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PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>19</strong> 20<strong>19</strong> 3<br />
News<br />
Local<br />
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Celebrating Brighton’s surfing culture<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
SURFING HAS taken New<br />
Brighton by storm for another<br />
year.<br />
The Duke Festival of Surfing<br />
saw up-and-coming and<br />
established surfers and artists hit<br />
the waves and their canvases to<br />
celebrate the sport.<br />
Organiser<br />
Warren Hawke<br />
said the festival,<br />
which was in<br />
its fourth year, was<br />
Warren<br />
in recognition of<br />
New Brighton’s<br />
rich history of the<br />
Hawke<br />
surfing culture that had shaped<br />
its character for over a century.<br />
The week was headlined by<br />
The Duke Surfing Competition<br />
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday<br />
– an open entry event, which<br />
saw surfers of moderate and<br />
high skill levels compete.<br />
The next generation of surfers<br />
also had a chance to show off<br />
their skills, with pupils from<br />
South New Brighton School,<br />
Rāwhiti School, New Brighton<br />
Catholic School and Haeata<br />
Community Campus receiving a<br />
free lesson.<br />
This was followed by a<br />
surfing and beach themed art<br />
exhibition curated by New<br />
SURFS UP: Free lessons were given to South New Brighton School pupils as part of the Duke<br />
Festival.<br />
Brighton artist Josh O’Rourke,<br />
featuring pieces by <strong>19</strong> artists<br />
from New Brighton and abroad.<br />
Open-air screenings of An<br />
Endless Summer and Finding<br />
Nemo inspired viewers to get<br />
into the waves and a concert<br />
later in the week brought surf<br />
rock to audience members.<br />
The festival is inspired by<br />
great Hawaiian surfer Duke<br />
Kahanamoku, who visited New<br />
Brighton in <strong>19</strong>15 to surf.<br />
Mr Hawke said a statue of the<br />
Duke, who was widely regarded<br />
as the father of surfing, was<br />
unveiled 100 years later after his<br />
visit beside the New Brighton<br />
Pier. The Duke Festival of<br />
Surfing began in 2016.<br />
He said the Duke “had this<br />
creed of aloha, which was to<br />
treat people with respect and<br />
love and it will be returned . . .<br />
that’s the message behind the<br />
Duke that we’re still promoting<br />
today.”<br />
Mr Hawke said the message<br />
had been embodied throughout<br />
the week.<br />
LEGEND: Duke Kahanamoku<br />
rode a wooden surfboard at<br />
New Brighton beach in <strong>19</strong>15.<br />
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Friday 22 <strong>March</strong><br />
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Saturday 23 <strong>March</strong><br />
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75 Lyttelton Street<br />
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