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2023 Pūkaha Wairarapa Garden Tour

Spend a weekend exploring beautiful gardens in the North Wairarapa. This two-day self-drive garden tour is a rare chance to visit private gardens opening to support Pūkaha's annual fundraiser - the Pūkaha Wairarapa ...

Print and Paper Fun with Cheryl Gallaway and Rob Kennedy 

Pop-up print and paper-making fun! Drop by for a chat and make some native plant paper and print yourself a bookmark with the Featherston Booktown logo using a letterset printing machine. Casual open workshop. Suitable ...

Paper Making With Rob Kennedy - Workshop (2)

Make the paper for next year’s Featherston Booktown Visitors book! And then wander into the Anzac Hall and sign the Featherston Booktown Visitors book.
Learn an ancient craft and see what paper made from New Zealand ...

Singalong with Kath Bee

Come and join Kath Bee as she sings songs you know and love, like Individuality, Dad I wanna be a Camel, Sprinkle A Little Sunshine and more. Dance, sing, do actions and even pop bubbles! The hour will fly by, Kath will ...

Amorangi and Millie's Trip Through Time with Lauren Keenan

Just because something happened a long time ago doesn't mean it's not still relevant today. Hear some tricks and tips about how to turn what happened in the past into an interesting story from award-winning author Lauren ...

Paint It Pink – Gloria Installation By Sam Duckor-Jones

In October 2021 poet and sculptor Sam Duckor-Jones, moved into the former St Andrews Church in Blaketown, Greymouth. He set about painting the building pink – inside and out – and named it Gloria. The work also ...

Kiwi Klassics: Paul Millar on Coal Flat by Bill Pearson

Bill Pearson’s essay, Fretful Sleepers: A Sketch of New Zealand Behaviour and Its Implications For The Artist, published in Landfall in 1952, has had a kind of cult status in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is the voice of an ...

Writing Funny Stories Workshop

What are some things that you find really funny and how would you go about putting them in a story? Come join Leela Chakraborti (11) and her dad Rajorshi Chakraborti who turned a throwaway joke about people farting ...

Finding and Making Workshop with Emma Hinton

Includes materials and a bound book to take away.

Turn a poem into a prompt journal to write and/or draw your own story. Bind the preprinted “I have a story to tell” and learn the Japanese binding method to make ...

Celebrating Queer Stories

Be part of celebrating the creativity and the contribution of Aotearoa New Zealand’s LGBTQIA+ writers and artists as playwright and author Victor Rodger and art historian, biographer and non-fiction writer Joanne ...

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