Arts Grants help New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts
organisations to create and distribute their work. Decisions take 11
weeks and typically one in four applications get funded. Read more
Reward amount:
$65,000 (in exceptional circumstances applicants can apply for more)Closing dates:
2 Sep 2016Artforms funded:
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Quick Response Grants help New Zealand artists, arts
practitioners and arts organisations to create and distribute their
work. Decisions take five weeks. Typically one in four or five
applications gets funded. Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $7,500Closing dates:
15 Jul 20164 Nov 2016
Artforms funded:
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Each year Creative New Zealand provides Creative Communities
Scheme (CCS) funding to city and district councils throughout New
Zealand to distribute in their area. The scheme supports more than 1,800
projects every year. Read more
Reward amount:
Mostly under $2,000Closing dates:
Always openArtforms funded:
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Toi Uru Kahikatea (Arts Development) Investment Programme offers
support to New Zealand artists, arts practitioners, groups and
organisations for 1-3 years to support regular or continuous programmes
of activities. There is a two-step application process, starting with
checking if you are eligible to apply or registering your interest by 8
April 2016.
Read more
Reward amount:
Based on applicationClosing dates:
20 May 2016Artforms funded:
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Toi Ake is a funding initiative tailored to iwi, hapū,
whakapapa-based roopu and maata waka to cultivate and retain heritage
Ngā Toi Māori — though it does not support restoration projects. Toi Ake
is offered twice a year. Read more
Reward amount:
$65,000Closing dates:
2 Sep 2016Artforms funded:
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Ngā toi Māori.
Creative New Zealand is seeking applications for the 2016 Ngā
Manu Pīrere awards.
Two awards worth $4,000 each are offered every year to young Māori
artists who are post-secondary school level and under 25 years of age.
It is to recognise achievement for those who are at an early stage of
their career in the arts.
Read more
Reward amount:
$4,000 each (two awards)Closing dates:
29 Apr 2016Artforms funded:
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Ngā toi Māori.
The Asia/New Zealand Co-commissioning Fund offers funding to
support the commissioning of New Zealand work to be presented in both
New Zealand and Asia. Read more
Reward amount:
$750,000 over 3 yearsClosing dates:
2 May 2016Artforms funded:
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The Toi Tipu Toi Rea is a grant to support Māori artists or
practitioners, at an early stage of their career, to undertake an arts
project.
Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $7,500Closing dates:
15 Jul 20164 Nov 2016
Artforms funded:
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Ngā toi Māori.
Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Grants support artists and arts
organisations to undertake projects that help to maintain, rebuild or
enhance the city's arts infrastructure. Read more
Reward amount:
Based on applicationClosing dates:
29 Apr 2016Artforms funded:
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The Tohunga Tukunga mentoring programme offers funding to help
preserve and pass on contemporary and traditional Ngā Toi Māori (Māori
arts) knowledge and practice.Three mentoring opportunities are available
in each of the three annual funding rounds.
Read more
Reward amount:
up to $5000Closing dates:
15 Jul 20164 Nov 2016
Artforms funded:
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Ngā toi Māori.
Stage Two of the Asia Artform Exchange Fund offers New Zealand
artists, arts organisations and practitioners the opportunity to build
relationships and to increase artistic exchange with
artists/practitioners in targeted territories in Asia. This opportunity
is open to those who have successfully completed Stage One of the
programme. Read more
Reward amount:
$45,000 (total) to support up to two projectsClosing dates:
23 May 2016Artforms funded:
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Each year the Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
recognise notable literary achievement by New Zealand writers who have
made a significant contribution to New Zealand literature in the genres
of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. New Zealanders are invited to submit
a nomination (see section three below to download a nomination form).
Read more
Reward amount:
$60,000 in each categoryClosing dates:
19 May 2016Artforms funded:
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Literature
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The annual Todd New Writer's Bursary allows a promising published
writer or presented playwright, at an early stage of their career, to
work on an approved project. Read more
Reward amount:
$20,000Closing dates:
2 Sep 2016Artforms funded:
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Literature
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Theatre
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The three year Auckland Diversity Project Fund supports projects
that increase arts attendance and participation by Māori, Pacific and
Asian communities in the Auckland Region. It also supports art projects
for, by and with artists from those communities. The call for
applications will open on 28 July 2016. Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $100,000 per applicationClosing dates:
30 Sep 2016Artforms funded:
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Toi Tōtara Haemata (Arts Leadership) Investment Programme
supports well-run, financially sound organisations that collaborate with
other arts organisations and provide leadership within the arts
industry to deliver benefits to audiences or participants and fulfil
specific key roles in New Zealand’s arts infrastructure.
Read more
Reward amount:
Based on applicationClosing dates:
20 May 2016Artforms funded:
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This fund supports the international presentation of high quality
work that results from specific initiatives managed by our
international team Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $50,000Closing dates:
10 Jun 20162 Sep 2016
18 Nov 2016
Artforms funded:
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Momentum is an international delegate programme which takes place
in Edinburgh every August. It is delivered through a partnership
between British Council Scotland, Festivals Edinburgh and Creative
Scotland. This opportunity will support up to six New Zealand arts
practitioners to participate in Momentum 2016 (15-21 August), providing a
platform to build relationships with artists, producers, curators and
cultural partners from Scotland, the United Kingdom and internationally.
Read more
Reward amount:
NZ$3,200 towards travel to Edinburgh (plus six nights' accommodation & a contribution towards tickets)Closing dates:
29 Apr 2016Artforms funded:
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Closed applications
Funding is for national and international organisations to
commission new, large-scale, collaborative works to mark the First World
War centenary (WW100). The works must be presented nationally and
internationally during WW100 commemorations from 2014 to July 2019. Read more
Reward amount:
$1.5 million total funding over 3 yearsClosing dates:
2 Nov 2015Artforms funded:
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Each year the Arts Pasifika Awards recognise excellence in
Pacific artists across a range of artforms and across a range of stages
in the artists’ careers. Read more
Reward amount:
Varies by awardClosing dates:
8 May 2015Artforms funded:
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Pacific arts
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The prestigious Berlin Writer's Residency is offered biennially
for an established New Zealand writer to work on an approved project in
Berlin, Germany for up to eleven months. Read more
Reward amount:
$40,000Closing dates:
6 Mar 2015Artforms funded:
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Literature
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The Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Fellowship is awarded
biennially to an established or senior craft/object practitioner,
curator or writer working in traditional applied arts or contemporary
practice. Read more
Reward amount:
$100,000Closing dates:
6 Mar 2015Artforms funded:
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The Māori Arts Presentation Fund supports the touring of
contemporary Ngā Toi Māori work to regional and local communities with a
high Māori population. Areas to be toured should be outside of Auckland
and Wellington central business districts. Read more
Reward amount:
$80,000 in total for at least two projectsClosing dates:
24 Mar 2016Artforms funded:
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Each year, up to two New Zealand/Aotearoa Music Scholarships
enable young musicians to undertake study or gain further musical
experience at a tertiary institution in New Zealand or overseas.
Read more
Reward amount:
$16,000 for up to two scholarshipsClosing dates:
11 Mar 2016Artforms funded:
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Music
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The Michael King Writer's Fellowship is for established New
Zealand writers from any literary genre, with a significant publication
record, to work on a major project. It is offered every two years.
Read more
Reward amount:
$100,000 over two yearsClosing dates:
6 Mar 2015Artforms funded:
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Literature
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Creative New Zealand is seeking proposals for the official New
Zealand presentation at the 57th Venice Biennale. The Venice Biennale is
the most prestigious event on the international contemporary visual
arts calendar. Both curator or artist-led presentations are welcome. Read more
Reward amount:
VariesClosing dates:
16 Sep 2015Artforms funded:
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Visual arts
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The annual Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary provides a stipend
that enables a published writer at an early stage of their career to
create a new work.
Read more
Reward amount:
VariesClosing dates:
11 Mar 2016Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Literature
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The International Art Fair Fund supports New Zealand-based visual
and craft/object arts dealer galleries to participate in reputable
international art fairs. All funding has been allocated for the 2015/16
financial year. This opportunity will open again in July 2016.
Read more
Reward amount:
Total fund of $100,000 each yearClosing dates:
31 Jan 2016Artforms funded:
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Craft/object
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Visual arts
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The Moana Community Grants support and develop Pacific heritage
arts (artistic expressions and forms reflecting a particular Pasifika
cultural tradition) in regional towns and communities outside of
Auckland and Wellington.
Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $10,000Closing dates:
12 Feb 2016Artforms funded:
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Pacific arts
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Kava New Leaders Grants support established practitioners of
Pacific heritage arts to pass on their knowledge and skills to up to
three potential new leaders in their artform. Read more
Reward amount:
$30,000 for up to two grantsClosing dates:
28 Aug 2015Artforms funded:
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Pacific arts
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The National University of Samoa (NUS) residency offers three
months in Apia, Samoa for an established New Zealand artist of Pacific
heritage to work on an arts project and develop their potential, skills
and practice.
Read more
Reward amount:
up to $15,000Closing dates:
16 Mar 2016Artforms funded:
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Pacific arts
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The Edwin Carr Foundation Scholarship is open to outstanding New Zealand composers wanting to further their studies overseas. Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $22,000Closing dates:
11 Mar 2016Artforms funded:
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Music
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The Butland Music Scholarship provides talented young musicians
with opportunities to further their performance studies overseas. The
next round is in 2017. Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $10,000Closing dates:
6 Mar 2015Artforms funded:
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Music
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The Jack McGill Music Scholarship supports young music
practitioners who wish to further their music studies overseas. Priority
is given to pianists. Read more
Reward amount:
$9,000Closing dates:
11 Mar 2016Artforms funded:
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Music
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Māori and Pasifika artists needed to represent Aotearoa at the
12th Festival of Pacific Arts in Guam in May/June 2016. Artists working
in a wide range of artforms can exchange skills, knowledge and
techniques with artists from Aotearoa and the Pacific in the spirit of
whanaungatanga. Read more
Reward amount:
Support to attend the festivalClosing dates:
10 Jul 2015Artforms funded:
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Ngā toi Māori
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Pacific arts
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The Creative New Zealand Choreographic Fellowship is awarded to
an established choreographer who has already produced a significant body
of work for a choreographic project and/or programme of activity.
Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $100,000Closing dates:
6 Mar 2015Artforms funded:
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Dance
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The Tup Lang Choreographic Award promotes and encourages
choreography in New Zealand contemporary dance, and especially the work
of emerging choreographers. It was established in 1999 from a bequest by
Mrs Lang.
Read more
Reward amount:
Funding sum to be confirmedClosing dates:
26 Jun 2015Artforms funded:
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Dance
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This residency supports a New Zealand artist to work on a
specific project at the International Studio & Curatorial Program
(ISCP) in New York for four months from 1 May to 31 August 2016. Read more
Reward amount:
$32,000Closing dates:
12 Nov 2015Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Visual arts
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The Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer's Residency is
an opportunity for a Pacific writer from New Zealand to work on a
project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history at the University
of Hawai'i in Manoa, Honolulu. Read more
Reward amount:
$30,000Closing dates:
1 Mar 2016Artforms funded:
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Literature
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This content is tagged as
Pacific arts
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The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship is for an established
creative writer to spend three months or more in Menton in southern
France to work on a project or projects. Read more
Reward amount:
$35,000Closing dates:
26 Jun 2015Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Literature
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This residency supports a New Zealand artist to live and work in
Berlin at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien for up to twelve months from
October 2016. Read more
Reward amount:
$40,000Closing dates:
12 Nov 2015Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Visual arts
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We are seeking proposals from a single provider to manage and
deliver initiatives that develop international markets for New Zealand
literature. Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $593,750 over three yearsClosing dates:
21 Aug 2015Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Literature
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New Zealand performing arts producers and companies are supported
to attend performing arts markets and meetings in Asia with the aim of
showcasing work and building networks. This opportunity will open again
in May 2016.
Read more
Reward amount:
Up to $3,000 per delegate or $10,000 per companyClosing dates:
1 Jul 2015Artforms funded:
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Multi-Artform
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A New Zealand artist will be supported to live and work in Berlin
at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien for up to twelve months from October
2016. Read more
Reward amount:
$40,000Closing dates:
12 Nov 2015Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Visual arts
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The NZ/KAMS Connection Fund supports performing arts presenters
from New Zealand and South Korea to collaborate on new work, share
expertise and develop networks. The fund is the result of a partnership
between the Korean Arts Management Service (KAMS) and Creative New
Zealand. Read more
Reward amount:
4 grants of up to NZ$5000 eachClosing dates:
10 Jul 2015Artforms funded:
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Multi-Artform
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We are seeking proposals from New Zealand organisations or
agencies to deliver national publishing internships. The contract for
services will be from September 2015 to 30 December 2018. Read more
Reward amount:
$90,000 over three financial yearsClosing dates:
28 Aug 2015Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Literature
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The First Nations Curators Exchange is a two-stage cultural
exchange between Māori and Aboriginal curators. Four established Māori
curators will attend Asia Pacific Triennial (APT8) in November 2015 and
host a delegation of Aboriginal curators in Aotearoa in 2016. The
programme is delivered in partnership with the Australia Council for the
Arts. Read more
Reward amount:
$2750Closing dates:
18 Sep 2015Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Visual arts
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This opportunity supports New Zealand craft/object artists
selected to exhibit at the International Handwerksmesse for Schmuck and
Talente in 2016 to attend the exhibitions in Munich. Read more
Reward amount:
$3,000 towards international travelClosing dates:
7 Dec 2015Artforms funded:
This content is tagged as
Craft/object
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This opportunity, offered in partnership with the Australia
Council for the Arts, supports Māori performing art producers,
presenters and strategic partners to participate in the First Nations
Producers Exchange, as part of the Australian Performing Arts Market
(APAM) in Brisbane in February 2016. Read more
Reward amount:
$1,500NZD towards international travel and APAM registration. Accommodation provided.Closing dates:
7 Dec 2015Artforms funded:
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