Craft Opportunities
Craft Opportunities are free and low-cost weekday resourceful craft workshops for Community Services Card holders and community groups, supported by Creative New Zealand.
You can learn to weave, carve, use natural dyes and more. You will experience the wellbeing that comes from making things, in a group, from the resources around us.
If you are involved in a community group that works with people who experience financial hardship, mental distress, stigma, isolation and/or disability, or anything else that might make accessing our regular workshop programme difficult, please get in touch with us at wellbeing@rekindle.org.nz - we’d love to hear from you!
Upcoming Craft Opportunities Workshops:
Friday 3 February, 10am-3pm, Craft Opportunities; Rectangular Basket-Weaving
Sold Out - $0.00
Course Overview In this workshop Diana Duncan teaches participants to weave a rectangular basket from locally sourced plant materials, suitable for storing seed packs, pegs, cutlery, bottles and so on. This...
Friday 10 February, 10am-2pm -Craft Opportunities: Spoon-carving
$5.00
Course Overview In this class you will learn to carve a spoon with basic whittling techniques with straight & curved whittling knives, and learn all about the ancient traditions of...
Friday 10 February, 3-5.30pm – Craft Opportunities: Sharpening
Sold Out - $0.00
Course Overview Learn the basics of sharpening - how to get a great edge on everything from kitchen knives to woodworking tools to garden implements. Make friends with your tools...
Tuesday 14 February, 10-1pm , Craft Opportunities: Weave a konae
$0.00
Course Overview Learn how to weave a small konae (square woven bag) using Māori techniques and the natural material of harakeke with local kairaranga Ngaio Cowell. Ngaio will also share...
Friday 17 February, 10am-2pm, Craft Opportunities- Looped string bag
$0.00
Course Overview In this workshop we will make a looped bag for hanging/carrying small items such as fruits or garlic. We will prepare tī kōuka (cabbage tree) leaves and learn...
Thursday 16 February, 10am-12pm, Craft Opportunities: Carve a spatula
$5.00
Course Overview Learn how to carve a spatula with introduction to basic whittling and safe knife techniques for beginners. Design and make a simple spatula for your kitchen. Please note:...
Thursday 16 February, 1.30-3.30pm, Craft Opportunities: Felt-bowl making
$5.75
Course Overview In this workshop Simone Bensdorp of Wild Felt will teach you how to make a felt bowl using natural, undyed, New Zealand wool and traditional felting techniques. Wool...
Tuesday 21 February, 10 - 1pm, Craft Opportunities: Kono Roa
$0.00
Course Overview Learn how to weave a kono roa (long woven basket) using Māori techniques and the natural material of harakeke with local kairaranga Ngaio Cowell. Ngaio will also...
Thursday 23 February, 1.30- 4.30pm, Craft Opportunities: Eco-printing
$2.00
Course Overview In this workshop you will learn two different techniques to print botanical materials onto fabric. First we will use foraged plants and food scraps to up-cycle an item...
Thursday 2 March, 10am-2pm, Craft Opportunities: Weave a waikawa
$0.00
Course Overview Learn how to weave a waikawa (large basket) using Māori techniques and the natural material of harakeke with local kairaranga Ngaio Cowell. Ngaio will also share about the processes and...
Friday 3 March, 10.00am - 2pm, Craft Opportunities: Tī Kōuka Basket
$0.00
Course Overview This course you will learn how to weave a basket using the stake and strand technique, which originated in the UK/Europe. You can use this method for basket-weaving with many different...
Friday 3 March, 6-8pm Craft Opportunities- Basket Makers Monthly
$0.00
Course Overview For those of you who have attended one of our basket making workshops - come back, practice and refresh your skills! We are very excited to host this regular session...
Friday 10 March, 10am-2pm, Craft Opportunities: Spoon-carving
$5.00
Course Overview In this class you will learn to carve a spoon with basic whittling techniques with straight & curved whittling knives, and learn all about the ancient traditions of...
Friday 10 March, 3-5.30pm ,Craft Opportunities: Sharpening
$0.00
Course Overview Learn the basics of sharpening - how to get a great edge on everything from kitchen knives to woodworking tools to garden implements. Make friends with your tools...
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