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Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2023
Throughout the Weekend

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Bookseller Stalls

Saturday & Sunday
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Anzac Hall 

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Booksellers of second-hand, self-published and antiquarian books from around New Zealand fill up the Anzac Hall over the Festival to offer you exquisite moments of fossicking for your future reading pleasure.

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 Booktown
Buskers

Saturday & Sunday
Various locations â€‹
(see timetable below on this page)
 

We’ll have buskers to entertain you. They're playing for the love of it, so if you like what you hear why not give them some koha – preferably cash. There’ll be something for everyone from folk and country, to jazz standards and bagpipes – and not forgetting the Wairarapa Youth Orchestra. Their Sunday lunchtime concert in the Squircle is a fundraiser for this enthusiastic young group.

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Country Tea & Cakes

Saturday & Sunday
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Supper Room, Anzac Hall Complex 

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Our tea room in the Anzac Hall is a vital element of the magic that is the Featherston Booktown Festival. All the food is lovingly handmade and served by a group of local volunteers who've supported the Festival in this wonderful way since the very beginning. Their club sandwiches, cheese scones, cupcakes and slices are legendary.

 

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 Mini Fell Engine
is on Track 

Saturday & Sunday
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM,
Clifford Square
(weather permitting) 

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Interest in miniature trains is huge and world-wide. Discover the joy of riding the rail on a mini-reproduction of an historic Fell engine – great fun for adults and children alike. Then pop over the road to the Fell Engine Museum and see the last remaining Fell engine in the world. Expand your understanding of this fascinating piece of our history by talking to like-minded enthusiasts. The museum is located on the corner of State Highway 2 and Lyon Street in the centre of Featherston.

 

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Featherston
Saturday Market

Saturday 7:30 AM – 2:00 PM
33 Fitzherbert St 

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Featherston Market runs every Saturday, rain or shine, from 7:30am to nearly 2pm, providing fresh produce, fine food producers, innovative creators and much more. Take in the great atmosphere, amazing food and community spirit. You’ll find the market at 33 Fitzherbert Street, through the gates at the back of the Lang's carpark, beside The Baker.

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 Sign the Hand-Made Featherston Booktown Visitors Book 

Saturday & Sunday
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Supper Room, Anzac Hall Complex 

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The 2021 Featherston Booktown Festival Visitors’ Book – made from locally sourced harakeke fibres by Rob Kennedy and 2019’s papermaking workshop participants and bound by Anna Whitehead – will be on display in the Supper Room of the Anzac Hall building for you to view and sign.

Booktown Buskers Timetable

Saturday 11 June 2022
Chemist shop veranda

WYO young musician: Lily

Saturday 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Dickensian Bookshop

Don McKay

Saturday 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

The Squircle

South Wairarapa Pipe Band

Saturday 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Supermarket

Featherston Winds

Saturday 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Everest

Beans Maries

Saturday 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Railway Station

South Wairarapa Pipe Band

Saturday 10:55 AM - 11:05 AM

Everest

Don McKay

Saturday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Loco

Featherston Winds

Saturday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Chicken and Frog

Colette Rivers Duo

Saturday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

The Squircle

Beans Maries

Saturday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Royal Hotel courtyard by Joy Cowley Room

The Gleaners

Saturday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Dickensian Bookshop

Beans Maries

Saturday 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Loco

Colette Rivers

Saturday 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

ANZAC Hall between Kiwi Hall and Gloria

The Gleaners

Saturday 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

The Squircle

WYO young musician: Alex

Saturday 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Royal Hotel courtyard by Joy Cowley Room

Kuranui College Jazz Band

Saturday 4:05 PM - 5:00 PM

Chicken and Frog

Don McKay

Saturday 4:10 PM - 4:40 PM

Sunday 12 June 2022
ANZAC Hall between Kiwi Hall and Gloria

Don McKay

Sunday 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Everest

Colette Rivers Duo

Sunday 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

The Squircle

Kingston High All Stars

Sunday 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Chicken and Frog

WYO young musician: Nissa

Sunday 10:25 AM - 10:55 AM

ANZAC Hall stage

Wairarapa Youth Orchestra

Sunday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Dickensian Bookshop

Kingston High All Stars

Sunday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Royal Hotel courtyard by Joy Cowley Room

Featherston Winds

Sunday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

The Squircle

Don McKay

Sunday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Chicken and Frog

Colette Rivers

Sunday 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

Loco

Don McKay

Sunday 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Dickensian Bookshop

Featherston Winds

Sunday 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

ANZAC Hall between Kiwi Hall and Gloria

Kingston High All Stars

Sunday 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

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