Funding | Pacific Arts Committee
Kia Ora, Kia Orana, Malo e lelei, Talofa lava, Ni sa bula, Kam na mauri, Taalofa, Fakalofa lahi atu, Halo olgeta, Taloha ni, Ia ora na.
This section describes the types of activities that the Pacific Arts Committee funds. The information in this section is also available in the seven main Pacific languages: Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, Niuean, Tokelauan, Cook Islands Maori and Tuvaluan.
Application workbook and application template
Once you've read the relevant information in this section, you'll need to start preparing your application. For guidelines on how to put an application together, please refer to the Application Workbook supplement (PDF, 308KB) We have also provided a suggested template for applications. You will need to modify the template to suit your particular application. Please click here to view the template.
Please note
If your project focuses on local arts development or arts participation in the community it may be more appropriate to apply to the Creative Communities Scheme.
The project funding environment is extremely competitive. In the 2006 calendar year, the Pacific Arts Committee received 87 applications and was able to fund 51 (59%) of them. Grants ranged from $2000 to $20,000.
Three key questions
- Are you eligible? - work your way through an eligibility checklist
- Is the Pacific Arts Committee the best funding group for you to apply to? - read about our three funding bodies
- Do you know the closing date for project funding applications?
25 July 2008 (for projects beginning after 25 October 2008)
Pacific Arts Committee funding programmes
The Pacific Arts Committee has four funding programmes and each programme has a different aim. The funding programmes and their aims are:
- Heritage Arts - to support the participation of Pacific Islands peoples in their heritage arts
- Pacific Arts Development - to support the development of Pacific Islands arts and artists
- Pacific Arts Promotion - to develop the profile and an awareness of Pacific Islands arts and artists
- Tangata Whenua Links - to strengthen links between Pacific Islands artists and tangata whenua.
Each application to the Pacific Arts Committee must be made under one of the Pacific Arts Committee funding programmes. To decide which programme to apply to, first identify the aim of your project.
What's the aim of your project?
If your project meets more than one of the aims below, identify the one description that fits best and then apply under that programme.
Is your project's aim:
- the development or maintenance of Pacific Islands heritage arts in New Zealand? Go to the Heritage Arts funding programme? Go to the Heritage Arts funding programme
- the creation of opportunities for Pacific Islands artists or other arts practitioners to experiment, create new work or develop their skills? Go to the Pacific Arts Development funding programme
- the presentation, promotion or distribution of New Zealand Pacific art, or the development of audiences for New Zealand Pacific art? Go to the Pacific Arts Promotion funding programme
- to strengthen links between Pacific Islands artists and tangata whenua artists? Go to the Tangata Whenua Links funding programme.
Please note: artists or arts practitioners with little or no record of achievement in their artform/area of expertise are unlikely to be funded.
Please note: if your project focuses on local arts development or arts participation in the community it may be more appropriate to apply to the Creative Communities Scheme. (Local arts projects are community-based arts activities or those that have more impact at a local rather than a national level.)
Arts education for young people
We don't fund arts education resources, activities or projects focussed on national education curriculum outcomes and/or qualification requirements. Young people are those falling within the 5 to 25-year-old age group.
However, some support may be available for projects that will deliver high-quality arts outcomes for both the young people and professional artists involved.
Types of activities we can't fund
If you haven't already checked whether your project is eligible for funding, please work your way through Step 1: Can I apply? before you go any further. Here are some examples of activities or items we can't fund:
- equipment, uniforms and other capital items (e.g. computer, recording equipment, musical instruments)
- school cultural groups
- tutors' salaries
- the administrative cost of annual general meetings
- vehicle hire or domestic travel
- the cost of language nest resources
- the creation or maintenance of a website (except where the costs are linked to a specific, time-bound arts project)
- music video production.
If you're still not sure whether your project is eligible, please ask for help.
