We are excited to be working with Rekindle again to offer some amazing craft experiences down at Roimata Food Commons. We are very grateful to Rekindle for supporting our mahi. Roimata have decided to subsidise these workshops to offer at a lower price to our community.

Please bring a water bottle and snacks, we will have the kettle set up to be able to make cups of tea.

Also, a reminder that we do not have a wharepaku/toilet onsite, just the bushes.

If wet we will still go ahead with a local indoor venue - Woolston Community Library.

The description and timing of all the classes is listed below:

10am-12.30pm, Sunday 28 February Spoon-carving for youngsters (supervisor necessary)

6 places

$20 per head

One-on-one adult supervision is required for this workshop.

Come along and learn how to make a spoon with your youngster!

This 2.5 hour workshop is an opportunity for 6 young people per workshop to each come with an adult who will work closely with them, to carve a spoon from green timber.

Children will learn basic whittling techniques with a straight & curved whittling knives, and learn all about the ancient traditions of greenwood-working.

Children must be of an age where they can safely handle a whittling knife with your supervision, the image below shows the kinds of tools we’ll be using. Suitable for children 10 and over.

Each child must be with 1 adult with for close 1:1 supervision.

After you’ve booked, we’ll send you information re what to bring, wear and how to find us nearer the workshop date.

10-11.30am, Sunday 28 February String & rope-making with tī kōuka/cabbage tree leaves

12 people

$5 per head

Learn how to use tī kōuka / cabbage tree leaves to make a strong and beautiful twine. Rekindle’s most popular workshop, this technique for making string and rope is simple and can be used with many different materials.

Tī kōuka cabbage tree leaves are such an abundant and multi-purpose material that we can find all around us. If you have access to fallen/brown cabbage tree leaves, please feel free to bring a big bunch along with you, which have been soaked overnight or longer.

There are 12 places available in this workshop.

Bookings are essential. Please book one spot per person attending (including children).

1-4pm, Sunday 28 February, Spoon-carving for beginners

8 people

$20 per head

Come along and learn how to make a spoon with Douglas Horrell !

You will learn basic whittling techniques with straight & curved whittling knives, and learn all about the ancient traditions of greenwood-working.

Please note: This workshop is only suited to adults and those who can work safely without direct supervision with very sharp hand tools.

1.30-4.30pm, Sunday 28 February, Basket-weaving with tī kōuka/cabbage tree leaves

10 people

$15 per head

This course with Lily Duval will give you a resourceful skill that you'll be able to use in so many ways for the rest of your life! This technique for basket-weaving can be used with many different materials. We will teach you how to use tī kōuka / cabbage tree leaves as these are abundantly available.

If you have access to fallen tī kōuka / cabbage tree leaves, do bring in as big a bundle as you can! We would be most appreciative as we always need more of this valuable resource.

There are 10 places available in this workshop.

This class is suitable for adults.

Bookings are essential, non-refundable and non-transferable. We do, however, understand that things come up and try and accommodate people to the best of our ability. This can include moving people to another class or a refund - but please be aware that this is reliant on us filling the original spot.

This is because all of our pricing, and our efforts to keep costs as low as possible while still paying the tutors a fee commensurate with their experience and allowing them to cover the costs of living, is based on running these classes with a certain number of participants