Festival Day sees Western Springs Park transformed into10 villages  offering music, food, arts and dance from 10 cultures.

Pasifika Festival Day is the day when Pacific communities come together to celebrate their unity and, at the same time, their diversity.

You will hear the resonating sounds of the beating of tapa and the flickering of the pandanus strips woven into a mat, and enjoy mouth-watering smells of Pacific foods and the fresh tropical taste of watermelon and pineapple with ice cream.