Goroka Show
Festiwal Goroka
tribal gathering and cultural event in Papua New Guinea
Goroka · Papua New Guinea
🗓️ When?
September
Only the month is known, not the day.
- Month
- September
📍 Where?
- Town
- Goroka
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- How precise?
- coordinate of the venue
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Goroka Show, also the Eastern Highlands Agricultural Show, is a well-known tribal gathering and cultural event in Papua New Guinea. It is a sing-sing held every year close to the country's Independence Day in the town of Goroka, the capital of the Eastern Highlands Province. About 100 tribes arrive to show their music, dance and culture. The festival started in 1956 as an initiative of Australian Kiaps. The first festival was attended by around 10,000 natives and by tourists from around Papua New Guinea and Australia. In recent years it has become a major attraction for both national and international tourists and remains the largest cultural event in Papua New Guinea despite similar shows now being organised in Mount Hagen and other cities around the country.
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