The Summer City Festival (☎494 4444; www.feelinggreat.co.nz) is a brilliant cavalcade of festivals like Sunday night jazz in the Botanic Gardens, mass walks up Mt. Victoria, and a Pacific Island festival. Wellington’s young crowd flocks to the Cuba Street Carnival (☎499 4444) in mid-February for live bands, street performers, and food. The biennial New Zealand Festival of the Arts (☎473 0149; www.nzfestival.telecom.co.nz), the country’s biggest celebration, draws artists and performers from across the globe. Between February and March, the Fringe Festival (☎495 8015; www.fringe.org.nz) takes Wellington to the cutting edge, showcasing underground and experimental theater, music, dance, and spoken word. May plays the fool with the New Zealand International Comedy Festival (☎309 9241; www.laugh.co.nz), featuring big-name comedians from New Zealand and abroad. July rolls out the red carpet for the annual New Zealand International Film Festival (☎385 0162; www.nzff.co.nz), a regular stop on the post-Cannes film festival circuit. The New Zealand Wearable Art Awards showcases outrageous human spectacles each September. For judges, gawkers, and their own entertainment, contestants design themselves as everything from dragonfly beauties to spiked cyberpunks to jellyfish. (☎548 9299; www.worldofwearableart.com. Tickets sell out as early as 6 mo. ahead.) The Wellington International Jazz Festival (☎496 5494; www.jazzfestival.co.nz) takes to the waterfront during the last two weeks of October.
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