retreat | recreate
creative tours for women
textiles – handcrafts – dance – gardens
Welcome! We offer women’s textile arts retreats and tours to Japan, India, Morocco, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Australia with Turkey, Iran, Iceland and the Silk Road being added in 2023 and 2024. We’re also expanding our offerings to include dance focussed tours to Japan and Europe (London, Paris & Amsterdam) and a garden tour of Japan.
Please click here to join our mailing list or register your ‘Expression of Interest’ (EOI) for one or several tour destinations. Those on the EOI list for each destination will receive an early bird invitation to sign up for newly released tours to that destination before they’re made available to the general mailing list and promoted on social media. Many of our tours sell out to the EOI list alone before we have a chance to advertise them broadly.
2022 and 2023 tours (Covid permitting)
EOIs (Expressions of Interest) are now INVITED for all 2022 and 2023 tours unless marked as SOLD OUT.
Click on the underlined tour headings below for an overview of each tour.
2022
Tasmania handcrafts 26 Feb – 5 March
Far North Queensland handcrafts: 18-25 June
Top End (Northern Territory) handcrafts: 6-14 August
Japan handcrafts: 1-14 October
Tasmania handcrafts (including the Deloraine Craft Fair): 29 Oct – 5 Nov
Morocco handcrafts: 7-22 November – IN PROGRESS
Melbourne Ghost Net Workshop: 23 November – SOLD OUT!
2023
Thailand and Laos handcrafts: 29 January – 10 February – SOLD OUT! Join the waiting list.
Tasmania handcrafts TBC
Morocco handcrafts: 2-18 March – PRIVATE GROUP
New Zealand handcrafts – March/April TBC
Morocco handcrafts: 24 April – 9 May – SOLD OUT
Japan Dance and Culture: 11-23 May – OPEN FOR BOOKINGS!
Far North Queensland (Cairns to Cape York) handcrafts – June/July TBC
Top End Handcrafts (Northern Territory) – 12-19 August approx. TBC
Turkey handcrafts – September
Europe Ballet (London, Paris & Amsterdam) – September/October
Japan Blue (an indigo focussed textile tour) – September
Japan handcrafts – October dates TBC
India handcrafts – November
Have you thought about a private group tour for you and your friends? If you’re part of a craft guild or stitching group, consider a private tour for your group. Get in touch!
retreat|recreate acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to the land, sea and community. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people and their cultures.
retreat | recreate
Melbourne, Australia
retreatrecreate@gmail.com
ABN: 45 657 561 570
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