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After a hiatus due to the pandemic, our international arts residency programme re-opens with two residency opportunities for Tangata Whenua and Writers.

We invite sponsors for additional residencies, and we invite members for the 2023 year.

Open to creative people from Aotearoa, this two-week residency is offered between the 13th and the 30th of April. An amazing opportunity, though applications are closing on the 31st of January 2023 so make sure you jump in quickly and check it out. For more details on this residency and how to apply, please go to:

Open to writers in Aotearoa and abroad.
The 3-week residency is offered in May 2023.
Application deadline: 31 January 2023.
Many thanks to our kind - and anonymous - donor for supporting this opportunity.
For more information:

We are incredibly appreciative of the Cross Creek Blues Club's generous donation of $1,500 to our music fellowship fund. We are sad to say farewell to your wonderful club which supported and encouraged live music in the Wairarapa for many years, and we intend to continue the success you had dating back to the late 1990’s. 

NZ Pacific Studio turns 20 years old and announces new Board

NZ Pacific Studio will hold its AGM
on Monday 26 July, 7pm
at REAP Wairarapa, 340 Queen St, Masterton
All welcome

AGENDA
Present
Apologies
Confirmation of Minutes of previous AGM
Matters arising
Chairman’s Report for 2020
Confirmation of Chairs report
Financial Review for 2020
Confirmation of 2020 Financial Review
Appointment of Auditor for 2021
Board resignations
Nominations of new Board members
Nomination of Office Bearers
Any other business

NZ Pacific Studio and the Friends of ANZAC Bridge present this beautiful community arts initiative led by portrait artist Esther Bunning, our 2020/2021 ANZAC Bridge Fellow and NZ Photographer of the Year.

NZ Pacific Studio & Wairarapa Community Orchestra
welcome you to ALLSORTS -- music for everyone!!

RAK MASON FELLOWSHIP (since 2014)
Open to fiction writers and poets based in Aotearoa New Zealand only.
Application deadline: 1 August 2020
Residency period: 3 weeks (not between 15 Dec - 15 Jan)
With thanks to generous sponsors from the Wairarapa community,  the Fellow will live in a self-contained rural cottage hosted by people with an interest in supporting the arts.
The purpose of this RAK Mason Fellowship is to support writers by giving them time and space to focus on their project, and to honour one of New Zealand’s foremost writers, RAK Mason (1905-1971), with his intense energy, commitment to literature, and his interest in the ways different literary forms inform each other.
Applicants can be at any stage in their creative ‘careers.’
For more information, visit our website:

New Zealand Pacific Studio Artist Residency Programme invites applications from creative practitioners working in music for the Music Fellowship in Wairarapa, New Zealand.
Open to NZ-based artists only.
Emerging and established practitioners are welcomed to apply.
The three-week opportunity must be taken up before 30 Nov 2020.
Supported by Carterton Creative Communities Scheme and Cross Creek Blues Club.
Application deadline: 1 August 2020, midnight, NZ time.
For details:
https://www.artistresidency.org.nz/page/576150

NZ Pacific Studio is accepting NO APPLICATIONS for residencies, until further notice.

Our first consideration is the health and welfare of our resident artists, hosts, and the local Wairarapa community, and we also want to continue to offer quality experiences for all involved. As a registered charity in New Zealand, we are following the Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora guidelines on the novel coronavirus relating to travel and self-isolation, as well as public programming.

NZ Pacific Studio believes in the power of art and creativity in our lives, especially during times of difficulty, and we invite you to stay in touch with us via our website and Facebook page.
As always, we thank you for your understanding and support, and we offer you and your family good wishes.

An artist from Massachusetts, USA, Kerri McGill is NZ Pacific Studio’s 2020 Masterton District Fellow, thanks to support from the Masterton District Council.

NZ Pacific Studio and Friends of ANZAC Memorial Bridge are delighted to announce the NZPS 2020 ANZAC Bridge Fellow - Esther Bunning from Greytown, NZ. We very much look forward to working with Esther and seeing her project come to life. Here is a little introduction to Esther's creative practice and her ANZAC Bridge Project.

