Festivals
The National Mask Festival (Rabaul - East New Britain Province
Location | Rabaul, East New Britain Province |
| Date | July 16-19 |
| Venue | Queen Elizabeth Park (Old Rabaul Town) |
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The National Mask festival in Rabaul is an event that attracts cultural groups from all over the New Guinea Islands region. This festival is renowned as being one of the more colourful, energetic and attractive cultural shows in PNG. With the back drop being the ever smoking Tavurvur volcano, the festival not only provides the sounding beat of the kundu drum but also the occasional roar of the volcano.
Performances to watch:
- Tubuan Dancers from East New Britain and New Ireland Provinces
- Fire eaters from Susurunga
- Bainnings Fire Dancers
- Kinivai performance (Tubuan Dancers on water) and many more
We encourage our traveller to come and attend this unique event if the traveller wishes to witness New Guinea Islands culture in it's purest form. This event captures over 15 performances a day over 4 days.
The event is organised by the National Cultural Commission (Government entity) whose intention is to educate the local community (in particular youth groups) about their indigenous heritage and culture.
For the traveller this event promotes the non-commercialisation of PNG indigenous culture as the aim is to entice tourists on a mass scale to attend the event rather then to visit at random and pay local groups to perform on a one-off payment basis.
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The Namatanai Cultural Show
Location | Namatanai Show Ground |
Date | September 14-16 |
Venue | Namatanai Show Ground |
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The Namatanai Cultural Show in Namatanai town (New Ireland Province) is an event that attracts cultural groups from all over New Ireland Province and Boungaville.
New Ireland Province is the home of the Tubuan culture and Malagan culture. This event is appreciation of both these fascinating and visually sound performance groups. The final day of the cultural show is a double celebration of both New Ireland province indigenous culture and National Independence day. This adds extra excitement and ore to the event.
The organisers have designed and implemented this event as a public opportunity to promote the indigenous cultures from the province to local youth groups and is a means to educate aswell as celebrate the origins of the New Ireland people and their cultures and traditons.
Performances to watch:
- Tubuan Dancers from Siar
- Fire eaters from Susurunga
- Malagan Mask performers from Tabar
- Kinivai Tubuan Dancers from Lambom Lamassa
- Central Namatanai Tubuan performers
- Tanga island Cultural performers
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The MESUBATO Cultural Show
Location | Karlai Village - East Pomio (East New Britain Province) |
Date | October 18 (2008) |
Venue | Karlai Village (10 miuntes from Plantation) |
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The MESUBATO Cultural Show is a cultural show held at Karlai Plantation (East Pomio District). The Show encompasses the local tribes from the region namely Mengen, Sulka, Bainings and Tomoips.
This event is currently held once a year and for one day only. The Show plans to increase the number of shows to possibly 4 per year therefore allowing travellers more of an opportunity to see this exclusive and spectacular event.
Performances to watch:
Bainings Fire Dancers
Lamarian Clan performers
Long Ward Warriors
Karlai elementary school - Kangaroo performance
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