Come along to our Afterschool Programme where we form a fun environment for creative learning for tamariki. Mondays - *NEW* The Art of Drawing and Painting | Tuesdays - Textile Threads | Wednesdays - Creative Clay | Thursdays - Mixed Media | From 3:30pm | Ages 5 - 12

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 4 | 11am - 12:30pm | Ages 5-12

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 5 April, 10:30am - 12:30pm

This four-week workshop encourages participants to document their daily lives through illustration. With guided drawing prompts, storytelling techniques, and mindfulness practices, attendees are encouraged to explore their emotions and reflect on their experiences, expressing their life through their sketchbooks. Tuesdays from 18 March - 8 April, 10am - 1pm

Explore memory, place, and change in Alta (2016-2024), Marc Blake's immersive exhibition. Featuring eight years of photographs centered on a solitary basketball hoop in Queenstown's Kawarau Falls Park, this dreamlike installation invites reflection on memory, isolation and transformation. Artist Talk: Saturday 5 April, 10:30am

Come and plant your new community outdoor space at Te Atamira with support from Mitre 10 Mega Helping Hands. Help transform the outdoor space with greenery, then enjoy a sausage sizzle thanks to Mitre 10 Mega Queenstown. Saturday 5 April, 10:30am – 1:30pm. All ages welcome.

Join Professional Photographer Scott Kennedy for an informative and hands-on photography workshop. Focusing on the camera you almost always have with you - your phone. Scott will demystify settings, offer tried and tested tips and tricks and help you unlock your creative potential. Sunday 13 April, 11am - 1pm

Looking for an exciting school holiday programme in Queenstown? Join our April arts holiday programme, led by accredited art teacher Michelle. Designed for kids aged 5-7 and 8-12, this creative, multidisciplinary programme inspires creativity through fun, hands-on workshops. Monday 14 April – Thursday 24 April, from 9am. Extended hours available.

11 to 16 year olds, join us for a hands-on ceramics workshop! Learn to hand-build your own mug, exploring texture, shape, and design. Experiment, get creative, and make something uniquely yours! Tuesday 15 April, 10:30am - 12:30pm

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

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

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

Join Young Picassos' qualified teacher and artist, Lisa Duncan, in this Term 1 afterschool programme to explore imaginary surrealist dreams. Create, print, paint and mould using key techniques in printmaking, clay and paint. Fridays, Term 1 | 3:30pm - 5pm | Ages 8 - 13

Join QAS Life Portrait Classes and refine your portrait drawing skills in a supportive, guided environment. Led by artist Kasia Hebda, each 90-minute session features a live model personalized tutoring to help you achieve accurate proportions, likeness, and expressive details. 19 March, 26 March, 2 April and 9 April, 6pm - 7:30pm

A space to reconnect with ourselves through movement and music. Backed by neuroscience, this workshop is all about finding our rhythm and using our bodies to help us let go of stress and tension, and regulate our nervous system. Saturdays 22 March, 29 March and 5 April, 9:30am - 10:30am

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 April 2025, 7pm - 8pm

Creative agency Osborne Shiwan brings TDC69 Aotearoa: The World’s Best Typography to Te Atamira. Featuring 202 winning works from 77 countries, the annual Type Directors Club award showcases design excellence and typographic innovation from around the world.

Te Radar presents a comedic celebration of the beloved and bizarre cookbooks from New Zealand’s past, with a side of sumptuous vintage food photography. It’s a hilarious, heartwarming, (and potentially stomach churning) show. Friday 4 April, 7pm. Bar open from 6:30pm | Tickets on sale from 27 January

Birdlife Productions are back with a new puppet and music show for ages 3 to 9 years, using exquisite puppetry, live music and lots of giant caterpillar fun! Sunday 6 April, 11am - 11:45am

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 April 2025, 6:30 - 8pm

We invite you to an engaging, informative, and hands-on self-care skills workshop! Discover how to feel, breathe, and move with reduced discomfort and pain. 12 April, 26 April, 10 May and 24 May, 10am - 11am

Calling all dance enthusiasts and rhythmic explorers, on the third Tuesday of every month! Join us for a dance class - open to all levels and ages, no RSVP required, just drop in and let's dance! Next event: Tuesday 15 April, 7pm - 8pm

Calling all singers: you have a chance to be a part of the 2025 Whakatipu Music Festival! Partake in rehearsals, coaching and guidance from directors Dr Karen Grylls and Elise Bradley leading up to a mass choir performance on Easter Monday. 15, 17, 21 April, 7pm - 9:30pm

An open piano class with festival artists Bernadette Harvey and Stephen De Pledge. An intimate and informal setting for piano students and their teachers to learn. Tuesday 15 April, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Whakatipu Music Festival: Learn the necessities for singing in a choir with Karen Grylls and Elise Bradley. Wednesday 16 April, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

An intimate and informal setting for string students and their teachers to learn from 2025 festival artists Ioana Cristina Goicea and Julian Smiles. Thursday 17 April, 5:30pm - 7pm

Come along to our Afterschool Programme where we form a fun environment for creative learning for tamariki. Mondays - Thursdays | From 3:30pm | Ages 5 - 12 | Registration opens Wednesday 2 April

Unifying Threads presented by the mothermother collective explores visual and social expressions of patterns of connection. Of particular interest is how art is a medium of experience that represents our perception of the world around us. Exhibition Opening: Thursday 8 May, 5:30pm - 7pm

Type Here is Aotearoa’s newest typography poster competition, celebrating expressive and contemporary design. Themed 'Aotearoa now', this exhibition features winning entries covering a broad range of typographic work. Exhibition Opening: Friday 9 May, 5pm