Aum New Year’s Festival
AUM is a family friendly, music, arts and camping festival featuring performance and visual art, wellness activities and themed nights held across multiple music stages and zones.
AUM takes place at an idyllic campgrounds surrounded by coastal Kānuka forest located at South Head an hour north of central Auckland.
We are Aotearoa New Zealand’s joyful, inclusive, loving, community spirit event. Welcome.
MUSIC
Music is sacred at AUM. Our dance-floors are our church. We aim to bring you the most soul uplifting sounds from Aotearoa and around the world – the most cutting-edge music lineups with a no compromise attitude and zero interest in ‘following the leader’ or playing what’s popular.
You can expect the most delicious aural vibes created by some of the most talented musicians. Expect the psychedelic. Expect to be moved by our state-of-the-art sound systems and mesmerised by our visual production values which we create from the ground-up each year.
Our festival is home to a broad range of music including psytrance, techno, house, drum & bass, live psychedelic rock, dub and downbeat, bass music, chill-out, 80s classics and more scheduled across four themed stages.
CREATIVITY
AUM is about creating something new every year as a platform for music, art and activities we love.
We invite and encourage all kinds of incredible visual art, performing art, ideas, interactions and creativity, and support the beautiful artists of all kinds whom we are so privileged to have in our lives. We commit each year to offering artists from Aotearoa prominence on our line-up and to encourage and showcase fresh talent.
Whether at the Midnight Cabaret or Daytime Gala shows, playing live at The Hub, creating visual art, or attending a Healing Glade wellness workshop, the creativity on offer is a wonderful experience for all.
See some of our favourite moments on our gallery page.
COMMUNITY
AUM Festival is a love story that began with the sentence: “Let’s create an event and feel the joy of giving & receiving. Together. As a community.”
Our gorgeous, sustainable, original, friendly and safe events bring beautiful, like-minded people and tribes together to celebrate as one.
What is important to us? Inclusiveness. Kindness and love. Integrity.
See what AUM culture is all about on our About Us page, and why AUM is regarded as one of the most fun and safe summer festivals in New Zealand and so popular with international travellers and backpackers.
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MUSIC, ARTS & CAMPING
Scenes from last year’s festival
White Stag stage new year’s eve psytrance showcase
Stunning themed decor
Midnight Cabaret performance
Sunset hill
The Hill stage
Family friendly activities
Beautiful natural surroundings
Healing Glade wellness workshops
Kānuka Stage, the home of house and techno