Awards acknowledge contribution other sectors make to the arts
Awards are an important advocacy tool for Creative New Zealand. We support three annual awards to acknowledge the contribution that other sectors make to the arts. These are the Creative Places Awards, the Creative New Zealand Award for Bravery and the New Zealand Sponsorship Awards.
Creative Places Awards
Creative New Zealand initiated this award in 1999 to recognise the huge investment that local authorities make in the arts. Waitakere City Council won the 2007 Premier Creative Places Award for for its Arts:Design collaboration and integration in the development of a new city centre for Henderson. The 2007 Outstanding Individual Contribution Award was presented to Te Warihi Kokowai Hetaraka (Ngāti Wai, Tainui, Ngāpuhi) of Whangarei. Te Warihi Hetaraka is one of New Zealand's pre-eminent tohunga whakairo (master carvers).
The Creative New Zealand Award for Bravery
Creative New Zealand sponsors the Creative New Zealand Award for Bravery in the annual NBR Awards for Sponsorship of the Arts. The aim of the award is to encourage and recognise arts and business partnerships that are visionary, involve an element of risk and result in innovation. Multi-Media Systems Ltd, an audio-visual staging and production company, won the 2007 Creative New Zealand Award for Bravery for its partnership with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the orchestra's 60th anniversary. The partnership resulted in New Zealand's first-ever live webcast involving sound and moving image.
New Zealand Sponsorship Awards
In 2006, Creative New Zealand began to sponsor the Best Provincial Arts Sponsorship Award and the Best National Arts Sponsorship Award at the New Zealand Sponsorship Awards. Creative New Zealand supports these awards to encourage and celebrate corporate and business investment in the arts in New Zealand. New Zealand Post won the 2006 Creative New Zealand Best National Arts Sponsorship Award for Les Arts Sauts and Brebner Print won the Creative New Zealand Best Provincial Arts Sponsorship Award for its support of the Brebner Print Art Deco Weekend and 75th Anniversary of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
