Squiggla

Squiggla is a creative thinking programme that exercises the creative mind through mark making.

23/04/2026

We were absolutely blown away by the creativity and inventiveness everyone brought to the .platform Berm Biennale last Saturday 🎨✨ It’s amazing what can become a mark making tool: leaves, grass, a broom… even a marshmallow! 🌿🧹🍡

The long weekend is the perfect opportunity to get outside and experiment with some of these ideas in your own mark making 🌞🌈

20/04/2026

Do you have a VIP Pass to the Aotearoa Art Fair?

Join Squiggla’s exclusive VIP workshop with Salome Tanuvasa via the Aotearoa Art Fair VIP Portal. Bring along a photo or piece of fabric as your visual prompt and transform it into your own wearable artwork. Along the way, you’ll explore mark making techniques and build richly layered surfaces to incorporate into your final piece.

🗓️ Friday 1 May
⏰ 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Viaduct Events Centre, 161 Halsey Street, Wynyard Quarter
🎟️ Free with an Aotearoa Art Fair VIP Pass

08/04/2026

Wear your marks! At this year’s , Squiggla Wearables invites you to transform Squiggla’s fundamental elements — marks, dots, and lines — into playful sculptural adornments.

Begin by experimenting with mark making on vibrant card and tactile fabrics, then bring your designs to life using our treasure trove of materials. Cut, layer, tie and thread your elements with yarns, ribbons, shoelaces and more to construct a one-of-a-kind necklace, brooch, or other Squiggla Wearable.

🗓️ 30 April – 3 May 2026
📍 Viaduct Events Centre, 161 Halsey Street, Wynyard Quarter
🎟️ Free with Aotearoa Art Fair admission

For further details and to purchase tickets please visit www.artfair.co.nz

07/04/2026

Experimental architecture collective .platform is hosting the Berm Biennale: a series of playful berm activations across Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland that explore the creative potential of the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street.

Squiggla is excited to join the fun with a Squiggla Making Space right outside our Onehunga headquarters. Come along for free-form mark making and creative play!

🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏰ 12pm – 2pm
📍 Outside 4 Princes Street, Onehunga, Auckland
🎟️ FREE

30/03/2026

This Easter Saturday, Squiggla is hosting a Squiggla Making Space at Mt Eden’s first-ever World of Craft & Food Cultural Market! 🐣

Join Squiggla for free, improvisational mark making activities, and create surrounded by art, food, and crafts from around the world.

Auckland City Council supports this event as part of World of Cultures 2026.

🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏰ 10am - 2pm
📍 Mount Eden War Memorial Hall, 489 Dominion Road, Auckland
🎟️ FREE

23/03/2026

We’re hiring!

The Chartwell Trust is looking for a new person to join our team as the Squiggla Community Programme Developer.

The role is based in Auckland and offers a minimum of 15 and maximum of 20 hours per week (flexible). We offer flexible and hybrid working between the office, home and the community.

Interested? Find out more at squiggla.org/news-events or thebigidea.nz/jobs

04/03/2026

Join Squiggla at the iconic — a free, family-friendly celebration of everything that makes Newtown exciting, diverse, and vibrant — for a full day of improvised mark and instrument making, created in communion and collaboration with the festival’s dance, music, and street sensations.

All materials provided. All ages welcome. Come flex your creative muscles in the Squiggla gymnasium!

🗓️ This Sunday 8 March!
⏰ 10am - 6pm
📍 Donald McLean Street, Newtown, Wellington
🎟️ FREE

For further details of this event, please visit the Newtown Festival website

03/03/2026

Join Squiggla at the iconic for a full day of improvised mark and instrument making!

🗓️ This Sunday March 8!
⏰ 10am - 6pm
📍 Donald McLean Street, Newtown, Wellington
🎟️ Free

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http://Squiggla.org/

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