The Nelson Arts Festival

This year the festival celebrates 20 years and features a spectacular programme with over 150 artists from around New Zealand and across the globe.

The venues and streets of Nelson will come alive with a line-up of theatre, music, dance, comedy, writers’ talks and free events so be sure to keep your diary free from 16-27 October as you’ll be in for a real treat!

The famous Nelson Masked Parade and Carnival will take to the streets on Friday 17 October from 5.30pm with an explosion of colour, music and performance in line with this year’s theme being Earth, Wind and Fire! If you are creative at heart this is the perfect opportunity to show your creative flair with the best individual winning a return ferry crossing with Bluebridge!

Bluebridge are proud to be silver sponsors of this event and are supporting it in a number of ways – including sponsorship of the shows ‘Ivy’ and ‘The Road that Wasn’t There’ as well as offering a prize for the masked parade.

To view the programme for the festival take a look here: http://www.nelsonartsfestival.co.nz/programme