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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

He Rito follows the hands of four rangatahi Māori artists who reconnect to and work with harakeke.
This is breath. This is growth. This is healing. Woven together by their shared interest in the active potential of harakeke, the hands of four Ringatoi explore materiality through customary and contemporary practice. He Rito integrates whanaungatanga and reclamation, reconnecting with taonga and imagining expansive futures of Māoritanga.

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.

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

The whanake ako\ learning continues in this Everyday Te Reo – Building your confidence class with Joan Costello. This fun, relaxed, and encouraging online course runs waru wiki (8 weeks) and is a perfect continuation of your journey from our Intro and Next Steps classes.  Throughout the eight-weeks, you will journey into the intrinsic spirituality and tikanga of the reo.