1 March 2017

Creekfest set to rock

Recording artist and actor Stan Walker will be the headline act at the popular Creekfest festival on 11 March.

The cultural festival held in Cannons Creek Park from 10am to 4pm celebrates health and wellbeing and is a free, fun, family day out. It started 14 years ago and has been a popular annual event, attended by thousands.

“Creekfest started as a health festival but has now morphed into much more that includes education, social service providers, local small business and community fundraising opportunities,” organiser Liz Kelly said.

The main stage will feature Stan Walker, J Geeks and the O’Neill twins along with with local talent. Tofiga Fepulea’I of the Laughing Samoans will MC and there will also be the popular community stage.

Porirua Mayor Mike Tana will open the festival at 10am and welcome Hon Alfred Ngaro, Minister of Pacific Peoples, Associate Minister of Social Housing and Volunteers. They, and the headline acts, will be around throughout the day.

Ms Kelly said appropriately Mayor Tana, Minister Ngaro and Stan Walker are all white ribbon ambassadors, which ties in with the festival’s theme of “Our Families, Our Taonga” with a particular focus on the message “violence is not okay”.

Porirua City Council has contributed a grant of $20,000 to the event and supports it in other ways, including providing the community stage, managing rubbish collection and providing recycling services and promotion. Road management, lighting and safety barriers were also kindly supplied by the Council each year and this helped make the day such a success, Ms Kelly said.

Mayor Mike Tana said Creekfest is a positive, family day for all and he is looking forward to participating.

“Creekfest has become an iconic event for Porirua –it’s going to be a great community day that is smoke free, alcohol free and sugar free for drinks. The entertainment is going to be amazing and there will be heaps going on. See you there.”

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