The Next Living Wood Fair: 2025

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Kia ora Community,

We hope you are enjoying a wonderful summer of fun, frolics and inspiration!

There is no Living Wood Fair in 2024 as we have been busy building some magnificent structures which, although very satisfying, has taken our attention from the Living Wood Fair – but do not fear we will be back in April 2025 filled with vibrant excitement to bring you our special mix of community, workshops, education, music and the arts.

Want to be involved?

The Living Wood Fair team is a small group of passionate and dedicated volunteers, its takes thousands of hours to make each event happen and we are always looking for eager, motivated individuals to help us. If you would like to offer a workshop, talk or market stall, connect with us. If you would like to volunteer your time to be part of the set up and pack down team, or be one of our extremely helpful marshals during the event, drop us a line. To keep our entry prices accessible to everyone we spend many months working to get funding – if you or your company resonates with the Living Wood Fair philosophy and would like to offer sponsorship to help our 2025 event kick off with a bang please get in touch!

Timber sales network

Through our events the Living Wood Fair has organically become a network – much like the mycorrhizal in the forest – of woodworkers, foresters, crafters and anyone interested in trees and timber. As a natural progression to that and because of the very popular timber auction at our events, we have become a point of contact for people wanting to buy and sell timber. If you have logs, timber or plantation trees for sale or are thinking of selling we may have just the person wanting to buy – email us to find out if we can help.

For all enquiries email livingwoodfair@gmail.com.

We love you, keep wandering through the trees weaving your special magic and until the next time we meet – may the Forest be with you!

Back in 2021!

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The Living Wood Fair team has decided to take a break from hosting an event this year so we can concentrate on streamlining our organisation and systems. Creating a truly sustainable event – for our team and our planet – is absolutely imperative.

It is so important to look after our team, they put in many volunteer hours and we know in Golden Bay, as I’m sure in other places as well, many people suffer with volunteer fatigue. It really is the generous time that people give to a community that makes it a wonderful, vibrant place to live and visit, and we are lucky to have so many charitable people living here.

Liv Scott Fair Director

We will be back on the 17th and 18th April 2021 refreshed and revitalised to bring you all your Living Wood Fair favourites and so much more! Woody workshops, informative and inspiring talks, interactive forums, kids activities, a marvelous market, a mosaic of musical delights and many live demonstrations.

If you have something you would like to share through a workshop, a presentation or a demonstration at the 2021 event please get in touch.

We are always looking for volunteers and helpers so if you are interested in being involved send us an email: livingwoodfair@gmail.com.