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Announcing - Write Room Wellington Screenwriter 2024
- Toi Pōneke
- Wellington writing team Amelia Addis and Ebed Pohl have been announced as the 2024 Wellington Write Room Screenwriter Residents with their project In Alex. Producer Kate Goodwin will join the programme’s mentor team as this year’s Producer Intern. Amelia and Ebed will be in residence at Toi Pōneke from 25 March - 16 June 2024.
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always love xxx
- Toi Pōneke
- always love xxx is an exhibition through Yumoi zheng and Isadora Lao’s stories. A core focus within this body of work is connection: location, family, queer identity, love and how these overlap.
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always love xxx (Live on TEAMS)
- Toi Pōneke
- Please join us for an online talk with artists Yumoi Zheng (China), Isadora Lao (Aotearoa) and Angel C Fitzgerald (Aotearoa). In the stream, they will share about their favourite food and talk about their current projects and creative practice
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Mess Painting
- Toi Pōneke
- Join the artist Selene Simcox to experience ‘Mess’ painting. As it sounds, this is a workshop all about painting messily. Selene’s workshop is designed to inspire your creativity, invoke your inner child to have fun and be in a safe space to let your creativity fly.
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A Guided Tour with Amanda Smith
- Toi Pōneke
- Join us for a tea or coffee and meet the artist Amanda Smith as she leads you through her exhibition This is the Life That Was to reveal the personal stories that have inspired each work..
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A Moment of Your Life, Please
- Toi Pōneke
- In this workshop you will work with writer Holly Walker to create some short personal narratives telling stories of your life. In the second part of the workshop, you’ll work with visual artist Amanda Smith to reduce this story down to its basic parts, a “title”, from which to make abstract or simplified images.
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This is the life that was
- Toi Pōneke
- This is the life that was, attempts to make sense of life and the world of Amanda Smith; recognising private trauma and public chaos co-exist. Memory and time play a significant part in exploration, the unrealistic longing for times now gone and for times ahead.
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Emerging Production Designer Residency 2024 - Call for applications
- Toi Pōneke
- This is an opportunity for an emerging Wellington based production designer, working in areas of Set Design for Dance Theatre. They will receive access to a studio at Toi Pōneke and a research and development stipend for 25 hrs a week for 5 weeks, to develop a new project with our resident choreographer over April/June 2024.
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Dance Development Residency 2024 – Call for Applications
- Toi Pōneke
- This opportunity is open to one Wellington based choreographer who will receive 25hrs a week for 5 weeks in the Toi Pōneke Dance Studio (April - June 2023) to develop a new dance work alongside our resident emerging production designer and a cast/ crew of up to two.
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Drawing Essence of Place
- Toi Pōneke
- Over this 2 hour workshop, using family photos as source material, the artist Connah Podmore will help you to draw out a feeling and strip-back content to create a simple but evocative charcoal drawing.
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Caregiving’s Influence on Art
- Toi Pōneke
- Join artists Connah Podmore and Johanna Mechen, and writer Flora Feltham, as they discuss some of the inspiration behind Podmore's exhibition Ordinary Devotion, and the influence that domestic environments has had over their respective practices.
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Ordinary Devotion
- Toi Pōneke
- Ordinary Devotion, is an installation of large-scale drawings and simple architectural interventions reflecting on domestic space and motherhood. This artwork stems from an established line of work exploring interior surfaces, shadow and the many individual histories layered within our homes.
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2024 d/Deaf and/or Disabled Artist Development Residency Announcement
- Toi Pōneke
- Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is pleased to announce that writer Helen Vivienne Fletcher is the recipient of its 2024 d/Deaf and/or Disabled Artist Development Residency.
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Toi 500 2023
- Toi Pōneke
- Toi 500 annual residents’ exhibition is a chance for audiences to grab an art bargain with works $500.00 or under. Works presented by Anthea Hayley, David Brown, Franzeska Pound, Jane Hyder, Kedron Parker, Laura Woodward, Maria Colls, Odette Anscombe-Smith, Selene Simcox, Yon Yi Sohn, Terence Turner, Workspace Studios and more.
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2023 Film Producer Intern announcement
- Toi Pōneke
- Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and Pop Film are delighted to announce Kate Goodwin who has been selected to be the Film Producer Intern for the Write Room 2024.
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Mess Painting
- Toi Pōneke
- Join the artist Selene Simcox to experience ‘Mess’ painting. As it sounds, this is a workshop all about painting messily. Selene’s workshop is designed to inspire your creativity, invoke your inner child to have fun and be in a safe space to let your creativity fly.
