Arts Organisations
Adam Art Gallery - Te Pataka Toi
The Adam Art Gallery - leading critical debate in visual arts - is a world-class public gallery. The newest purpose-built university gallery in New Zealand, it offers a broad programme of exhibitions and events that foster the understanding and practice of national and international visual art and culture. Exhibitions present and critically interpret a range of disciplines, including the visual arts, craft, architecture, design and music and involve areas beyond the humanities.
Ake Ake Theatre Company
Ake Ake are a Wellington based theatre company who have devised original, experimental dance/physical/circus/theatre works to perform in New Zealand and beyond for the past 8 years. They hold to a company ethos of regular group training and laboratory work.
APRA
APRA is a not-for-profit organisation that collects royalties on behalf of its 44,000+ members including over 5,000 New Zealand members, and by agreement, for all the copyright owners around the world. In addition, APRA manages the reproduction rights business of its sister collecting society, AMCOS (Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners’ Society). AMCOS represents virtually all music publishers in Australia and New Zealand and, through reciprocal arrangements, the vast majority of the world’s composers, writers and music publishers.
Aratoi - Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Aratoi shares the stories of the Wairarapa and showcases the best in New Zealand and international art. This award-winning institution presents a range of exhibitions, collections, public programmes and events that help to celebrate the unique natural, cultural and artistic heritage of the Wairarapa.
Archives New Zealand
The site contains information on the National Film Unit, Archives New Zealand's preservation work and features stories on filmmakers and films. The films can be streamed onto viewers' desktops using flash video with new titles being added every day. Films featuring on the site include Weekly Review and Pictorial Parade newsreels as well as one-off documentaries.
Artists in Schools
This Australian education site provides information for schools around building partnerships with artists and artworkers.
The Arts - Research and Advocacy
This Queensland Government site links to Australian policy, research and advocacy resources that support educators articulate the benefits of Arts learning.
Arts Access Aotearoa
Arts Access Aotearoa is a charitable trust whose objectives are to ensure that and people and communities of New Zealand have unhindered access to the arts, and opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts.
Arts Canterbury
Arts Canterbury is committed to profiling art galleries and artists in Christchurch, New Zealand, and districts. It is an incorporated charitable organisation, governed by an elected executive committee whose membership is currently made up of artists, business and community representatives from Timaru, Selwyn, Hurunui, Ashburton, Banks Peninsula and Christchurch.
Arts Education Network
ARTSblog is an American blog site based on the assertion that learning and participation in music, dance, theatre, and the visual arts are vital to the development of children and our communities.
Arts Foundation of New Zealand
The Arts Foundation of New Zealand is a national private trust that supports all art forms through identifying and rewarding artistic excellence via impeccable processes. The Foundation enables New Zealanders to act collectively as patrons with the satisfaction of knowing that they are contributing to major award programmes and future projects in perpetuity.
Arts Waikato
Arts Waikato is the region's community arts trust, offering free advice, support and advocacy to the arts sector in the greater Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand.
The Asia New Zealand Foundation
Through its activities in education, business, media,cultural, research and policy studies, Asia NZ aims to promote initiatives which deepen understanding and relationships between New Zealanders and the peoples of Asia. There site helps you find Asian artists and opportunities for students to engage in the many different Asian cultural opportunities.
Australia Council for the Arts Publications Catalogue
The Australia Council supports and promotes the practice and enjoyment of the arts and, in doing so, regularly produces publications in a wide range of community and education settings.
The Big Idea
This site carries information on the New Zealand creative sector jobs, commissions auditions and professional development opportunities. Professional awards and competitions and intern-ship opportunities are listed. A weekly creative sector magazine is provided with local and international content. There is a place for forums, a marketplace, and on-line opinion polls. A feature aspect is the profiling of individuals and organisations and their work. The Big Idea is the connects the NZ creative sector with the world. Services are currently entirely free to subscribers.
The Big Idea - Grow: Personal, Professional and Enterprise Development
The Grow section of The Big Idea website has tools and resources to help your personal, professional and enterprise development. Here you can submit your Education News or personal and professional development Tips & News or Resources. Also see Creative Business Tips Forum, Employment Forum and the Learning Exchange Forum links on The Big Idea/ Te Aria Nui website.
Capital E
Capital E is a centre for Creative Technology and Live performance for Children. Located in Wellington’s civic square it houses ONTV and Soundhouse as well being the home of the National Theatre for Children, a professional company that tours New Zealand theatres annually with a programme of works for children aged 2-7 and 8-12. All programmes offer free teachers resource enabling teachers to extend the experiences back into the classroom.
