Nga Toi Creative Hawke's Bay is the Arts Council for Te Matau-a-Maui, Hawke's Bay. Our role is to create a flourishing, vibrant, and culturally interactive creative eco-system.
Upcoming Events
Getting Started With Short Form Video
Monday 28 April, 9:30am-11:30am
Harnessing the power of video to showcase and sell your work. Participants will gain confidence in filming, editing, and posting short-form video content. You will understand what types of video content work best for artists and creators.
Creating Content that Sells
Monday 14 April, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Developing engaging posts that attract buyers. Participants will understand how to create high-quality, sales-focused content efficiently. You will gain confidence in writing captions that encourage action. Visual storytelling: videos, behind-the-scenes content, and customer stories.
CREATE Symposium 2025
Date: 17 & 18 June
Ngā Toi Creative Hawke’s Bay is proud to announce our Symposium for 2025 held in June. Get up to date on your community, with keynote speakers, master classes and workshops to inspire, engage and foster connection.
What We Do
ENABLE
We enable our creative communities to thrive through providing tools, resources and work spaces.
AMPLIFY
We amplify our creative community by fostering collaboration, growth, and innovation.
ADVOCATE
We advocate for our community through representation, leadership, data and research.
Nga Toi Creative Hawke’s Bay work with the creative sector to maintain a clear focus on the future we want to create together, for artists and arts organisations, and for our communities.
We hold an understanding and respect for the depth and breadth of local creative activity and are well-connected to new research and data around the benefits and impact of the creative sector. We walk alongside our arts community and build a robust strategic vision for the future of the Hawke’s Bay’s creative ecosystem.
The Story Of Te Matau-a-Māui
Building partnerships to tell our stories
There are many stories of Māui and many story-tellers. Here’s a story of Te Matau-a-Māui, Māui’s great fish-hook – perhaps one of the greatest fishing stories of all time
This is a collaboration between Ngā Toi Creative Hawke's Bay, Ngati Kahungunu and Hawke's Bay Tourism.
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