Current Projects
Explore projects from Jul 2026 - Jun 2027 supported by Arts Out East
Dizzie Pixie: Dream Weavers Installation
Dream Weavers Installation
Created by artist Dizzie Pixie, this installation celebrates creativity, connection, sustainability, and belonging. What began as individual strips of fabric, woven by community members of all ages and backgrounds, has transformed into a vibrant collective artwork. Each woven piece represents a unique voice, story, and contribution.
Together, they form a colourful reflection of our community. Using reclaimed and repurposed materials, the work highlights the potential of creativity to bring people together while encouraging thoughtful and sustainable approaches to making. Through the simple act of weaving, participants contributed to a shared vision, creating something far greater than any individual piece could achieve alone.
This can be viewed in the Cultural Hub, next to New World in Ormiston Town Centre
Arts Out East is a Te Tuhi programme supported by the Howick Local Board.
Tui Hobson: Carving workshop
Carving Workshops with Tui Hobson
Discover the art of traditional wood carving with acclaimed artist Tui Hobson in this series of hands-on workshops at Te Tuhi. Suitable for beginners and those with some carving experience, each workshop offers the opportunity to learn traditional carving techniques while creating your own unique artwork to take home.
Talking Sticks Workshop: Create a unique 3D talking stick inspired by your personal stories and experiences. Using traditional mallets and chisels, you'll learn the fundamentals of whakairo in a welcoming and supportive environment.
Workshop Dates: Thursday 20 August, 10.00am–3.00pm / Saturday 29 August, 10.00am–3.00pm / $40 per person (includes all tools and materials, bring your own safety gloves) / Suitable for Ages 16+
Relief Carving Workshop: Learn the basics of low-relief carving using traditional hand tools while creating your own carved artwork. Tui will guide you through each stage of the process, adapting the workshop to suit both beginners and participants with previous carving experience.
Workshop info: Thursday 27 August, 10.00am–3.00pm / Saturday 12 September, 10.00am–3.00pm / $40 per person (includes all tools and materials, bring your own safety gloves) / Suitable for Ages 16+
About the Artist: Tui Hobson is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist whose three-decade sculpture practice draws on her Cook Islands heritage. Working across recycled native woods, stone, cast glass, and bronze, Tui has created public artworks and undertaken artist residencies throughout Aotearoa and internationally.
Bookings are essential as places are limited. Talking Sticks Workshop / Relief Carving Workshop
This is a Te Tuhi programme supported by Auckland Council
Howick Frames - The Routes of Roots
Howick Frames - The Routes of Roots
📍Wellington Street, Howick, Auckland
Howick Frames is a community-driven exhibition initiative that brings art into the heart of Howick. Created in collaboration with Phantom Billstickers, the Howick Village Association, and a supportive local business owner, this innovative project transforms everyday spaces into opportunities for creativity.
Each month, a new set of works is featured, showcasing a range of mediums from painting and photography to textiles and design. The rotating exhibitions not only provide local artists with greater visibility but also invite the public to engage with art as part of their daily lives.
By turning the village into an open gallery, Howick Frames celebrates creativity, supports our artistic community, and enriches the cultural fabric of East Auckland.
Current Exhibition: The Route of Roots
Culture is not static. It is inherited, adapted, questioned and reimagined through the lives we lead and the communities we shape. The Routes of Roots brings together a selection of artworks by secondary school students from across East Auckland, offering a glimpse into the diverse ways young people understand identity, belonging and home.
Presented within the public realm, these works invite moments of pause amid the everyday. Each artwork becomes both a personal reflection and a shared conversation, revealing the layered experiences, histories and aspirations that make up our communities. Rather than seeking a single narrative of culture, the exhibition embraces plurality - recognising that identity is often fluid, intersecting and continually unfolding.
Artists draw from memory, ancestry, language, place and lived experience, translating these influences into visual forms that speak to both individual and collective belonging. Together, the works acknowledge that culture is as much about what we inherit as what we create, reminding us that communities are continually shaped through the stories we choose to tell and the connections we foster.
The creative perspectives of East Auckland's young people affirms the value of art as a means of seeing ourselves - and one another - with greater curiosity, empathy and understanding.
Past Exhibitions:
Brendan Kitto: Howick Ward 2024
Howick Frames is a partnership between Arts Out East Howick Village Associationand a local Business owner. Arts Out East is a Te Tuhiprogramme supported by the Howick Local Board.
Ngaroma Riley: Soap carving workshop
Soap Carving with Ngaroma Riley
Discover the rich traditions of Māori carving in this hands-on workshop with artist Ngaroma Riley. Learn about the tikanga of carving and the ancestral form and function of the koruru (carved gable mask) before developing practical carving skills using soap and simple, safe tools.
Guided by Ngaroma, you'll explore techniques for creating three-dimensional forms while carving your own unique koruru-inspired artwork to take home.
