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16 Jun 2025

Connect

Hautapu ki Aramiro Pā

Our Kaiwhakahaere i nga Mahi Toi shares a guide to Hautapu for this Matariki season.

11 Jun 2025

Connect

The Value of Creative Safe Spaces

Creative safe spaces can be found throughout the Waikato, often operating without fanfare, always underpinned with care.

6 Jun 2025

Advocate

Working with Council in Matamata-Piako

An example of how Creative Waikato regularly works alongside Waikato councils to help enable arts, culture and creativity.

30 May 2025

Advocate

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.

23 May 2025

Amplify

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…

16 May 2025

Amplify

The Beginning of Something Powerful

Recent graduate Taylor Green shared about the power of music and how creativity is a good thing for people.

9 May 2025

Connect

AUAHA!

An insight into 3 months of creating and celebrating with community.

30 Apr 2025

Advocate

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.

17 Apr 2025

Connect

Connecting to Self

‘World Creativity and Innovation Week’ is an opportunity to be present, using nature as a way to connect to ourselves.

4 Apr 2025

Advocate

People Make Place

We are pleased to launch People Make Place: a new friendly guide to infrastructure and impact.

28 Mar 2025

Elevate

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…

21 Mar 2025

Connect

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.

14 Mar 2025

Amplify

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.

7 Mar 2025

Amplify

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…

28 Feb 2025

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Mahi on the Awa

Creative talent, when activated by the somewhat reluctant individual, is a beautiful and underutilised form of unintentional expression.

19 Feb 2025

Advocate

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.

12 Feb 2025

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Creativity in Community

Highlighting what happens when community and creatives come together.

20 Jan 2025

Elevate

Hamilton City Council’s Creative Communities Scheme – Now Open!

Fuel your creative spark with the Creative Communities Scheme!

14 Jan 2025

Connect

Announcing Auahatanga ki te Kāinga

Our new initiative that aims to build wellbeing in Hamilton social housing through creative solutions…

13 Jan 2025

Amplify

2025: Foundations for a new year

Instead of making a New Year’s resolution, why not consider forming new creative habits?