New Zealand

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August 2008 in New Zealand

• 10 August (Sunday) 2008 - The Auckland City Volcanoes Challenge is an inner city navigation event where competitors run to, and up, Auckland’s iconic volcanoes, in any order that they choose.
   
• Winter@Waipu is a three-month festival celebrating winter in the small settlement of Waipu, with a host of entertainment and events lined up.
   
• The New Zealand Affordable Art Show is popular with artists and art buyers alike and encourages New Zealanders to celebrate their identity and culture by buying local art.
   
• The Food Show Auckland offers visitors a myriad of food and wine delights, a line-up of local and international celebrity chefs and a strictly-limited special Preview Day.
   
• The Free Ski Open NZ is one of the Southern Hemispheres premier free ski events, showcasing the best New Zealand has to offer, from the worlds only heli-accessed big mountain competition to the legendary superpipe at Snow Park and chutes at Treble Cone.
   
• The Waikato Draught Tough Guy and Gal Challenge is an off-road running event open to both male and female competitors 14 years and older. Challenge yourself on a course that includes swamp crossings, a rope climb, crawl under barb wire, beautiful native bush trails, a range of natural and man-made obstacles, mud and more mud. The 9km course is based at the Lakes Ranch venue, north east of Rotorua.
   
• Casio Coromandel Classic From surf beaches to sub-alpine native forests, this multisport race will challenge individuals and team competitors of all abilities. As the final round of the Sportzhub Multisport Champs, many top athletes are expected to line up alongside the regular weekend warriors.

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More what's on sites

• Auckland City - What's On 
• Artscalendar.co.nz is the on-line New Zealand arts calendar of current and forthcoming events - concerts, recitals, ballet, opera, drama, musicals, exhibitions
• Christchurch and Canterbury What's On online events calendar by Christchurch City Council
• Feeling Great activities in the Wellington region
• New Zealand International Film Festival 
• New Zealand Film Festivals 
• NZ public holiday 2006-2009

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