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Memory House
- Toi Pōneke
- Join the artist Elisabeth Vullings to create a layered compositional drawing using tracing paper and architectural templates.
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Binnenkijken - Look Inside - Guided Tour with the artist
- Toi Pōneke
- Come ‘binnekijken’ and join the artist Elisabeth Vullings for a ‘look inside’ her exhibition – Gehaakte Gordijntjes - Crocheted Curtains. In this guided tour, the artist will lead you through the exhibition to explain the personal stories associated with each artwork.
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Gehaakte Gordijntjes - Crocheted Curtains
- Toi Pōneke
- Gehaakte Gordijntjes - Crocheted Curtains examines how the 21 houses Elisabeth grew up in shaped her understanding of 'home' and her identity as a Dutch New Zealander. Using architectural constructs based on fragments of memory, experience, and migration; the gallery transforms into an abstract house, inviting contemplation of the sense of home we all carry within.
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- Toi Pōneke
- Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is pleased to announce the 2024 residency program for d/Deaf and/or disabled artists, with a call for submissions. Applications close 5pm Wednesday 15 November 2023
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Write Room Screenwriter Residency 2024 - call for submissions
- Toi Pōneke
- Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and POP Film are inviting applications for the Write Room Wellington Screenwriter Residency 2024. Applications due by 5pm, 11th December 2023
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Watercolor/Acrylic painting: patterns, colours, and symbolism
- Toi Pōneke
- This workshop will touch on the basics of patterns and colours used in both Korean and Maori traditional art and design, and the myths and symbolism associated with them.
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Bojagi Patchwork for beginners
- Toi Pōneke
- This workshop will be an introduction to patchwork Bojagi, traditional Korean patchwork wrapping cloths, showing how to connect pieces of fabric to create something for household use with hand sewing techniques
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Artist's Talk - Listening to Lines
- Toi Pōneke
- Join Yon Yi Sohn, Moonhee Han & Eun Jung Jang, who will talk about their artistic journey through different mediums over the years, and the ideas and development of their exhibition Listening to Lines, which they have collaborated on. A Q&A session will follow.
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Listening to Lines exhibition
- Toi Pōneke
- Inspired by Richard Long’s 1967 work ‘A Line Made by Walking’, three Wellington-based Artists collaborate in this exhibition of drawing, painting, embroidery and installation of ‘lines’ - the basic element of visual storytelling - examining the cultural hybridity of their Korean heritage in their adapted lives in New Zealand.
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2023 Sound Artist in Residence Announcement
- Toi Pōneke
- Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and Victoria University’s New Zealand School of Music —Te Kōkī (NZSM) are delighted to announce Ben Leonard as the 2023 Toi Pōneke Sound Artist in Residence. Ben Leonard is a sonic artist, musician and composer based in Te Whanganui ā Tara (Wellington). He is a recent graduate of the sonic arts programme at Te Kōkī/NZSM, where he focused on ambisonic and spectral techniques.
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Making with Harakeke
- Toi Pōneke
- Artists Matt Tini, Maija Stephens, Renati Waaka, and Elena Rei will be leading this workshop on working with harakeke, exploring processes of dyeing, paper making and raranga. Any level of ability is welcome, especially newcomers as this workshop has been designed for beginners.
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Artist's Talk - He Rito
- Toi Pōneke
- Join artists Matt Tini, Maija Stephens, Renati Waaka, and Elena Rei as they discuss their thoughts around the exhibition, what brought them together, and their reflections on this collaboration. The talk will touch on their individual relationships to contemporary Māori identity and how their art practices help them reconnect to and affirm this.
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He Rito
- Toi Pōneke
- He Rito follows the hands of four rangatahi Māori artists who recconct to and work with harakeke. As their practice enters into te whare pora, they enhance their connection to place, te taiao, and to their ancestry – promoting this journey through community based wānanga. Harakeke is explored through photography, sound and textile design which responds to notions of kaitiakitanga, reclamation and knowledge transmission.
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Intro to te Reo – Beginners – Te Tuarā Level A
- Toi Pōneke
- Start your journey in Te Reo or brush up on the basics. Join us with Joan Costello from Te Reo Tūhono in a fun, relaxed, and encouraging course learning Te Reo. Throughout this seven week course, you are immersed in the Māori perspective and its intrinsic spirituality, creating a heartfelt connection to the language.
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