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The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) (previously the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally. Its funding consists of approximately 50% central government funding and the remaining amount from the Lotteries Commission. Creative New Zealand distributes around $11.5 million each year in contestable funding to support projects that develop New Zealand arts.
Funding is available for artists, community groups and arts organisations. Creative New Zealand funds projects across art-forms, including theatre
, dance
, music
, literature
, visual art, craft object art, media art and pan art-form festivals.
In 2011, Creative New Zealand introduced Arts Development Investments to replace its Recurrently Funded Organisations funding. Arts Development Investments provide funding for extended periods for established artists, arts practitioners, groups and arts organisations.
through its Arts Board and Te Waka Toi board, which provide funding for Māori artists and organisations.
Toi Ake is a special funding initiative tailored to iwi
(tribe), hapū
(sub-tribe), and whakapapa (genealogy) oriented groups to focus on cultivating and retaining traditional and contemporary Māori arts.
and artist residencies in Samoa
and the Cook Islands
. It has also funded festivals such as Pasifika
, a free annual festival of Polynesian arts, crafts and performances in Auckland
. The Arts Council supports a contingent of Pacific Island artists from New Zealand to attend the Festival of Pacific Arts
held every four years. Creative New Zealand funds Tautai, an organisation promoting contemporary Pacific Island visual artists such as Fatu Feu'u
, painter and sculptor Johnny Penisula
, multi-media artist Shigeyuki Kihara
and printmaker, painter and sculptor Michel Tuffery
.
, Chamber Music New Zealand, New Zealand Book Council, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Arts Access Aotearoa and Taki Rua theatre company.
Funding is available for artists, community groups and arts organisations. Creative New Zealand funds projects across art-forms, including theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, visual art, craft object art, media art and pan art-form festivals.
Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Bill 2010
The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Bill 2010 (the Bill) was referred to the Government Administration Committee for consideration, following its introduction to the House on 25 June 2010 and its First Reading in the House on 18 August 2010. This Bill replaces the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Act 1994 (the 1994 Act). The primary purpose of the Bill is to streamline the governance structure of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand (CNZ)) established by the 1994 Act by replacing it with one unitary board. The board is to be known as the Arts Council and will replace the current Arts Council and the three boards it governs: the Arts Board, Te Waka Toi, and the Pacific Arts Committee.Contestable Funding
Creative New Zealand distributes arts grants through contestable funding rounds to support projects that develop New Zealand arts.In 2011, Creative New Zealand introduced Arts Development Investments to replace its Recurrently Funded Organisations funding. Arts Development Investments provide funding for extended periods for established artists, arts practitioners, groups and arts organisations.
Māori Arts
Creative New Zealand supports Māori artsMaori culture
Māori culture is the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, an Eastern Polynesian people, and forms a distinctive part of New Zealand culture. Within the Māori community, and to a lesser extent throughout New Zealand as a whole, the word Māoritanga is often used as an approximate synonym for Māori...
through its Arts Board and Te Waka Toi board, which provide funding for Māori artists and organisations.
Toi Ake is a special funding initiative tailored to iwi
Iwi
In New Zealand society, iwi form the largest everyday social units in Māori culture. The word iwi means "'peoples' or 'nations'. In "the work of European writers which treat iwi and hapū as parts of a hierarchical structure", it has been used to mean "tribe" , or confederation of tribes,...
(tribe), hapū
Hapu
A hapū is sometimes described as "the basic political unit within Maori society".A named division of a Māori iwi , membership is determined by genealogical descent; a hapū is made up of a number of whānau groups. Generally hapū range in size from 150-200 although there is no upper limit...
(sub-tribe), and whakapapa (genealogy) oriented groups to focus on cultivating and retaining traditional and contemporary Māori arts.
Pacific Arts
The Pacific Arts Committee provides funding for Pacific Island artists, community groups and arts organisations. The committee also funds the annual Pacific Arts Awards, including the Iosefa Enari Memorial AwardIosefa Enari Memorial Award
The Iosefa Enari Memorial Award is an annual award presented by Creative New Zealand in honour of the late Samoan opera singer Iosefa Enari.The award recognises the contribution of the late Iosefa Enari to the arts and in particular his pioneering role in Pacific opera...
and artist residencies in Samoa
Samoa
Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...
and the Cook Islands
Cook Islands
The Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand...
. It has also funded festivals such as Pasifika
Pasifika
The Pasifika Festival is a Pacific Islands-themed festival held annually in Western Springs, Auckland City, New Zealand...
, a free annual festival of Polynesian arts, crafts and performances in Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
. The Arts Council supports a contingent of Pacific Island artists from New Zealand to attend the Festival of Pacific Arts
Festival of Pacific Arts
The Festival of Pacific Arts, or Pacific Arts Festival, is a traveling festival hosted every four years by a different country in Oceania . It was conceived by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community as a means to stem erosion of traditional cultural practices by sharing and exchanging culture...
held every four years. Creative New Zealand funds Tautai, an organisation promoting contemporary Pacific Island visual artists such as Fatu Feu'u
Fatu Feu'u
Fatu Akelei Feu'u, ONZM is a noted Samoan painter.Feu'u grew up in the village of Poutasi in the district of Falealili in Samoa.Feu'u emigrated to New Zealand in 1966. He has established a reputation as the elder statesman of Pacific art in New Zealand...
, painter and sculptor Johnny Penisula
Johnny Penisula
Johnny Penisula MNZM is a contemporary Samoan stone sculptor and painter living in New Zealand.Penisula was born in Samoa and began painting when he was 13 years old. He moved to New Zealand in 1962 and set up home in Invercargill. He studied art at night classes and began exhibiting as a painter...
, multi-media artist Shigeyuki Kihara
Shigeyuki Kihara
Shigeyuki Kihara is a contemporary artist and the first New Zealander to hold a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Titled Shigeyuki Kihara: Living Photographs, the exhibition opened from 7 October 2008 to 1 February 2009...
and printmaker, painter and sculptor Michel Tuffery
Michel Tuffery
Michael "Michel" Cliff Tuffery, MNZM, is a New Zealand artist of Samoan, Tahitian and Cook Island descent.He lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand...
.
Arts Organisations
Creative New Zealand provides funding for many New Zealand arts organisations, including the New Zealand Opera, PlaymarketPlaymarket
Playmarket is a not-for-profit organisation providing script advisory services, representation for playwrights in New Zealand and access to New Zealand plays....
, Chamber Music New Zealand, New Zealand Book Council, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Arts Access Aotearoa and Taki Rua theatre company.