Save the Dates: Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025
Main Festival Weekend 9-11 May 2025 • Young Readers Programme 7-9 May 2025
Aoteoroa
New Zealand's
Official Booktown
We are grateful to our major funders
2024 Festival Feedback
A selection of choice words about Featherston Booktown's recent Karuaktea Festival held in May 2024.
About Featherston Booktown
Booktowns are an international phenomenon, celebrating books, from their stories through to their paper, glue and ink.
Featherston is now a fully-fledged, internationally recognised Booktown.
Special thanks to Pete Monk for putting together this video.
petemonk.com
Featherston's Bookstores
For full details about our town's eight all year round bookmongers, visit our Bookstores page.
Chicken and Frog Bookshop
For the Love of Books
The Dickensian Bookshop & Tea Rooms
Loco Cafe & Books
Featherston Crystals and Curiosities
Messines Bookshop: Military History
Featherston Ferret
Mr Feather's Den
Can we ask you a favour?
Would you consider helping us fill the funding gap by making a donation? We know that not everyone is in a position to do so, but every gift helps us deliver the Karukatea Festival and our other events throughout the year and supports our writers and readers.
We hope you enjoy our online events and that you come away inspired and uplifted. Thank you again for supporting Featherston Booktown.
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Click on the green button below and you'll be redirected to a form on a new browser tab using POLi Pay.
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Type in a donation amount and please provide your name and your email address so that we can email you receipt - as all donations are tax deductible as Featherston Booktown is a registered charity.
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You may be prompted to prove you are a human by selected images from a standard Captcha 'security' feature
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You will be asked to choose your NZ bank and then you'll need to supply your Internet Banking login details, the account you wish to pay from and a 'Payers' code.
...Thank you. We really do appreciate your support.
