Creative Communications with Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi

Free communications webinar for not-for-profits

This one-hour online workshop withTe Taumata Toi-a-Iwi, the regional arts trust for Tāmaki Makaurau, will look at how the trust has developed its communications over the last five years.

Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi was established in 2021 by the Auckland and Manukau Councils to support the Auckland region’s arts, culture and creative sector.  Over nearly 20 years the trust supported programmes and initiatives to support the arts and culture of Tāmaki Makaurau. In 2019, the trust rebranded from ART – the Arts Regional Trust, took the te reo name to the trust by Sir Hugh Kawharu when the trust was founded, and launched a new strategy which saw the trust move from supporting individual development and activities through grants, to investing in sector development. This required the trust to build and maintain an understanding of the sector’s current and emerging needs and encourage a strategic and collaborative response to those needs.

Over the last five years, an active communications programme have helped the trust develop relationships with key sector stakeholders that have been critical to the fulfilments of the trust’s kaupapa. This has included supporting key sector advocacy initiatives.

In this webinar, CSI communications associate, Robin Hickman, talks to Te Taumata Creative Catalyst, Jane Yonge, about the trust’s mahi and its general communications and advocacy initiatives.

Presenters:

Jane Yonge leads Te Taumata advocacy initiatives, facilitates sector engagement, helps us build collaborative partnerships, and manages the design and development of strategic initiatives. A theatre director, creator, and arts policy and strategy maker, Jane has a Master of Theatre Arts in Directing from Victoria University and Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. In 2019 she graduated with a Masters in Arts Politics from New York University: Tisch School of the Arts on a Fulbright scholarship. Jane previously worked with Wellington City Council on funding and creative strategy, and as Public Programmer at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre.

Robin Hickman has provided strategic communications advice since 2014 to the Centre and its partners, to help them engage with diverse stakeholders, and capture their stories and bring them to a wider audience.

Robin has consulted on communications for corporates in New Zealand and Australia. She has won an International Association of Business Communicators Gold Quill award, and New Zealand’s supreme Kiwi Quill award.  After a career in corporate public relations, Robin now works with a number of not-for-profit clients, including Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi.