~*~ Temp Cryptid Agency Online Office ~*~

...OK BUT, WHAT EVEN IS THE "TEMP CRYPTID AGENCY"?

a pop-up space brought to you by Haus of Haututuu and Cunty Cryptids Club. Two takataapui run toi initiatives based here in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara.

...IT'S A LIVING SPACE FOR TANGATA TO MAKE, PLAY AND REALISE. PART STUDIO, PART INSTALLATION AND FULL PORTAL, THIS THING GROWS EXTRA LIMBS EVERY TIME OUR PEOPLE ENTER IT. WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCE, DIMENSION HOPPING...

Wooden door with a hanging clear sign reading "TEMP CRYPTID AGENCY / TCA", a pale masked costume figure behind the glass — our actual front door!! the sign is real, the door is real, the creature behind the glass is on shift. (it says PULL. every one pushes.)

Our soul purpose, as printed: to create and hold decolonized art spaces where creatures from our queer and BIPOC community can feel free to express their true selves in their indigenous bodies.

HOT JOBS NEW! NEW!

PUBLIC PROGRAMME // OCTOBER 2026 // Te Aro, Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. Positions are temporary. Your true form is permanent.

Kanikani Kingi, a ram-horned, bat-winged cryptid, drawn in grey on cracked stone under the words Public Programme October 2026

POSITION #1 · Regional Creature Dept

World Building Workshop

Sat 3 Oct · 12pm to 4pm · FREE

Build your cryptid from the inside out. Who are they? Where do they come from? What do they want? How many kutuz do they have? ...Ditch the human logic and cook up something from your puku-manawa.

Ideal for: writers, illustrators, DnD enthusiasts & nerdy weirdos.

Supervisors: experienced kaimahi & storytellers.

Provided: the World Building for Kool Kuntz booklet + stationary.

POSITION #2 · Wardrobe & Skinsuit Services

Clothing Alteration Workshop

Sun 4 Oct · 12pm to 4pm · FREE

Join us for a crafternoon and steeze up your skinsuits.

Ideal for: makers, professional tutu's & sustainable fashion baddies.

BYO: kaakahu, or pick from the Normie drobe. Bring trinkets (buttons, acorns, scales, claws).

Duties: print making, patch making, sewing.

POSITION #3 · Hospitality (Cryptid Class)

High Tea

Sat 10 Oct · 4pm to 6pm

26 COURTENAY PL, TE ARO, WELLINGTON

Duties: sip. nibble. leave attitude in the foo fighter.

POSITION #4 · Performance Division

Open Mic Night

Sat 10 Oct · 6pm to 10pm

26 COURTENAY PL, TE ARO, WELLINGTON

Duties: get up. do the thing. we'd love to see your freak faces!!

>>> HOW 2 APPLY: CLICK HERE 2 SIGN UP!! (it used to say "link in bio". the link is now on the website. we are so proud of ourselfs.) <<<

STAFF OF THE MONTH

Our kaimahi work hard so you dont have to wear a human skin. Pls do not feed staff human logic.

Kanikani Kingi: a lilac-grey furry cryptid with coiled ram horns, four eyes, bat wings on the arms, gold talons, bird legs, a taaniko belt and a piupiu skirt — **KANIKANI KINGI** Dept: Public Programme (October 2026 mascot) Eyes: 4. Horns: 2. Punctuality: yes. Commendation: fronted the whole programme and didn't blink. (Two eyes did. The other two were on the clipboard.)

The Arona card: a magenta, violet and cobalt watercolour serpent with a koru-lined belly, blue three-pronged claws, white ridged horns, four eyes and a long pink beard, under hand-lettered Cryptids Club lettering and a CCC stamp — **ARONA** A card from the Cunty Cryptids Club deck. This serpent also fronts the Clothing Alteration Workshop posters. (artist credit pending)

A hooded costume on a mannequin, dark fabric with silver sleeves, gold beaded chains and pale fibre tassels, shot on grainy film — **ARONA'S KAAKAHU** Dept: Wardrobe & Skinsuit Services Status: off duty, on a mannequin, looking better than all of us. photo via @cryptids_club

A blank cryptid character sheet in salmon pencil: a bug-eyed insectoid head, a skinny figure with frog legs, and two floating three-fingered hands — **APPLICANT #[[ U ]]** Dept: pending (u haven't made them yet) Eyes: ur call. Kutuz: ur call. Commendation: fill it in (in ur head, or at the World Building Workshop).

