The Asian Aotearoa Arts Huì aims to support Asian New Zealand arts practitioners through presenting practice, sharing ideas and networking. It seeks to make visible settlement histories in Aotearoa and the creative cross-cultural conversations generating from our relationships with Māori, Pasifika, Pākeha, other migrant communities and with each other. This is a result of a decade of sustained creative conversations and collaboration since the inaugural Chinese New Zealand Artists Hui at Corbans Estate, Auckland (2013) and the first Asian New Zealand Artists Hui at Te Tuhi in Auckland (2017). 

The Asian Aotearoa Arts Huì (AAH2018) was a public festival, symposium and national gathering that celebrated diverse expressions of ‘Asianness’ in Aotearoa in the Arts. It was a special opportunity to engage with themes of knowledge, encounter and visibility through exhibitions, talks and workshops by leading and emerging contemporary Asian New Zealand creative practitioners.

Following AAAH2018 and AAA2019, Te Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Wellington, presented the AAA2022 programme for students, staff, alumni and community members in Pōneke Wellington that centred Asian Tauiwi arts, whakapapa, whanaungatanga and cultural wellness in our current times. AAA2023 and AAA2024 are the latest in our series of programmes.