Join Chevron Hassett as he discusses his current exhibition - Home is where my Heart will rest, running from 16 Nov - 7 Dec at Toi Pōneke Gallery. Free entry. Tea and coffee available.

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.

Learn how to create a 'Swiss Repeat' method to create seamless repeating patterns using pen, paper and scissors. 

Come and hang out for low stakes arts and crafts session where you will take home your own flower and a new skill.

Take some time to notice the spring changes with an artistic walking tour. Approximately 1.5 hours duration followed by optional morning tea.

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.

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.  

Join us for a humorous and insightful panel discussion in The Hub with:
Dr Nicholas Holm, Dr Vini Olsen-Reeder and Thomas Lahood.

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.

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.

Please join Jason Wright, Emi Pogoni and Blake Johnston in discussion on the last day of Wright's exhibition rauropi I II III.

Join Te Hau Tūtū (Independent Māori Theatre Producers Room) creatives in The Hub to hear excerpts from works in progress including:

Pakaru by Mitch Tawhi Thomas, produced by Hapai Productions, to premiere as part of Kia Mau Festival 2019.  Kingdom of Women, by Nancy Brunning, Hapai Productions. Hide the Dog, co-written by Jamie McCaskill and Nathan Maynard (Tasmania), Tikapa Productions.

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.

Come and hear renowned composer, digital artist and performer - Myriam Bleau (Canada). She is in Wellington to perform at the Aotearoa Audio Arts Festival and to talk about her work at Toi Pōneke.

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.

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 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?

Join a discussion with Mayor Justin Lester on the issues facing artists who are living and working in Wellington.

Here's a link to the podcast recorded on the day, featuring Mayor Justin Lester and Sophie Jerram.  

On the art of keeping in business: the realities of the business of being an independent artist. We introduce two artists, Sasha Copland and Kerry Ann Lee, who are both interested in working in a variety of different ways with the public and communities.