FESTIVAL ATTENDANCE TOPS QUARTER MILLION
The unusual coupling of Maori artefacts and Viennese photography proved the greatest single attraction at last month’s New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington.
Figures released show that well over a quarter of a million people attended festival concerts, exhibitions and performances, spending an estimated $1.7 million on admission charges alone. Thousands more flocked to the numerous general events arranged around the festival calendar.
The highest attendances for a single event were recorded at the National Museum which attracted 46,167 people to view its twin festival exhibitions of Whakaahua Maori, which showed the human form in Maori art, and the photoessays of Time-Life lensman Ernst Haas. Running a close second was the festival opening night concert by rock group Dire Straits which drew 45,000 fans to Athletic Park. Third place in the festival numbers game went to Oro del Peru - the exhibition of gold artefacts on the National Art Gallery.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 31, 1 August 1986, Page 53
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