Results posted: 5 November 2025
12
Projects funded
$100,000
Total funding awarded
84
Eligible applications received
$780,259
Total funding requested
12 grants totalling $100,000 have been offered to support artists, practitioners and groups at an early stage of their career. We received 84 eligible applications, with a total of $780,259 requested.
Funded projects
$5,000 - towards the development of Māori-language fiction-writing skills with mentor Dr Darryn Joseph
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Atakohu Middleton
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - towards mentoring support to develop a script for Pipiwharauroa
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Dione Payne
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - towards developing fresh approaches to the revision of a novel
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Emma Hislop
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - towards writing and researching a publication on Kāi Tahu weaving
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Ereni Putere
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - towards Hinewirangi Kohu Morgan's Pūoro - music production, creation and exploration from an Indigenous Wahine lens
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Jaimee Cruse
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - towards exploring Dreamtime
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Jamie Berry
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - towards developing and presenting the exhibition "Kahukura"
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Kauia Moriarty
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - to develop pūoro-led theatre as a living taonga
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Komako Silver
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$5,000 - towards phase three to five of my debut play, Te Koha
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Leigh Minarapa
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$5,000 - to create and exhibit the mātauranga of hau through Ngāpuhi's encounters with the British Empire and their colonies
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Noah Mackie
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$5,000 - towards Ukuora- a whānau-led project harvesting and making from uku
This content is tagged as Craft and Object art .
APPLICANT: Sandra KERR
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$10,000 - towards script development, dramaturgy workshop, WIP Showing
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Zody Takurua
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
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