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.
partner with toi pōneke
If you are interested in partnering or collaborating with us to facilitate creative projects in Wellington's art community, please get in touch.
Sign up to the City Arts Pānui newsletter to hear about upcoming opportunities.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are pleased to announce that Lîm Kado has been awarded the 2025 Visual Artist Residency.
Applications now open for the Write Room Film/TV Producer Internship 2025 -26
Deadline 5pm, Tues 16 Sept 2025
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and POP Film are inviting applications for the Write Room Wellington Screenwriter Residency 2026 Applications due by 5pm, Mon 20 October 2025
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre and Victoria University’s New Zealand School of Music —Te Kōkī (NZSM) are delighted to announce Daniel Beban as the 2025 Toi Pōneke/ NZSM Sonic Artist-in -Residence.
Come along to the opening celebration of Te Whare Mahana - A Takatāpui Exhibition. You are invited to our housewarming party, a celebration of queer indigenous love. It’s virgo season, spring is blooming, Mahuru Māori is here, all your queer Māori dreams are possible!
Toi Pōneke Art Centre, WIFT and Massey University are proud to host a special presentation from director Rob Sarkies (Out of the Blue, Pike River, Scarfies) and screenwriter Fiona Samuel (Piece of My Heart, Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story, Pike River) to launch the Wellington Write Room Screenwriter's Residency for 2026.
Join us for a hands-on wānanga where we’ll learn how to process, and create traditional paint using kōkōwai (earth pigment).
