Creative New Zealand runs a number of programmes to help develop the market for New Zealand artists who wish to grow their international profile.

Te Manu Ka Tau - Incoming Visitors Programme

This is the international visitors programme where we bring international presenters, curators and directors to New Zealand to view a number of New Zealand works and meet with New Zealand artists. Read more about it on the right of this page.

Australian Presenters to View

This is a new initiative where we invite individual Australian presenters, curators and directors to view specific work in New Zealand with the aim that the work will be shown in Australia.

International Presenters to View

This is a new initiative where we invite individual international presenters, curators and directors to view a specific New Zealand work that is being performed at an overseas venue with the aim that it will be presented in other international venues.

Market Development

International visitor programme - Te manu ka tau

Creative New Zealand brings key people from the performing arts, literature and visual arts sectors to New Zealand to see work and meet the New Zealand arts community.

Where We Once Belonged by Auckland Theatre Company www.atc.co.nz

The 2009 Te Manu Ka Tau programme included:

A large delegation of international guests to participate in events around Auckland Festival 2009, Pasifika Festival and WOMAD
A delegation of international guests to participate in events around the Auckland Writers' & Readers' Festival
A tour by David Elliott, Artistic Director of the Biennale of Sydney
A tour by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco

In the past the visitors have included publishers, producers, festival directors, major presenters and visual arts curators. Our aim is to encourage them to present and show New Zealand work overseas.

International Touring Fund

The international touring fund is specifically to support touring, international engagements and invitations that are a direct result of Creative New Zealand initiatives to develop an international market. Creative New Zealand's international programme runs initiatives around particular arts trade fairs, book and visual arts fairs and music expos. It also runs Market development initiatives as outlined on this page. To view a list of the arts trade fairs that Creative New Zealand currently supports attendance at see the page Applying for international arts trade fairs.

If you have received an invitation to show your work abroad directly through your attendance at an international arts trade fair or an international market development initiative that you attended as part of Creative New Zealand's delegation, you can apply to receive funding for that international project directly from Creative New Zealand's International Touring Fund. Contact international@creativenz.govt.nz if this applies to you.

Please note: grants from the international touring fund can only be used for travel and freight costs and it is expected that the overseas presenter will provide artist fees, grount transport and accommodation.