Culture Galore is Ōtautahi Christchurch's much-loved annual multicultural festival, celebrating the extraordinary diversity of the city's communities with food, arts, crafts, music and dance performances from more than thirty cultures that call Christchurch home. Held each March at the Multicultural Recreation and Community Centre, it is a free, family-friendly event that brings together communities from across the world in a spirit of shared celebration and mutual curiosity.
The festival is a reflection of Christchurch's increasingly diverse population — a city that has welcomed migrants and refugees from across the world and been enriched by the cultures, skills and traditions they bring. On the stage and among the stalls, visitors encounter Japanese drumming, Indonesian dance, Korean performance, Pacific Island music, African drumming and the cuisines of dozens of different food cultures — a concentrated expression of the global community that Christchurch has become.
Free to attend and warmly welcoming to everyone, Culture Galore is one of those community events that reminds you of what cities are at their best — places where different peoples meet, share what they have and discover what they have in common. For visitors to Christchurch in March, it is a celebration of the city's diversity that is joyful, delicious and genuinely moving.