Featherston Booktown - coming soon - check out our HOT PICKS LIST here
The Featherston Booktown 2023 Karukatea Festival involves 51 events over the second weekend in May 2023. Booksellers remain at the heart of the Festival, with 30 attending this year.
Featherston Booktown celebrates everything about books – writing them, designing them, publishing them, illustrating them, printing them, and selling them: the whole town of Featherston becomes the venue for the Festival .
A little HOT PICKS list below helps you get our bookings and festival plan sorted:
Dame Susan Devoy speaks at the Festival famous Friday night Fish'n'Chip Supper this year – hear all about her book: Dame Suzie D: My Story. (Fri 10 May)
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE:
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Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders are storytellers who use music as their medium, and coming together as collaborators has taken them in new and exciting directions. They talk about “the strange territory” they share making music together. Word Gets Around: Songwriting with Barry Saunders and Delaney Davidson TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: www.eventfinda.co.nz...
One for the true crime enthusiasts: The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains Aotearoa New Zealand’s most famous cold case. Journalists Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings conduct their own investigation in their new book The Crewe Murders and talk with Missing Persons author, Steve Braunias. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: www.eventfinda.co.nz...
Tāme Iti (Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato, Te Arawa) is known as many things – activist, artist, actor, author, terrorist and cyclist. Join community advocate and social change activist Denis O’Reilly in conversation with one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most captivating and controversial figures. TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: www.eventfinda.co.nz...
Moana Maree Maniapoto MNZM is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and documentary maker. Moana appears for two special events: Te Tiriti O Waitangi: What Tangata Whenua Say and Women On A Mission: Linda Clark & Moana Maniapoto.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: www.eventfinda.co.nz... and www.eventfinda.co.nz...
Here is the full festival programme - www.booktown.org.nz... So much variety and interest.
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