Entertainment Technology
Celebrating Collaboration & Individual Ambition
Whether you want to edit sound for Hollywood feature films, light Royal NZ Ballet productions, provide pyrotechnics for WWE shows, or operate the technical aspects of plays at Circa Theatre, you can learn all the skills you need to follow your passion at Toi Whakaari.
The Diploma in Entertainment Technology is a practical based course that focuses on the technical aspects of performance.
What we teach at this school will assist you to hone your craft as well as your hunger to create. At Toi Whakaari we provide a range of challenges and skills to engage you to achieve your dreams.
We aim to:
- Equip our students with the skills and mindset to enable them to forge and sustain a career in the performing arts
- Empower students to drive the performing arts culture in New Zealand beyond their wildest dreams
- Celebrate diversity in skills, teaching, methodology and ambition
- Encourage connection between performers, production team and audience
- Ignite the passion to tell the stories of Aotearoa and beyond
You can download a brochure (264kb) about the entertainment technology course in 2008.
Successful Graduates
Toi Whakaari has graduated some of New Zealand's most successful theatre and film technicians, including a triple Oscar winner for sound editing, the lighting and sound operator on a cruise liner in the Caribbean, the lighting designer for icebergs in the Antarctic and a model maker for King Kong. Check out more of our successes here.
