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Creative New Zealand Adds $13m To Initial Emergency Arts Funding
Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 5:00 pm | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand has dug deep to respond to the extraordinary volume of applications for its COVID-19 Emergency Response Package, investing an additional $13 million in its now closed first phase of arts funding. Arts Council leadership on Friday ... More >>
Creative New Zealand Welcomes Biggest Government Investment In The Arts For Two Decades
Saturday, 30 May 2020, 7:46 am | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand is thrilled with the Government’s multimillion-dollar investment in the arts and culture sector – the biggest government investment since 2000 – which will strengthen the organisation’s ability to support the arts community’s ... More >>
Massive Response To Creative NZ's COVID-19 Emergency Support, With Some Phase 1 Timeframes Shortened
Saturday, 16 May 2020, 6:42 am | Creative New Zealand
In just four weeks, Creative New Zealand has invested almost $8 million of an available $16 million through Phase 1 of its COVID-19 Emergency Response Package and, due to the overwhelming response, will shorten the application timeframe for two opportunities ... More >>
Creative New Zealand Calls On Aotearoa – Share Your Thanks For Ngā Toi (the Arts)
Friday, 17 April 2020, 1:14 pm | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand today, 17 April, launched a national advocacy campaign to highlight and celebrate that right now, in bubbles nationwide, the arts are making COVID-19 lockdown a better place to be. Ngā toi (the arts) are crucial for New Zealanders’ ... More >>
Creative New Zealand Opens First Phase Funding For COVID-19-impacted Arts Sector
Tuesday, 14 April 2020, 1:54 pm | Creative New Zealand
Today, Tuesday 14 April, Creative New Zealand has opened its first phase Emergency Response Package, a $16 million investment to be distributed to the arts sector through to 30 June 2020 (the end of Creative New Zealand’s financial year). A second phase, ... More >>
Details Of Creative New Zealand’s First Phase Arts Sector Boost, Ahead Of 14 April Opening
Tuesday, 7 April 2020, 7:07 am | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand’s Emergency Response Package reflects a changed landscape, delivers opportunities for new and refocused creative projects that work in that new landscape, and bolsters a sector knocked to its knees by the impact of COVID-19. ... More >>
Creative New Zealand’s First Phase COVID-19 Response, $16m
Wednesday, 25 March 2020, 8:37 am | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand can now confirm its Emergency Response Package, announced on Friday in response to COVID-19, will include a first phase $16 million investment to buffer and support the arts community, with benefits extending well beyond the ... More >>
Creative New Zealand Establishes Multi-million Dollar COVID-19 Response
Friday, 20 March 2020, 7:30 pm | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand’s governing body, the Arts Council, has empowered the national arts development agency to establish a multi-million-dollar Emergency Response Package to support artists, arts practitioners, arts groups and arts organisations coping ... More >>
Creative NZ board appointments
Friday, 13 December 2019, 2:25 pm | Creative New Zealand
Janine Morrell-Gunn, Riria Hotere-Barnes and John Ong have been appointed to the board of Creative NZ (the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa) and Roger King has been appointed for a further term, Manatū Taonga Ministry for Arts, Culture ... More >>
Nancy Brunning honored at Te Waka Toi Awards
Sunday, 1 December 2019, 11:58 am | Creative New Zealand
Actor, writer, director and producer, Nancy Brunning was recognised for her contribution to Māori arts tonight at the 2019 Te Waka Toi Awards held in Rotorua. Awarded the Te Tohu Kē a Te Waka Toi award for significant, positive impact on the development ... More >>
Berlin residency to examine role of censorship in activism
Monday, 25 November 2019, 2:14 pm | Creative New Zealand
Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Arts Residency to examine role of historic censorship in modern-day activism More >>
Outstanding Pasifika artists to be celebrated
Monday, 7 October 2019, 9:58 am | Creative New Zealand
The annual Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards recognise innovation and excellence in Pacific Arts and their contribution to the rich diversity of Aotearoa as a multi-cultural Pacific nation. Seven Pasifika artists will be honoured this year at a ceremony at ... More >>
Biennale Arte 2021: NZ’s artist and curator announced
Monday, 16 September 2019, 4:17 pm | Creative New Zealand
The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is pleased to announce interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara as New Zealand’s artist for the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia presented in 2021. More >>
Budding poet to explore identity and society through Bursary
Tuesday, 27 August 2019, 4:35 pm | Creative New Zealand
“My first book took over 10 years to write, partly because I lacked time to devote to writing, and partly because I had trouble taking myself seriously as a writer,’ says poet Oscar Upperton, who has been awarded the 2019 Creative New Zealand Louis ... More >>
Help us shape support for sustainable careers in the arts
Tuesday, 13 August 2019, 2:08 pm | Creative New Zealand
We’re inviting public comment and feedback on our response to A Profile of Creative Professionals, the research seeking to better understand career sustainability in the arts and creative industries. More >>
First Māori writer to receive Michael King Fellowship
Thursday, 1 August 2019, 2:20 pm | Creative New Zealand
Dr Mere Whaanga (Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Pahauwera) is the first Māori writer to be awarded the prestigious Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer’s Fellowship . Dr Whaanga was awarded $100,000 to complete a book that ... More >>
Largest delegation of artists to represent NZ in Edinburgh
Friday, 26 July 2019, 3:10 pm | Creative New Zealand
New Zealand arts are thriving in Edinburgh, with a formidable line up of New Zealand theatre companies, artists, writers and performers set to entertain and amaze at the world’s most prestigious festival city this August. More >>
NZ theatre picked by SoHo Playhouse for New York showcase
Wednesday, 24 July 2019, 10:26 am | Creative New Zealand
We are thrilled to announce three NZ shows all featuring Māori and Pacific performers have been selected for a 2020 showcase in New York! More >>
$100,000 Fellowship granted for experimental choreography
Tuesday, 16 July 2019, 6:40 pm | Creative New Zealand
“I rage against the idea of dance as an elitist art form,” says dance practitioner Sacha Copland, who has been granted the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Choreographic Fellowship to bring her experimental, highly-participatory project, Beginning Again ... More >>
Important role young men play in traditional Sāmoan society
Wednesday, 10 July 2019, 12:44 pm | Creative New Zealand
Wellington Pacific dancer and choreographer Tupe Lualua will embark on a journey exploring the traditional role of the taule'ale'a (untitled man) within the village community as the 2019 Creative New Zealand Sāmoa Artist in Residence. More >>