Internships

Employers are invited to participate in our media arts internship programme.

Students from the School of Media Arts are available to intern with employers who can benefit from their skills and talents. Areas of expertise include moving image, photography, graphic design, digital design, journalism, painting, sculpture, audio engineering, music, sound design, public relations and advertising.

What are internships?

Internships are 120 hour placements of Wintec students, offering a structured form of work experience that students receive course credit for.

How it works

Students keep a daily journal, build a portfolio and present a seminar and written report to their peers. The employer sets the student's tasks and projects, and completes an evaluation form on completion to provide feedback on the student's performance. Find out more about the details and employer benefits of internships in the FAQ section.

Further information

For further information contact the Internship director.

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Projects

New Wave publication project

A book put together by Media Arts staff and students records the journeys of 18 migrants who now live in Hamilton, but were born outside New Zealand. The New Wave: Hamilton’s Migrant Community, looks at the growing diversity of Hamilton’s population. While 70 percent of Hamilton is broadly defined as European, and 20 percent as Māori and Pasifika, there are also citizens from 160 ethnic backgrounds. Journalism tutor Charles Riddle says it is this last 10 percent of the city's population that is fascinatingly diverse and makes for interesting reading. Around 15 students worked on the publication under the expert guidance of editor in residence Aimie Cronin. The project team also worked closely with the Hamilton Migrant Centre and the Hamilton City Council. The book is the first phase in a two-year project which will culminate with an exhibition in the Waikato Museum.

New Wave Launch books Photo by Geoff Ridder

River City Sound sessions

A moving image student produced a multi-camera production making live videos for local bands.

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Matariki Interactive Waka project

The Matariki Interactive Waka Project is a multi-disciplinary project that aims to create an interactive waka sculpture that will sit beside the Waikato River at Hamilton’s Ferrybank Park and draw the people of the city back to the river.

It’s a community project lead by Media Arts tutor Joe Citizen with Wintec students in the areas of Trade, Engineering, Media Arts and Early Childhood acting as co-creators of the sculpture. We also have several Wintec staff members and independent researchers on board who are all working hard towards a final goal that benefits the people of Hamilton and visitors to this beautiful place. We are also working in partnership with Wintec’s Maori Achievement Office who are advising on tikanga, matauranga and whenua consultation.

Artist's impression of Tōia Mai, Hamilton’s new interactive waka sculpture to be gifted by Wintec.

Moving Image students profile Waikato Museum

One of Moving Image Production students assignments is a group client-based Documentary. This is the fourth year we have teamed up with Waikato Museum who has been our Client for two Museum staff profiles that share behind the scenes stories at the Waikato Museum. Over the last few years of this ongoing community project, Moving Image students have made an excellent range of videos highlighting a variety of Museum staff profiles: what they do, how they do it and why they like working at the Waikato Museum. We look forward to continuing our relationship with the Waikato Museum again in the near future.

News

Wintec academics cook up must-see new musical

Tuesday, 02 February 2021

Mum's Kitchen was created at Wintec and is being performed by renowned New Zealand cast at Hamilton's Meteor Theatre

David Sidwell who leads Music and Performing Arts at Wintec worked with a Wintec team to create the new musical, Mum’s Kitchen.

The new musical, Mum’s Kitchen opens at The Meteor Theatre in Hamilton on Friday 5 February with an outstanding New Zealand cast.

Mum’s Kitchen was conceived collaboratively by Wintec Music and Performing Arts academics, David Sidwell, Nick Braae, Jeremy Mayall, and Kyle Chuen, with each taking specific responsibilities during the creative process. Chuen completed the script; Braae wrote the lyrics and half of the songs; Sidwell composed the remainder of the songs and Mayall brought the music to life through delicate orchestrations for a seven-piece ensemble.

The name Mum’s Kitchen may be familiar – the first act was written and performed back in August 2019. After six months of further development and refining, and a year of Covid-19 related delays, the cast and creative team are back together to bring Hamilton audiences the full version of this intimate, warm, and touching new work.

Head of Wintec Music and Performing Arts and the director of Mum’s Kitchen, David Sidwell says the show is being performed by an outstanding cast of renowned New Zealand performers.

“Thanks to a Wintec Visiting Research Fellow Grant, the cast includes New Zealand-born international performer Nic Kyle (with credits throughout North America, the West End, and Australasia); Scot Hall, Kyle Chuen, and Julia Booth, who are all very familiar to Waikato audiences from numerous shows of recent years.”

For Sidwell, working with this professional cast and seeing the musical come to life is a dream come true.

“The cast brings an extremely high level of skill, experience and creativity to the roles. It’s wonderful to see how they have each taken the characters and brought such life to them. Waikato audiences are in for a real treat to see performers of this calibre sharing a stage with support from Hamilton’s leading theatre musicians.

Wintec academic Nick Brae (L) and the team refining the original musical Mum's Kitchen

Wintec academic Nick Braae working with the Wintec team on the musical, Mum's Kitchen, a story about the different ways we cope with loss.

Mum’s Kitchen is about three brothers who gather back at their family farm for the first time in fifteen years. Their mother has passed away. The musical tells a funny, sentimental, yet very real story of the brothers dealing with memories of home and their relationships with each other, at a time when the cold-hard logistics of a funeral and settling an estate are affected by emotional upheaval and change. Most of all, it is about the different ways we try (and sometimes fail) to say goodbye to those who mean the most to us.

Mum’s Kitchen will be performed over six nights at The Meteor Theatre from Friday 5 February – Saturday 13 February, 7.30pm. Tickets are available online from The Meteor.

Find out more about studying Music and Performing Arts with Wintec School of Media Arts.

Events

Ramp Gallery |Thought Crimes
02 May 2024
Join us on opening night to celebrate McClure’s new work in his solo exhibition with Ramp.
Ngā Rā Tūwhera | Open Day
30 Aug 2024
Explore your future options at Ngā Rā Tūwhera | Open Day! This whānau-friendly experience is the perfect opportunity to meet our teams, discover course options, and get a sense of what study is all about.