Whakatane's Summer Arts Festival, organised by the Whakatane District Community Arts Council has been an Anniversary Weekend highlight since 1982.  What began as a single-event exhibition has grown into an extended season of the arts launched each year on the last weekend of January and running through until mid-March..

Key features include:

• The Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award for painting and drawing
• Multi-genre exhibition 
• Sculpture Symposium
• Summer School
• Shakespeare in the Park
• The Fresh Market Jazz in the Park
• LIVE:Art 

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