PolyFest

3 things I enjoyed at PolyFest was:

1.I enjoyed watching people perform on stage and watching people do the dance competitions on stage.P.S it was funny!

2.I enjoy walking around PolyFest and looking  at peoples stalls!

3.I enjoy going to the stages and watching the performances and learning things about their culture dance!

My Visual Mihi

The Tongan flag represents my culture. The heart means that I love music.The T-shirt means I love New Zealand and I live in New Zealand. The last box is my name!

My PolyFest writing

Kia Ora, talofa lava, malo e lelei, faakalofa lahi atu, kia orana, bula vinaka, namaste and greetings!!  It’s Pasifika week in Aotearoa, this means it’s a week long celebration of all things Pacific.  This includes the birthday dance we had with Mrs Tele’a!  Part of the celebration is the Polyfest!  This Thursday we are planning to travel to Manukau to take part in some workshops and then visit stages.  The two stages we will be visiting will be the Maori and Diversity stages.  Did you know that this event - the Polyfest celebrates 40 years since it’s beginning?  Awesome isn’t it!  

Young people and their whanau participate in this event because when they dance on the polyfest stage and that dance represents their culture and they want to support their culture.They also want to show what they have learned about the dance and how to do the different culture dances and to show the next polyfest schools how to do the dances!

What things do you think the performers had to go through to get to having the items we will see?(Make a list)

*To be on stage they need confidence

*Concentration  

*Have Fun

*Support their culture

*Be proud of their culture

*Courage

How does this event promote our different cultures?

It promotes our cultures because of the different ways we can learn about other cultures like how they prepare their food, clothes,and other things!

For polyfest I am looking forward to learning more about my culture and to learn about other cultures as well!