Creative Community Campus

What does August look like in the Creative Community Campus? Well, we have...

🎃 Gourds 👨🏾‍🎨 Art clubs 🎨 Painting 👩‍🌾 Portraiture ☕ Coffee 👕 Sewing 🐚 Decoupage 🌞 Greenmen 🌄 Printmaking 🫖 Tea ...and more!

See link in bio or visit the Campus webpage to peruse all the happenings and to book your tickets 👇
🔗 www.theincubator.co.nz/creative-community-campus

Tomorrow! 🌿

The next Feedback Lab is on Friday 31st July – and we have our very first guest speaker joining us!

STOP MARKING YOUR OWN HOMEWORK.
Unlock your creative non-critical voice in a relaxed, judgement-free space led by the wonderful Carol Bisset.

🗓 Friday 31st July
⏰ 9.30 – 11.30am
📍 The Creative Campus
💰 $5/session (pre-register below or EFTPOS available on the day)

We're thrilled to welcome Kim Fifield Art as our special guest!

Kim is a Bay of Plenty-based multidisciplinary visual artist whose curiosity and thirst for understanding drives her to experiment and create. Her practice spans a wide range of media – fine art, children's book illustration, graphics, and beyond – she's always exploring new creative territory.

Her current work is fascinating – exploring ecology, material transformation, and the hidden knowledge carried by overlooked materials. Think cultivated root systems, algae-based bioplastics, biomatter, and discarded publications. Kim treats her materials as active collaborators, not passive mediums.

Kim's practice weaves together women's labour, domestic and ecological knowledge, waste, bodies, and the fragile relationship between human and non-human life.

You might know Kim from Matter Gallery in the Mount, or from her time at The Incubator's Villa Studios. Lately? She's been making objects from kitchen compost. Yes, really. 🌱

Come along, hear what Kim's been up to, share your own work, and connect with fellow artists in Tauranga Moana.

We hope you have this in your diaries!

👉 All welcome - pre-register now (https://tinyurl.com/353juvz4)or just turn up – EFTPOS available on the day.

See you tomorrow! 🎨✨

It's time for some 🥂 bubbles 🧀 cheese and 👩‍🎨 ART! What more could you want?

Join Emma for a creative and calming workshop where you’ll bring floral designs to life using high-quality gouache, Posca pens, and beautiful Japanese paper. Layering these materials, you’ll create a vibrant, circular composition full of texture, color, and movement.

🌺 Circles in Bloom
Mixed Media Art Workshop
With Emma Prill
Saturday, 1st August
2 – 5pm
The Creative Campus
$115

Grab your tickets here 👇 on our website or see our link in bio
🔗 www.theincubator.co.nz/creative-community-campus

Dianna's got hot coffee, delicious snacks, the know-how and canvases ready for you to encapsulate your morning mug!

☕ Morning Mugs Oil Painting Workshop
With Dianna Smith Art
Sunday, 9th August
10am - 1pm
The Creative Campus
$150

See link in bio or visit the Creative Campus website to nab your ticket for this super cool workshop 👇
🔗 www.theincubator.co.nz/creative-community-campus

For inspiration, check out Dianna's 28 Mornings series 👇
🔗 www.diannasmithart.com/28-mornings

This isn't just a tea tasting. It's a tea tasting that quietly becomes a meditation.

There is a reason the ancients said 'Zen is Tea.' It’s in the way the leaves unfurl, the steam rises, the body warms and the mind quiets.

This Sunday, join Zoe Zhaozishan, a curator of scent, culture and calm - for a Chinese Tea Ceremony. Traverse the spectrum of Chinese tea: the floral lift of Jasmine, the roasted complexity of Oolong, and the grounding history of Pu-erh.

🍵 Chinese Tea Ceremony 中国茶会
With Zoe Zhaozishan
Sunday, 26th July
10 - 11am
The Creative Campus
$40

See link in bio or visit the Creative Campus website to purchase your ticket 👇
🔗 www.theincubator.co.nz/creative-community-campus

It's the second week of The Incubator Creative Hub's School Holiday Programme and we still have a bunch of cool events coming up!

🐶 Mixed Media Cats & Dogs
With Emma Prill
SOLD OUT

🏡 Secret Garden Path
With Emma Prill
Wednesday, 15th July
1 - 3.30pm
The Creative Campus
$60
Ages 8+

🕺Kids Dance Party
With Alice Sea - Music
Friday, 17th July
10am - 12pm
The Jam Factory
$15
All ages

✨ Create your own Whetū/Stars / Drop in activity
Mon - Sat, until the 25th July
10am - 3pm
The Incubator Gallery
Free
All ages

Check out our full programme, including films at The Village Community Cinema 👇
🔗 www.theincubator.co.nz/school-holidays

Calling all whānau and aspiring circus stars! ✨

We're excited to welcome the one and only Jay Juggler and Magician to The Jam Factory Tauranga for a double-header of fun these school holidays!

🎩 First up, be dazzled by Juggler Jay's Incredible Magic Show!
Get ready for a spectacular performance packed with daring juggling, mind-bending magic, and plenty of audience participation. Don't miss Aotearoa's youngest surviving duck juggler!

🗓️ Sunday, 12 July
🕙 10.30am & 2pm
🎟️ $10 per person
😎 All ages

🤹‍♂️ Then, take your skills to the next level at the Juggle in the Jam Factory workshop!
Learn from a pro - Make your own juggling balls and master the fundamentals in this fun 2-hour session.

🗓️ Monday, 13 July
🕙 10am - 12pm
🎟️ $40 per person
😎 Ages 7+

Spaces are limited. See link in bio or visit our website to grab your tickets 👇
🔗 www.theincubator.co.nz/school-holidays

To all those dreamers that want to spend their days bird watching and feeding the birds in their garden - boy, do we have the workshop for you! Not only can we help you make that dream a reality, we can help you handcraft and hand paint the bird feeder that makes your garden the local hotspot.

Gourd Bird Feeder Workshop
With Andy Scott
Saturday, 27th June
10am - 2pm
$50

Andy has been growing gourds on his own property since 2005, and he brings along gourds that are already dried, cleaned, and ready to transform. All you need to bring is a spark of an idea - bold, whimsical, or beautifully simple. Andy is more than happy to help cut the holes, but if you're feeling adventurous, he’ll show you how to do it yourself.

Book your spot here 👇
🔗 www.theincubator.co.nz/creative-community-campus

Play with texture, explore your creativity and create a beautiful artwork in this vibrant and social Textured Art Painting workshop.

Explore textured painting, a technique where paint is mixed and applied in thicker layers to create depth on the canvas. Instead of focusing on perfect brushstrokes, it’s about playing with shapes and movement. It’s surprisingly freeing and a lot of fun!

Textured Art Painting
With Laura Nineville.art
Sunday, 21st June
The Creative Campus
1 - 3pm
$90

See link in bio to book your spot
🔗www.theincubator.co.nz/event-details/textured-art-painting

Not long to go - School holidays are coming up fast! How cool that Matariki appears in the holidays this year! Double celebration! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Check out all the goings on in The Creative Campus, The Village Community Cinema and The Jam Factory Tauranga for The Incubator Creative Hub's mega programme.

Check out the full programme here...
🔗 www.theincubator.co.nz/school-holidays