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The Tours
Passion for Fashion Experience
A “Passion for Fashion” morning offers a personal introduction to the city’s wearable design. It’s an opportunity to meet and chat to designers and retailers. This tour will save you time and effort by sourcing the best places to shop.
The itinerary is relaxed, like it is when shopping with friends, and reflects the variety that is Dunedin design that includes jewellery and accessories. Enjoy fashion tips and stories of Dunedin’s fashionable past and present.
Your guide will meet you and your group at your hotel or at an agreed meeting place in the city centre at 9.30 (starting time is negotiable) for a 3 hour tour, finishing with a delightful lunch in one of the city’s most popular cafes.
Please phone for tour options, days and times.
The Jewellery Quarter
Meet
our contemporary jewellers who create individual works of wearable art from
precious stones, metals and reworked materials.
An easy 1½- 2 hour walk in the city centre visiting workspaces, boutiques and galleries that you may have otherwise missed.
Tours can be scheduled for 10.45am or 1.30pm (other times available upon request).
After 5 Jewellery
Walk the Jewellery Quarter in Moray Place and meet our contemporary jewellers
in their workspaces. Take the opportunity to try on gorgeous pieces created
from precious stones, metals and reworked materials. Then be transported to
Dunedin’s best kept secret - Rockbourne. A glass of bubbles and appetizer
included in the cost of the tour.
This tour has been created for groups and we require 3 day's notice to ensure availability of jewellers as this tour is outside normal working hours.
Tours 5-7pm for groups minimum 4 persons max 20
Dunedin Art Lover's Tour
We
are able to offer for those interested in art an exciting new addition to
Walk the Talk. This is not a tour usually available to the public but is something
we have developed with Lesley Hirst, local art teacher and artist which we
see as being ideal for the conference market.
Dunedin has a rich and wonderful variety of Dealer Art Galleries, Art Studios and Workshops - some hidden away in historic buildings that to the uninitiated visitor are perhaps less accessible. Be part of a personally-led group that visits some of these exciting art venues. Have a chance to meet the Gallery Owner or Artist and learn about some of Dunedin and NZ's finest Art and Craft.
This is a two-and-a-half-hour tour that involves walking between the galleries. Wear suitable footwear and bring an umbrella for occasional inclement weather!
Lesley also offers a day's art course situated on the water in her beautifully restored boatshed on the Otago Peninsula. Find out more from her website: www.artworkshops.co.nz
Conferences
Walk the Talk specialises in partner programmes for Conferences. We work with your Conference organiser or directly with you.
Our fashion and jewellery experiences are designed to give people a personal introduction to the people working in the industry. The size of the group is important for this interaction to work well and have enough guides to ensure that groups do not exceed the maximum of 10 people.
However, if you want to keep your group together we can discuss other options with you.
We are reliant on designers and jewellers opening their personal workspaces for us, so we do need time to organise the itinerary and need confirmation of numbers as early as possible in order to schedule the guides.
Gift Vouchers
Consider
a Passion for Fashion Experience or The Jewellery Quarter gift voucher as
a special gift. The voucher can be sent to you to give in person or sent directly
to the recipient and is valid for 12 months after issue.
Our special birthday promotion gives the birthday person a free Fashion or Jewellery Quarter tour if five of his or her friends also book to go on the tour. This is a double gift - a birthday present and a gift of your time.