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Ponsonby Road Festival plus poetry

Come visit our wonderful bookstore as part of the second annual Ponsonby Road Festival.

We will have rooms and rooms of secondhand books, coffee, music and a sunny backyard. Plus performance poets on the front lawn at 3pm.

  • Leva Kusari

  • Joseph McNamara

  • Liam Jacobson

The wider festival is all up and down the street from 11am. What more could a person desire?

More about the wider Festival

The festival runs all day all along Ponsonby Road with market stalls from 11am, the (walking) Rainbow parade from Tole Street to Pollen St from 5:30pm, and then three stages of music and dancing and eating and drinking and other situations from 6:30pm onward.

The road will be closed to car traffic from 4:30pm until about midnight. Totes fun tiemz.

The festival is organised by the Ponsonby Business Association.

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Earlier Event: February 1
Book clearance sale
Later Event: March 21
Cancelled: Ponsonby Market Day