| January |
Queenstown Wine, Food
& Jazz Festival
Taste Nelson |
| January/February |
Harvest Hawke’s Bay Weekend |
| February |
Jazz and Blues Streetfest
Marlborough Wine and Food Festival
ANZ Christchurch Wine and Food Festival
Devonport (Auckland) Wine and Food Festival |
| March |
Dunedin Wine and Food Festival
Hokitika Wild Foods Festival |
| Easter weekend |
Waiheke Montana Wines Jazz Festival
(Waiheke Island will be a great place to stay during the America's
Cup regatta October 2002 - February 2003) |
| September |
Bay of Islands Food and Wine Festival |
| October |
Pacifica Kaikoura Seafest |
| November |
Toast Martinborough |
SATURDAY
4TH FEBRUARY 2006
7PM - MIDNIGHT
Rain Date 5th February 2006
For Postponement of the event due to weather listen to
Easy Listening 98.2 FM radio at 4 p.m.
New Zealand's only Jazz and Blues Streetfest is back again.
Following the enormous success of last
years event, the 2005 Montana Mission Bay Jazz and Blues Streetfest
is set to swing from 7.00pm until midnight on Saturday 4th February,
2006.
Entry is free. Over 25 bands from throughout
New Zealand will play simultaneously throughout the night. Dine
at one of Mission Bays fabulous cafes or restaurants or purchase food
and beverage from marquees on Selwyn Reserve. Tamaki
Drive will be closed from 6pm until midnight. Parking is available
at Bastion Point accessible from Hapimana and Kupe Streets.
Stagecoach will be operating buses every 15 minutes between Britomart
and Mission Bay. Details available in January.
Click here
for more details.
The Pacifica Kaikoura Seafest
The PACIFICA KAIKOURA SEAFEST is a unique festival, celebrating
the bounty of the Kaikoura region and is held annually on the first
Saturday of October.
It offers an opportunity to sample an extravaganza of food and beverages
from all over the region.
A wide range of continuous top class entertainment for all ages and
tastes is provided to guarantee a fun filled day for everyone to enjoy.
Toast Martinborough Wine, Food & Music Festival
20 Nov 2005
Toast Martinborough Wine, Food &
Music Festival is a key fixture in the New Zealand Wine and Food calendar.
Each of the participating vineyards features culinary delights from
Wellington and Wairarapa's finest restaurants that are carefully matched
to complement the winemakers selection, along with some of New Zealand's
best live entertainment. A special feature of the event is the opportunity
for festival-goers to sample some wines from vintages that have sold
out but that have been held over especially for the festival. The
annual event, sees the population of Martinborough swell tenfold as
wine and food lovers from throughout the country and further afield
come to celebrate the new releases.
N Z International Sevens Tournament
3 Feb 2006 - 4 Feb 2006
Wellington’s Westpac Stadium is
to be set alight this summer when it hosts the New Zealand leg of
the IRB International Sevens Series. With ticket demand going through
the roof, this year promises to be one of the biggest events the Westpac
Stadium has ever hosted.
Harvest Hawkes Bay 2006
4 Feb 2006 - 6 Feb 2006
Hawkes Bay Wine Countrys annual food and wine festival - boasting
24 wineries and fabulous and fun workshops over three outstanding
days in Wine Country.
Hokitika Wildfoods Festival 2006
11 Mar 2005 - 11 Mar 2006
The Wildfoods Festival is a celebration
of the West Coast's unique lifestyle,food and hospitality. Once again
the Wildfoods Festival will be an extravaganza of gourmet bushtuckerbased
on West Coast's natural food sources, from the land and sea, presented
in an innovative manner. The emphasis is on novel, tasty and healthy
wild food. Stallholders representing local groups, producers, restaurants
and suppliers,will enable guests "Taste the West Coast"
Speights Coast to Coast
10th and 11th February 2006
The Speight's Coast to Coast traverses the South Island of
New Zealand from Kumara Beach on the Tasman Sea to Sumner Beach on
the Pacific Ocean. In either two days or the elite one day event competitors
cycle 142kms in three stages, cross the Southern Alps in a 33km mountain
run and kayak 67kms of grade two Waimakariri River through the Grand
Canyon of New Zealand, the Waimakariri Gorge.
