Events
Books at the Bar - A Readers Party
Hey introverts! Let’s be alone together!
Join Mrs Blackwell at The White Swan for our first Reading Party: unlike a book group which often involves awkward chat, this is an evening quietly reading in a bar with others.
Bring your book, buy a beverage and enjoy an hour of uninterrupted reading time with like-minded souls.
The annual Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival takes place each May. A celebration of books, storytelling and ideas, and the artefact and craft of the book.
The abundant and the beautiful: making good food and fibre that won’t break the planet.
Over the now famous spread that is our Mother's Day afternoon tea, Yotam Kay and Justine Ross will talk with Helen Lehndorf about the future of food and agriculture, and the planet we want to leave our grandchildren.
Come and be part of the Greytown Festival of Christmas, back for 2023 and packed with spectacular lights, markets, workshops, Matariki events, parties, food and family fun for the entire month of July.
After a sold out January class, professional artist Elena Brambilla (The Sewing Sailor) returns to teach a Christmas-themed Nutcracker class as part of our Greytown Festival of Christmas.
Featherston Booktown is bringing Bariz to Greytown as part of the 2024 Greytown Festival of Christmas and his story is very fitting to this year's Festival theme of 'Fire & Ice!'.
He'll join Ron Mark at The Offering on Friday July 5th, from 6 - 7pm to share his story.
Hey introverts! Let’s be alone together!
Join Mrs Blackwell at The White Swan for our first Reading Party: unlike a book group which often involves awkward chat, this is an evening quietly reading in a bar with others.
Bring your book, buy a beverage and enjoy an hour of uninterrupted reading time with like-minded souls.