Save the Dates: Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025
Main Festival Weekend 9-11 May 2025 • Young Readers Programme 7-9 May 2025
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Aoteoroa
New Zealand's
Official Booktown
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![Featherston Booktown - Celebrating Books, Storytelling and Ideas](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0866af_c778e05d788f443b87cf8b8dbc9e8444~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_259,h_214,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/FBT2025-Celebrating.png)
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We are grateful to our major funders
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2024 Festival Feedback
A selection of choice words about Featherston Booktown's recent Karuaktea Festival held in May 2024.
About Featherston Booktown
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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.
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Chicken and Frog Bookshop
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For the Love of Books
![The Dickensian Bookshop & Tea Rooms](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0866af_4fe8c55f01fa48efbe95c08dd76ebd1d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_235,h_157,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/0866af_4fe8c55f01fa48efbe95c08dd76ebd1d~mv2.jpg)
The Dickensian Bookshop & Tea Rooms
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Loco Cafe & Books
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Featherston Crystals and Curiosities
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Messines Bookshop: Military History
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Featherston Ferret
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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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...Thank you. We really do appreciate your support.