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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Splore Festival

Mar 26–28, 2021
Unnamed Road, Ōrere Point 2585, New Zealand

The nigh-perfect normalcy of life in New Zealand over the past year has been ascribed not only to its isolation (in the etymological sense), but to the persistence of manaakitanga, the Maori value of mutual care and respect. If you’re lucky enough to be there, you can experience this and a host of other Aotearoan virtues at Splore, a family-friendly arts festival that seems a cross between Woodstock and Burning Man, but with a more ravishing setting than either—Tāpapakanga Regional Park, on the shores of the Firth of Thames. —E.E.