Programme

What's on - 2024 ---- Stay tuned for our 2025 programme! (2025 dates: Wednesday 22 to Sunday 26 January 2025)

There will be plenty on offer at the Hokitika beach during the week of Driftwood & Sand.
Enter the BEACH SCULPTURE competition to win great prizes, including $300 cash.
Watch the beach transform into an outdoor art gallery - great photo opportunities.

  • Registrations - 9am Wed 24 Jan until 10am Sun 28 Jan -  by the Tambo Shipwreck Monument
  • Hoki Zoo, Taone Turehu and Goldrush Town - Tamariki/kids sections - Registrations at caravan.
  • Para Tairanga: fibre and driftwood crafting workshop by artist Louie Zalk-Neale - 2-5pm Sat 27 Jan
  • Artist talk by Guest artist Mark Whyte - 7pm Thurs 25 Jan at the Old Lodge Theatre, 11 Revell St 
  • Public Voting - Friday to Sunday (gold coin to vote) *** Voting closes 1.30pm Sunday *** 
  • Treasure Hunt for kids with the Red Moki - 1pm Sun 28 Jan.
  • Prizegiving - 2pm Sun 28 Jan