The Seaweed Fest is coming!
Love Rimurimu are proud to announce the first ever Seaweed Festival for Aotearoa which will take place during Seaweek 2025. Seaweed Fest 2025 will celebrate our underwater forests with seaweed-themed events happening across Wellington, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, from the 1st to the 9th of March 2025.
The event line-up for Seaweed Fest 25 includes behind the scenes tours of Te Papa’s seaweed collections, a mystery movie event at the Roxy, underwater exhibition ‘Sea-mersion’, a community swim and a guided snorkel, public talks from seaweed experts, and a botanical drawing workshop at the Wellington Museum. The Seaweed Fest is also proud to host ‘seeing through a murky gaze’ a film festival that will showcase a collection of art films made with seaweed. There are more events still to be announced and there is a final call for expressions of interest for those interested in hosting or sponsoring a seaweed-themed event as part of the festival - scroll down for details.
Stay tuned for the full programme launch on January the 24th!
We've got an exciting programme of events happening for Seaweed Fest 2025, but there is still space for more!
Join us!
We’re calling on the community to help grow this festival. Are you an artist, business, scientist, outdoor enthusiast or a seaweed fan? If you are keen to run an event we’d love to hear from you.
Support the festival
Does your organisation want to sponsor the festival? Contact kiaora@loverimurimu.org for more information about sponsorship opportunities.
If successful, we’ll host your event as part of the Seaweed Fest 2025 programme. Events need to be independently funded and managed, just fill in our EOI form, or get in touch prior with events@mtsw.org.nz if you’d like to chat about your ideas.
EOI closes: 15th January
Programme launch: 24th January