Events

Floor Talk: Frances Hodgkins and British modernism: 15 April, 2026

Echoes in the Room – A Lecture with Dr Pamela Gerrish Nunn: 22 March, 2026

Talk: Where art meets science: 8 March, 2026

Art-making drop-in: 1–31 March, 2026

Talk: Daily Kāpiti, Joanna Margaret Paul: 22 February, 2026

Talk — Indigenous innovation with natural materials: 14 February, 2026

Floor Talk: Frances Hodgkins and British modernism: 11 February, 2026

Art-making drop-in: 7–28 February, 2026

Live Art Market: 31 January, 2026

Talk: What makes a good image?: 17 January, 2026

Workshops for children – Make a transfer print of a New Zealand insect: 14 January, 2026

School holiday fun at Toi MAHARA: 1–31 January, 2026

Festive art-making drop-in: 1–31 December, 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

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

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