Entertainment Technology
Celebrating Collaboration & Individual Ambition
Whether you want to edit sound for feature films, design or operate lighting or sound for international touring productions or work as a venue technician for a major professional theatre, you can gain the skills you need to follow your passion at Toi Whakaari.
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.
Download a copy of our 2011 ET brochure here.
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
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.
