Tāmaki Makaurau Creative Body Doubling
A weekly grassroots meet-up to do the work behind the creative tasks, the backend stuff, supported and motivated by peers. Think creative body doubling.
Less talking, more doing. ❤️ Less theory, more practice.
Please bring…
- Your laptop (important & required!)
- Koha to contribute to the room hire, admin, and for hot drinks.
- Optional, but so welcome: Snacks to share.
How does it work?
- Turn up anytime from 5.45pm.
- Sign up as guest at the door.
- Find a spot, log in to the wi-fi!
- Quick chat on things we’d like to achieve, maybe forming groups of similar goals for the day.
- Mini DIY workshops as needed.
- At the end, please look after your own dishes, recycle any rubbish and leave your spot behind as tidy as you found it for the next group.
Gribblehirst Community Hub, what’s that?
It’s what the name says, based in Gribblehirst Park in Sandringham, Tāmaki Makaurau.
We share a strong kaupapa towards building a community and creating a positive space for everyone.
It’s important that we respect the place and other people that might be using it at the time.
I strongly encourage everyone to sign up for access to the community hub themselves for your own set of keys and unlimited access whenever suits you best.
Next: TBC 2026
Every Tuesday, 6-8pm
Gribblehirst Community Hub (map)
BYO laptop (required!)
Free parking for cars & bicycles, wi-fi, sofas, tables to stand and sit, kitchen.
Have you ever watched creative industry panels and thought to yourself, woah, great tip, I’ll do that when I get home! And then you never did it?
In a super-cosy community environment, we’ll tackle all things creative admin, big and small, as a group of peers.
We’ll ask for industry help if we need to, do working bees to take new press shots of everyone, and naturally, there’ll be networking and maybe you’ll find someone you click with for your next creative collab, who knows?
Questions we’re likely to deal with:
How do I set up and run my small business as a creative?
Help, my bio needs updating, how do I do that?
How often should I post on social media, and what?
How do I get myself into the charts when I sell hard copies at my gigs?
Those funding applications are doing my head in, can anyone read over mine to make sure it’s good to go?
Listing events, so boring! But if we’re all doing them, at least we’re not alone.
How do I approach promoters for festivals or international support slots?
Gigging doesn’t make a ton of money – how can I monetise my music beyond the pittance that is streaming?
Who am I, what words do I want associated with myself, what feel should me “brand” as an artist convey?
It’s a place to look after your emails, do some research, your expenses, live returns, find a distributor you can trust and anything and everything in between!
Not sure where to even start? No worries, we’ll help!
Important stuff.
Let’s talk kaupapa!
This is all about creating an inclusive and safe space for creatives and people working in creative industries to literally work alongside each other.
Child-friendly, accessible.
Especially welcoming women, LGTBQIA+, migrants, all-ages folks, neurospicy crowds – and everyone else – in what is meant to be a safe space for all.
Please leave politics, religion and other contentious subjects behind at the door.
If “woke” is a negative word to you, this may not be the place for you. This is 100% a woke place.
What do you want to achieve with your art?
Let’s work on it!
Regular updates
Stay in the loop with everything you need to know.
There’s also a private Facebook group for participants that will be linked in emails coming from this mailinglist.
