3pm - 5pm: Festival Fun for all agesTreasure hunt, bouncy castle, gumboot throw, 3-legged races, egg toss-&-catch & more
Kaiwaka Lantern Festival
Saturday 14 June 2025, at Kaiwaka Sports Association
Kaiwaka came together in an afternoon and evening of great family fun: Games and contests for kids of all ages; lantern making; live music; food & drink. The music was amazing (thank you Happy Fish!) - and even the weather was perfect. See the pictures....
So much enjoyment was made possible by the generous contributions from our business community. A special thank you to Absolute Concrete, Kaiwaka's own hardware store for being an activity sponsor this year.
The East versus West tug-of-war contest ended in the East side taking away the trophy... Thank you to Engtech Engineering for your design and fabrication!
This year's Lantern Parade was absolutely amazing, with over 400 people taking part in the trek around the village. There was a huge variety of lanterns on parade; the great participation and creativity on show were no doubt helped by the popular lantern making workshops run so well a week earlier by Jude and Marijke.
As always, our volunteers make this a great day! Please contact us if you can help with next year's Festival...
Check out past Lantern Festivals!
Program: 3rd Kaiwaka Lantern Festival
A great afternoon & evening of family fun is planned for Saturday 14 June 2025. Music will be playing, and food and drink will be available. Amazing deals on the silent auction table. Spot prizes for participants. Get involved - and bring a lantern!
Festival Sponsors
This Festival would not be possible without the awesome support of our Festival Sponsors !
Sponsors have really stepped up to the mark this year in a huge show of support for the Kaiwaka community.
In another new first for the Kaiwaka Lantern Festival, we are truly thrilled to recognise Absolute Concrete, Kaiwaka's very own hardware store, for stepping up to sponsor the egg-toss-and-catch activity. We're hoping that future activity sponsors will make our festivals even better, as they enable us to put some real budget into the overall event.
Thanks to CPL Group in Kaiwaka, we've been able to put up those magnificent billboards around town. The tug-of-war trophy has been designed and fabricated by EngTech. Kaipara District Council has generously sponsored the big marquee for the day. Kaiwaka 4Square and Eutopia have been at the hub of this event too, helping everywhere with organisation and supplies. Many other sponsors have put up essential cash, prizes, and long hours of effort to help us with the many tasks and expenses incurred.
A heartfelt thank you to all of you!
The following items in our Silent Auction have been donated by generous sponsors. These are all to be auctioned during the Lantern Festival at the Kaiwaka Sports Association pavilion. The auction opens at 3:00pm and closes at around 6:45pm on Saturday 14th June. To bid just visit the Silent Auction table at the Festival, find the form corresponding to any item(s) you're interested in, and place your best bid. All net proceeds are applied by Kaiwaka Can to the Kaiwaka Skatepark project.
Help needed!
Would you like to help run the Kaiwaka Lantern Festival?
We need you!
The Kaiwaka Lantern Festival is entirely organised and run by volunteers. Each year we plan improvements, line up sponsors, organise creative contributions and performers, and pull together all the parts which make this festival such a fun day for everybody.
If you'd like to help to make this day even more special, please contact us!
