Results posted: 12 December 2025
19
Projects funded
$548,701
Total funding awarded
29
Eligible applications received
$1,107,513
Total funding requested
19 grants totalling $548,701.16 have been offered to support international presenters or agents to enable the presentation and touring of high-quality New Zealand art overseas. We received 29 eligible applications, with a total of $1,107,512.98 requested.
Funded projects
$8,667 - towards presenting recently published women authors at Adelaide Writers' Week 2026, Australia
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Adelaide Festival
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$40,000 - towards a 2026 summer tour across Europe, Middle East and Australia for The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Aurora Nova - International Theatre Booking GmbH
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$20,615 - towards presenting Benjamin Work and Behrouz Boochani at the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Biennale of Sydney Ltd
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$25,590 - towards a tour of Preston McNeil's Arca Arcade in Victoria, Australia
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Cardinia Cultural Centre
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$12,000 - towards a book tour in Spain for graphic novelist K. O'Neill
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Ediciones La Cúpula
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$40,000 - towards presenting an Australian tour of EBKM's Heartbreak Hotel
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Illawarra Performing Arts Centre t/as Merrigong Theatre Company
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$50,000 - towards presenting 13 works from Aotearoa at La Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone in Montreal, Canada
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: La Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$50,000 - towards the participation of 11 artists from Aotearoa in the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, France
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: La Biennale de Lyon
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$18,737 - towards presenting Tuvaluan New Zealand artists at the inaugural Fakaapo Cultural Festival of Arts in Tuvalu
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Marama Papau
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$40,000 - towards presenting He Huia Kaimanawa and UPU at Kindred People 2026 and a tour of UPU in Australia
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Melanie Pose
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$11,260 - towards presenting New Zealand authors and an interactive art installation at Melbourne Writers Festival 2026, Australia
This content is tagged as Literature .
APPLICANT: Melbourne Writers Festival, Veronica Sullivan
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$29,501 - towards presenting Java Dance and EBKM at DreamBIG Festival in Adelaide, Australia
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Nicholas Clark Management
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$33,000 - towards presenting a solo exhibition from Selina Ershadi with live performance from Sriwhana Spong, in the UK
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Nottingham Contemporary
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$20,000 - towards presenting Jessie McCall and Raven Afoa Purcell in Australia and Indonesia
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: Performance Space
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$30,510 - towards presenting work by New Zealand artists at RISING 2025 in Melbourne, Australia
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: RISING
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$40,000 - towards presenting three New Zealand works at the SummerWorks Festival 2026 in Toronto, Canada
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
APPLICANT: SummerWorks
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$30,000 - towards presenting Trick of the Light Theatre in Denmark
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Teater Katapult
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$27,500 - towards presenting Binge Culture's Werewolf in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and London
This content is tagged as Theatre .
APPLICANT: Topper & Fred
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$21,322 - towards presenting two New Zealand dance works at Bondi Pavilion, Sydney, Australia
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Waverley Council
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund