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  • Revival Exhibition

    Galleries & museums

    The Arts Centre’s buildings are the largest collection of Category 1 Historic Places listed by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. Its 22 Gothic revival spaces, dating back to 1877, were extensively damaged by the 2010-11 Canterbury earthquakes. An 11 year project to restore them is close to completion.

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  • Strategy Creative

    Offices

    We are Strategy.
    We are an independent, strategy, branding and product company.We have a human centred design obsession. Intimate insights inform everything we do. We think before we act. We delve deep. We get emotional. We prioritise outcome over urgency.

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  • Off Centre, Full Festival Programme Released

    News

    Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre is today releasing the full programme for Off Centre, a festival to celebrate the centre’s restoration and the diverse creativity it supports.

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  • th'Orchard Dreamers Reprise Q & A

    News

    th’Orchard Dreamers Reprise Off Centre performance.  
    Sat 4 March, 3.30-4.30pm, The Gym
    Booking required. Pay what you can: $5-20. Book now.  Described as Sir Dave Dobbyn’s favourite keyboardist, Mark Vanilau is a big name in New Zealand music circles. With Solomon Smith and others, Mark has nurtured th’Orchard, an extraordinary community project that’s cultivating the arts in Rowley/Hoon Hay.

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  • Co-working spaces for developing health technology companies

    Visit

    The long-term ambition is for this to become more than just a place for health technology companies to co-locate, it will become a community of connection, inspiration, and support, through the development of the Health Tech Quadrant whereby advisory services such as commercial, intellectual property, investment, strategy, export, quality and regulatory advice are wrapped around these companies to provide the support high growth companies need to succeed.

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  • Rising Stars Concert Series 2025

    On specific Tuesdays

    Rising Stars is a Tuesday lunchtime concert series that focuses on encouraging, nurturing and providing a performance platform for emerging young musicians.

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  • Heritage Stargazing

    Every Friday night during Winter, 11 April - 26 September 2025
    From: $10.00

    Experience stargazing from the restored Observatory Tower (1896) at Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre.

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  • Three take up residence June 2023

    News

    Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre is providing three artists with time to develop creatively this winter.

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  • A unique stargazing experience in the heart of the city

    News

    Bookings are now open for the 2024 stargazing sessions at the Observatory Tower in Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre.

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  • Common Ground Southern

    Offices

    Common Ground (CGS) believe that their role is to improve the human and ecological environments that we inhabit. They believe in community and that we all should share a wonderful and empowering environment whilst preserving the quality of our air, soil and water. They also understand that a great project increases social, cultural and ecological capital and in itself is economically successful. To that end Common Ground has core staff and associations that can take large and medium scaled projects from an idea to completion. At the centre of CGS is a belief in cultural heritage, creativity, art and humanity.

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