Nurturing Creative Community Spaces
Unpacking how creative community spaces nurture connection, confidence and belonging.
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Enrol to have your say in local elections
Creative Waikato is on a mission to get our creative community heard during these local elections.
Celebrating Creative Volunteers
June is the month of The Big Shout Out, where Aotearoa joins together to celebrate the power of volunteering.
Hautapu ki Aramiro Pā
Our Kaiwhakahaere i nga Mahi Toi shares a guide to Hautapu for this Matariki season.
The Value of Creative Safe Spaces
Creative safe spaces can be found throughout the Waikato, often operating without fanfare, always underpinned with care.
Working with Council in Matamata-Piako
An example of how Creative Waikato regularly works alongside Waikato councils to help enable arts, culture and creativity.
Circus, Cities and Connected Communities: Can circus change a city?
Reflections on the Circus in the Centre initiative, and the impact of public creative events in Waikato.
Celebrating Creative Community Activators
In this upcoming series, we are talking to individuals from across the region who embody the shared values of community and artistic…
The Beginning of Something Powerful
Recent graduate Taylor Green shared about the power of music and how creativity is a good thing for people.
AUAHA!
An insight into 3 months of creating and celebrating with community.
Recovery Through Art
Engaging with art and creativity in all its forms can be an act of healing and recovery good for our mental and physical health.
Connecting to Self
‘World Creativity and Innovation Week’ is an opportunity to be present, using nature as a way to connect to ourselves.
People Make Place
We are pleased to launch People Make Place: a new friendly guide to infrastructure and impact.
Instructions for Living a Life: Glimmer Hunting
Creative Waikato team member Dr. Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor shares about how she uses poetry as a wellbeing tool, to notice the…
Circus Comes to Kirikiriroa!
Bright colours, hula hoops, juggling balls and laughter. These are some of the things you may have noticed pop up in Hamilton CBD of late.
Waikato: A Place Where Great Things Happen
Creativity makes the Waikato region a brighter, more vibrant place to be. It brings places to life, and it brings people together.
Celebrating Creative Practice
Celebrating creatives from the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula on the East Coast, down and across to the township of Mōkau on the West…
Mahi on the Awa
Creative talent, when activated by the somewhat reluctant individual, is a beautiful and underutilised form of unintentional expression.
Try Something New
The joy of a beginners mindset. Embracing the joy of being an amateur, can be very helpful as a concept throughout our lives.
Creativity in Community
Highlighting what happens when community and creatives come together.
Hamilton City Council’s Creative Communities Scheme – Now Open!
Fuel your creative spark with the Creative Communities Scheme!