Community Christmas Trees 2024
You want to be part of this?:
Get your team together and pick a date to visit one of our workshops. We provide everything - the paints and brushes and the cool vibe in the Incubator barn which is located in the Historic Village. While you are here your group can explore the great galleries and exhibitions and other great spots in the Village.
We need you to think about a theme that represents your group and we will set you up in advance with the colours and samples of designs or you can use your own. We will have one of our team here to help you achieve great results.
If access to the Village is a problem we can organise paint packs and tutors to come to you - you will need to liaise with us about an appropriate time and date.
All discs will need to be completed and returned by 18th November.
About the Project:
Since 2018 The Incubator Creative Hub has worked with Tauranga City Council to deliver a Christmas tree project where the community comes together to participate and celebrate creativity and showcase their organisations.
These huge distinctive trees have been designed by Māori Artist Ashleigh Luckman-Taupaki with kowhaiwhai patterns representing the Pohutukawa New Zealand Christmas tree.
Each year we invite community groups, art societies, schools and organisations to participate in group workshops to paint and embellish the adornment discs which will go on your tree. Your tree will be sign-written with your organisation name and featured in the Historic Village as part of 'Christmas in the Village' at the Historic Village Tauranga.
These trees will be formally celebrated on Saturday the 26th of November during a special event held by The Incubator at the Historic Village and will remain on show until early in the New Year.
Community Groups and Participants
2018
Otumoetai Primary School
Brookfield Primary School
Tauranga Intermediate School
Mount Intermediate School
Bellevue Primary School
Greerton Village School
Turning Point Trust
Parent 2 Parent
Waipuna Hospice staff and/or patients
Age Concern
Creative BOP team
Tauranga Writers
Women’s Refuge
Fine Line Tattoo (Historic Village)
Otumoetai Intermediate School
Historic Village Team
Tauranga Hospital Children’s Ward
The Kollective
Tauranga Special School
Gate Pa Primary School
Michelle Estall (Designated artist)
Nick Eggleston (Designated artist)
2019
Abbeys Place Childcare Brookfield
Arohanui Art and Education Trust
Gifts of Recovery -Addiction Support
Shakti Women’s Refuge
Tauranga Parents Centre
Village Childcare
Kaleidoscope Childcare
Project K Graeme Dingle
The Men’s Shed
TCC Elected Members
TCC Council Staff
TGA Hospital Children’s Ward
The Incubator Team
Kaimai School
BOP Regional Council staff
Otumoetai Intermediate Art Academy
Voyce - Whakarongo Mai
Waipu Hauora
Deaf Aotearoa
Socialink Tauranga Moana
School’s Out Tauranga
Stella Clark (Designed Artist)
Kristian Lomath (Designed Artist)
2020
Gender Dynamix
Honest Liars
Tauranga Hospital Children’s Ward
Kiwi-coast Lions
Ninja Knits
Steampunk Tauranga
Tourism BOP
Priority One Tauranga Moana
Tauranga Art Gallery team
Te Wharekura o Mauao students
Te Puke Repertory Theatre
NZ China Friendship Society TGA
Tauranga City Library team
Tauranga Youth Academy
Tuskany/Downtown Tauranga
The Remakers
Sunrise Rotary Club
Bob Owens Retirement Village
Impact Youth
Plunket
Merivale Community centre
Treehouse Kindergarten
Ivy Anderson Podmore (Designated Artist)
Nik Williams (Designated Artist)
2021
Otumoetai College
Biggles Early Learning Centre
TGA Hospital Children’s Ward
Merivale Primary School
NZ Prostitute Collective
Te Tomika Trust
Parent 2 Parent
Multicultural Tauranga
Shakti Women’s Refuge
Pillans Point Primary School
Envirohub BOP
Moraka Menstrual Cups
Grief Support Services
Under the Stars
The Salvation Army Community Ministries
Northern Health School
St Johns Ambulance
Steiger Group
Mental Health Services
Oncology Services TGA DHB
Waiariki Whanau Mentoring
Rural Women NZ
Ivy Anderson Podmore (Designated artist)
Sam Allen (Designated artist)
2022
Hauora a Toi BOP Children’s Ward
Tūhura
Northern Health School
New Shoots Children’s Centre
Resene Paint Shop Tauranga
The Artist Window Gallery
Papamoa Life Saving
Liberty Montessori
Impact Youth
Hauora a Toi BOP Executive Team
Tauranga City Council Staff
Good Sheet Collective
Okorore
SILC
Chinese Friendship Society
TINKD
K-Kids
Dominique Ford
Rolph Hediger
Te Whare Maiangiangi Unit
Te Toki Maurere Unit
Community Health Services TGA
Te Pare Ora
TCC staff and commissioners
2022
Hauora a Toi BOP Children’s Ward
Tūhura
Northern Health School
New Shoots Children’s Centre
Resene Paint Shop Tauranga
The Artist Window Gallery
Papamoa Life Saving
Liberty Montessori
Impact Youth
Hauora a Toi BOP Executive Team
Tauranga City Council Staff
Good Sheet Collective
Okorore
SILC
Chinese Friendship Society
TINKD
K-Kids
Dominique Ford
Rolph Hediger
Te Whare Maiangiangi Unit
Te Toki Maurere Unit
Community Health Services TGA
Te Pare Ora
TCC staff and commissioners
Thanks to our amazing supporters and partners!
