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  • Wintec School of Media Arts opens doors for another action-packed Creative Showcase

    Wintec | Te Pūkenga Media Arts ākonga are extremely excited to share their creative work this year. Graduating Art and Design, Communication, and Music and Performing Arts students will display their work at multiple events during 15-25 November. The showcase is a window into the creativity of Media Arts ākonga (students) from across the disciplines and these events celebrate this fresh talent and hard work in front of an audience of peers, whānau and the wider community.

  • Wintec researcher wants to know about your most loved and worn items of clothing!

    Rebekah Harman, Wintec | Te Pūkenga tutor and researcher has been researching ways to reduce the environmental footprint of fast fashion for over six years. She has launched “Worn well: sustainable clothing survey”, to better understand what clothing people love and hold onto for an extended period in the hope of reducing the environmental footprint of fashion and supporting designers to design for longevity.

  • Students lead the Diwali celebrations at Wintec | Te Pūkenga

    This year, the Diwali celebrations at Wintec | Te Pukenga City and Rotokauri campuses were completely ākonga (student)-led, making them even more special than usual. Although facilitated by the International Student Support team, the events were entirely hosted by ākonga, from the MCs to all of the entertainment.

  • Supporting Pacific scholars to gain skills to benefit their home communities

    After a three year break due to Covid, Wintec | Te Pūkenga is again home to a vibrant group of scholars from the Pacific Islands, thirsty for knowledge and skills that they can take back with them to improve their communities. The group of eleven scholars are here in New Zealand thanks to Short Term Training Scholarships (STTS) from the New Zealand Government. Supporting and nurturing them in this journey is key to their success.

  • Performance Art Week Aotearoa roadshow kicks off at Wintec's Ramp Gallery this week

    Performance Art Week Aotearoa (PAWA) kicks off at 5pm, 27th October at Ramp Gallery, Wintec | Te Pūkenga. With their first stop in Kirikiriroa Hamilton, PAWA are bringing two international artists and one local artist to present performances; enormousface aka Kalan Shh! (Cascadia/NYC), Tomasz Szrama (Poland/Finland) and Leafa Wilson/Olga Krause (New Zealand/Samoa).

  • Painting: a process for healing and building critical thinking skills

    Sarah Munro’s solo exhibition Partners in Painting at Ramp Gallery (21 September - 18 October 2023) examines the painting process together with highlighting some ‘unseen and unheard’ characters in the New Zealand painting scene, through a selection of figurative watercolour works.

  • Soundscape ecology project gets youth tuning into the sonic environment

    Wintec | Te Pūkenga educator and researcher Kent Machpherson is continuing his sound data research, this time examining specific Waikato sites impacted by human inhabitation. Macpherson has been researching in this area for thirteen years, but this project is the first time he has invited young school-aged ecologists, to help him gather the data.

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