Caprice Arts Trust
The Caprice Arts Trust provides a platform for performance for independent and well qualified musicians, conductors and composers; performance opportunities for New Zealand music; networks for New Zealand artists and professional development opportunities.
Centre for Arts Research in Education - CARE
The UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE) of Singapore generates, collects and disseminates high-quality research which promotes education in and through the arts through a strong collaborative network in the Asia-Pacific region.
CHART and Creative Northland
CHART (Culture, Heritage, Arts Resource Trust) has been set up to enable the community of Whangarei to develop and progress long term visions to support and build capacity to the sector. Creative Northland aims to enable the development and sustainability of the Northland creative industries arts sector.
City Gallery Wellington
City Gallery Wellington brings you the best in local and international contemporary visual arts. Programmes for schools are written and delivered by trained visual arts teachers and a specialist Maori educator, individually tailored to suit class and subject requirements from primary to secondary. All programmes are cross-curricular, for all levels and essential learning areas.
ConArtists - The Home of Theatresports
ConArtists have been operating in NZ for over 22 years ad have become a successful entertainment company who also provide a programme for youth. The Theatresports Youth Programme is an Auckland-wide programme that creates opportunities for students to participate in performance theatre.
Copyright Council of New Zealand
Find information about the laws and copyright in New Zealand.
Corban Estate Arts Centre
The Corban Estate Arts Centre is located on the historic Corbans winery estate in Henderson, Waitakere City. Located in the recently refurbished Corban Homestead are three galleries, a small gallery shop and the administrative centre for the estate. A range of education opportunities are provided through the Centre and environs.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
Creative New Zealand
The role of Creative New Zealand is to develop and promote the Arts for all New Zealanders. Their web site has information on the roles and work of Creative New Zealand and how to apply to them for funding. It also provides arts resources and news with features such as: • Information sheets on New Zealand artists and their work • Information about advocacy and research into the Arts in NZ • Information about Maori and Pasifika Arts • News of NZ artists working overseas
The Depot Artspace
The Depot Artspace is a community arts project based in Devonport. The Depot is open and inclusive and encourages engagement in all art forms - music, painting, sculpture, creative writing, performance and photography to name a few. To this end we offer a variety of facilities and services that support the creative community.
The Edge
The Edge Performing Arts and Convention Centre offers a range of arts presentations for the public of Auckland. The Edge Community Arts Programme provides accessible, motivatig and engaging activities for students.
Fibre and Fleece Trust
Fibre and Fleece Trust issue design awards. The aim is to encourage crafts people, designers and artists to create garments, furnishings and art forms, using yarns, fibre, leather, fur, flax, bone, stone, clay, glass, wood or any other medium that is naturally sourced.
Gallery Pasifika
Api Pulemau (Christchurch-born Samoan) and the Christchurch based Gallery Pasifika are recommended as a point of contact for engaging with Pacific artists in the South Island. Pulemau and Gallery Pasifika aim to create a pacific 'hub' where, under one roof, one may find Pacific art, books, music, gifts and crafts, which could assist in the raising of literacy levels through its selection of Pasifika education books. Cultural seminars for schools are also available. Email:pulemau@xtra.co.nz
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery offers a comprehensive educational programme that aims to inspire and educate participants. The Gallery receives a high number of school visits from pupils throughout Taranaki and New Zealand. Class programmes are tailored to make use of the current exhibitions. The Young Visionaries Club is a weekly art club for kids that runs on Sunday afternoons throughout the school term. The Gallery also runs a diverse school holiday programme. Participant ages and programme events vary throughout the holiday periods.
Hawke's Bay Opera House
Hawke's Bay Opera House is a 987 seat theatre, originally designed by Henry Eli White. It is now one of the top 3 natural acoustic theatres in New Zealand. The multi million dollar refurbishment by Shand Shelton was completed in 2006.
Inspired Learning
Inspired Learning is an initiative The Edge runs offering cheap/free workshops and cheap/free theatrical performance attendance to school groups, and Drama/Dance teachers.
International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) is the first global network of national arts funding bodies. The mission is to create an international resource and meeting ground for all those whose public responsibility it is to support excellence and diversity in artistic endeavour.
Latin Rhythm Dance School
The Latin Rhythm Dance School is New Zealand's largest Salsa and Spanish Language school offering courses in Auckland and throughout New Zealand.
Massive Company
Massive Company is a theatre company that makes great theatre by growing performers and theatre practitioners. They provide pathways to develop new skills, experimenting with style and form and creating platforms to present new and innovative work.