27th Kaingaroa Timberlands Redwoods Forest Relay
This annual off-road running and walking relay is based
in Rotorua's Redwood Grove and Forest Research Nursery area on Saturday
17 September 2005.
| When: Saturday,
September 17, 2005 |
|
| Venue: Whakarewarewa
Forest |
The event has three sections
-
For athletes aged between 11 and 19 with teams of 4 persons
running a 3200 metre lap each.
-
An adults walking category which consists of two person teams
with each team member walking a 5000 metre course.
-
An adults running section which consists of five person teams
with each team member running a 5000 metre course.
-
For 2005 there is also
a new category hich caters for corporate teams.
All sections are raced amoungst the magnificent redwoods and
pines of Whakarewarewa Forest.
The event commences at 10.00am adjacent
to the Giftshop and Visitor Information Centre.
For more information please refer
to www.lakecity.co.nz for pricing and entry details.
This is event is proudly organised by the Lake City Athletic
Club, Rotorua
2006 UCI World Mountain Bike Championships
Information on the 2006 UCI Mountain Bike and Trials
World Championship being held in Rotorua
| Starts:
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
|
| Finishes:
Sunday, August 27, 2006
|
Venue: Mount
Ngongotaha,
Rotorua, New Zealand |
THE VENUE
To accommodate UCI requirements for one event village, the Down Hill
and Cross Country trails will be on Mount Ngongotaha with the Four-Cross
in the natural amphitheatre above Mountain Action. This will also
provide easy access for spectators and great vantage points
for television coverage. If you were at the National Hill
Climb Champs in January you would have had a preview of the stunning
views across the Lakes and out across the Bay of Plenty to the Pacific
beyond.
The Downhill track will start right at the top of Mount Ngongotaha and
will initially run through the prehistoric native forest before charging
down through the Skyline Skyrides estate to a finish line just above
the bottom gondola station. This will be where the main event village
will be located and will also be the start/finish area for the Cross
Country. The Cross Country course will wind up to the top gondola
station and then descend back to the village.
Trials will be located in and around the village and the Four-Cross
course will be just down the road at Mountain Action.
Planning has already begun for all courses and construction of the
Down Hill course began in late April.
Rotorua's magnificent
Whakarewarewa forest network won't miss out either. Visitors are sure
to ride there and a week before the Champs a marathon duration (70-80kms)
Citizen's Race will be run on the single track and out the back.
Before then, there will at least 2 major events run on the World's
courses in 2005 and 2006.
EVENT SCHEDULE
A tentative programme of events for 2006 is as follows (all TBC):
- Opening Ceremony will be
Tuesday 22/8/06 or Wednesday 23/8/06 in the evening.
- Wednesday 23/8/06: Team
Relay and Junior Womens OX (Cross Country)
- Thursday 24/8/06: Down
Hill seeding
- Friday 25/8/06: Junior
Men (am) and U23 Men OX (Cross Country) (pm) and Four-Cross (evening)
- Saturday 26/8/06: Downhill
- Sunday 27/8/06: OX (Cross Country) Elite Women (am) and
Elite Men (pm)
LEAD UP EVENTS
- The National One off Championships
will be run on the World's courses on Mount Ngongotaha - February
25-27, 2005.
- TBC: The Oceania Championships
will be run on the courses the first weekend in March 2006. This
will tie in with the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in Melbourne a
couple of weeks later - so expect a healthy turn out of Commonwealth
XC riders.
- An acclimatization event
is planned in 2005 for the same weeks in August the worlds will
be run a year later...
THE TEAM
Key members of the management team for the Worlds are now
in place: Arthur Klap is Race Event Director and Dave Donaldson is
Chairperson of the Rotorua Organizing Committee which will oversee
the event.
Dean Watson is Site Manager, Alden Ardern and Rick Todd head up the
Downhill and XC design and construction teams with Jeff Carter looking
after 4-Cross design and construction and D'Arcy Bellfield, the Trials
venue. Overall design consultant is Simon Kennett. Simon will also
manage the XC at the Worlds and Hamish Seaton (who handles timing
for the National Series) is provisional manager of the Downhill.
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