In addition to the Toi 3 Hundy this year you can buy artworks from our talented residents online!

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and the New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōki are pleased to announce the 5th annual Sound Art Residency, with a call for submissions.

An opportunity for two choreographers and one emerging producer to undertake a residency, which will culminate in a double bill production at NZ Fringe.

Girls Rock! Pōneke is a week-long holiday programme where young women, trans and gender-non-conforming people can build confidence and make great music. Girls Rock! Pōneke will take place from the 6 - 11th July 2020

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 is inviting applications for WRITE ROOM - Wellington Screenwriter Residency 2020. 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 5pm 20th April 2020

An exhibition of new work by the 2019-20 Toi Pōneke New Zealand School of Music Artist in Residence.Why is matter so intelligent, though? explores the acoustic relationships between reef fish, sea urchins, snapping shrimp and other marine life forms in the Hauraki Gulf, considering the symbiotic interdependencies of these organisms through sound.

Toi Pōneke is calling for applications for our 2020 Visual Arts Residency

Toi Pōneke and the New Zealand School of Music are pleased to announce the fourth annual Sound Art Residency, with a call for proposals.

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.

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.

Johanna Mechen’s exhibition Sonorous Shadow the culmination of her 12 week Visual Arts residency at Toi Pōneke.

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.

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.

The deadline for proposals closed on 7 May. Thank you to everyone who made a submission. We will be announcing the Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence over the next few weeks.  

Toi Pōneke is calling for proposals from visual artists for our 2018 Visual Arts Residency. We are looking for applications from Wellington-based artists. This 12 week residency culminates in the exhibition of a new body of work at Toi Pōneke Gallery in October 2018.

With support from Toi Pōneke, the successful candidate will undertake a 12-week residency and commit to a focused block of writing on their screenplay. The screenwriter will be provided with a studio space, stipend, and experienced creative support.

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 has been thrilled to host Everybody Cool Lives Here as part of our community arts residency, July-December 2017.