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 2012 Technology 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

More than 120 people have graduated from the Entertainment Technology and Performing Arts Management programmes and around 85% of those are still working in the industry with jobs as wide ranging as model makers, technical operators, designers, mechanists and multimedia operators. Many graduates have taken their valuable transferable skills and are successful in other sectors as well – check out some of them here….

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“The Toi Whakaari course achieves an effective balance in ensuring students are well versed in all aspects of performance design, craft and technology, essential skills for a company like Selecon serving the world wide entertainment lighting industry.”

Jeremy Collins

Managing Director Selecon

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