Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival Moves To June. 

Our popular Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival, originally scheduled to be held this year over 4 – 8 May, has moved to 8 – 12 June.

While it’s a little disappointing that we can’t go ahead in May, postponing the event is the right call, given the uncertainty of the Omicron environment and the need to put first the health and safety of our entire Festival whanau. I must say it’s a huge relief to have certainty around dates going forward and we’ll now focus on making a stunning Featherston Booktown Festival happen in June!

This year’s programme is amazing, building on the hugely successful Festival last year – which was our biggest yet.

We want as many people as possible to experience this year’s Festival and we want them to be feel as comfortable and as excited as possible, enjoying all that makes the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival distinctive – drawcard events, Aotearoa New Zealand’s stellar writers and presenters, innovative experiences focused on the artefact of the book, multiple booksellers and a welcoming and generous community.

We eagerly look forward to revealing our stunning 2022 Programme on Thursday 28 April at the Featherston Sports Hub and you’ll be hearing more from us on that soon.

Now that we’ve fixed on the dates for our June Festival, we would love to know if you can generously donate your time to us as a volunteer for running the events. Even if you only have a couple of hours, we would be just delighted to hear from you and to work with you.

Please contact Hannah, our Volunteer Captain via email at hannah@booktown.org.nz

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