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Speaker 1: Poly Fest returns to christ Church is Hagley Park from today.

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Speaker 1: This is huge. They're expecting forty thousand people across two days.

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Speaker 1: There's food, stools, activities and the big stage, showcasing the

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Speaker 1: talents of over thirty schools from across the South Island.

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Speaker 1: Hannibal Ika Hehefol is the lead teacher from Ashburton College.

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Speaker 2: Morning.

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Speaker 1: Have we got our largest contingent ever going to this? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: We've We've got about one hundred and twelve students. Goodness yeah,

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Speaker 2: chiling to crosses to perform.

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Speaker 1: Are there any other mid kenteb schools joining you? Or

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Speaker 1: is Edgeburton College flying the flag?

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Speaker 2: We'll find the flag. However, we've got two about five

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Speaker 2: students representing espred and Christian School and College. So it's

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Speaker 2: really good to have their combined effort.

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Speaker 1: I love it. What will this crew be showcasing?

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Speaker 2: So we've got showcasing three cultures, our Tongue and On

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Speaker 2: and co colin performances and each bring their own traditional

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Speaker 2: dancers and we've had three three tutors from those cultures

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Speaker 2: teach our students.

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Speaker 1: How long will app is the routine? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Every school is meant to perform for fifteen minutes. Wow,

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Speaker 2: and so our ours is wasn't their time frame year.

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Speaker 1: We haven't been back to school long. What sort of

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Speaker 1: effort has it been to bring this all together?

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Speaker 2: Yes, seven seven weeks. We've had fortunate enough to have

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Speaker 2: the services of Mary Kenny Kinney who's just come back

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Speaker 2: from Hawaii, who used to perform at the Polynesian Center

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Speaker 2: in Hawaii, and he's planned and brought people into school

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Speaker 2: to teach our students. And so, yeah, every every lunchtime,

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Speaker 2: most most lunchtime, at least five days a week and

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Speaker 2: we're after school for about our hour and a half

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Speaker 2: for two hours. Yeah, since we've started school.

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Speaker 1: It's a big commitment. But everybody wants to be there,

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Speaker 1: and the vibe among all the students is just incredible.

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Speaker 1: What's it mean for them to be involved, to be

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Speaker 1: able to, you know, put themselves out there on the

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Speaker 1: big stage.

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Speaker 2: It means a lot. It means that they get to

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Speaker 2: represent their culture, I learn about different cultures as well,

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Speaker 2: and also represent their families. It's a huge, huge effort

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Speaker 2: by our young people and we just hope that in

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Speaker 2: the future that it continues to grow and we have

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Speaker 2: all of our students who are participating identify specifica, but

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Speaker 2: we would love to hear people who are non PACIFICA

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Speaker 2: in our groups.

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Speaker 1: There'll be some pretty proud mums and dads and aunties

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Speaker 1: in the crowd for this for sure. When when are

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Speaker 1: they on?

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Speaker 2: So we're sticking to last. The program is expected to

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Speaker 2: finish around five, but the programming serf said that if

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Speaker 2: we if everyone's on, time might be a bit earlier,

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Speaker 2: so between four and park And is that tomorrow? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow north A man.

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Speaker 1: Are you going up today to have a look around

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Speaker 1: or is it just all tomorrow?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I've got I've still got to I still

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Speaker 2: a teacher in organization.

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Speaker 1: But we're definitely the job done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, or ready to go yeah for tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 2: We're leaving the.

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Speaker 1: Part of me hates that day where you've got to

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Speaker 1: wait around and there's just all that nervous energy that

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Speaker 1: you've got to sit on all day. Like you know,

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Speaker 1: something quite relieving about going first, isn't it. Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're looking forward to.

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Speaker 1: Is it competition hable?

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Speaker 2: No, in Awkland it is, but in Canterbury Respectact Collective

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Speaker 2: have chosen to make it just or schools involved. I

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Speaker 2: don't think we have enough schools uh to make it

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Speaker 2: a competition, but an actual fact. I like the way

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Speaker 2: it's run here in Canary. It's just, you know, if

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Speaker 2: you already wanted to perform, it's not competitive at all.

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Speaker 2: So no, it's not.

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Speaker 1: What a wonderful celebration. Go get them team and have

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Speaker 1: an absolute blast. I'm sure you well