Festival of Fibres Education
International tutor: Melanie Olde
As part of the festival, we are bringing Melanie Olde, an Australian experimental weaver, to the event. Melanie’s work is a three-dimensional interpretation of the research she has undertaken into cellular structures.
www.melanieolde.com
Melanie will be giving presentations at the festival and running two weaving workshops after the festival, one in Wellington and one in Tauranga. The workshops are titled Thinking Outside the Plane.
The workshops are limited to ten participants in each workshop. Click here for more information.
Workshops and Talks
There will be daily keynote presentations open to registrants only. In addition, there will be a series of talks and workshops that only event registrants can register for. All talks and workshops, with the exception of the exhibition floor talk, will be held in the arena.
Talks: $15
Two-and-a-half hour workshops: $45
If a workshop has a set materials fee, it will be charged at the time of registration and paid to the tutor by the festival.
Participants will be sent a full list of requirements for each workshop once registrations have closed. For workshops requiring equipment such as spinning wheels and weaving looms, it is expected that participants will bring their own equipment.