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September 2008 in New Zealand

• 13 to 28 September 2008 - Auckland Heritage Festival - celebrate the unique stories and secrets of Auckland the city's natural, built and social history. (Auckland)
   
• 29 August to 7 September - Gay Ski Week NZ is a no attitude event, attracting more than 450 men and women to the slopes of Queenstown each September. The southern hemisphere's biggest gay and lesbian alpine party, it has a jam packed schedule of events both on and off the snow.
   
• Central Hawke's Bay The Festival is an arts festival with flair, including highlights such as designer craft stalls, antiques, a chilli cook off, oriental carpets, school art competition, wine tasting, garden exhibition, live music and a free Friday night concert.
   
• ARC 48 Hour Adventure Race  - Dubbed "Mission Impossible", the race involves two days of navigation through some of the remotest parts of the Coromandel Peninsula on foot, two wheels and at sea, above and below ground. The race is open to teams of two and four and categories include mixed, men's and women's. Teams are expected to take between 40-50 hours.
   
•  Moro Marathon - The Moro Marathon in Dunedin includes a Half Marathon and a Half Marathon Recreational Walk, incorporating the Otago Open /Masters Marathon Championships. Established in 1979, it is one of the most scenic marathons in New Zealand, starting close to the Albatross Colony on the Otago Peninsula, then running around the beautiful Otago Harbour before finishing at Watson Park, Port Chalmers.
   
• Powerade Day Night Thriller, an exhilarating Mountain Bike Relay event, was the largest MTB event in New Zealand last year with more than 3000 riders. Individuals, teams of two/three or four/five compete on an 8km, 30-minute circuit over 12 hours from 10.30am to 10.30pm. New for this year is the option of a team six-hour event starting at 10.30am and finishing at 4.30pm. Based at Spa Park, the track includes fast open park grounds, awesome downhill, pine needle covered forest tracks, challenging single tracks and magnificent scenery including the mighty Waikato River.
   

• School Term 3 ends

•  Montana World of Wearable Art Awards Show  is a two-hour montage of theatre, dance, colour, movement and art, held annually in September in Wellington to an audience of 30,000 per season. Each year WOW announces the winners live at the Awards Ceremony on the first Friday performance ) of the show season.
   
•  Dunedin Fringe Festival - Engage in an action-packed festival of experimental and contemporary art that takes over Dunedin for 17 spell-binding days. This is an open-access festival so anyone can register to be in the program. Artist grants for the development of new artistic works and travel assistance are available on registration. The Dunedin Fringe Festival has extended its dates this year, adding an extra seven days to the usual 10-day program.
   
• The Springston Trophy  - Billed as the largest pony club teams event in the Southern Hemisphere, this year's Trophy will be held in Christchurch with the program including cross country, dressage and show jumping. 

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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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