Join us at Creative Sparks for an afternoon of creative learning. Led by accredited art teacher, Michelle, this termly programme aims to foster curiosity and a love of learning in the visual arts. Fridays, Term 2 | 11am - 12:30pm | Ages 5-12

This 5-week beginner-to-intermediate course introduces you to Procreate, a digital art app for iPad. Explore techniques, develop confidence, and bring your ideas to life with guidance from artists Christopher Barnhart and John Lihou. Mondays, 19 May, 26 May, 9 June, 16 June, and 23 June, 10am - 11:30am

Saturday Arts Social is a multi-arts programme and morning tea designed for our 60+ community. We gather every Saturday morning for a broad programme of events including concerts, art workshops, dance/movement classes and artist talks. Next event: Saturday 14 June, 10:30am - 12:30pm

Looking for an exciting school holiday programme in Queenstown? Join our July arts holiday programme, led by experienced art educators. Designed for tamariki aged 5-7 and 8-12, this creative, multidisciplinary programme inspires creativity through fun, hands-on workshops. Monday 30 June - Friday 11 July from 9am. Extended hours available.

Come along to our Afterschool Programme where we form a fun environment for creative learning for tamariki. Mondays - Thursdays | From 3:30pm | Ages 5 – 14

This interactive project invites you to write a message of love and send it to the world, in a specially made interactive artwork.

Wriggle and Rhyme is a free weekly music and movement programme for pēpē and tamariki aged 0-2. Join our facilitator Sunny Sky of EpicKids for this 45-minute class. Two sessions available: Mondays, 10am - 10:45am and 11am - 11:45am

Creative arts activities for children – at your school or ours. Bring your curriculum to life with hands-on, engaging arts programmes for children. Designed by experienced educators, our workshops align with New Zealand school curriculum outcomes and support cross-disciplinary learning through visual arts, performance, storytelling, and more.

Turn Up the Music Charitable Trust introduces Magical Music with Erica for young children aged 2 to 5. Mondays and Wednesdays, 10am

Join Queenstown Arts Society for eight individual classes of classical figure drawing, guided by artist Kasia Hebda. Enhance your drawing skills and deepen your understanding of composition, line, mass, and texture through observational drawing with a life model. Wednesdays, 7 May - 25 June, 6pm - 7:30pm

Join Resident Artist Amalia Remus as she introduces kids aged 8 - 12 to acting for camera! Saturdays, 10 May, 24 May, 7 June and 21 June, 2pm - 4pm

The foundations of starting out as a screen actor, from industry insights, acting techniques, to practical audition practice and monologues or scenes for camera. Ages 13-18. Sunday 11 May - Sunday 22 June, 5pm - 7pm.

Led by Resident Artist Amalia Remus, the Queenstown screen actors' practice ground offers scene work, industry insights, and training in genres, accents, improv, and auditioning to sharpen your screen skills.

Join us on the third Tuesday of each month for Community Craft - a free, drop-in night to explore creative forms like writing, sewing, and dance. All levels and ages welcome. Come along and hone a craft! Next event: Tuesday 17 June, 7pm - 8pm

The Feldenkrais Method guides students of all ages and ability to move with less effort and better function through its classes of gentle movement sequences. Improves posture, flexibility and co-ordination. Thursday's 29 May - 26 June 10:30am - 11:30am.

Vanessa Edwards returns to Tāhuna Queenstown, supported by members of the Toi Whakaata - Māori Print Collective, Alexis Neal, Jasmine Horton and Tessa Russell, to honour her mother and explore the role of pattern within visual culture. Exhibition Opening: Saturday 14 June, 11:00am

Explore the playful world of collage and self-expression, creating your own zine through cutting, composing, and experimenting with colour, shape, and composition. Thursdays, 19 June and 26 June, 6pm - 8pm

While the teachers are away, let the creativity play! Join us at Te Atamira for a special one-day holiday programme. Led by our experienced art educators, this programme offers a day filled with imaginative exploration and artistic fun. Thursday 19 June, From 9:00am

Dance QT presents its Mid-Year Winter Showcase. Sunday 22 June at the Queenstown Memorial Centre, from 11am

A woman walks between the worlds of the living and the dead in search of her lost children. Join us for a special screening and director talk with acclaimed filmmaker Vincent Ward. Tuesday 24 June, 6:30pm

Elemental speaks to the raw, foundational forces - earth, water, fire, and air - that shape both the natural world and the creative process. Exhibition Opening: Friday 27 June, 5:30pm

Let's move forward by learning to let go. Learn to loosen body stiffness by science supported methods, in a playful and safe manner. Move the way we were designed to, let's move like mammals. From Saturday 28 June, 10am - 11am

Bring your voice and join us for Community Sing, on the first Tuesday of every month. No need to read music or sing in key – just come and experience the joy of singing and singing with others. Next event: Tuesday 1 July 2025, 7pm - 8pm

Join us with sketchbook and pencil in hand for Community Draw, on the second Tuesday of every month. No experience necessary - come along and embrace the joy of different approaches to drawing. Next event: Tuesday 8 July 2025, 6:30pm - 8pm

Creative Sparks is a hands-on art programme for curious minds aged 5–12, designed to ignite imagination and build creative confidence. Each session invites tamariki to explore a range of mediums and themes, turning ideas into art through playful discovery. Mondays and Wednesday, from 11am

Te Atamira and Emergence Magazine present Shifting Landscapes- a documentary series directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the complexity of our time. Two of the four films, 'Aloha ‘Āina' (47 mins) and 'Taste of the Land' (1 hr 10 mins), will screen on Tuesday 22 July at 6pm.

Pōneke trio vegetable.machine.animal tours their new album GUEST, blending electronic sound, analogue percussion and drumming skills of Kieran Monaghan, and biosignals of non-human band members including plants, fungi, and lichen. Wednesday 6 August, 7pm

Create your own bespoke slow-stitched bear in this creative and calming workshop led by esteemed embroiderer Dianne Van Brandenburg. Tuesday's, 12 August, 19 August, 26 August, 2 September and 9 September, 10:00am - 12:30pm