support & opportunities
Become part of our community — connect with other artists and creative professionals, experiment in our art spaces, and learn skills to help you thrive as a working artist.
Toi Pōneke facilitates workshops, courses, artist residencies, training seminars, and artist encounters.
We offer mentoring and funding support to creative professionals and artists of all disciplines.
Our programmes utilise individual and group learning, emphasise collaboration and knowledge sharing among participants, and value experimentation, taking risks, and embracing curiosity.
If you have an idea, or would like to talk with us about professional development opportunities, email Grace Hoete.
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If you are interested in partnering or collaborating with us to facilitate creative projects in Wellington's art community, please get in touch.
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Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are pleased to announce that choreographers Stela Dara Resendre Albuquerque and Ella Williams have been awarded the 2025 Dance Development Residency.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are pleased to announce that Stela Dara Resendre Albuquerque has been awarded the 2025 Emerging Producer Residency.
Toi Pōneke is calling for proposals from Wellington-based artists for our 2025 Visual Arts Residency.
The aim of this residency is to support a Wellington-based visual artist or small group of Wellington-based visual artists to develop their individual or collective practice and provide them with resources to dedicate themselves full time to their practice for a period of 12 weeks.
This panel gathers a remarkable group of artists, and academics. Rooted in creative practice, scholarship, and lived experience, each speaker brings a perspective that challenges dominant narratives and illuminates alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and belonging. Together, they explore how voice, vision, and artistic expression become powerful tools for personal and collective change.
![Lunchtime Concert with vegetable. machine. animal [Kieran Mongahan] and DSLB](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a8c096a4963ad40f38d2f/1744779157631-BM67QMEVDPZD4ZOA7NBY/Kieran+Mongahan+and+DSLB+.png)
Kieran Mongahan will be in the gallery performing with vegetable.machine.animal 'trio', which involves plants, a synthesiser and live drumming. Joining him on electronics, keyboards, domestic objects will be GUEST recording artist Chrissie Butler (DSLB)
Join us for this talk facilitated by K Monaghan, Assoc. Prof. Dr Julie Deslippe - from Victoria University School of Biological Sciences and Dr Eli Elinoff - from Victoria University School of Social and Cultural Studies. This discussion will touch on interesting studies around human and non human life patterns, interspecies connections, living with plant and fungi rather than alongside.
![Lunchtime Concert with vegetable. machine. animal [Kieran Mongahan] and Ruby Solly](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a8c096a4963ad40f38d2f/1745808462696-17RSVAPCUR0YU4T8LPW2/Kieran+Mongahan+and+Ruby+Solly+.png)
Kieran Mongahan will be in the gallery performing with vegetable.machine.animal 'trio', which involves plants, a synthesiser and live drumming. Joining him on tango pūoro will be Ruby Solly. Solly appears on the album GUEST.
