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Welcome to Festival Zone for October 2012. 

 

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Colourful Diwali Dancer by Max Thomson

 

Auckland Photo Blog - October - Diwali theme

The Photo of the Month for August was by Colin Lunt - Enviromental Tree Planting at Long Bay. The next few weeks through October will be a Diwali theme for your photography, for the first time since 2006, we want you to celebrate the wonderful annual Indian community festivities of Diwali across the Auckland region. Look through your past photos or take new ones and send them in. Thanks to Asia NZ Foundation. Take Asia NZ's quiz on India here.

 

Main events are being held in Aotea Square 13 -14th October 2012, as well as other community events highlighted at Auckland Indian Association website.

 

"Diwali (also called Deepavali) is a major Hindu festival. Known as the "Festival of Lights," it symbolises the victory of good over evil, and lamps are lit as a sign of celebration and hope for mankind. Celebrations focus on lights and lamps, particularly traditional diyas (as illustrated). Fireworks are associated with the festival in some regions of the country.

Deepavali is celebrated for five consecutive days in the Hindu month of Ashwayuja. It usually occurs in October/November, and is one of the most popular and eagerly awaited festivals of India. Hindus, Jains and Sikhs alike regard it as a celebration of life and use the occasion to strengthen family and social relationships. For Jains it is one of the most important festivals, and beginning of the Jain year. It is also a significant festival for the Sikh faith."

© Wikipedia

Pingyao International Photography Festival 2012

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The annual Festival in Pingyao attracts 200,000 visitors each year.

Nikon Auckland Photo Day along with James K Lowe's Annual Commission work was shown in China, as part of a cultural exchange between partner Festivals in the AsiaPacific Photoforum.  The Auckland Festival of Photography and Pingyao International Photography Festival worked together this year to showcase the images of 42 Auckland photographers who participated in 2012 Nikon Auckland Photo Day at their annual Pingyao event.

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Chinese youth take in Nikon Auckland Photo Day at PIP 2012

The Asia Pacific PhotoForum is a collaborative group of photography festivals in the Asia-Pacific region that aims to promote photography and photographic art to the broadest possible audience. The Auckland Festival of Photography Trust would like to extend it's thanks and gratitude to the Pingyao Local Government for accepting this showcase Nikon Auckland Photo Day exhibition into Pingyao. We would also like to extend a big thanks to Nikon for their ongoing support and key sponsorship of this cultural exchange between Auckland, New Zealand and Pingyao, China. See more on this Festival here - http://www.asiapacificphotoforum.org/pingyao.html.

 

Festival 2013

The Auckland Festival of Photography details for the 2013 Festival, our 10th annual Festival, will be finalised later this month, preliminary dates are 30 May to 21 June 2013.

 

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