Wellington Pasifika Festival 2025

The Wellington Pasifika Festival attracts over 15,000 people each year and is a standout event in the Wellington regional and national calendar.

Call for food truck and stall applications

Food truck and stall applications registrations for the Wellington Pasifika Festival on Saturday 8 February are now open. See registration details below – application deadline 5pm, Friday 25 October 2024.

Āhea | When  12 noon–6pm, Saturday 8 February 2025
Ki hea | Where  Waitangi Park, Wellington waterfront | View on Google Maps
Te utu | Cost  Free

Bring your friends and whānau, and enjoy an award-winning line-up of multi-cultural performers, food, and culture.  

This free whānau-friendly festival celebrates our unique Pacific communities. From art and language to performance and food – the Pasifika Festival is all about acknowledging the richness of our Pacific cultures.

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.

The theme for 2025 is ‘The Journey’. Join us as we explore migration stories across the sea with performances, food, art installations and more.

In 2026, the ‘Arrival’ theme will be represented with our commissioned Pasifika artwork, a stone sculpture, that is being transformed and developed across three festivals.

In 2024, the artwork was a blank canvas. Festival attendees could see the stone and meet artist Leo Semau. In 2025, Leo will be back with a carving half finished. Come and see him, talk to him about the artwork and try your hand at stone carving!  We can’t wait to see you there.

Keep an eye on this page for the performance programme and more.

Presented by Wellington City Council.

Woman looking at a stall for a Niue carving workshop at 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 8 February, 2025.

The deadline for applications is 5pm, Friday 25 October 2024. We'll advise you if your application has been successful by the end of November.

Stall options and fees

Option Fee
Food truck (truck or caravan only, no Ezi-ups) $250 plus GST
Food stall (non-vehicle, we provide marquee and tables)
  $400 plus GST
Art/craft stall
  $400 plus GST
Not-for-profit/charity stall $400 plus GST
Government organisation/corporate/business stall   $700 plus GST

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

Holding 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.

New workshop stalls

In 2025, 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 in our new workshop marquee. This marquee will have more space and resources than the 3x3m stall marquees.

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

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

Apply as a stallholder

Highlights from previous event

Check out images from Wellington Pasifika Festival 2024.