MERC - Music Education Research Centre (New Zealand)
Te Puna Puoru National Centre for Research in Music Education and Sound Arts (MERC) is housed at the University of Canterbury and serves as the national hub for the coordination of and contribution to research in music education and wider sound arts. MERC is a partner to NZ music organisations MENZA and METANZ, and to the new Arts Hub Aotearoa (AHA) - a UNESCO/University of Canterbury Asia Pacific Arts Education Observatory.
MIC Toi Rerehiko
MIC - Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Centre, Toi Rerehiko - promotes a dynamic and growing culture of interdisciplinary media-arts practice in Auckland and New Zealand, supporting an environment of innovation, in which fusion of art and technology is developed and nurtured. MIC exhibits a continuous programme of international and New Zealand artists working across contemporary film, video, digital media, installation, music and live performance.
Millennium Public ART Gallery
The Millennium Public ART Gallery provides an accessible and informative forum for the arts in Marlborough with a strong commitment to quality and diversity, to celebrate cultures in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Marlborough. Education programmes are available. Email: marlpublicart@xtra.co.nz
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage provides advice to the New Zealand government on culture and heritage matters. It assists government in its provision and management of cultural resources for the benefit of all New Zealanders, and undertakes a number of activities that support and promote the history and heritage of our country.
Museum of Wellington City and Sea
Redeveloping the former Wellington Maritime Museum's focus to tell the Capital's broader social and maritime history has been key to the redevelopment project. The new museum now combines the best features of the former Wellington Maritime Museum with new stories of Wellington social history, creating effectively, Wellington's first museum of its own.
National Library of New Zealand
The National Library, apart from its vast collections or written material and images, also contains a gallery with an on-going exhibition schedule.
New Zealand Arts on the Web
The arts have always played a significant role in New Zealand life and this collection provides comprehensive links to New Zealand arts web sites.
New Zealand Culture Online
This is the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage key portal containing links to New Zealand cultural and artistic events and organisations. It provides archival and current materials, with a wide range of information relating to New Zealand cutlural activities.
New Zealand Film Archive
The Film Archive collections reflect the breadth of New Zealand's moving image history, from nineteenth century nitrate film to contemporary film and television productions. Make use of the Archive's education programme. The Taonga Māori Collection has many items held which are considered to have significant Māori content.
The NewDowse
The Dowse is an art museum that is highly regarded both nationally and internationally. The Dowse experience is a constantly changing mix of exciting and innovative exhibitions, ranging from hip hop to high art, ceramics to design, fashion to animation.
Objectspace
Objectspace, located in Auckland New Zealand, is a dedicated and award winning centre for innovative craft and design. Through exhibitions, publications and activities, focused on designed and handmade objects including ceramics, design, embroidery, furniture, jewellery, metal work, textiles, Objectspace aims to put objects into play. Objectspace connects innovative objects and makers with audiences in order to expand the cultural, economic and social options for object making.
Online Resource Hub: Culture and Creative Industries Around the World
Created by UNESCO. this is a unique gateway to online resources on the culture and creative industries around the world.
Pataka Porirua
Pataka is a museum of arts and culture: Te Marae O Te Umu Kai O Hau - The cultural heart of Porirua City. The museum is dedicated to celebrating our heritage and showcasing the very best in contemporary Maori, Pacific Island and New Zealand art.
The Performing Arts School of New Zealand - Auckland
The Performing Arts School of New Zealand is New Zealand's largest and most-established provider of short courses in the performing arts. They offer you a wide range of classes in theatre, dance and body knowledge, with both a recreational and career focus.
The Play Press
The Play Press is run by theatre professionals with the aim to provide educators and community artists with purchasable resources, NZ plays, and professional theatre contacts.
Puke Ariki
The essence of Puke Ariki is learning about who we are, where we come from and where we are going. This quest for knowledge is so important that people throughout Taranaki and New Zealand have embraced the spirit of Puke Ariki and flown with it. The result is an inspiring, two-wing complex that soars high in the heart of New Plymouth. Even the location is telling, for Puke Ariki means Hill of Chiefs and was once the most important Maori site in Taranaki. Our knowledge centre is the first of its type in New Zealand and maybe the world.
The Pump House Gallery
The Pump House is a highly valued performing and visual arts facility serving the North Shore and Auckland region and has added significance in the fact that it is also an historic site. 190-seat intimate theatre with superb acoustics offers a wide range of performing arts, entertainment and cultural events every year.
