2015 Sunday Festival Report and Survey Results
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2015 Sunday Festival Report and Survey Results CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 3 2.0 BACKGROUND ....................................................................................................................... 3 3.0 PURPOSE ................................................................................................................................ 3 4.0 FESTIVAL PROFILE .................................................................................................................. 4 5.0 SURVEY METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................... 11 6.0 FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................. 12 Who came to Te Rā? ...................................................................................................... 12 Where did people at Te Rā festival come from? ............................................................ 13 How did people hear about Te Rā? ................................................................................ 14 What the Te Rā festival means for those who came...................................................... 14 What did people think of Te Rā 2015? ........................................................................... 16 Entertainment, hauora and mātauranga tents and the youth zone .............................. 17 Stalls food and amusements .......................................................................................... 18 Overall rating .................................................................................................................. 18 Support and agreement with Te Rā policies and kaupapa ............................................. 19 One thing people liked best about Te Rā ....................................................................... 20 One thing that could be done better ............................................................................. 21 7.0 SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................... 23 Things to consider for the future ................................................................................... 23 8.0 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................ 28 List of tables Table 1 Summary of themes - 'one thing you liked best' ............................................................ 20 Table 2 Things that could be better - three or more mentions .................................................. 21 Table 3 Things that could be better - one or two mentions ....................................................... 22 List of figures Figure 1 Te Rā o Te Raukura Festival Overview ............................................................................ 4 Figure 2 Ethnicity and gender ..................................................................................................... 12 Figure 3 Age of festival goers by Tāne and Wāhine .................................................................... 12 Figure 4 Which suburb do you live in?) ....................................................................................... 13 Figure 5 How did you hear about this festival?........................................................................... 14 Figure 6 Example of publicity material: Te Rā o Te Raukura 2015 .............................................. 14 Figure 7 What does the Te Rā festival mean to you? ................................................................. 15 Figure 8 Do you or don’t you agree? ........................................................................................... 16 Figure 9 Rating for stage entertainment, hauora and mātauranga marquee ............................ 17 Figure 10 Rating of the youth zone ............................................................................................. 17 Figure 11 Rating of stalls, food and amusements ....................................................................... 18 Figure 12 Overall festival rating .................................................................................................. 18 Figure 13 Agreement with policies and kaupapa ........................................................................ 19 Figure 14 Responses to “what was the one thing you liked best” .............................................. 20 Figure 15 One thing we could do better ..................................................................................... 21 1 AUTHOR Ana So’otaga, Public Health Analyst, Regional Public Health. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgments to Miri Luke, Twiggy Welsh, Gevana Dean, Dinah Luke and Wirangi Luke who contributed their time and gave direction to this work. Many thanks to Christine Roseveare for leading the analysis of the survey data, support with write up and providing peer review. Thank you Melissa Perks for the mapping analysis, and also Carol Young, Kelly Silver and Demelza O’Brien for your technical support. Thank you to all Regional Public Health (RPH) reviewers and survey testers for the survey and questionnaire design feedback. RPH would also like to acknowledge the hard work of the survey team on the day, and all participants who kindly took the time to complete the survey. Finally RPH would like to acknowledge the Te Rā o Te Raukura committee leaders who welcomed the opportunity to work in partnership on this report. Many thanks for your collaboration on the process, feedback on report drafts and a strengthened relationship. All Te Rā o Te Raukura sponsors are acknowledged on the back cover. DISCLAIMER This report has been prepared by Regional Public Health, on behalf of the Te Rā o Te Raukura organisers in order to make these ideas available to a wider audience and to inform and encourage public debate. While every effort has been made to ensure that the information herein is accurate, Regional Public Health takes no responsibility for any errors, omissions in, or for the correctness of the information contained in this paper. Regional Public Health does not accept liability for error or fact or opinion, which may be present, nor for the consequences of any decisions based on this information. 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION In 2014, the organising committee of Te Rā o Te Raukura festival (Te Rā) asked Regional Public Health (RPH) to work with them to develop a survey for the 2015 festival. This report provides a profile of the 2015 Te Rā festival on Sunday 1 February, and reports on the results of the Sunday festival survey completed by 388 festival goers at the event. 2.0 BACKGROUND Te Rā o Te Raukura is the premier annual Māori festival for the wider Wellington region. Every year 'Te Rā' attracts up to 20,000 people to Te Whiti Park in Waiwhetū, Lower Hutt. The organisers plan the event as a family oriented music based festival. Te Rā organisers invite the wider community to experience a range of entertainment, activities and services in the spirit of Arohanui Ki Te Tangata – goodwill to all men. This year marks the twenty-first birthday of Te Rā which, over time, has grown into a two day festival that includes regional kapa haka performances on the Saturday as well as the traditional Sunday festival. The Sunday festival is centred around a large stage with a full day’s programme of renowned local acts and chart topping artists. The surrounding park is zoned with a wide variety of family oriented activities. There are zones for health, art, education and youth along with amusements rides, food and craft stalls. It is an alcohol and smoke free festival and a sugar free drinks policy was introduced in 2014. The name of this event, Te Rā o Te Raukura, is significant to the people of Waiwhetū and the tangata whenua in the Wellington region. The 'Raukura' was used as a symbol of peace, love and harmony by the prophet Te Whiti-o-Rongomai at Parihaka. He and fellow prophet, Tohu Kākahi, led their people to passive resistance and patient obedience as an armed constabulary invaded the peaceful village of Parihaka on 5 November 1881. Te Rā o Te Raukura commemorates this day and celebrates unity in Lower Hutt and the wider Wellington region. 3.0 PURPOSE Representatives of the organising committee of Te Rā worked with Regional Public Health advisors and analysts to define the purpose of the report. This involved creating an overview model of foundation areas and the festival aims and outcomes (Figure 1.), and then further defining the actual festival day activities. This collaborative process led to the Te Rā organisers identifying and confirming that they would like the report to profile the festival day, and for the survey to find out: 1. Who attends Te Rā, how they heard about it and where they came from. 2. What the Te Rā festival means to attendees 3. The level of support for the overall aims of Te Rā 4. What activities the festival goers liked about Te Rā, and what could be done better 5. The level of support for Te Rā festival kaupapa and policies. 3 Te Rā o Te Raukura Festival Overview This model summarises in a foundation up approach, displaying how the foundation areas of Te Rā connect to the aims, outcomes and theme that the festival thrives on. Figure 1 Te Rā o te Raukura Festival Overview 4.0 FESTIVAL PROFILE The following section provides an insight to