Deadline: 15-Sep-24
The Whau Local Board is inviting proposals to support and enable community-led arts projects throughout the Whau.
Whau Community Arts Broker is Jody Yawa McMillan whose role is to identify, curate, programme and enable community arts activities.
Each year, the Whau Local Board, through the Whau Community Arts Broker, funds creative projects that support community arts in the Whau. These projects celebrate the Whau identity through high-quality art, amplify the diverse voices within the community, and ensure that the tamariki and rangatahi have access to the arts. Community arts foster a sense of belonging, encourage participation, and strengthen the social fabric by bringing people together through shared creative experiences.
Funding Information
- Arts Whau will pay for project management time, artist fees, project costs, access support, promotion, and manaakitanga. In previous years Arts Whau has funded between 12 and 17 projects a year and funding has ranged from $300 for a single workshop to $10,000 for a multi week multi artist project.
What can I apply for?
- You can apply for funding for a project in any art form; music, writing, visual arts, games, theatre, digital experiments, workshops, poetry, dance, film, food to walking projects (to name just a few past projects). What’s important is that the project:
- meaningfully involves a local community and/or community themes
- is led by a local or someone with strong local connections
- has a strong creative idea behind it
- and takes place in the Whau Local Board area between November 2024 and July 2025.
Eligible Projects
- Your project must:
- have a strong creative idea driving it
- give equal weight to creative ideas and community benefit
- have strong local connections
- have some sort of public outcome
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual artists; community groups; art collectives and organisations. Priority is given to projects which have a strong local community impact.
For more information, visit Whau Local Board.