Rhythm Nation Dance and Theatre Company
Rhythm Nation from Canterbury is your one stop shop for dance offering jazz, tap, hip hop, contemporary, musical theatre, samba, breakdancing, drama, singing, indian, cheerleading and more to students from 2 upwards.
Riverton Arts Centre
Riverton Arts Centre is an active gallery, with approximately 11 exhibitions per year. These exhibitions feature mostly new contemporary works from mainly Southland & Otago artists. The arts centre also hosts music and theatre performers, predominately from the Arts on Tour programme, run workshops, and other arts related classes. This arts centre is recommended as a provider of quality arts events in the Southland region.
Rotorua Museum of Art And History
Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga O Te Arawa is the guardian and tenant of a building holding the highest classification under the Historic Places Act. As a storehouse of the community's treasures the museum is administered by Rotorua District Council and is responsible for seven collections.
The Song Room
The Song Room is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing music and arts programmes in Australian schools and communities. The Song Room provides a range of free programmes to schools and communities that otherwise would not have access to such opportunities.
Southland Museum & Art Gallery
Southland Museum & Art Gallery - Niho o te Taniwha - is the major cultural organization for the Southland region and serves a population of over 100,000 people.
St James Theatre
This St James Theatre, along with The Opera House, provide education programmes and resource kits to support the performances hosted at these Wellington venues.
St. Paul St
St. Paul St is a suite of purpose built galleries and project spaces run by the School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology. The programme of exhibitions, screenings, performances and events profiles both emerging and established artists and designers from New Zealand and internationally.
StarJam
StarJam’s purpose is to create events and environments where people with disabilities have the opportunity to express their musical gifts and artistic talents and for the general public to have the experience of being the recipients of those gifts and talents.
The Suter
The Suter Te Aratoi O Whakatu is New Zealand's third oldest art museum and celebrated its centenary last year. The Suter occupies a building of historical significance, has an important art collection, and is a gateway to the region's arts and crafts. An interpretation of its Maori name is 'Art is the Pathway for Whakatu - Nelson' Contact Esther McNaughton, Art Educator: esther@thesuter.org.nz
Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust
There has been a phenomenal growth in recent years in the number of contemporary pacific visual artists in New Zealand and in the recognition of their work and Tautai has played a significant part in that. The challenge for Tautai is to increase resources so that it can continue to meet that growth with its support and advocacy programs.
Te Hiringa i te Mahara - The Power of the Mind
Te Hiringa i te Mahara is a support service for Māori Secondary School teachers.
Te Tuhi - The Mark
Te Tuhi - The Mark is a trust for arts, culture, and community located in Pakuranga. They create avenues for access and participation in arts, cultural and community activities. The centre contributes to the arts and cultural scene on a regional and national basis.
TelstraClear Pacific
TelstraClear Pacific is a multi purpose events centre in Manukau City. It embraces and showcases excellence within culture, art, entertainment, sport leisure and the business interests of the culturally diverse population of Manukau City. It is a living expression of Pacific arts and culture attracting national and international visitors.
Toi Iho
Toi iho™ is a registered trade mark used to promote and sell authentic, quality Maori arts and crafts. Toi iho™ has also been designed to authenticate exhibitions and performances of Maori arts by Maori artists. The creation of the mark was facilitated by Te Waka Toi, the Maori arts board of Creative New Zealand, in consultation with Maori artists.
Toi Māori Aotearoa: Māori Arts New Zealand
Toi Māori Aotearoa: Māori Arts New Zealand is a Charitable Trust and an umbrella organisation that supports the development of contemporary Māori arts. It receives annual operational funding from Creative New Zealand and has permanent staff members based in Wellington, New Zealand.
UpStage
UpStage is a web-based venue for online performance; it is an open source server application that has been in development since 2003. Online audiences anywhere in the world participate in live performance events by going to a web page, without having to download and install any additional software.
Uxbridge Centre
Uxbridge is an arts centre located in the heart of Howick offering a Theatre, Gallery, studio teaching spaces, cafe and rooms for hire. Uxbridge offers courses, exhibitions, events and performances for the enjoyment and edification of the community.
Venture Southland
Venture Southland has a calendar of arts events for the region that can be useful as learning opportunities for students as well as other networks.
Westpac St James Theatre
This Wellington theatre showcases quality performances and supports arts education by developing classroom resources and programmes for schools.
Whakatane District Museum
The Museum Focuses on the Bay of Plenty and the gallery displays monthly exhibitions of art, craft and on historical and environmental topics.