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17 Feb 2025  to 19 Dec 2025
Art Craft Workshops

Lunchtime Drop-in Drawing

Keen to practice your sketching and observation skills in a relaxed environment? Be inspired by a life model in an open drawing encounter, every Friday lunchtime.

Venue:  Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Region:  Auckland  / 
28 Feb 2025  to 19 Dec 2025
Music

Music in Eden

An hour of free live music every Friday lunchtime

Venue:  Mt Eden Village Centre
Region:  Auckland  / 
01 Mar 2025  to 05 Jul 2025
Art

TANJA NOLA // CASUAL DROP-IN ART SESSION

The Casual Drop-In Art Making Group invites school leavers 17+ to immerse themselves in a relaxed and friendly environment that includes on-site galleries, studios, art classes and communal outdoor space.

Venue:  Studio One Toi Tū
Region:  Auckland  / 
08 Mar 2025  to 27 Jul 2025
Theatre

Prima Facie

Prima Facie is an unforgettable story and one-woman tour de force

Venue:  Various
Region:  Auckland  /  Bay of Plenty  /  Manawatū / Whanganui  /  Taranaki  / 
29 Mar 2025  to 06 Jul 2025
Art Exhibition

Lovers & Castaways

Artworks from the 1980s are brought together in this exhibition of some of New Zealand’s most well-known artists.

Venue:  Pātaka Art+Museum
Region:  Wellington  / 
29 Mar 2025  to 06 Jul 2025
Art Exhibition

Hemi Macgregor: Waiora

Hemi Macgregor draws on geometric structures, patterns and processes in the natural world to explore our relationship with sky, water, earth and seasons.

Venue:  Pātaka Art+Museum
Region:  Wellington  / 
29 Mar 2025  to 06 Jul 2025
Art Exhibition

Toloa Tales – Sione Tuívailala Monū and Edith Amituanai

New video works explore what it means to return to an ancestral homeland.

Venue:  Pātaka Art+Museum
Region:  Wellington  / 
04 Apr 2025  to 06 Jul 2025
Exhibition

A Vocabulary: Bruce Connew

Artist Bruce Connew photographed the texts and parts of the texts of memorials and gravestones for the dead of Aotearoa New Zealand's colonial wars.

Venue:  Toi MAHARA
Region:  Wellington  / 
11 Apr 2025  to 17 Aug 2025
Exhibition

The Holtom's Art Studios

Recent work by a collective of artists who are based in the studios of the landmark Holtom’s Buildings in Paekākāriki.

Venue:  Toi MAHARA
Region:  Wellington  / 
17 Apr 2025  to 20 Jul 2025
Art

falling over tall rocks, Thomas Baker

Thomas Baker has spent the past six months as Artist in Residence at the Mirek Smíšek kilns in Te Horo.

Venue:  Toi MAHARA
Region:  Wellington  / 
01 May 2025  to 03 Oct 2025
Art Literature

Puka Pikitia – Toi Hikitia: Me he tuahangata e tō mai ana i ngā tamariki ki te ao toi / Picturebooks – Artistic Hooks: Superheroes drawing children into the art world

When children engage with picture books, they are simultaneously being introduced to the world of art. Drawing on the University of Waikato Te Iho o Te Manawataki|Library collections, this exhibition delves into the superhero trope to highlight the underestimated power of picture books in art and children's literature.

Venue:  Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Foyer Galleries, University of Waikato
Region:  Waikato  / 
03 May 2025  to 27 Jul 2025
Art

Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury - Life in Forms

Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury (b.1928 d.1977 Ngāpuhi) was one of the first Māori artists to introduce Māori cultural narratives into contemporary art. Her work is characterised by a bold and illustrative style.

Venue:  Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
Region:  Auckland  /