Information about events, exhibtions, workshops and more at Toi Pōneke.
A 10 week course designed especially for artists. Master pronunciation, build up your knowledge of everyday terms, phrases and basic conversations skills. Joan provides a fresh, flexible and fun teaching style that will ignite your speaking and give you more confidence to converse in te reo Māori.
A workshop where you can use scissors to create innovative new artworks. In this workshop, Marilyn Jones will introduce you to a variety of materials, to create new shapes that will challenge conventional views of the world around you. The workshop is free to attend and open to all ages and abilities.
Come and hang out for low stakes arts and crafts session where you will take home your own flower and a new skill.
Budget lay out, Excel basics, creative budgeting, CNZ budget template, budget tips and practical advice, basic accounting tasks, using Xero and working with small business accountants.
Get up to speed on relevant tech tools that are useful for creatives, develop your entrepreneurial mind-set and gain insight into potential alternative income streams.
Sustainability as a professional independent artist: up skill on negotiating contracts, saying no, and choosing projects which improve your financial and mental wellbeing.
Define your project objectives, scope, audience, organisation structure, timelines and essential planning steps, health and safety considerations.
Learn which business structure best fits your needs depending on whether you’re set up as a sole trader, a company, partnership or charitable trust. Get up to date on basic tax know how, either when it comes to paying tax for yourself, your business or contractors. This seminar will cover basic income tax requirements, GST, withholding tax.
A development programme created for artists. Each seminar aims to be very practical, providing clear pointers, steps to follow, real world examples and practical ‘how to guides’ in specific arts development and business skills.
Gain more knowledge of specific arts funding areas offered through Wellington City Council and Creative New Zealand. Go over specific funding guidelines and get tips and advice from someone who writes applications to trusts, foundations, city councils and Creative New Zealand.
This workshop is intended to provide an exploratory space for Pākehā/white artists to engage with racial justice effectively and ethically. Come with hard questions and we will workshop together some real-world solutions.
While this workshop is geared towards encouraging and empowering Pākehā/white artists to become greater advocates for racial justice, everyone is welcome to join and contribute.
Back by popular demand, poet, musician and best selling author Dominic Hoey, is running a one day creative writing workshop at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre. Dominic has been running the workshops, entitled Learn To Write Good, for three years working with over 100 writers. They cover the fundamentals of creative writing and are open to everyone from poets to song writers to journalists to novelists.
Poet, musician and best selling author Dominic Hoey, is running a one day creative writing workshop at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre. Dominic has been running the workshops, entitled Learn To Write Good, for three years working with over 100 writers. They cover the fundamentals of creative writing and are open to everyone from poets to song writers to journalists to novelists.
Want to learn Te Reo? / Kei te pirangi koe i te ako reo Māori? Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is offering a subsidised 14 week Te Reo Māori course from 11 June – 10 September 2018. Taught by Peta Kirikiri (Māori Mai), this programme is perfect for those that have had little to no previous experience with Te Reo Māori.
All are invited to attend free public workshops run by summer sound artists in residence Flo Wilson and Olivia Webb.
Flo and Olivia will run two workshops over Monday 22 + 29 January 2018. Each workshop is 2-hours long (starting at 2pm).
Spaces are limited so sign up quickly to either or both workshops by emailing: artscentre@wcc.govt.nz
Toi Pōneke partnered with Dance Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) to offer a programme of free dance workshops covering a diverse range of dance styles for the public to ‘give dance a go’.
Growing Income Streams was an opportunity for arts organisations to grow their income by developing new or existing revenue. In partnership with The Ākina Foundation and Creative New Zealand.
Sophie Giblin's Fast Art Workshop: Speeding Up Collaboration and Innovation