Suitable for beginners, with activities that can also be adapted for those with more carving experience.
Workshop Dates: Sunday 20 September, 10.00am–12.00pm / Sunday 20 September, 2.00pm–4.00pm / Thursday 24 September, 6.00pm–8.00pm / $20 per person (includes all tools and materials) / Ages 12+ (Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.)
About the Artist: Ngaroma Riley (Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Pākehā) is an artist and founder of Te Ana o Hine, a wāhine-led carving shed based at Te Tuhi in Tāmaki Makaurau. Ngaroma began her carving journey creating Buddhist statues while living and working in Japan. Since returning to Aotearoa in 2020, she has completed a Certificate in Whakairo at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.
Her recent achievements include building a storehouse for a sculptural installation in Kaitaia, being shortlisted for the 2023 Kingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award, and winning the 2025 Molly Morpeth Canaday Major Art Award. She is widely recognised for her hand-carved karetao (puppets) and her distinctive sculptural practice.
Te Ana o Hine at Te Tuhi is a wāhine-led carving space established to create a safe and supportive environment for wāhine taketake and others who encounter barriers within the carving world. Meaning "the cave of Hine", the studio draws on the mana of the atua wāhine, providing an āhuru mōwai (sanctuary) for artists to learn, create and connect. The name also acknowledges the whare tangata—the house of humanity—honouring wāhine Māori as creators and nurturers of future generations.
Bookings are essential as places are limited.
Bookings are essential as places are limited. Soap Carving bookings
This is a Te Tuhi programme supported by Auckland Council
Celebrating Cultures Pop-Up
Celebrating Cultures Pop-Up
Arts Out East invites you to experience the Celebrating Culture Pop-Up, a free two-week celebration of creativity, culture, and community in the heart of Botany Town Centre.
Produced by Arts Out East, Te Tuhi's community arts brokering programme, the Celebrating Culture Pop-Up showcases the incredible diversity of East Auckland by bringing together local artists, performers, cultural organisations, and community groups in one vibrant creative space.
Across two weeks, visitors can enjoy free cultural workshops, live performances, demonstrations, storytelling, music, dance, and hands-on activities designed to encourage participation, learning, and connection. Whether you're trying a new creative skill, celebrating your own heritage, or discovering another culture, there's something for everyone.
Throughout the programme, you can contribute to collaborative community artworks, explore traditions from around the world, and connect with the people who make East Auckland one of Aotearoa's most culturally diverse communities.
Join us for the Opening Celebration on Saturday 26 September, featuring live entertainment, creative activities, and family fun to launch two weeks of free cultural experiences.
Full Programme of workshops and activities
The Celebrating Culture Pop-Up is proudly delivered by Arts Out East and Te Tuhi, generously funded by the Howick Local Board and supported by Botany Town Centre.
Sahana Rahman - Kantha Stitching on Handmade Paper
Kantha Stitching on Handmade Paper
Kantha Stitching on Handmade Fabric Paper is a two-part workshop series exploring upcycling, storytelling and traditional hand-stitching practices inspired by Nokshi Kantha.
Over the first weekend, participants will transform discarded textiles into handmade paper using fabric pulp, creating a unique surface to work with. In the second session, participants will stitch into their dried fabric paper using Kantha-inspired techniques, exploring repetitive patterns, personal narratives and the meditative qualities of handwork.
By the end of the workshop series, each participant will have created a finished piece to take home, ready to frame and display.
Designed for young adults and adults, this workshop is suitable for beginners as well as those with previous creative experience. It is ideal for anyone interested in craft, storytelling, sustainability and culturally informed art practices.
Workshop 1
Saturday 14 & 28 November
Saturday 14 November | 10am–12pm
Te Tuhi Artist Studios
21 William Roberts Road, Pakuranga
Saturday 28 November | 10am–12pm
Robert Harris Café, Level 1
Botany Town Centre
588 Chapel Road, Botany
Workshop 2
Sunday 15 & 29 November
Sunday 15 November | 10am–12pm
Ormiston Cultural Hub (next to New World)
Ormiston Town Centre
240 Ormiston Road, Flat Bush, Auckland 2019
Sunday 29 November | 10am–12pm
Ormiston Cultural Hub (next to New World)
Ormiston Town Centre
240 Ormiston Road, Flat Bush, Auckland 2019
Artist: Sahana Rahman
Arts Out East is a Te Tuhiprogramme supported by the Howick Local Board.
Elderly Queer give Advice
Elderly Queer Give Advise
Looking for a chat, some life advice, or a few great stories? Our wonderful rainbow elders will be at Te Tuhi Café, ready to connect, share their experiences, and welcome people of all ages.
Whether you have a question, want to hear an outrageous anecdote, or simply want to meet older members of the rainbow community, this is a warm, relaxed space to kōrero, laugh, and connect.
Arts Out East is a Te Tuhiprogramme supported by the Howick Local Board.