We invite you to help us cherish creative work by women and by nonbinary people, for another half-century.
THE BASICS
Please cherish women and nonbinary creatives and their/ our work whenever and wherever you can, and help advocate for better conditions for them/us. Any old time, any old where. With or without Spiral.
Your awhi matters. Your tautoko matters.
Outside the Women's Gallery, Harris Street, Wellington,
participants in Opening Show 1980. L-R Marian Evans, Allie Eagle, Nancy Peterson, Juliet Batten, Anna Keir, Heather McPherson, Bridie Lonie, Keri Hulme. In front: Brigid Eyley, Claudia Pond Eyley. Absent: Kanya [Carole] Stewart, Helen Rockel, Joanna [Margaret] Paul. Photograph Fiona Clark/Women’s Gallery.
Home cooking and offers of support for caring responsibilities are almost always welcome.
Many of us have unmet housing and health needs. As a charity, Spiral dreams of helping to change this.
We also do the best we can to offer the best we can as widely as possible, to benefit as many as possible, in ways large and small.
Opening course for one of Dr P’s dinners for writers. Photograph Spiral.
WAYS TO
JOIN US
We need donations & they keep us going. We’d also love your help with practical matters.
We deeply appreciate the many generous individuals and corporate bodies who offer us awhi and tautoko when we need it. For a current list see our latest Annual Report). We cherish the reciprocal elements of this and enjoy passing on the love we’re given.
HELP BUILD SCREEN AUDIENCES
Help us build screen audiences for work written and directed by women and nonbinary people: watch out for our/their work on social media, streamers, cinema and televisions, and share with others what interests and excites you.
Building screen audiences at the Young Readers Programme, Karukatea Featherston Booktown 2024.
L-R Cushla Parekowhai Marian Evans Joanna Osborne. Photograph Karukatea.
FUTURE ARCHIVES
Are there women and nonbinary artists and writers in your life? You help us when you help them to maintain their archives — domestic and creative — and to make plans about where to house them safely.
Future generations will love these resources! Contact us for advice.
Fragments from our archives at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Full images & more details in Spiral Projects 1975-2025: CATALOGUE.
Free to read and download (makiriri 2025).
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DEVICES FOR REDISTRIBUTION TO WOMEN ARTISTS AND WRITERS
Many creatives who are women or nonbinary people cannot easily replace essential hardware, so we have a programme that recycles used phones and computers and offers them to individuals.
Joanna Margaret Paul in our Women’s Gallery office, at our only typewriter, Opening Show, 1980. Keri Hulme completed her ‘He Hōhā’ poem at the same typewriter in the same week. Screenshot from raw footage by Kanya Stewart and Nancy Peterson, Auckland Women's Community Video.
YOUR OWN SPIRAL PROJECT
Like what we do? Have something you want to publish or exhibit?
As a 'last resort' organisation in the past, we're especially keen to support projects you undertake as a 'last resort' because publishers or dealer galleries or other organisations are not interested in the content. We're often at capacity and unable to fund you, but an association with us may help you.
Ask us if we can umbrella your autonomous project, lend you the Spiral logo! And then go for it.
YOUR TIME
Please feel free to offer your practical skills. Volunteers sustain us and a gift of your time is precious to us. Now and then we welcome help with research, transcription, proof reading, design, tech stuff, running social media and with our events, record keeping, accountancy, archival and legal issues.
Invitation to the launch of Jacquie Sturm’s The House of the Talking Cat 1983. Text and design Irihapeti Ramsden.
YOUR KARAKIA & PRAYERS
Even the unbelievers amongst us welcome and cherish your karakia and your prayers that support our kaupapa and intentions.
Spirituality exhibition Women’s Gallery 26 Harris Street Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington 1981. Poster Anna Keir and Marian Evans.
YOUR INFORMATION
We love news that’s relevant to our work. What’s happening behind the scenes that we’d like to learn about, take part in?
For instance, many of us are debating AI. Yes, AI can be handy. But our books and images have been ‘scraped’ to train AI, without any negotiation or compensation. There’s no urgent legislation or legal challenge underway that will protect our interests, as far as we know. We keep an eye out, through the excellent Copyright Licensing New Zealand newsletters and elsewhere, but...
This Joyous, Chaotic Place: He Waiata Tangi-ā-Tahu exhibition opening at Mokopōpaki, Auckland, 2018. Back L-R: Jane Zusters, Dr. P., Jacob Raniera, Dianne Rereina Potaka-Wade, Marian Evans; middle, L-R: Allie Eagle, Adrienne Martyn, Tilly Lloyd; front,L-R: Annie Mein, Bridie Lonie. Photograph Sriwhana Spong, courtesy of Jane Zusters.
YOUR CONNECTIONS
If you think an introduction might be helpful, we’d love to hear from you.
The Topp Twins at the Women’s Gallery 323 Willis Street Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington 1982. L-R Jules Topp, Lynda Topp. Photograph probably Barb McDonald.