Amplifying the voices of the Arts sector in the Wellington region
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If you are an Arts Wellington member or an artist, practitioner or arts organisation in the Wellington region, add your voice and ideas to the development of our next Arts Action Agenda.
We invite our members and our community of artists, practitioners and companies to join our Board members, Her Worship the Mayor Tory Whanau and the Wellington City Councillors for our AGM and a meet and greet event on Tuesday 31 January.
See the results from our Final State of the Arts Survey!
MCH has recently announced their latest fund; designed to support the arts, culture and heritage sectors to recover from the impacts of COVID-19, and help the sector thrive in the future.
Te Tahua Whakamarohi i te Rāngai Ahurea Cultural Sector Regeneration Fund, is designed to support strategic, sector-led initiatives, that will have lasting benefits for arts, culture, and heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read the latest findings from Creative New Zealand’s 2020 report on New Zealanders’ engagement with the arts.
Read the Arts Action Agenda and our Covid-19 response
The Wellington Regional Art & Cultural Development Trust (Toi o Taraika Arts Wellington) is a charitable trust that provides networking opportunities, communication platforms, advocacy and capability building forums for our membership base. Our members are made up of a number of the Greater Wellington region’s professional arts, culture and heritage organisations, arts service organisations and education institutions.
Image: Litcrawl 2018. Photo: Vanessa Rushton
Toi o Taraika - Arts Wellington
Our name is an acknowledgement of the significant ancestor – Taraika. We recognised his skills as an artist, and as a leader for his people. This name was developed by collaboration with Toi Māori and IDIA.
Taraika (otherwise known as Tara) is the eponymous ancestor who lived in Te Upoko o Te Ika a Maui (The Head of the Fish of Maui – Wellington) and consequently a tribe was named after him called Ngāi Tara. Taraika named the great harbour known as Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington Harbour). His name is also commemorated in the Tararua ranges, ‘Ngā waewae e rua a Tara; The spanned legs of Tara,’ meaning that his descendants had occupied either side of the range.
Image: Kupe, A Waka Odyssey, New Zealand Festival 2018
Photo: Jeff McEwan