Opotiki Lantern Festival

18/12/2025

🎉✨ Exciting News, Ōpōtiki! We're mixing it up and merging our social media pages! 🔄📲 Starting December 31st, the Ōpōtiki Lantern Festival pages will be shutting down 🌕🏮 But don't worry! Make sure you're following Ōpōtiki isite Visitor Information Centre for all your Ōpōtiki Lantern Festival updates and much more! 🌟🎆 Stay connected for all the latest festival news, events, and community happenings! 🥳🎇

04/02/2025

🌟 THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING 🌟

A huge shout out to our whole Ōpōtiki community and all of our visitors for showing out to support the Ōpōtiki Lantern Festival 2025 🙌🏼🤗❤️

🌟 THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING 🌟

A huge shout out to our whole Ōpōtiki community and all of our visitors for showing out to support the Opotiki Lantern Festival 🙌🏼🤗❤️

Thanks to all our sponsors for making our largest and most successful show to date a reality 👏🏼 Gaming Trust, The Lion Foundation, Trust Horizon, and Ōpōtiki District Council.

All our incredible artists and MC that rocked the stage Laura-Jane Dobbin, DJ Jordan Eskra, Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti Kapahaka, STEGGA, Sonorous, , Vince Harder, , Horis Shaw, Ladi6, Sons Of Zion

The 33 markets and food stalls for bringing some extra good vibes and kai 🍟🌮🥗🍧🍿🍦

And of course our Ōpōtiki isite team, 🥰 contractors and volunteers that put in the hard mahi to deliver the festival 🥳🙌🏼❤️ Visual People, and Co Whakatāne, Ōpōtiki Rangatahi Pā -- Pā Harakeke, Rakuraku and the front gate crew, Opotiki Youth to Education & Employment and E Tū Whānau - Pana Soccer 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

See you all again next year 👀🎟️

03/02/2025

03/02/2025

The tamariki zone was the place to be 🧃

03/02/2025

Menemene! Say cheeseee 😁

01/02/2025

Our closing act, Sons of Zion! What a way to end the night. Absolutely smashed that boys. Thank you for coming through 🙌🏽

01/02/2025

Ladi6 came in with the heaaat 😮‍💨 always a vibe!

01/02/2025

Always a heart warming experience being in the presence of our very own, Te Kapa Haka o Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti 💚

01/02/2025

Hori Shaw surprised the crowd by bringing the legend Te Wehi on the stage! The duo we didn’t know we needed 🤠

01/02/2025

Still buzzing from Hori Shaw’s set. Beautiful tribute alongside his whānau. Ngā mihi nui 👆🏽

01/02/2025

Had so much fun listening to Mirage. Insane sound & stage presence 🔥