Quickly becoming a staple event, the festival aims to highlight and showcase the multitude of cultures South Canterbury is home to.
Event organiser Maturo Siaosi said it was great that people were still excited about and willing to support the festival.
"We’ve got 86 stalls and people have still been ringing in wanting one despite us closing it off last Friday.
"We’ll have people from Fiji, Jamaica, Japan, India and Samoa so there is quite a good mixture of different cultures coming along.
"We’re just really grateful for all our sponsors and the community for their support."
He said the festival was a way to bring everyone together.
"It’s a free family day to meet different cultures, have some food and enjoy the weekend.
"It’s a good way of uniting and bringing people together because our region is growing and there’s so much diversity here, so it’s good to have this.
"Make sure to bring a lot of coins because it’s a cash only event."
Mr Siaosi said they were using feedback from previous events to make this year’s iteration better than ever.
"We’ve been doing surveys after each event so we look at what we need to change and what needs to be improved for the next one.
"So this year we have 10 performances and a wide variety of different food stalls ranging from island food to middle eastern.
"People have asked for it multiple times a year but I think that would just kill it.
"It’s a small town and it’s nice to go all out once a year and I think that makes people excited for it."
As well as food stalls and performances, the YMCA, health services, local police and Fire and Emergency New Zealand will be offering services and activities.
The festival will take place from 11am-3pm this Saturday at the Ara Field in Grey Rd.
