To launch the 2025 Write Room Screenwriting Residency, we will be holding a panel discussion with 2024 Write Room residents Amelia Addis and Ebed Pohl alongside established filmmakers Rob Sarkies (Scarfies, Two Little Boys, Out of the Blue) and Duncan Sarkies (Scarfies, Two Little Boys).

This panel explores how 13 cross-disciplinary creatives collaborated over a year. Featuring Bronwyn Polaschek, Kate Stevens West, Dianna Thomson, Zoe Thompson-Moore, Johanna Mechen and Philippa Doyle

A day of events to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Dirty Laundry. Join us from 12:30pm for some kai and beverages. The day will include a live performance, readings, a children’s play session and a panel discussion. This conversation will be facilitated by creative non-fiction writer Holly Walker. Featuring dancers, Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann and Clare Luiten; painter, Hana Carpenter; installation artist, Caitlin Rose Donnelly; and poet, Cassie Ringland-Stewart.

To launch the 2024 Write Room Screenwriting Residency, we will be holding a panel discussion with the 2023 Write Room resident Ella Gilbert (Rongowhakaata, Ngati Kaipoho, Ngati Kahungunu), Will Agnew (2022 Wellington resident) and Paloma Schneideman (2021 applicant) about their experiences writing their first feature length scripts.

This Matariki, join our panel of artists Stevei Houkāmau, Jamie Berry, Suzanne Tamaki, Issac Te Awa and Zena Elliot and Moderator Andy Lowe as they delve into the darkness and the light. of the exhibition Te Matapihi.

Come and hear local dancer Sacha Copland (Java Dance) and musician/composer Tristan Carter talk about their recent cross-disciplinary collaboration. They will speak about how they use risk and vulnerability in their creative process.

Join Pip Adam (writer, novelist), James Gilberd (Photospace Gallery and Ghost-hunter) and Claire Harris (Visual Artist) in a discussion about themes in the exhibition Wound Whistled Air.

Join us for a pertinent and facscinating discussion around ecology, utopia, dystopia and how we imagine our futures. A panel discussion featuring academics Dr Nicholas Holm and Dr Sy Taffel and photographers Wayne Barrar and Clayton Morgan.

Two forums offering dialogue and differing responses to the Cook commemorative events and exhibitions from artists, writers and academics from both a Tangata Whenua and Tauiwi perspective.

The Future is Indigenous - The tyranny of distance no longer keep indigenous artists apart - korero and collaboration are more commonplace and indigenous led platforms are establishing themselves around the globe. "Indigenous" is now a word used more widely in the mainstream and we are being courted by the establishment to join them. But what does this mean for established artists?

A panel discussion where Lisa Munnelly, Emma Febvre Richards and Maria O’Toole reflect upon the role of conversation, connectedness, and collaboration within contemporary drawing practice.