Splore Music Festival 2021 MOTHER

Have you heard of Splore before? No? Well you’re missing out! Splore is a music festival all about creativity, inclusivity and love. Check out their 2021 plans below!

Splore Festival has made the decision to postpone the festival to 26-28 March to be held at the same location, Tāpapakanga Regional Park, Auckland. The decision was made due to Auckland remaining under Covid level restrictions. The current uncertainty makes it too risky to proceed with pack-in this weekend and to hold Splore Festival on the original date of 26-28 February.

Complying with the public health guidelines and keeping the audience and staff safe is of utmost importance.

John Minty, Festival Director says “Our apologies to anyone who is disadvantaged by this change. We want our community to be able to celebrate Splore safely while giving everybody involved as much certainty as we can. A big thanks to all our stakeholders for their ongoing support during these uncertain times“.

All ticket holders will receive an email from iTICKET in the coming days with the choice to either accept the new event dates and have new tickets issued, or claim a refund if they can no longer attend.

Minty says “We want the Splore audience and all our stakeholders to be safe. It will largely be the same festival at our beautiful coastal location and we welcome all our Splore ticket holders to attend on the new date”.

Splore’s predominantly female and gender diverse line-up is sure to hit the right chord at Splore Festival 2021. And in recognition of the tough time the creative community has suffered this year, Splore has increased its overall artist, performance and visual arts budgets. The festival will also stick to 100% Aotearoa-based artists, even if overseas artists are allowed into the country by next February.

“Splore has always had diverse gender line-ups but we now have the opportunity to really showcase the quality and breadth of female talent in Aotearoa”, says festival director, John Minty, “and given the current climate I wanted to increase Splore’s talent budget across the board to help support the local creative industry”.

Splore’s ongoing commitment to inclusiveness has resulted in extraordinary diversity that is woven throughout the festival content. The music programme is curated to be a weekend long experience with performances from national treasures, the Topp Twins; Kiwi-African hip hop supergroup, BLKCITY; multi-award winning te reo singer, Maisey Rika; the enigmatic Princess Chelsea; soul sister Deva Mahal; to Aotearoa’s drum n bass supergroup, Shapeshifter.

Splore is also working with artists to curate special collaborations and unique sets to be staged at the beachside Tāpapakanga Regional Park next February so “expect plenty of surprises and spontaneous shenanigans,” says Minty. The entire festival programme is an invitation to experience something new, to step outside your comfort zone and celebrate in a safe and inclusive environment with friends and whanau.

Every festival Splore explores a theme, it is meant to provoke and inspire the audience for what is New Zealand’s greatest dress up party. Every Saturday night at the festival most of the audience becomes part of the performance with elaborate costume attire.

For 2021 the theme will be ‘MOTHER’. Festival Producer, Fryderyk Kublilkowski, who conceives each year’s festival theme says “The sum of Splore’s values lies in the universal concept of motherkind, mother brings us back to care, to nurture, to nature, to be mindful and allows us to express our feelings”. The concept Kublilkowski says “is that we are continuing our journey aboard Mothership Earth. We draw inspiration from Mother Nature and look forward to the Mother of all celebrations, a whakanui to remember, this February at Tāpapakanga Regional Park.”.