Deadline: 21-Feb-25
The Christchurch City Council pleased to announce its Creative Communities Scheme for the year 2025.
Priority Areas
- Māori Arts: They will cultivate opportunities to develop and present Māori Arts.
- They will prioritise projects that ensure Māori culture is visible and celebrated by the community.
- Audacious: They will be bold. They will take risks and foster a culture of innovation.
- They will prioritise projects that are experimental, non-commercial, and accommodate constructive failure leading to artistic development.
- Inclusive: They will support a diversity of artistic traditions, practitioners and art forms, and ensure opportunities to participate are accessible.
- They will prioritise projects that uplift artistic traditions and communities that have been traditionally underrepresented.
- Empowering: They will back local talent, value the old and the new, encourage and celebrate excellence.
- They will prioritise projects that are generated by Ōtautahi Christchurch and Te Pātaka-o- Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula-based artists and organisations.
- Collaborative: They will seek to work collaboratively, support one another, communicate clearly and challenge respectfully.
- They will prioritise projects that increase community participation and develop inter-community partnerships.
Funding Information
- Creative Communities Scheme grants are under $5,000.
Eligible Costs
- Materials for arts activities or programmes.
- Venue or equipment hire.
- Personnel and administrative costs for short-term projects.
- Promotion and publicity of arts activities.
Ineligible Costs
- Ongoing administration or personnel costs that are not related to the specific project.
- Costs for projects already started or completed.
- Travel costs to attend performances or exhibitions in other areas.
- Buying equipment, such as computers, cameras, musical instruments, costumes, lights or uniforms.
- Entry fees for competitions, contests and exams.
- Prize money, awards and judges’ fees for competitions.
- Royalties.
- Buying artwork for collections.
- Debt or interest on the debt.
Eligible Projects
- To get funding through Creative Communities Scheme, your arts project must do at least one of the following:
- Participation
- Diversity
- Young people
Ineligible Project
- Fundraising activities.
- Developing galleries, marae, theatres or other venues or facilities.
- Local Council projects.
- Projects mainly focussed on other areas, such as health, education or the environment, which only have a small arts component.
- Arts projects in schools or other educational institutions that are normally funded through the curriculum or operating budgets.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) provides funding to local communities so New Zealanders can be involved in local arts activities.
- You can be an individual or a group, but individuals must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.
- The scheme supports a wide range of arts projects under the following art forms:
- Craft and object arts
- Dance
- Inter-arts
- Literature
- Māori arts
- Multi-art form (including film)
- Music
- Pacific arts
- Theatre
- Visual arts
For more information, visit Christchurch City Council.