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    • 2025 Write Room Screenwriter Announcement
      • Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and Pop Film are delighted to announce Wellington writer Esteban Jaramillo who has been selected as the 2025 Write Room Screenwriter in Residence with his project Vicio.

    • Protest Stitching Workshop
      • Come and learn a technique for hand stitching onto wool or linen to express your protest thoughts. Katherine and Philippa will show you how to embroider with embroidery threads to get your ideas across. Techniques for marking designs, sewing and washing will be taught. You will come away with a new technique, new ideas and hopefully inspiration!

    • Creating Connections Artists' Talk
      • Meet ‘Les Grandes Dames’ - the artists of Creating Connections – Anna Prussing, Catherine Croucher, Gael O‘Donnell, Jill Bowman, Katherine Morrison, Marilyn Daly and Philippa Doyle. Les Grandes Dames will be facilitating a tour of the Creating Connections exhibition. They will discuss their own work and describe some of the techniques they used to make these textiles.

    • Creating Connections
      • We are eight artists with varied creative practices who came together because of our shared interest in textiles. We all wanted to develop as artists, and honest but encouraging critique from other group members has allowed us all to progress our work in varied ways.

    • Toi Market Day
      • On Sat Feb 1 join us for an Art Market, Open Studios, Public Programs and Live Music by local artists at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre

    • Human. Nature.
      • Toi Pōneke Gallery is proud to present Human. Nature., an immersive debut exhibition by sisters Hannah Schickedanz and poet Jessica Arcus. This deeply personal collaboration combines painting, sculpture, and poetry to create a soothing balm for the overstimulation of modern life.

    • Foraged Fibres: Basket weaving workshop
      • Hannah Schickedanz uses diverse natural fibres in her sculptural work, which then provide reference material for her paintings. Join her to learn the art of twined and woven basket-making, using grasses, harakeke and other foraged materials. You'll take home a small basket and a useful skill, enabling you to create baskets from any number of fibres found in nature.

    • Bent
      • A team of local creatives from Wellington's zine scene have created illustrated portraits, historical protest art, photography, fanart and writing for BENT - a new collaborative zine series looking at our city’s subcultural and queer communities. The exhibition shows off their work in a collection of over fifty risograph-printed pieces.

    • Bent Makers’ Day
      • On Sat Feb 1, we’re running free drawing, collage, writing and badge making stations inspired by the lo-fi, alternative and activist tradition of zinemaking.

    • Emerging Producer Residency 2025 - Call for applications
      • This is a 6-week opportunity for a Wellington based emerging producer to work alongside a Wellington choreographer, a cast and crew (of up to 3), and a producer mentor to produce a development season of a new dance theatre work. You will receive a stipend for the 6 weeks. Over the 6 weeks; the emerging producer will be working with their mentor to prepare a funding application for this new dance theatre work.

    • Dance Development Residency 2025 – Call for Applications
      • This opportunity is open to one Wellington based choreographer who will receive 25hrs a week for 5 weeks in the Toi Pōneke Dance Studio to develop a new dance theatre work. You will work alongside an emerging producer and a cast/ crew of up to 3. We recommend your cast/crew could be made up of 2 dancers and a videographer/photographer to help document the work. The choreographer and crew will receive a stipend to rehearse and will present to an ‘industry only’ showing at the end of the residency. The choreographer will also have access to a paid mentor. (A choreographer, Dramaturg or Director.)

    • Toi Open
      • It’s our favourite time of the year again!! Toi Pōneke Arts Centre studio residents’ welcome audiences and community to Toi Pōneke gallery for our annual end of year pay and carry exhibition.

    • Encanto Reo Maori
      • Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and Wellington City Council are excited to announce that we will be hosting Encanto Reo Māori at the Embassy Theatre on Sunday the 20th of October. Bookings via email. Details on our website.

    • Ua Tafa Mai Ata
      • Artist Liana Leiataua explores themes of identity, memory and symbolism in an upcoming exhibition that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Dawn Raids. Ua Tafa Mai Ata is a visual response that acknowledges the ongoing and lived experiences that Pacific communities continue to be impacted by the events that occurred in 1974-1976. Through collaboration with Pasifika youth and aiga, the exhibition seeks to create a path towards healing, reclamation, peace, and restoration of the mana for future generations to come.

    • Learn Te Reo Maori - Emergent & Beginner level
      • Are you eager to learn Te Reo Māori with a dynamic and interactive facilitator? Sign up today to participate in a free online orientation session with Tāne Cook, the program facilitator, who will provide insights about the program, including the learning resources available for each ākonga (learner).

    • Story Time with The Tiwhas
      • Story time with The Tiwhas! invites anyone and everyone to Toi Pōneke for an expressive afternoon to start off Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Led by queens Dame Jthan and Tina Coco Couture, Story Time with the Tiwhas! will bring a great sense of energy and passion to deliver tantalizing stories in Te Reo to an open, friendly space. Toi Pōneke Arts Centre invites audiences to dress to the nines, express yourself, bring your all!

    • Koanga Kōrero Poetry Night
      • As we welcome Koanga and the changing of the seasons we ask that you join us for Koanga Kōrero a poetry night that embraces the hopefulness and possibility of spring.

    • Artist’s Talk
      • Join artists Rosalie Koko and Aroha Mattchit-Millar in an artist talk delving deeper into the thinking behind the works in exhibition Whetuurangitia, moe mai raa. Facilitated by curator Israel Randell this talk will provide a space for artists to talk to their works and larger artist practices.

    • Whetuurangitia, moe mai raa
      • When faced with the fear of losing our whakapapa, the question remains: how do we maintain hope in humanity in the face of devastating circumstances? Whetuurangitia is the transformation from tangata to tipuna by way of stars, responding to current crises Aroha Matchitt-Millar, Rosalie Koko and Mauatua Fa’ara-Reynolds come together to process the unbearable weight of grief for those in Palestine.

    • Frozen Reo Māori screening
      • Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is excited to announce that we will be screening Frozen Reo Māori twice for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori on Tuesday 17 September in the Upper Chamber West.

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