Arts Festival

Arts Festival is held in conjunction with Winter Tournament. Each year in the first week of August holidays, students from all universities assemble at one centre and proceed to compare, discuss, create, destroy, and perform most of the forms of self-expression known to the Western world — painting, sculpture, drama, debating, chess, photography, writing, music, and Pooh sticks. Writers contribute to the New Zealand Universities Arts Festival Yearbook, usually called Literary Yearbook in order to leave room for the contributions.