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.
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
Scam Alert: Bank cold calls
ASB is warning customers about reports of cold calls from scammers claiming to be from ASB. These scammers are trying to obtain personal information, including usernames, dates of birth, and verification codes sent to your mobile phone.
🛡️ The "Caller Check" Test
If you get a call from someone claiming to be from ASB and you’re unsure, just ask them for a Caller Check. You will then be able to verify the call through the app.
Remember, banks will:
❌ Never ask for your banking passwords, PINs, or verification codes
❌ Never need to know your full credit card number – especially the CVC
❌ Never ask you to download software or remotely access your device
❌ Never ask you to purchase gift cards or transfer funds.
If you have received a phone call and think your account has been compromised, call ASB on 0800 ASB FRAUD (0800 272 372), or visit your local branch.
🧩😏 Riddle me this, Neighbours…
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
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