Funds
Open applications
Each year Creative New Zealand provides funding to city and district councils for distributing in their area. The scheme supports more than 1,800 projects every year. Applications are made directly to your local council and closing dates vary. Read more
Amount:
Mostly under $2,000
Artforms funded:
Arts Grants offer short-term project funding for New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations (including groups and collectives). This funding enables more sustainable careers, encourages innovation and the development of arts practice, and provides opportunities for diverse communities to access the arts. Each round will close if 225 applications have been submitted, or if the closing date is reached. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 to $75,000
Artforms funded:
Funding rounds
Annual Arts Grants funding supports eligible artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to present a regular or continuous programme of activity over a 12-month period and/or produce or present a significant event or project. Read more
Amount:
$75,000 - $150,000
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Funding rounds
Closed applications
Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ni Sa Bula Vinaka, Tālofa, Kia orana, Mālō e lelei, Noa'ia, Mauri, Mālō nī, Talofa lava, Tēnā koutou katoa. The Tasi 21 Wave of the Pasifika Festivals Fund is a contestable fund for support for eligible Pasifika festivals to present a festival in the 2021 calendar year. Tasi 21 addresses the impacts of COVID-19 so that eligible Pasifika festivals who are unable to secure sufficient funding to stage a festival in 2021 can receive a funding contribution Read more
Amount:
Up to $150,000
Artforms funded:
Funding rounds
This fund, created for organisations, aims to incentivise local and regional investment in the development and presentation of new local arts activity outside the main centres of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Read more
Amount:
Up to $150,000
Artforms funded:
Funding rounds
This award promotes and encourages choreography in New Zealand contemporary dance, focusing on the work of emerging choreographers. It was established in 1999 from a bequest by Mrs Lang. Offered as part of Arts Grants round 3, the round may close before the closing date if we receive the maximum 200 applications. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 to $10,000
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Funding rounds
This new fund is designed to support transformation or significant development of the business model and/or artistic practice of organisations in the Toi Uru Kahikatea or Toi Tōtara Haemata investment programmes. The fund encourages new ways of working within changed environments and supports new and adapted organisational models in response to the opportunities presented by COVID-19. We’re interested in proposals focused on a re-think of organisational systems and processes and the adoption and deployment of digital technologies and solutions. Read more
Amount:
Varies depending on proposal
Artforms funded:
Funding rounds
This newly-established fund is designed to build arts organisations’ ability to diversify and increase their income streams, to help grow their sustainability in response to COVID-19. The fund is open to organisations in the Toi Tōtara Haemata and Toi Uru Kahikatea investment programme as well as arts organisations who submitted an expression of interest to take part in our developmental programme Te Puāwaitanga in March 2020. Read more
Amount:
Up to $150,000
Artforms funded:
Funding rounds
This fund provides two rounds of emergency support for Tōtara and Kahikatea organisations receiving multi-year funding that have been materially negatively impacted by COVID-19. The funding is to help organisations maintain their key people and honour contracts with other creative practitioners until 31 December 2020 for round one and to 30 June 2021 for round two. Read more
Amount:
Varies depending on minimum amount needed
Artforms funded:
Funding rounds
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