Festival of Pacific Arts
Locations
Columns: Iteration | Year | Dates | Location | Theme
1st | 1972 | 6 May-20 May | Suva , Fiji | "Preserving culture" | 2nd | 1976 | 6 March-13 March | Rotorua , New Zealand | "Sharing culture" | 3rd | 1980 | 30 June-12 July | Port Moresby , Papua New Guinea | "Pacific awareness" | 4th | 1985 | 29 June-15 July | Tahiti , French Polynesia | "My Pacific" | 5th | 1988 | 14 August-24 August | Townsville , Australia | "Cultural interchange" | 6th | 1992 | 16 October-27 October | Rarotonga , Cook Islands | "Seafaring heritage" | 7th | 1996 | 8 September-23 September | Apia , Sāmoa | "Unveiling treasures" | 8th | 2000 | 23 October-3 November | Nouméa , New Caledonia | "Words of past, present, future" | 9th | 2004 | 22 July-31 July | Koror , Palau | "Nurture, Regenerate, Celebrate" | 10th | 2008 | 20 July-2 August | Pago Pago , American Samoa | "Threading the Oceania ‘ Ula " | 11th | 2012 | 1–14 July | Honiara , Solomon Islands | "Culture in Harmony with Nature" | 12th | 2016 | TBA | Tumon , Guam | "TBA" | 13th | 2020 | TBA | TBA, Hawaii | "TBA"