Lyrics and Lines playfully explores creative mark making and asks us to consider different kinds of patterns in our lives and environment. Open daily until 9 February 2025.

Use Your Words is a visual art exhibition that celebrates the profound power of language through the lens of four essential words: Mautohe | Protest, Aroha | Love, Mātauranga | Wisdom, and Auaha | Create. Featuring a diverse array of artists and creatives, the exhibition draws connections between these words and how they have shaped personal and collective experiences. Open daily until 30 March 2025.

Looking for an exciting school holiday programme in Queenstown? Join our January arts holiday programme this summer, 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. Wednesday 8 January – Friday 31 January, from 9am. Extended hours available.

Explore Procreate in this fun, one-day holiday workshop! Learn digital illustration, layers, and textures. Create a fantastical creature print to keep. Perfect for beginners aged 8 - 13. Wednesday 22 January, 9am - 3pm

Join Julie Woods, "That Blind Woman," in the global initiative One Million Names in Braille. Help raise awareness of this tactile writing system by submitting your name or attending one of our interactive events for all. Be part of connecting the world - one dot at a time! Friday 24 January, 12pm - 4pm, and Saturday 25 January, 10am - 3pm

Join Lyrics and Lines artist Veronica Herber for a hands-on exploration of her signature materials of tape and graphite. Saturday 25 January, 2pm - 4:30pm

Queenstown’s Margaret O’Hanlon has curated Canvas to Composition, a showcase of local musical artists - Paulina Antoine Bustos, Thom Bentley, Henry Boyle, Erica Hastie, Louis Koopman, Campbell Reid, Teegs Stallard and Mark Wilson. Each musician has been tasked with composing original pieces or adapting existing works to complement specific visual artworks in the exhibition. Experience this unforgettable night of art and music. Thursday 30 January, 7pm

Explore digital art and typography in this fun Queenstown school holiday workshop for kids aged 8–13! Using Procreate, create a bold, positive mantra and take home a printed artwork. Thursday 30 January, 9am - 3pm

Join artist Ani O'Neill in a colourful crochet workshop, creating collaborative yarn artworks. Open to all skill levels, this joyful session explores color, shape, and creative play with crochet techniques. Two sessions options - Saturday 1 February, 2pm - 3:30pm and Sunday 2 February, 10:30am - 12pm

Pūheke ("to flow") is a new solo work by Louise Pōtiki Bryant emerging out of her personal journey towards healing from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) / Māuiui whakaauau. Join us for an immersive experience of image, music and solo dance performance by this Ngāi Tahu choreographer and Arts Foundation Laureate. Saturday 1 February, 7:30pm

Come along to our Afterschool Programme where we form a fun environment for creative learning for tamariki. Mondays - *NEW* The Art of Drawing & 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

Explore the intersection of art and movement in this innovative workshop led by Jake Walker. Participants will create unique drawings that serve as graphic scores for dance, using mark-making, lines, arrows, and text to craft experimental diagrams. Thursday 13 February, 3:30pm - 6:30pm

A audio-visual experience that takes the viewer on a journey along 'rio y mar', river and sea, through the percussive music of artists striving to pass their culture on to the next generation.

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. Exhibition opening: Thursday 20 March, 5:30pm

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 4 March 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 11 February 2025, 6:30 - 8pm

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 18 February, 7pm - 8pm

This interactive project invites you to write a message of love and send it to the world, in a specially made interactive artwork. Open daily until 14 February 2025.

Magic Carpet Music Trust presents award-winning performer and composer, Rakuto Kurano, in a captivating concert showcasing his original compositions. Wednesday 29 January, 3:30pm - 4:30pm

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

Join artist and qualified teacher 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. Starting Friday 7 February, Fridays, 3:30pm - 5pm.