WELCOME TO FESTIVAL OF FIBRES 2025
We are proud to present a ‘new look’ in the education programme which we think will excite you – the chance to experience and interact with well-known overseas tutors through Zoom presentations and an interactive workshop. The rest of our education programme is extensive and covers a wide range of in-person workshops across the range of fibre interests. We will be presenting the national exhibition, the national fashion show, a festival challenge, and traders. There will also be displays from other groups for our enjoyment, and of course, festivals always give the opportunity for you to meet up with friends from all over New Zealand. A key feature of this festival is that all activities, including some accommodation options, will be at one location – Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Merivale, Christchurch, with close access to local motels, cafés and a shopping mall. Access from the airport and motorways is easy without the need to travel though the central city. We will arrange for food trucks to be on site for light lunches and coffee.
Core Planning Group: Catherine Jane, Margaret Logan, Christine Philpott, Jo Woolhouse, Wendy Gibbs and Wilson Henderson (Coordinator).
Enquiries: festival@creativefibre.org.nz
REGISTRATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION
Important Dates and Deadlines
| 13 JANUARY 2025 | Registrations open – early bird rate $95 |
| 21 FEBRUARY 2025 | Exhibition and fashion parade entry forms due |
| 28 FEBRUARY 2025 | Early bird rate finishes |
| 3–7 MARCH 2025 | Exhibition and fashion parade items due |
| 26 MARCH 2025 | Regenerate challenge items due |
| 28 MARCH 2025 | Event registrations close |
Click to view the full festival programme
REGISTRATION
Registrations can be completed online from 13 January.
Please note that registration is required for you to participate in most of the education workshops, and to stay in the boarding house.
Please make sure your direct credit payments include your membership number and surname as reference.
Registrations, including workshop choices, will be processed in the order of confirmation of payment. Please take care to provide accurate information when filling out forms and keep a copy for your own records.
Your registration includes:
- Daily entry to the event.
- Priority registration for workshops and ticket purchase for the fashion parade.
- Free access to the hour-long interactive talks/seminars.
- Entry to the exhibition, the display of fashion garments, the festival challenge, and other displays.
- Access to social spaces including the knit and natter area, have-a-go. There will be a tea and coffee service available all day.
- Access to traders (including exclusive access on Thursday afternoon and for the first hour on other days).
| REGISTRATION FEES | |
| Creative Fibre Member: Early Bird | $95 |
| Creative Fibre Member: After 28 February 2025 | $110 |
| Non-members of Creative Fibre | $150 |
NOT REGISTERED FOR THE EVENT
Day passes will cost $10 and give entry to all social activities and displays in the foyer area, as well as access to the exhibition, fashion parade static display (Saturday and Sunday) and the traders. Visitors may join the interactive talks/seminars, if spaces are available, at a cost of $15.
There may also be late access available to some workshops that are not full. Ask at reception about cost and availability.
ACCOMMODATION
Please click here for information aout accommodation in the Rangi Ruru boarding house.
There are many options available nearby and within 1km flat walking distance.
SUPERMARKETS AND SHOPPING
There is a small commercial area in Holmwood Road, opposite Rangi Ruru, which includes a café. Merivale Mall, which has a good supermarket is 1.1km away, three minutes by car or 12 minutes on foot.
OTHER INFORMATION
- The venue provides good spaces for relaxation and opportunity to meet with others.
- There is opportunity for special interest groups to meet during festival. If you would like to book a time for your group, please let us know.
- For those with disability or other special needs please let us know. Some workshops are on the second floor of the Mana Wahine building, but a lift will be available to those with a disability.
CANCELLATION POLICY
- If a workshop is cancelled due to unavailability of the tutor, or lack of registrations, participants will be offered places in other workshops, or a refund of the workshop fee.
- If a participant cancels their registration on or before 13 March 2025, 50% of registration fees will be refunded and workshop fees will be refunded. The remainder of the registration fee will be held to cover the costs associated with the event.
- If a participant cancels their registration after 13 March 2025, no refund of any fees will be made as we will have committed to the payment of all event expenses.
- Boarding house fees will be refunded only if another person can be found to use the bed.
- If a pandemic or other natural disaster or similar major event beyond Creative Fibre’s control makes it impossible for the event to take place and the event has to be cancelled, workshop fees will be refunded.