Programme Launch Weekend
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Wild Dunedin Choir
11am – 12pm, Friday 15 March
Tūhura Otago MuseumYou are invited to join us at Tūhura Otago Museum for this exciting event as we celebrate music and nature in a performance that can be enjoyed by all ages!
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Pyjamarama: Wild Night Out
6pm – 8pm, Friday 15 March
Tūhura Otago MuseumJourney through the galleries like never before with surprises, challenges, games, crafts, and fun tucked around every corner.
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Face Painting at South Dunedin Street Festival
10am – 3pm, Saturday 16 March
King Edwards StreetCome and see us at the Wild Dunedin stall for free face painting and to pick up a programme for our Festival
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Wild Swim
8.30am – 10am, Sunday 17 March
Portobello JettyBrave the cold and join the Sunday Swim Squad for an open water sea swimming event in the Otago Harbour.
The OPERA
We welcome our new platinum sponsor The OPERA—Otago Peninsula Eco Restoration Alliance—previously called Penguin Place. Under the stewardship of new owners, The OPERA is continuing to help save the critically endangered hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin), while also protecting all native species of flora and fauna that call the more than 250 hectares home.
2024 Festival
Watch This Space
The 2024 Festival will focus on huarere (weather) and runs over the April holidays. The programme will be released on March 14.
We are excited to announce a premier event in this year’s Festival, the Wild Night at Larnach Castle fundraising gala will be raising money for the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital, Otago Shore & Land Trust and Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust in support of yellow-eyed penguins.
About Wild Dunedin
Wild Dunedin - NZ Festival of Nature has very deep roots in Dunedin, the wildlife capital of Aotearoa. We work with local community groups, businesses, conservationists and nature lovers to share the magnificent wildlife and wild places of our city, and we showcase the work of those who are planting native species, eradicating introduced mammalian predators, and helping populations of native animals of all kinds to flourish.
Read Our Wild Dunedin Stories
Places to Visit
Wild Dunedin
NZ’s Festival of Nature
Dunedin is like no other because of its unique southern ocean animals. Penguins, sea lions, albatross and fur seals love our ocean and they breed right here inside our city’s boundary.
You can see these wild creatures any time, but even better to come in the April school holidays when we celebrate our wildlife and wild places during the Wild Dunedin Festival.
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