Information about events, exhibtions, workshops and more at Toi Pōneke.
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.
Theatre makers, visual artists, designers, technicians, photographers, musicians, dancers, composers, producers - come along for networking - speed dating style. You never know you might meet your next creative partner!
Film-makers Waka Attewell and Gerd Pohlmann team up with artist Sally Griffin to explore new boundaries in documentary filmmaking with the wonderful art of Jacqueline Fahey.
Toi Pōneke and the New Zealand School of Music are pleased to announce the fourth annual Sound Art Residency, with a call for proposals.
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.
Girls Rock! is a week-long holiday programme where female, trans, and gender-non-conforming young people can build confidence and make great music.
Toi Pōneke Gallery is calling for proposals for mid 2020 onward.
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.
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 is calling for proposals from Wellington-based Visual Artists for our 2019 Visual Arts Residency. This 13 week residency culminates in an exhibition of a new body of work at Toi Pōneke Gallery in November 2019.
The aim of this residency is to support an artist to develop a body of work and provide them with resources to dedicate themselves full time to their practice for a period of 13 weeks. Applicants need to have had previous experience of a mounting a solo exhibition and be looking to develop their practice further.
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.
Cory will be discussing his exhibition Time/Tone, improvisation with augmented instruments and sharing some of the technical processes used to create his installation.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and New Zealand School of Music Te Kōkī warmly invite you to attend a unique performance by Cory Champion to celebrate his exhibition Time/Tone.
Toi Pōneke is inviting applications for WRITE ROOM - Wellington Screenwriter Residency 2019.
WRITE ROOM is an initiative in partnership with Director Rob Sarkies and Vicky Pope. Guest selector and mentor for 2019 will be producer Desray Armstrong. (Stray, Ellen is Leaving, Meathead)
This opportunity is for a Wellington-based screenwriter with a feature film project at a stage that will benefit from focused development towards completion of a draft of the script. Applications due by 22 March 2019 at 5pm.
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.
The Performance Arcade team are back at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre. As part of our support and opportunities programme, Toi Pōneke is sponsoring office space for this iconic Wellington festival. The team will be working in Project Room 29 from Sept until 17 March 2019.
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.
Toi Pōneke is proud to support Te Hau TūTū, an independent Māori Theatre Producers’ Room, established at Te Hau Kainga, Mount Cook, Wellington.
The BUMP (Barbarian Uprising Mentorship Programme) is a new partnership initiative between Barbarian Productions and Toi Pōneke Arts Centre designed to empower artists to upskill in their creative careers through hands-on work on industry projects.
Join a discussion on options for pathways to artists’ employment and past schemes. Sharing and networking across the arts, our mission: to empower artists to create work as part of Wellington City. Hosted by Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and Urban Dreams Monthly.
Toi Pōneke and the New Zealand School of Music are pleased to announce the third annual Sound Art Residency, with a call for proposals.
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.
Director Sam Trubridge invites artists, audiences, and the creative community to give feedback on The Performance Arcade 2018 presentation, and participate in discussions around 2019. Find out how you can be involved, and what our plans are for this event in its ninth annual presentation. As part of our support and opportunities programme, Toi Pōneke sponsored office space for The Performance Arcade, 2018.
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.
