The World Buskers Festival

The World Buskers Festival, one of the most famous festivals in New Zealand is a special festival where you can see some of the best busking pitches from around the world perform right here in Christchurch. The World Buskers Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that features world-famous busking pitches as well as a world-class lineup of local, national, and international artists. This entertainment festival brings together a significant number of street performers, comedians, fringe artists, musicians, and visual artists from New Zealand and around the world.

The World Buskers Festival, held in January during New Zealand's summer, attracts up to 60 performers of various types, including comedians, street performers, acrobats, hoola-hoopers, circus, vaudeville, and burlesque acts, trapeze artists, musicians, visual artists, dancers, and all-around fringe festival performers—those whose ideas, acts, and art are a little bit off the wall, happily and cheekily.

Jodi Wright, the festival's founder and current artistic director, created it in collaboration with Christchurch City Council. It normally attracts around 300,000 people over the course of 11 days, who come to see nearly 500 unusual performances.

Dates: Mid January to the beginning of February.

Location: Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand.