24 Nov 2014

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NEWS

Over $2 million offered in the latest Arts Grant round

The latest Arts Grant round resulted in 73 grants totalling $2,194,182 being offered to support projects by New Zealand artists, practitioners and arts organisations. More than $6 million was requested from 178 applications. Applications to this round closed on 5 September 2014.

View the September results Arts Grant results

Results include

Pacific Arts Funding – Five grants totalling $137,040 were offered. Over $286,000 was requested from 10 applications.

Maori Arts Funding - 11 grants totalling $388,589 were offered. Nearly $1.1 million was requested from 25 applications.

Toi Ake

$50,000 was also offered to two projects through the Toi Ake initiative. Toi Ake is tailored to iwi, hapū, whakapapa-based roopu and maata waka to cultivate and retain heritage Ngā Toi Māori.

View the Toi Ake results

The Todd New Writers' Bursary

In 2014 this was awarded to Gemma Bowker-Wright to complete a new novel. Creative New Zealand contributes $10,000 towards this bursary and the balance of $10,000 is provided by the Todd Corporation Ltd.