TAPAC, The Auckland Performing Arts Centre, is a not-for-profit performing arts venue at 100 Motions Road in Western Springs, Auckland. It has a theatre, professional studios and rehearsal spaces, and runs performing arts education for children and adults, including after-school, evening and weekend classes.
The website says TAPAC runs almost 2,000 classes a year for all ages and abilities, and its holiday programmes cover drama, circus arts, filmmaking, screenwriting and hip hop, often ending with a family performance. A parent says her three children attend after-school and holiday programmes and that the classes, such as acting for screen and Shakespeare acting for teens, are unlike anything else. The theatre and studios are available to hire by the community at what the website calls affordable rates, with a rate card on request.