Printopia Festival returns for its fifth edition from 1–3 May 2026, celebrating contemporary printmaking across Aotearoa and the Asia Pacific. Now a recognised regional arts event, the Festival presents its signature programme including the country’s largest print fair, live printing, artist talks and hands-on workshops. New for 2026 are curated exhibitions, guided gallery tours and experimental performances that expand how print is experienced. Taking place across four central Auckland venues, Printopia invites audiences to connect, explore and be inspired.

Join Emerging Artist Resident Draunikau for this one-off workshop, you’ll learn the natural dyeing technique of printing plants onto fabric. Using roots, bark, leaves, flowers, and more, you’ll transfer their pigments onto natural fibres in a sustainable, hands on way. You’ll explore fabric preparation, arranging the flora, and bundling and steaming. The course runs over two days to allow the fabric to rest. In the second session, you’ll unveil your dyed fabric and hand sew it into a small pouch.

Please note: this workshop has two sessions on separate days.

In this cyanotype workshop you’ll discover how science and creativity can coincide. Experiment with exposure, shadow, and UV light to create your own unique print using natural materials gathered from your surroundings. Lulu will guide you through two hours of playful exploration, learning, and good chats, perfect for anyone keen to try something new and make art in a relaxed, supportive environment.

Queers & Wares is a market that celebrates queer creativity, community, and connection. Come hang out, browse beautiful handmade pieces, vintage clothing, and art - all by local artists. We are proud to support small, sustainable businesses here in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Get ready to turn up the volume! Sounds of Tāmaki Makaurau is coming this NZ Music Month 2026! This region-wide celebration will spotlight music-themed events and experiences, brought to life by Auckland Council. From community stages to creative experiences, the month will shine a light on local talent, including a special emerging artist series. Keep your ears open, exciting new voices are set to step into the spotlight at Studio One Toi Tū.

In this two hour workshop, you’ll be guided through the steps to create your own spell candle tuned to your desires and intentions. Spell candles are used to represent specific goals, with herbs and oils added to strengthen their purpose and support manifestation within magickal ritual, inviting enchantment into your life. During the course, you’ll braid your own twine, hand dip your candles in wax and roll them in the herbs and oils you choose.

This two-day workshop introduces participants to the traditional art practice of siapo-making as a living practice. Through talanoa, we will explore the history of siapo in Sāmoa, its cultural significance and the ways it continues to be reimagined today.

Participants will engage in hands-on making, including bark preparation, beating techniques and working with natural pigments and materials to create their own piece. This workshop will also explore themes of cultural preservation, reclamation, cultural responsibility and self-reflection

This workshop offers a nurturing journey into Siva Samoa, where movement supports wellbeing. Participants explore foundational Siva Samoa steps and their cultural meanings — gestures that honour connections to land, ocean, sky, ancestry, and community. Through soft hands, grounded feet, and mindful breath, they experience how movement mirrors the natural world. Rooted in traditional practice, the session invites people to slow down, reconnect, and honour the body. Open to all levels. Let them Siva for health, language, and collective wellbeing.

This workshop centres the malu, the Samoan female tattoo, as a living archive of cultural knowledge and ancestral presence. Through discussion, drawing, writing, and embodied practice, participants will explore how Indigenous knowledge is encoded in the body, and how these markings intersect with gender, identity, and sovereignty. Grounded Rosanna's own malu and artistic practice, the workshop invites critical reflection on issues of cultural appropriation, authorship, and the responsibilities of working with Indigenous visual systems.

“‘O le mamalu o le fafine, o le malu.” The dignity of the woman is her malu.