Concert to mark Race Relations Day

Race Relations Day is to be celebrated in Oamaru this year with a concert at the Opera House, organised by the Waitaki Multicultural Council.

Each year, the council organised an event with a different theme to promote harmonious race relations and this year's theme was "It's About Us - Whanau", council spokesman Jack Chandra said.

This year, Race Relations Day falls on March 21 - a Sunday - so the concert has been set down for the following Saturday night, starting at 7pm.

There will be a variety of performances from different ethnic groups, including a Chinese lion dance, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Pacific Islands and New Zealand acts.

Leading up to the concert, the council has organised a poster competition judged by North Otago artists for senior schoolchildren, a speech contest for high school pupils with the finals in the Opera House on Friday, March 19, a costume display at the North Otago Museum and a display in the Oamaru Library.