Wellington Pasifika Festival

Pasifika Festival food truck and stall applications

We are open for food truck and stallholder applications for the Wellington Pasifika Festival on Saturday 7 February, 2026.

Applications close 5pm, Friday 31 October 2025. We'll advise you if your application has been successful by the end of November 2025. There are separate application forms for food vendors and stall holders, please see below.

Stall options and fees

Food trucks and general stalls will be allocated a site. Operators may arrive from 8am. Operating hours will be from 12pm until 6pm. Trucks can leave the site at 7pm.

If you have any queries please email events@wcc.govt.nz.

Information for food vendors

We will be accepting food vendors that are using approved compostable packaging to further divert waste from landfill. Please refer to the Wellington City Council event packaging guidelines (921KB PDF).

All food vendors must have a current vehicle registration, electrical warrant of fitness (EWOF), fire extinguisher, and fire blanket.

Apply as a food vendor

Information for stallholders

Having a stall at the Pasifika Festival is a great opportunity to connect with and expose your message to Wellington Pasifika communities, visitors and the wider Wellington region. Your stall must incorporate messages that are relevant to Pacific Island communities or showcase Pacific Island communities to the wider public. We do not accept stalls of a political nature.

Workshop stalls

All applicants who indicate they will run a workshop will need to provide a workshop plan. Successful applicants will be invited to participate in a workshop series where they present a 30-minute workshop either in their own stall or in a separate workshop marquee (the workshop marquee will be dependent on applicant numbers).

If you wish to run a workshop, your main stall will be offered at a discounted rate of $200 plus GST.

You must ensure you have people to cover your main stall during your workshop.

Apply as a stallholder

Festival themes

The 2025 Wellington Pasifika Festival theme was ‘Journey’, represented through onstage performances, a live stone carving event, Étū rere pā‘ata - The Shooting Star Programme, and a new Wellington Pasifika Festival stamp collection passport for the little ones.

Artist Leo Semau returned in 2025, with the stone carving that was commissioned in 2024. Visitors were able to speak to him about the process, learn about the craft and leave their own mark on the ‘anchor stone’. The sculpture will return in 2026, completing its evolution across three Pasifika Festivals.

The 2025 event also included a festival wide activation based on the card game ‘Lalaga’, designed by Torisse Lalau. The game is based around Pasifika talanoa (wisdom) and encouraged attendees to kōrero and connect with each other by sharing stories.

We look forward to seeing you at the Wellington Pasifika Festival in 2026! Keep an eye on this page for programme updates.

Previous themes

In 2024 we introduced a theme ’Homeland’, the start of a three-year festival journey from our homes in the Pacific to our home here in New Zealand:

2024 – Homeland. The Homeland concept was represented with our commissioned Pasifika artwork, a stone sculpture, that is being transformed and developed across three festivals. Last year, the artwork was a blank canvas. Festival attendees could see the stone and meet artist Leo Semau.

2025 – Journey. This year we explored migration stories across the sea with performances, food, art installations and more. Leo Seamu returned with a carving half-finished and invited festival goers to contribute to the representative ‘anchor stone’ sculpture.

2026 – Our theme next year will be ‘Arrival’.

Highlights from previous events

Check out images from Wellington Pasifika Festival.