Rāhina | Monday
1–Rāapa | Wednesday
31 December, 2025
Bring your children, grandchildren, or yourself down to Toi MAHARA between 10:30am–2pm any Saturday or Sunday in December and make some festive gifts or decorations together!...
Events
Workshops for children – Make a transfer print of a New Zealand insect
Rāapa | Wednesday
14 January, 2026
In this workshop with artist and teacher Chrissie Sallis, children will create a transfer print of an insect from Aotearoa. Children can create their own drawing...
Workshops for children – Draw your favourite character
Rāwhā | Thursday
15 January, 2026
In this workshop with artist and teacher Kimbra Taylor, children will draw a favourite film or TV character. Kimbra will teach the children how to engage...
Talk: What makes a good image?
Rāhoroi | Saturday
17 January, 2026
Three of Kāpiti Coast Photographic Society’s photographers discuss what makes a good photo. Join Neil Gordon, Caroline Ludford and Alison Viskovic for a panel discussion followed...
Live Art Market
Rāhoroi | Saturday
31 January, 2026
Make art, buy art, meet the artists and listen to live music at Mahara Place this summer. Sausage sizzle for the kids or try out one...
Floor Talk: Frances Hodgkins and British modernism
Rāapa | Wednesday
11 February, 2026
Discover the rich artistic legacy of Frances Hodgkins in a special floor talk with curator Vicki Robson. Explore how this pioneering New Zealand artist helped shape...
Talk: Daily Kāpiti, Joanna Margaret Paul
Rātapu | Sunday
22 February, 2026
Curator Gary Freemantle discusses the work of artist Joanna Margaret Paul in relation to the exhibition Daily Kāpiti. Limited places, drop into the gallery or book...
Echoes in the Room – A Lecture with Dr Pamela Gerrish Nunn
Rātapu | Sunday
22 March, 2026
When Frances Hodgkins settled in England after the war, she brought with her a rich stock of European sources gathered during her time in France. This...
Past events
2025
Art-making drop-in: 1–30 November, 2025
Workshop: Collage a vintage scene with artist Elisabeth Vullings: 22 October, 2025
Floor Talk: Frances Hodgkins and British modernism: 18 October, 2025
Art-making drop-in: 4–26 October, 2025
Floor talk: Marking Time: 1 October, 2025
Workshops for children — Make a boatshed collage with artist Elisabeth Vullings: 24 September, 2025
School holiday fun at Toi MAHARA: 22 September–5 October, 2025
Kāpiti premiere of GRACE A Prayer for Peace: 20 September, 2025
Art-making drop-in: 6–30 September, 2025
Creative writing workshop: Why won’t these things let go of me?: 31 August, 2025
Artist’s talk — Kath Foster: 31 August, 2025
Emerging Spines: Bookmaking for the next generation: 10 August, 2025
Workshops for children – Make a turtle paper kite: 10 July, 2025
Tā Moko by Toi – Ake: 5–6 July, 2025
Kia Emiemi Exhibition Opening Weekend: 4–6 July, 2025
Tours of Te Kohinga | Collection Store: 2 July–4 November, 2025
School holiday art-making: 1–3 July, 2025
Live music with Mocean: 28 June, 2025
Watch Kohai Grace weaving her Matariki cloak: 28 June, 2025
Weave a Matariki star: 28 June, 2025
Live tā moko with Taryn Beri: 28 June, 2025
Kia Emiemi Matariki opening events: 28 June, 2025
Dance your socks off!: 27 June, 2025
Workshop: Foraged basketry with Birgit Moffatt – sold out: 25 June, 2025
Kimono and Japanese textiles winter market: 24 June, 2025
Kimono and Japanese textiles winter market: 21 June, 2025
Craft fashion: Sashiko slow stitch group: 21 June, 2025
Talk — Splendid Seaweed!: 19 June, 2025
Workshop: Foraged basketry with Birgit Moffatt – sold out: 18 June, 2025
Kapakapanui School Kapa Haka performance: 18 June, 2025
Toi MAHARA Quiz Night: 14 June, 2025
Community Singing with Kāpiti Community Choir: 14 June, 2025
Live Music: Moth Quartet: 13 June, 2025
Taster of a Toastmasters Club Meeting: 12 June, 2025
Image in Focus: Dive into a painting with Curator Vicki Robson: 10–26 June, 2025
Community Singing with Kāpiti Community Choir: 10 June, 2025
Art-making in the gallery: 8–29 June, 2025
Create a sparkle paper collage with Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa: 7 June, 2025
Opening of Hineteiwaiwa: 7 June, 2025
Dame Gaylene Preston screening – Lovely Rita: 6 June, 2025
