Ockham Collective is a registered charitable trust that provides rehearsal, teaching and performance spaces for artists and educators in Auckland. The largest space is in The Nix building at 6 Nixon Street in Grey Lynn, just behind the car yards at the start of Great North Road. The website says it suits workshops, intimate performances, salon sessions, music lessons, open-mic nights and pop-up exhibitions. A second space, 60 square metres in the Tuatahi building in Mount Albert, is fitted out for one-on-one music instruction.
The trust was founded as The Ockham Foundation in 2009 with a focus on education, and it extended that focus to creativity in 2019. Its annual residency programme brought together artists and educators and gave them space to perform, practise, teach and write. We hear that the residency programme has now concluded, and there will be no applications for 2026 and beyond. People can sign up to the trust's mailing list for news and events.