Scifest Festival Hub

A growing highlight of our Festival is the free-drop-in Festival Hub. In 2026 we had more than 5000 people visit the space over 5 days! If you or your organisation don’t have the capacity to run your own event, this is a great way to be involved and connect with the public.

We provide the venue, power and tables and you bring your knowledge, engagement skills and some cool activities or experiments.

The 2027 Festival Hub will run Tues 13th - Sun 18th July, 10am-3:30pm

You can come for the whole time, just one day or anything in between. In 2026, the hub was in Wall St Mall, we don't have a confirmed venue yet for 2027, but it will be a central Dunedin location.

Eventotron is our participant management and ticketing portal and will be used throughout the festival planning process. To submit your Festival Hub idea, hit APPLY NOW, below. You'll be taken to our season page on Eventotron (NZ International Science Festival 2027)and will need to sign in or register.

Make sure you come back to our season page (NZ International Science Festival 2027) and apply through there. It will ask you for an Event name and type. You will able to change this later, so don't worry about it too much.

You don’t need to have every detail finalised at this stage; the purpose is to communicate your idea clearly enough for the Festival team to assess it.

We look forward to working with you to make science accessible, relevant and exciting for everyone.

We’ll let you know if you are accepted by Feb 15th and then you’ll have until April 1st to give us all the final details

Not sure or having issues.. get in touch

Have an idea but aren’t sure whether it fits? Having trouble with Eventotron? Get in touch — the team welcomes an early conversation.

Email:[email protected]
Phone: 021 205 6528