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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 May, Toi Pōneke Gallery presents a compelling mother-son exhibition that reclaims vision and voice through the powerful mediums of painting and photography. Featuring the evocative work of Ashraf Pirnia and Pedram Pirnia, this showcase dives into deep introspection and feminist resistance, amplifying silenced voices and uncovering layers of identity, truth, and transformation.
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.
Sonic artist Kieran Monaghan presents GUEST, an interdisciplinary exhibition of sound, image and organic matter, which offers up a sonic practice for the Anthropocene. This body of work explores a practice that places the ‘human’ not at the centre, but as an ongoing active collaborator. Working as a member of the non-human/tech/human trio, vegetable.machine.animal, Monaghan makes space where the voice of the ‘Other’ is amplified and essential to the voice of the ‘Whole’.
![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.
![Lunchtime Concert with vegetable. machine. animal [Kieran Mongahan] and Andrew Faleatua](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a8c096a4963ad40f38d2f/1745813274033-JU5VNI7FSGVY458XCGG6/Kieran+Mongahan+and+Andrew+Faleatuea.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 keyboards and fagufagu will be GUEST recording artist Andrew Faleatua.
