Transglobal Matariki Residency

Step into Matariki with four days of music, learning, and deep connection – with each other and the whenua. The Transglobal Matariki Residency is a 4-day educational workshop residency hosted by Arts Connections Oceania (ACO) at Āio Wīra Retreat Centre, Te Henga. This residency is both a music gathering and an educational space – a place to grow skills in intercultural music-sharing, facilitation, and inclusive practice.

Limited space – sign up today!

Drawing on Ethno-inspired pedagogy, developed over the past 35 years, and ACO’s experience in intercultural arts-making, the residency combines:

• Workshops led by facilitators in expertise across intercultural music making and facilitation, global arts management and human rights-based community practice
• Collaborative music-making
• Practical tools for working with diverse groups
• Peer learning and reflection
• Shared meals, jamming, community and land connection

This is a space for learning with each other through music, participation, and relationship as we gather in the season of Matariki.