Want to browse our collection by area and subcategory?

The Learning Centre has been split into two sections, a closed stack and an open browsing section. For ease of navigation, the open browsing section has been divided by areas of interest by our kaiako, which are organised into lists below. If you want to know more about items in our closed stacks (which can be searched for using the main catalogue search bar above) please get in touch with Learning Centre staff. 

Below are all of the subcategories for each area of our open browsing collection. Simply click on the subcategory you are interested in and browse the list from there.

To locate the item physically, refer to the Learning Centre map. 

Remember, there are similar lists with lots of crossover, so have a good look through the subcategories to make sure you don't miss anything!


Areas without subcategories that you may wish to browse: 
Decolonisation | Rainbow | NZSD | Journals | Plays | Oversized | Theory | Selected Toi Whakaari productions

Aotearoa	Hauora	Research
Aotearoa art	Anxiety	Analysing theatre
Aotearoa fiction	Body language	Critical thinking
Aotearoa film/screen	Creativity	Finding research resources
Aotearoa history and culture	Disability and education access	Research design
Aotearoa photography	Leadership	Research in the arts
Aotearoa poetry	Neurodiversity	Research project guides
Aotearoa songs, music, waiata	Play	Study skills and writing
Aotearoa theatre - companies, venues, history	Psychology
Aotearoa writing/essays	Self-help
Wellington region	Stage fright and acting philosophy
Wētā and Lord of the Rings

Design	Anthologies	Set & Props
Art/design in world/political contexts	Africa	Animation
Art history	Aotearoa + Pacific	Character design
Audience and spectators	Asia	Concept design
Audiovisual media	Auditions	Drawing
Colour	Australia	Film
Costume	Canada	Leather work
Creative process and career	Central + South America	Model making
Design history	Classical	Props
Hauntology	England	Puppetry
Light	Europe	Scenery and staging
Performance art and installations	General	Scenic painting
Practical art skills	Middle East	Sculpture
Practitioner profiles and case studies	Rainbow	Theatrical design
Scenography	UK + Ireland
Space, location, site-specific	United States
Symbology, patterns and motifs
The body
Theatrical design

Costume	Acting	Production
Accessories	Accents and dialects	AV
Carpets	Aotearoa	Control systems & Visualisation
Children's clothing	Aotearoa theatre history	Electronics
Company case studies	Art - History and practitioners	Event Management
Corsetry	Biographies	Financial management/Touring
Cosplay, 3D Craft, Foam, Electronics, etc.	Cambridge companions to Playwrights	Fish’s faves/Handbooks/Glossaries
Costume department production roles	Classics - Greek/Roman theatre	General
Costume design	Dictionaries, Phrasebooks, Thesauruses, etc.	Leadership/Collaboration
Costume/Fashion History	Essays	Lighting
Digital textile design	Fiction	Marketing
Draping, Patterning, Cutting + Construction	Film companions	Producing
Drawing and rendering	Film directors interviews/spotlights	Production Management
Dyeing and surface techniques	General theory	Props
Fabrics and their properties	Location specific film	Recording/Sound
Footwear	Making/performing musical theatre	Scenery/Staging
Hairstyles	Musical theatre, vocal selections/songbooks	Set/Mechanics/Rigging
Iron	Opera	Small business/Starting a company
Jewellery	Photography	Stage Management
Makeup	Physical health	Sustainable theatre
Manipulating fabric	Play companions	Theatrical design/Theatrical technologies
Māori crafts	Poetry
Masks	Practitioner profiles
Millinery	Practitioner specific performance theory
Moko and tattoo	Rainbow
Needlework, Handstitching, Embroidery	Shakespeare
Period specific patterns and techniques	Stanislavski
Practitioner profiles/Case studies	Studying/making film
Screen (and stage) makeup	Te Tiriti
Special effects makeup	Theatre history
Stage makeup	Theatre/performance theory
Sustainability and care/repair	Vocal work
Textile history	Voice acting
Underwear/Lingerie	Waiata, Māori music and performing arts
Weaponry	Writing/Analysing plays
Weaving, Sprang, Knitting, etc.
Wigs
World of WearableArt
World textiles