Tikanga of te TCA

TO INTERACT WITH THE SPACE, HUMAN SKINS ARE FORBIDDEN.

PLEASE WEAR AN ITEM OF CLOTHING FROM THE ONSITE COMMUNITY WARDROBE TO ENTER INTO THE CRYPTID WORLD - OR BETTER YET BRING YOUR OWN!

THIS SPACE IS DEDICATED TO OUR TAKATAAPUI CREATURES SO THE SAFTEY OF OUR QUEER TANGATA WILL BE PRIORITISED ABOVE ALL ELSE.

From the Temp Cryptid Agency, quoted as printed.

BRANCH OFFICE (2024 archive): the Cnty Cryptids Crybz

A pocket dimension for takataapui youth that was entered via portal (a skux front-door re-vamp). It ran in 2024 and is closed now. This is the archive copy.

THIS AMBIENT, INTERACTIIVE LOW-STIMULATION SPACE WILL BE ACCESSIBLE VIA PORTAL AND WILL TAKE YOU ON THE ADVENTURE YOU'VE DEFINITELY ONLY DREAMED OF HAVING.

PAST EXHIBITIONS (2026 archive) CLOSED

Poster in magenta and blue: a horned, four-eyed serpent face with fangs, titled Whatua he Whiringa Takataapui, a queer whatu raranga exhibition

Whatua he Whiringa Takataapui: a queer whatu raranga exhibition. It ran in Kirikiriroa earlier in 2026 and it is over now. This is the archive copy, so pls dont turn up at the gallery.

poster via @cryptids_club

THE KYBER KAVES (where the terraforming happens)

Pages from the Koncept Kyber Kaves sketchbook: moss, coral, tendrils and the fungal kave fauna. They are habitat, not staff. Pls do not try to hire them, their very busy growing.

Gouache studies of two mushroom creatures, one pink and one orange, with ribbed gills, clawed feet and handwritten paint-mix notes — fungal kave fauna, colour tests

Coloured-pencil studies of pink tendrils, a small moss mound, branching coral and a blue unfurling fern frond — tendrils, moss, coral & a frond

Art from the Koncept Kyber Kaves sketchbook (artist credit pending).

OFFICE ETIQUETTE (from the break room wall)

wearing of skins is discouraged
leave attitude in the foo fighter
xenophobia *not* tolerated

MEMO 2 ALL STAFF: THE WEIRDO'S HAVE OFFICALLY ENTERED THE CHAT. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? IT'S CRAFT TIME

WE KNOW KARE - YOU'VE BEEN VOYAGING DEEP SPACE FOR TOO LONG NOW. ... THE WEIRD AND THE WONDERFUL ARE AMOUNG US. ASTRONESIAN FUTURISIMS RUN DEEP IN OUR VEINS. BE HOHA NO LONGER.

TIME TO YANK THE HUMAN GUISE AND RETURN TO YOUR TRUE FORM. YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR IWI. THE CREATURES OF THE CRYPTIDS CLUB WELCOME YOU WITH OPEN ARMS.

✎ GUESTBOOK ✎ sign it or the Normie Drobe keeps ur coat

Name: Kanikani Kingi · From: the programme cover · Posted: 03:33am

first!!!! also second, third and fourth (I have four eyes, I read everything four times)
Name: Applicant #[[ U ]] · From: a character sheet · Posted: just now

hi i left my human guise in the foo fighter. is it lost property or is it urs now

>> webmaster: we know kare. it's ours now. welcome 2 the agency
Name: a Normie Drobe coat hanger · From: the onsite community wardrobe · Posted: Sun 12pm

pls bring back the buttons u borrowed. and the acorns. and the claws

~~ SHRINE: Fine Dining For Freaks ~~ guestbook memories

Seraphina and Skankenstein on a window seat at night, one in a teal mask with orange flowers, one in a flower-crowned blue mask and plaid jacket — Seraphina & Skankenstein, dressed for dinner

the table, live from the shrine. (13 sec, no sound, candles still going)

Once upon a pop-up, the crew threw Fine Dining For Freaks: a safe territory for different inter-galactic species to meet and get good food.

There were candles. There was moss on the table. There was flash boil up. There was, as the crew put it, a bunch of whreaks.

If u locked eyes with someone across the candles and never got there name…

>> post it in the MISSED CONNECTIONS <<

NEW! BREAKING: a galactic nokia was found fossilised in the road. artefact of a dead civilisation. we think it fell out of someones pocket on the way home from FDFF, which explains why nobody swapped numbers. see the lost + found

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