How it Works

Galleries, Meeting Rooms and Workshop Spaces

Please visit us here at CAN to discuss your booking needs with a member of our Bookings Team –  or email us at bookings@thecan.co.nz.

• If you are wanting to exhibit your work it would be great to see images of your work or the originals – you can email us images in advance.
• Spaces are also available for small events and workshops.

Come and look around CAN to see which of our spaces would be more suitable for your exhibition, workshop or event.

Our Bookings Team will be able to advise on the potential availability of our spaces.

Renting a Gallery Space:

• The CAN has a variety of gallery spaces available to rent.
• The stunning Main Gallery is perfect for large or group exhibitions.
• The gorgeous Small Gallery is perfect for smaller exhibitions and is light and bright.
• The large Workshop Gallery available by the calendar month – the whole workshop or 1 of 4 bays.  Suitable for emerging artists and groups.
• Two smaller areas in the Foyer and Under the Stairs also available by the calendar month are perfect for first time exhibitors and ‘micro’ exhibitions.
• The fully equipped Workshop is also available to hire for workshops, meetings and events.

As a Community Arts Centre we support emerging artists and will do everything we can to make an artist’s exhibition a success, many of our exhibitions are by artists showing for the very first time, and we also have a full program of professional artists exhibiting alongside those starting out.

We offer unique free services to exhibiting artists; CAN will send out an invitation to the over 2000 people on our database, list the event on the CAN website, on social media channels,  and workshops on Link and Learn.  We can advise on framing, pricing and presenting the work, and our gallery technician will hang the artworks to look their best, labelled professionally.

Come in and have a chat with us about your exhibition or event – our Bookings Team is available Mondays to Fridays from 10am-4pm.  However we are currently open Monday-Saturday for you to view.

For more information…

Click here to download our Artists Information Pack for terms & conditions.