| Event Name: |
TSB Bank Festival of Lights - Dec 20, 2009 to Feb 7, 2010 |
| Start Date: |
20 December 2009 |
| End Date: |
07 February 2010 |
| Season: |
Summer |
| Venue: |
Pukekura Park |
| Venue Address: |
Fillis Street |
| City/Town: |
New Plymouth |
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The TSB Bank Festival of Lights transforms Pukekura Park into a magical night-time wonderland and is a spectacular backdrop for an extensive entertainment programme that runs day and night for over two months every summer. Entertainment for this year's festival starts on December 20, 2009 and runs through until February 7, 2010
At night, fluorescent pebble paths sparkle beneath excited feet, majestic trees and plants glow, waterfalls and lakes shimmer and shine beneath a myriad of lighting displays. Each year, selected areas of New Plymouth’s magnificent Pukekura Park are transformed into a magical and mysterious wonderland that attracts more than 150,000 visitors to a spectacular theatre of light. More than 1,000 lights and 5km of cable create a night-time illuminated wonderland. Additional features such as the sleeping, snoring giant, black light area and digital artwork projections captivate the young and the not so young. Structures such as the park's water wheel, fountains and the historic band rotunda are flooded with lights, while illuminated wooden rowboats offer a romantic boating opportunity like no other.
A nightly entertainment programme held in Pukekura Park. Two open-air stages of entertainment over an eight-week period feature local, national and international performers. All performances are provided to the local community and visitors to the district, leaving no-one in any doubt about where to go for a unique kiwi summer experience! A daytime activities and events programme delivered throughout the New Plymouth District for children and their families. Activities include scavenger hunts, a Teddy Bears Picnic, circus acts, creative and artistic experiences and much more.
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