Comparative traditions chart

Chile	New Zealand
Viña del Mar Music Festival Each year during the last week of February, Vina del Mar, an upscale resort town about two hours from Santiago, holds the Vina del Mar Music Festival. This immensely popular, nationally broadcast music festival is one of the world's largest of its kind. Though built around pop- and folk-singing competitions, the festival's real draw is the performances by famous international musicians.	Anzac Day Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the landing of New Zealand and Australian troops, popularly known as Anzacs (the acronym of Australia and New Zealand Army Corps), at Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey in 1915. The attempt to capture the peninsula failed. However, New Zealand and Australia strengthened their ties during the campaign. It is widely believed that for New Zealand, the Gallipoli experience sowed the seeds of nationhood.
Carnaval Andino Con la Fuerza del Sol The Carnaval Andino Con la Fuerza del Sol, or "the Andean Festival with the Strength of the Sun," is one of the most influential and entertaining of a string of festivals that take place in February in Chile's northern region. Hosted in the city of Arica, Con la Fuerza del Sol is a three-day festival that celebrates the peaceful blending of Spanish and indigenous cultures in the Andes, as well as Catholic and   indigenous traditions. Chilean, Peruvian and Bolivian participants come together to celebrate with lavish costumes, dance groups and brass bands, which compete for the favor of the audience.	Waitangi Day In Auckland - New Zealand’s largest city - the national day is celebrated at the city’s birthplace, Okahu Bay Domain. It was there, in 1841, that Auckland Māori chiefs invited Governor Hobson to create the city. On Waitangi Day, classic sailing yachts, waka and contemporary boats arrive at Okahu Bay to a traditional Māori haka powhiri / welcome ceremony. Wellington - the nation’s capital - holds an event that celebrates Waitangi Day by recognising New Zealand’s cultural diversity. At Waitangi Park on the city's waterfront, different cultures celebrate their nationhood with a mix of entertainment, arts and crafts, and food. In geothermal Rotorua, Waitangi Day is commemorated at Whakarewarewa - a living Māori village - with an event known as 'Whakanuia'. This Māori word means ‘to acknowledge, promote and celebrate’, and the day's activities centre on learning about Māori cultural activities, including indigenous kai / food, crafts, Māori medicine, local legends and history.Elsewhere, Waitangi Day celebrations cover all sorts of occasions from major sporting events to rodeos, and even a 'cheese-rolling' competition.
Santiago a Mil Santiago a Mil, or "Santiago by the Thousands," is Chile's largest festival. This three-week-long artistic and cultural festival takes place in January in the country's capital, Santiago, and features open-air as well as indoor theater performances and international street shows that feature street performers, acrobats and dancers.	Parihaka Peace Festival New Zealand's only community-organised weekend event, held at the historic Parihaka Paa, site of one of the darkest episodes in colonial NZ history. The festival includes two stages of (mostly) musical entertainment from NZ's topperformers, plus a speakers forum, a film festival, eco forum, children's entertainment, teenage performance workshop, healing zone, festival choir, arts, crafts, food, camping and parking - The perfect place to start your summer holiday. Much more than amusic festival - the Parihaka International Peace Festival is the entertainment event of the summer
We Tripantu We Tripantu, or the Mapuche New Year, begins just before sunset.on June 23 and ends at sunrise on June 24, as the indigenous Mapuche people wait for the the "new sun" to return from the west. The new year coincides with the winter solstice, as the Mapuche believe that winter brings the renewal of life. Rituals performed invoke Mapuche ancestors and are directed by a religious or community chief.	Matariki Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades. It rises just once a year, in mid-winter – late May or early June. For many Māori, it heralds the start of a new year. Matariki literally means the ‘eyes of god’ (mata ariki) or ‘little eyes’ (mata riki). According to myth, when Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatūānuku, the earth mother, were separated by their children, the god of the winds, Tāwhirimātea, became so angry that he tore out his eyes and threw them into the heavens. Matariki, or Māori New Year celebrations were once popular, but stopped in the 1940s. In 2000, they were revived. Only a few people took part at first, but in just a few years thousands were honouring the ‘New Zealand Thanksgiving’. A special feature of Matariki celebrations is the flying of kites – according to ancient custom they flutter close to the stars.
La Pampilla  One of Chile’s largest Independence Day celebrations. This is Coquimbo’s traditional festival and is extremely popular, lasting anywhere from four days to an entire week depending on which day of the week Independence Day, September 18th, falls that year. The celebrations are held on an esplanade in the southwest part of the Coquimbo peninsula, which fills up with revelers, some of whom bring their tents to camp.	Empire Day Empire Day had, as the Oamaru Mail remarked on the eve of New Zealand's first such celebration, 'the double purpose of keeping fresh and green the memory of a most illustrious reign and rejoicing in the consolidation of our great Empire'. The reign commemorated was that of Queen Victoria, who died on 22 January 1901. Canada had honoured the day as Victoria Day since 1901. In Britain, Lord Meath, an absentee Irish landlord and imperial zealot, enlisted the day in his crusade to ensure that 'from their earliest years the children of the Empire should grow up with the thought of its claim upon their remembrance and their service'. Almost single-handedly Meath (who also presided over the Duty and Discipline Movement) created 'an imperial mutual admiration society', the Empire Day Movement.