Information about events, exhibtions, workshops and more at Toi Pōneke.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and New Zealand School of Music Te Kōkī are pleased to announce Marcus Jackson as the 2020 Sound Artist in Residence.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are delighted to announce our Dance Residents for 2020-21; choreographers Otto Kosok & Amit Noy and producer Monique Gilmour.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Matilda Fraser as the 2020 Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence.
An opportunity for two choreographers and one emerging producer to undertake a residency, which will culminate in a double bill production at NZ Fringe.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are pleased to announce Stella Reid as the Write Room Wellington Screenwriter’s Residency 2020 with her project The Band of the True Prophet.
Toi Pōneke are proud to offer our 4th dance residency to choreographers Bjorn Aslund, Alec Katsourakis, Alessia Augello and Producer Mattias Olofsson.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and New Zealand School of Music Te Kōkī are delighted to announce Amy Jean Barnett as the 2019 Sound Artist in Residence.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is proud to announce Chevron Hassett as the 2019 Visual Artist in Residence.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are pleased to announce Abi King-Jones as the Write Room Wellington Screenwriter’s Residency 2019’ with her project Out of the Vaipe, The Deadwater.
Toi Pōneke are proud to offer our 3rd dance residency to Well Fare State to present their first full length work Flying Down Sand Dunes at the NZ Fringe in March.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōki are excited to announce Cory Champion as the recipient of the Toi Pōneke NZSM Sound Art Residency 2018-19.
Over the summer Champion will be developing a performance work that aims to dissolve and augment the drum set while abstracting the roles of the audience, participant, improviser, or performer.
Magnetic North, Playwrights' Studio, Scotland and Playmarket New Zealand are delighted to announce that playwright, theatre-maker, actor and musician Morna Young has been selected for the second year of an international exchange between the two countries. Morna will be hosted as a Playwright-in-Residence by BATS Theatre and Toi Põneke Arts Centre in Wellington, New Zealand.
Toi Pōneke is pleased to announce the recipient of our inaugural Visual Arts Residency, Johanna Mechen. Working in video and photography, Johanna’s recent work has focused on engagement and participation with a site and its community in order to tell ecological, historical, and cultural stories. Johanna’s project involves exploring a domestic site, motherhood and connection to place.
WRITE ROOM is a Toi Pōneke initiative in partnership with Director Rob Sarkies and Producer Vicky Pope. This residency recognises the challenges for New Zealand screenwriters to create space in their lives to write and find a place to do their work. Harry Meech is our 2018 screenwriter in residence.
After the success of the 2017 residency, Toi Pōneke is proud to offer two dance practitioners a chance to take bold risks and test something fresh in Wellington's hottest stomping ground: NZ Fringe.
Flo Wilson and Olivia Webb join forces as Toi Pōneke and New Zealand School of Music sound artists in residence this summer. Their newly formed collaboration brings together their respective performative, sound and installation based art practices.
Toi Pōneke has been thrilled to host Everybody Cool Lives Here as part of our community arts residency, July-December 2017.
Choreographers Holly Newsome and Samuel Hall, alongside producer Brynne Tasker-Poland, spent three weeks at Toi Pōneke developing two new works, Incognito and Subsequent Slavery, performed at the 2017 Fringe Festival.
Environmental sound composer Thomas Voyce was the Toi Pōneke Sonic Artist in Residence for 2016, in partnership with the New Zealand School of Music.
