Pledgeme Campaign Launched!

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*Support us to help make the 2025 Living Wood Fair happen*


Show us you want another Living Wood Fair by pre purchasing your tickets, a t-shirt or a very special workshop via our Pledgeme Crowdfunding Campaign.

Without this crowdfunding we will not be able to make the Living Wood Fair happen on 12-13 April 2025.

We love our community and we are committed to putting on another fantastic event but we have been unsuccessful with our usual funding and sponsorship routes which in the past has subsidised our entry and workshop tickets, and reduced the risk of putting on the event. We are reaching out to all of you who love the Living Wood Fair to show your support with your pledges, we have a big target but we only need half of the people that came in 2021 to buy your tickets now and we will be able to put on the event in April.

On our Pledgeme campaign page we go into more detail about how much we need and why, including our ‘stretch goals’ in case we totally go beyond our target. I have high hopes that YOU – our community – are willing and able come to the table for this beautiful event so that we can come together on 12-13 April 2025.

PLEDGE HERE

As well as the usual workshops, talks, forums, live music, kids zone, markets, demonstrations and timber auction you can expect from the Living Wood Fair, there are some exciting new additions to our offerings for our 2025 event, including camping, evening music and a night market on Saturday.

Stay in touch to keep up to date with all the unfoldings please share our Pledgeme Campaign far and wide to help make this fantastic event happen; like, comment and share our Facebook and Instagram posts; and click *going* on our Facebook 2025 event page to keep track of what is happening. If you want to find out first when the workshop tickets are released then sign up for our newsletter mailing list.

Help nurture our beautiful event into life by showing your support.

PLEDGE NOW

May the forest be with you!

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!

2021 Workshops and funding

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We are very excited this year to have a large amount of funding from Creative NZ which means we have been able to offer you double the number of workshops!

With everything from spoon carving to blacksmithing, foraging to natural building, woodworking to eco printing there will be at least one workshop that captures your imagination have a look through our listings to decide what you are going to do and then pre-book your tickets online.

We are doing things a little differently this year, you can buy your entry tickets and workshop tickets online at Eventfinda, booking early means you will not miss out on any workshops you want to do. The workshops are always very popular and we cannot guarantee there will be tickets available during the event.

The talks and full program schedule are being finalised and we will be sharing that with you very soon, either keep checking here on our website, on our Facebook page or our Facebook event page.

Online ticket sales end on Friday 16th at 1pm

A great big THANK YOU to all our funders and sponsors, we couldn’t do it without you!