Deadline: 3-Mar-23
The Christchurch City Council is now inviting applications for its Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) to provide funding to local communities so New Zealanders can be involved in local arts activities.
Art Forms
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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
Local Priorities
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Empowering: They will back local talent, value the old and the new, encourage and celebrate excellence.
- They will prioritize projects that are generated by Ōtautahi Christchurch and Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula-based artists and organizations.
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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
- There is no limit to how much you can apply for, but most Creative Communities Scheme grants are under $5,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be an individual or a group. Individuals must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.
Fund Criteria
Participation
- Create opportunities for local communities to engage with and participate in local arts activities.
- Performances by community choirs, hip-hop groups, theatre companies or poets.
- Workshops on printmaking, writing or dancing.
- Exhibitions by local craft groups promoting weaving, pottery and carving.
- Festivals featuring local artists.
- Creation of a community film or a public artwork by a community.
- Development of new tukutuku, whakairo or kowhaiwhai for a local marae.
- Artist residencies involving local artists or communities.
- Seminars for local artist development.
Diversity
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Support the diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities, for example:
- Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions in Maori or Pasifika heritage or contemporary art forms.
- Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by local migrant communities.
- Arts projects that bring together groups from a range of different communities.
- Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by groups with experience of disability or mental illness.
Young people
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Enable young people under 18 years to engage with, and participate in the arts, for example:
- A group of young people working with an artist to create a mural or street art.
- A group of young people creating a film about an issue that is important to them.
- Printing a collection of writing by young people.
- Music workshops for young people.
- An exhibition of visual artwork by young people.
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Your project must also
- Take place within Christchurch city or district where the application is made.
- Be completed within 12 months of funding being approved.
- Benefit local communities.
- Not have started or finished before Creative Communities Scheme funding is approved.
- Not have already been funded through Creative New Zealand's other art funding programmes.
For more information, visit Christchurch City Council.