As we move through the Covid-19 pandemic, we remain responsive to the ever-evolving cultural and financial landscape for the arts. We continue to offer support for innovative ways to connect with global colleagues and audiences, through digital and hybrid approaches, as well as re-vitalising and re-invigorating relationships ā-tinana.
Our suite of initiatives, co-designed with our partners here and abroad, will deliver relevant and responsive support to the sector. We will prioritise relationships and initiatives focused on building the sustainability and resilience of our sector as well as strengthening inclusion, access and equity. Working across the art forms we will offer a combination of audience and market development, cultural exchange and capability building.
At the heart of our programme, we continue to weave engagement and exchange with international communities. Where possible, we will take a tuakana/teina approach and seek to support both our Mātanga, the leaders who have developed and maintained our international relationships, as well as new and emerging voices.
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Karangarua – Two Voices | Weaving exchange and engagement with international communities
Strengthen capability and international engagement
Global Wayfinding Programme
This programme supports artists, practitioners and arts organisations across all art-forms to navigate the shifting tides of the global arts environment. Our aim is to support the strengthening of artists’ and practitioners’ capability, and to provide clear pathways to stay internationally connected.
The Global Wayfinding programme draws on the shared knowledge of domestic and global artists and arts communities. With our partners here and abroad, we’ll offer a suite of opportunities that provide New Zealand artists and practitioners with the knowledge and networks to support their practice and adapt to the evolving arts landscape.
This programme is designed to respond to a dynamic international arts environment. We’ll roll out offerings at different intervals over the financial year, acknowledging that artists and organisations in the sector will want to connect with us and access resources at different stages according to their individual needs.
The programme consists of three strands with a range of offerings in each:
- Knowledge Kete
Access to information, tools and resources for adaptation and innovation.
- Podcasts and webinars with international networks that offer insights to emerging global trends or fresh perspectives to new ways of working.
- Artist Tautoko
Access to tailored advice or coaching to help navigate the changing global arts landscape.
- support for artists and organisations to work with an expert or arts professional of their choice who can provide one-to-one advisory sessions tailored to their needs. The expert or arts professional can come from a different field to the artist and be based in New Zealand or overseas. This is for artists, practitioners, or arts organisations that have a track record of international engagement, including those with an emerging practice that have some international experience. Here are some examples of recently funded Artist Tautoko projects. Please register your interest to schedule a meeting with the International team by email to: international@creativenz.govt.nz
- Digital Fellowship – a - skills exchange program for New Zealand and Australian arts practitioners to co-develop their digital practice and forge new pathways for the future of the arts. This programme, is supported by our International Programme and Pacific Arts Strategy and is delivered in partnership with The Australia Council for the Arts.
- Tūhongonga Connections
Access to opportunities to engage with established international platforms and networks to maintain critical connections and sustain New Zealand’s international profile.
- Virtual and in-person participation in a variety of international arts platforms, including Western Arts Alliance, Australian Performing Arts Market, and Asialink’s Regional//Regional participation in the reciprocal Australia Council Visual Arts Residency
- Te Manu Ka Tau International Visitors Programme – we’ll continue to find new ways to strengthen relationships with international colleagues, presenters, partners and key influencers across the artforms and we’ll seek to host manuhiri virtually and in-person.
Tāwhara Matanui – Indigenous Exchange
Māori-led national and international initiatives. More information about these initiatives will be available in September 2022.
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Extend the reach globally
International market development
Literature
We’re partnering with the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) to manage international market development initiatives, including:
- a presence, virtual and/or physical, at key international book fairs including Frankfurt
- the publication of a rights catalogue to promote New Zealand literature for distribution to agents, publishers and festivals
- the development of a digital rights platform to host the catalogue content online
- the administration of the Translation Fund, which supports the translation of New Zealand literature into foreign languages
- initiatives to support the capability of publishers to develop rights skills and find new ways of working and selling rights online.
We’ll continue to work with PANZ to explore additional ways to promote New Zealand literature internationally.
Writers and literary festivals can apply to the Creative New Zealand Arts Grants for professional development to support festival appearances.
Performing arts
We’ll seek out opportunities for practitioners to increase their international profile and networks and showcase on digital markets and platforms.
We’re partnering with the Performing Arts Network of New Zealand (PANNZ) to support the performing arts sector to engage internationally on their digital platform.
This will include:
- supporting the development and delivery of the hybrid performing arts market, online and in person
- supporting artists’ international capability to pitch, showcase and engage digitally including the creation of digital assets
- supporting practitioners to engage with international collaborators, presenters and partners attending the market virtually
- support the hosting of manuhiri virtually at the online market.
Artists and producers wishing to attend international performing arts markets can apply for professional development support through the Creative New Zealand Arts Grants.
Visual arts and craft object
We’ll seek out and facilitate international opportunities for artists and curators to participate and engage across international platforms. More information on this initiative will be available in October.
Support for dealer galleries to attend international art fairs is now available through the Creative New Zealand Arts Grants
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Present and promote
Global Networks Presentation Fund
The Global Networks Presentation Fund sits alongside the work of our International programme by supporting invitations to present work overseas that are the result of one of our initiatives. This fund aims to recognise international networks as well as developing international audiences, collaborations and opportunities for New Zealand artists and companies.
The fund has been adapted to respond to new ways of working in a Covid-19 world and supports international presentations across a variety of artforms that may be in person, digital or a hybrid presentation of work. The fund also supports the ‘adaptation’ of work to respond to a presentation opportunity.
59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
From April to November 2022, we are excited to be presenting Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp in the New Zealand pavilion for the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. More information about NZ at Venice can be found at www.nzatvenice.com/news
13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture (FestPAC)
Due to the pandemic, the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture (FestPAC) that was originally scheduled for 2020, will now take place on June 6-16 2024, in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.
Funding is available through the Creative New Zealand Arts Grants, to support New Zealand artists, arts practitioners, arts groups and arts organisations to engage in a variety of international activity, including the presentation of art works.
More information on our international activity guidelines can be found here
Develop dynamic arts in a global context
Global Digital New Work Fund
The Global Digital New Work Fund was an established in 2021 to support artists and practitioners to respond to the global shifts in digital practice and to contribute to sustainable international careers. Here is a link to the results for the fund.
Grants will again be offered to support artists, practitioners, and arts organisations to research, develop and/or create new work in the digital space to be experienced by a global audience.
Developing partnerships
We'll continue to develop stronger alliances with other government agencies, funding agencies and international partners to leverage opportunities for the arts sector and strengthen Aotearoa New Zealand’s reputation internationally.
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