Join Toastmasters of Waikanae for a morning of entertainment: 5 June, 2025
Live Art @ Toi MAHARA: 5–29 June, 2025
Tours of Te Kohinga | Collection Store: 4 June, 2025
Tours of Te Kohinga | Collection Store: 7 May, 2025
In war ‘the ground dictates’ – nothing is more true than for the Wars in New Zealand: 3 May, 2025
Celebrate Frances Hodgkins birthday with a film screening: 28 April, 2025
Workshops for children — Portraiture with Harriet Bright: 17 April, 2025
Workshops for children﹣Create Japanese-inspired textile art: 14–15 April, 2025
Artist’s talk — Bruce Connew: 5 April, 2025
Tours of Te Kohinga | Collection Store: 2 April, 2025
Floor talk — Gerda Leenards: 9 March, 2025
Tours of Te Kohinga | Collection Store: 5 March, 2025
Artist’s talk — Yukihito Kanai: 15 February, 2025
Talk — Ecologist Dr Mike Joy: 9 February, 2025
Workshop — Kāpiti Coast natural dye & shibori with Yukihito Kanai: 8–9 February, 2025
Tours of Te Kohinga | Collection Store: 5 February, 2025
Workshop — Mixed-media weaving: 31 January, 2025
Workshop — Ekphrasis: Creative writing: 28 January, 2025
Artist’s talk — Celebration of Sue Soo: 18 January, 2025
Workshop — Bug habitats: 14 January, 2025
2024
Drop-in — Origami Christmas decorations: 21 December, 2024
Demonstration — Māori cloak weaving: 17 December, 2024
Tours of Te Kohinga | The Collection Store: 4 December, 2024
Demonstration — Māori cloak weaving: 12 November, 2024
Floor talk — Selections from the Field Collection: 10 November, 2024
Poetry reading — Dinah Hawken: 3 November, 2024
Kāpiti Coast Art Trail: 2–10 November, 2024
Toi MAHARA Young Artists Exhibition opening and presentation of awards: 1 November, 2024
Tours of the Collection Store: 29 October–14 November, 2024
Floor talk — The Paintings of Patricia France: 27 October, 2024
Workshop — Ekphrasis—a two day creative writing workshop for children: 7–9 October, 2024
Floor talk — ‘Ira Wahine: Portraits by Hariata Ropata-Tangahoe’: 5 October, 2024
Exhibition opening & book launch: 20 September, 2024
Exhibition opening — Kei ‘ea te kōmako e kō?: 30 August, 2024
Exhibition opening — Ira Wahine: Portraits by Hariata Ropata-Tangahoe: 16 August, 2024
Artist’s talk — Huhana Smith: 10 August, 2024
Artist talk — Pip Devonshire: 4 August, 2024
Demonstration — Curator in the gallery: 30 July–24 September, 2024
Workshop — Matariki paper craft: 19 July, 2024
Puppet show — Once in a Full Moon: 18 July, 2024
Workshop — Clay for adults: 10 July, 2024
Workshop — Teen’s Matariki: 9 July, 2024
Workshop — Children’s Matariki: 9 July, 2024
Exhibition opening — Thirteen Months of Memories: 5 July, 2024
Exhibition opening — Ngā Ngārara: 5 July, 2024
Matariki weekend at Toi MAHARA: 29 June, 2024
Floor talk — Women of Ōtaki: photographs: 15 June, 2024
Exhibition opening — He kete, he whiri, he tangata & Rua Pōtae, John Baxter: 1 June, 2024
Artist talk — Adrienne Riseley and Wirihana Kiriona: 11 May, 2024
Workshop — Pottery mug making: 9 May, 2024
Workshop — Pottery creatures: 8 May, 2024
Exhibition opening — Elemental & Women of Ōtaki: 3 May, 2024
Workshop — Matariki Star Making: 24 April, 2024
Curator talk — Kohai Grace: 13 April, 2024
Demonstration — Weaving in the gallery: 13 April, 2024
Music in the gallery with Jodie Gummer: 30 March, 2024
Talk — The Art World of Frances Hodgkins—lecture series with Dr Pamela Gerrish Nunn: 24 March–28 April, 2024
Artist talk — Elisabeth Vullings: 2 March, 2024
Curator talk — Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho: 21 January, 2024
Demonstration — Weaving in the gallery: 21 January, 2024
Kāpiti Coast Heritage Clue Hunt: 20–21 January, 2024
2023
Workshop — Kids Christmas Collage: 16 December, 2023
Puppet Show – Nan and Tuna: 2 December, 2023
Kāpiti Chamber of Commerce – Business After 5: 22 November, 2023
Toi MAHARA is participating in the 2023 Kāpiti Coast Art Trail: 4–12 November, 2023
Director Q&A — Frances Hodgkins, Anything but a Still Life: 3 November, 2023
Toi MAHARA Opening Festival Weekend: 28–29 October, 2023
Exhibition opening — Robin Rogerson: a Tribute: 13 April, 2023
Exhibition opening — Lost Objects + Beckoning Land: 23 February, 2023
Floor talk — Sophie Saunders: 8 February, 2023
Live Art: 31 January–28 April, 2023