🫵We need YOU!
TinyFest returns this June, taking over the Christchurch Bus Interchange from 19–21 June. We’re looking for volunteers to join the Tiny Crew across Friday night through to Sunday evening.
You can be:
⚡ushering audiences
⚡supporting artists in real time
⚡collecting koha on the bus
⚡ helping keep the festival flowing
⚡creating creative responses to performances
This year’s theme, INTERxCHANGE explores movement, transition, and connection through site-responsive performance. You’ll find activations, talks, music, installations, and live encounters across the Bus Interchange and central city spaces.
This is a chance to be part of a weekend filled with experimental art, creative energy, and meaningful encounters...if that sounds like your kind of weekend, jump aboard.
⚡Fill out the form in our bio before the 25th of May
or email your interest to [email protected] and we’ll get back to you.
Thank you for your submissions! ⚡️😍⚡️
We are super excited to go through the applications and our team is going to do our best to get back to you as soon as we can!
Keep an eye out for your mailboxes! ;)
Now, spread the word and save the date for the festival at the Interchange! 19-21 June 🚌⚡️
🚌 FINAL CALL
We’re looking for experimental, site-responsive performance works for our arrival at the Bus Interchange this June, exploring themes of transit, crossings, thresholds, encounters.
⚡Applications close this Sunday 10th of May!
→ Full info via link in bio + on our website
⚡“The festival has begun.
The festival has always-already begun.”
Our new website is now live, including the TinyFest Manifesto: a deeper look into our kaupapa, curatorial thinking, and the ways we approach the wild, strange, thoughtful and unexpected proposals that come our way.
📣Our 2026 artist callout for INTERxCHANGE is currently open, inviting performance work for the Bus Interchange this June.
👉Applications close this Sunday 10th of May!
Find all info through the link in our bio.
Send us your pitch—we’d love to see what you’re cooking up.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
🚌 Don’t miss the bus.
📸Photo credit:
Tiny Fest 2021
Hōhepa Waitoa and Mahi Mahi Productions
Photo by @petramingneau
⚡INTERxCHANGE - Call for Artists
We’re arriving at the Bus Interchange: 19-21st of June
A place of transit. Of crossing paths.
Of brief encounters and constant movement.
We’re looking for performance work that can live within this environment:
responsive, adaptive, and aware of the audience passing through.
Due to the nature of the space and resources, works should be minimal in setup and able to respond to the live environment.
We can’t wait to receive your pitches!
⏳ Applications close 10 May
→ All info and Application form via link in bio
If you’re unable to submit through the form, email your proposal or any questions you might have to
📩[email protected]
ELECTRIC BODIES 12. O Que Estamos Fazendo | What are we doing here by Josiah Morgan & Dominic Hamilton in collaboration with Dispendio Grupo (BR) 📸 by @owen.spargo
What's up with Tiny Fest? ...looking a little different 👀
Following our 2025/26 kaupapa, INTERxCHANGE, we’ve been on the move: connecting, collaborating, and exchanging across and beyond Te Waipounamu.
After our Tiny Grem Fest fundraising fest, co-hosted with @gremlins.otautahi , we kicked off 2026 with our first cross-city, cross-festival iteration alongside @performanceartweekaotearoa (and we’re still reliving those moments through our archive as it continues to unfold!). And before we could even catch our breath, we began a beautiful collaboration with @mana.tipua , who is currently enchanting the realms of words and sound through their Tiny Tipua EP ✨
Oof. Exciting times.
And now—it’s YOUR moment to jump on the bus with us 🚌
We’re brewing a fresh programme and will be sharing more info (and a call-out!) very soon.
Heads up: this year’s artist call-out (and turnaround) will be quick.
Keep your eyes peeled… You won’t want to miss this bus 😉