Dani Henke (USA/NZ) and Renate Hahn (Germany) were both featured in the local newspaper, Wairarapa Times Age, on 28/1/2020.

Dani Henke (USA/NZ), Masterton District Fellow
https://times-age.co.nz/waste-art-making-waves/
Many thanks to Masterton District Council and Masterton District Library.

Renate Hahn (Germany), Artist-in-residence
https://times-age.co.nz/german-artist-tells-wairarapa-stories/
Many thanks to Wairarapa Archive.

In 2019, NZ Pacific Studio welcomed 12 artists/writers/musicians from 6 countries.
- offered several free community activities,
- recruited 2 new Board members,
- transitioned from our facility at Mt Bruce,
- developed a network of wonderful hosts in Wairarapa who offer accommodation & hospitality for our artists,
- secured a new Carterton District Fellowship,
- and we're offering other Fellowships in 2020 - ANZAC Bridge (application deadline 22 Jan), Ema Saiko (Poetry), Music, RAK Mason, and Masterton District and Tararua District Fellowships.

A BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
HERE'S TO ANOTHER GOOD YEAR WITH YOU.

Photo: Carriage clock made by Christopher Burton, in whose homestead NZ Pacific Studio was based from 2001-2018.

Application deadline - 22 January 2020.
The focus for 2020 is the Mounted Rifles and the horses that went to war.
This Fellowship has been offered annually since 2006.

Thank you to the Wairarapa Times Age for publishing this feature story on New Zealand Pacific Studio -- with Sue Wootton, Jackie Davis and other recent residents, recent hosts, and recent activities in the community.

Follow this link to read the article:
https://times-age.co.nz/a-place-where-artists-can-create/

(Pictured, L to R:
Authors and NZPS residents Sue Wootton and Jackie Davis,
with NZPS Board Member Jan Gerritsen,
at a public event at Masterton District Library in October)

Applications are now open: deadline is 2 August 2019.
The 3-week Fellowship honours Japanese poet and painter Ema Saiko (1787-1861) who dedicated herself to, and developed, a poetic form centred on the discovery and unfolding of a rich intellectual and artistic life connected to the physical environment. Saiko was acutely attuned to the daily and seasonal transformations of the natural world.   
Please apply at the link below:

NZ Pacific Studio offers two 3-week ‘Masterton Fellowships’ for two individuals (who can work separately or collaboratively) with thanks to the generous support of the Masterton District Council.
A community outreach component must be offered as part of the application.
The 3-week residency must be completed before 31 March 2020.

With thanks to a generous sponsor from the Wairarapa community,  the 2019 RAK Mason Fellow will live in a self-contained cottage hosted by people with an interest in supporting the arts.
The purpose of this RAK Mason Fellowship is to encourage creativity, to explore the different literary forms or genres and their potential, and to honour one of New Zealand’s foremost writers, RAK Mason (1905-1971), with his intense energy, commitment to literature, and his interest in the ways different literary forms inform each other.
Deadline: 1 August 2019 (midnight NZ time)
Photo of RAK Mason by Colin Firth, 1947.
Apply at the link below:

JAZZ / BLUES FELLOWHIP (inaugural year, 2019)
NZ Pacific Studio invites applications from accomplished musicians in the blues/jazz genre for a 2-week fellowship, the inaugural Jazz/Blues Fellowship.
A condition of the Jazz/Blues Fellowship is to prepare for a concert, the proceeds of which will fund the next year’s fellowship. Local musicians can be available as required for backing and your application should indicate your requirements for additional musicians and equipment.
The Fellow must undertake the residence before 1 December 2019 (and ideally between 15 October and 30 November 2019).
The Fellowship is made possible through a donation from the winding up of the assets of the Cross Creek Blues Club.
Application deadline: 1 August 2019
Apply at the link below: