Results posted: 17 November 2023
42
Projects funded
$3,464,262
Total funding awarded
100
Eligible applications received
$9,110,874
Total funding requested
42 grants totalling $3,464,262 have been offered to support established festivals who continue to be impacted by the effects of COVID-19 in 2023 to deliver festival programmes that celebrate the life experiences, stories, cultures and regional identities of New Zealanders.
Funded projects
$75,000 - towards an energetic two-day celebration, Aoraki Pasifika Festival, formerly known as the Pasifika o Aoraki Festival
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Aoraki Pasifika Festival
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$50,000 - towards the delivery of Winter Fest 2024, a ten-day arts festival including a literary programme
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Arts Festival Taranaki Charitable Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$150,000 - towards Hawke's Bay Arts Festival, a multi-disciplinary regional arts festival featuring high-quality, relevant New Zealand work
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Arts Inc. Heretaunga Incorporated
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$50,000 - towards Mangaia Festival, to preserve Mangaian Language, Heritage and Culture across the regions in New Zealand
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: AUAU ENUA MANGAIA ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND INCORPORATED
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$130,000 - towards the 2024 Auckland Fringe Festival
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Auckland Fringe Festival
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$75,000 - towards the Big Gay Out, the the largest annual LGBTQIA+ community festival in Aotearoa
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Burnett Foundation Aotearoa
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$80,000 - to develop a collective curatorial approach and leadership capability building for the World Buskers Festival
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: ChristchurchNZ
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealand's art sector is resilient
$50,000 - towards Corban Estate Arts Centre's annual Kids Arts Festival strengthening community participation in the arts
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Corban Estate Arts Centre
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$50,000 - to support the New Zealand Fringe Festival's key operational activities
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Creative Capital Arts Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealand's art sector is resilient
$99,680 - towards DAFT Festival, a two week festival highlighting, celebrating, and focusing on artists with disabilities
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: DAFT (Disabled Artists Festival of Theatre)
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$50,000 - towards the Dunedin Fringe Festival, an 11 day open access, multidisciplinary arts festival
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$45,950 - towards the Earth Beat Festival, a family festival of arts, music, culture and sustainability in the Kaipara Region
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Earth Beat Festival
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$52,400 - towards the Asian Arts Festival, an arts festival featuring local Asian artists and celebrating the arts of diverse cultures within New Zealand
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Everyone an Artist Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealand's art sector is resilient
$89,450 - towards Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival, bringing together writers, thinkers and book craftspeople to inspire and engage a diverse community
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Featherston Booktown Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$100,000 - towards the Festival of Experimental and Live Art in Tāmaki Makaurau
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: F.O.L.A. [AKL]
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$150,000 - towards Toi Ora ki Kirikiriroa Hamilton Arts Festival 2024, Waikato's premier multi-disciplined arts festival attended by over 42,000 annually
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival Foundation
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$133,672 - to support the Tāmaki Makaurau season of Autaia 2024, Aotearoa's leading Haka Theatre platform and festival for Rangatahi
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Hawaiki Tu Productions Limited
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$100,000 - towards Pasifika Festival Malborough, celebrating Pacific culture, heritage and identity through the arts in Marlborough
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Kalia
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$72,560 - towards KUPU Māori Writers' Festival, Ngā Ringa Tuhituhi, a literary festival which celebrates Māori writers from the past, present, and future
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: KUPU Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$150,000 - ki te reo tito, te ringa toi, te ringa whatu weruweru, ngā reo waiata, te ao Whakaari me te ao haka te Whare o WHAO
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Mahi Mahi Productions Limited
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$65,000 - towards Murihiku Cultural Polyfest, connecting tamariki, rangatahi and hapori in the Murihiku and Southland regions
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Miharo Murihiku Trust
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$50,000 - towards the Nelson Arts Festival 2024
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Nelson Festivals Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$37,540 - to commission two new works and support New Zealand musicians participating in the 2024 Adam Chamber Festival
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Nelson Music Festival Trust - Adam Chamber Music
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$75,000 - towards MANIORO Festival; celebrating Rainbow Pasifika+ stories
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Nevertheless Trust
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$103,648 - towards Gore's Tussock Country Festival supporting delivery of workshops alongside the country music awards
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: New Zealand County Music Festival Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$50,000 - towards Newtown Festival, a daytime extravaganza of music and culture, Aotearoa’s largest annual street fair and free music festival in Wellington
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Newtown Festival Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$100,000 - towards the Canterbury Secondary Schools Pasifika Cultural Festival, a celebration Pasifika Culture, Music and Dance
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: Niu Economic and Enterprise Development Trust
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$75,000 - towards supporting the development and delivery costs for Ōtautahi Tiny Performance Festival 2024
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: Otautahi Tiny Performance Festival Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$74,200 - towards Lōemis Festival 2024, 9th Annual, a multi-disciplinary mid-winter Wellington festival of new works and spectacle
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Pirate and Queen Limited
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealand's art sector is resilient
$93,000 - towards Te Hau Kōmaru, the third national waka hourua festival to be held in Kaiteretere (Kaiteriteri) 7-14 April 2024
This content is tagged as Customary Māori arts .
APPLICANT: Te Hau Komaru National Waka Hourua Charitable Trust
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$100,000 - towards the delivery of a Cook Islands Cultural Arts Festival
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Te Maeva Nui O Aotearoa NZ charitable trust
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$75,000 - towards Otago Polyfest, a multi-day festival of Māori and Pacific performing arts
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Te Mana Ahua Ake Charitable Trust
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$150,000 - towards the presentation of a Kōanga Festival 2024 in Tāmaki Makaurau, a festival of playwrights to develop and present new works
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Te Rehia Theatre Limited
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
$100,000 - towards 2024 HuttFest an annual week long cultural festival for the Hutt Valley colleges, primary schools and early childhood centres
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: The Hutt Valley Schools HuttFest Trust
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$61,000 - towards Tauranga Fringe, a one-day extravaganza community festival
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: The Incubator
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$124,975 - towards the Performance Arcade festival supporting a new programme of live art, succession, and Maori content
This content is tagged as Interarts .
APPLICANT: The Performance Arcade Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$26,000 - towards the Nelson Fringe Festival, a multi-disciplinary festival celebrating all kinds of performing arts presented in Whakatū, Nelson
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Three Bridges Productions Ltd
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$80,000 - towards new commissions, promotion and staffing for Wellington Jazz Festival
This content is tagged as Music .
APPLICANT: Wellington Jazz and Music Festival Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: High quality New Zealand art is developed
$100,000 - towards Wellington Northern Region Te Kiwa Nui Polyfest
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Wellington Northern Region Polyfest Trust
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$5,187 - towards Whanganui Zinefest 2024, a community arts festival which celebrates zines, visual art and DIY print culture
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Whanganui Zinefest
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders participate in the arts
$80,000 - towards the delivery of a 3 Day festival WOMAD, World of Music, Arts and Dance Festival in Taranaki, Aotearoa
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: WOMAD NZ
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
OUTCOME: New Zealanders experience high-quality arts
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