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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 200 applications have been submitted, or if the closing date is reached. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 to $75,000
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The Toi Tipu Toi Rea – Emerging Māori Artist Fund supports emerging Māori artists or practitioners at an early stage of their career to undertake an arts project. Offered as part of Arts Grants rounds 3 and 7, the rounds 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
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
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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
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Funding rounds
This fund supports marae, hapū, iwi, whakapapa-based rōpū and mātāwaka to protect, cultivate and retain mātauranga Māori related to heritage ngā toi Māori (Māori arts) and foster their distinctive arts and cultural practices. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 to $75,000
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The Local Government Arts Fund is designed to assist councils to support the resilience and recovery of local arts organisations affected by COVID-19. Read more
Amount:
Up to $50,000
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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
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Funding rounds
Closed applications
The annual Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement recognise New Zealand writers who have made a notable contribution to New Zealand literature in the genres of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. New Zealanders are invited to submit a nomination. Read more
Amount:
$60,000 in each category
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Funding rounds
The New Zealand/Aotearoa Music Scholarship enables up to two young musicians to undertake study or gain further musical experience at a tertiary institution in New Zealand or overseas. Read more
Amount:
Up to $16,000 in total, for up to two scholarships
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Funding rounds
The annual Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary provides a stipend that enables a published writer or playwright at an early stage of their career to create a new work. Read more
Amount:
Varies
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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
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Funding rounds
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 12 APRIL. The fellowship is awarded every two years to an established or senior craft/object practitioner, curator or writer to work on a major project. You may be working in traditional applied arts or contemporary practice, including customary and contemporary Māori and Pasifika craft/object art. If you've already submitted your application and want to edit it, please email portal@creativenz.govt.nz. Read more
Amount:
Up to $100,000 over two years
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The fellowship is awarded every two years to an established New Zealand writer from any literary genre, with a significant publication record, to work on a major project. Read more
Amount:
Up to $100,000 over two years
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Funding rounds
The Jack McGill Music Scholarship supports young music practitioners who wish to further their music studies overseas. Priority is given to pianists. Read more
Amount:
Up to $14,000 in total, for up to two scholarships
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The Edwin Carr Foundation Scholarship enables up to two outstanding New Zealand composers to further their music studies overseas. Read more
Amount:
Up to $50,000 in total, for up to two scholarships
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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 residency is a Creative New Zealand partnership with the National University of Samoa. It offers three months in Apia for a mid-career or established Aotearoa-based artist of Pasifika heritage to work on an arts project and develop their skills and practice. Read more
Amount:
$25,000
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This fund supports young people aged 15-25 to lead high quality arts projects by, with and/or for other young people with a focus on participation and/or access for young people from under-represented communities. Read more
Amount:
Up to $10,000
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The fellowship is awarded every two years to an established or senior choreographer who has produced a significant body of work, to work on a major project. Read more
Amount:
Up to $100,000 over two years
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NOW CLOSED: We've reached our maximum number of 200 submitted applications for round 2 of Arts Grants, which includes Todd New Writer's Bursary. The annual Todd New Writer's Bursary allows a promising published writer or presented playwright, at an early stage of their career, to work on an approved project. Read more
Amount:
Varies
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Funding rounds
This fund supports established organisations that want to provide opportunities for people aged 15-25 to engage in high-quality arts experiences with a focus on under-represented communities. Read more
Amount:
Up to $65,000
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This fund supports artists and organisations to provide opportunities for young people aged 10-14 to participate in high-quality arts activities. It's aimed at developing creative potential, focusing on under-represented communities. Read more
Amount:
Up to $65,000
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The 34th annual Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi (Te Waka Toi Awards) will celebrate and recognise the artistic excellence, achievement and contribution of Māori artists working in customary and contemporary Māori arts. Three of these awards are open for public nomination. Read more
Amount:
Varies by award
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Annual Arts Grants offer funding to enable 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:
up to $150,000
Artforms funded:
Funding rounds
The annual Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards celebrate and recognise excellence in Pacific arts across a range of arts practices and career stages. Any New Zealander can nominate an artist or themselves for an award. Read more
Amount:
Varies by award
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We are seeking proposals for the official New Zealand presentation at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia. The Biennale is the most prestigious event on the international contemporary visual arts calendar. Both curator or artist-led presentations are welcome. Read more
Amount:
Varies
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The Moana Nui a Kiva fund supports Aotearoa-based Pasifika artists to collaborate with artists and communities in Oceania to research, develop and present arts projects. This is an opportunity to exchange ideas, artistic techniques and cultural practices. This fund is offered in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Read more
Amount:
Up to $30,000
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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
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Funding rounds
This newly established Capability Fund is designed to support organisations to address immediate organisational needs and to help stabilise and increase the sustainability of their businesses in response to the impacts of the COVID-19 environment. Read more
Amount:
Up to $30,000
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Funding rounds
The first phase of the Short-term Relief for Investment Clients provides emergency support for existing investment clients to survive the impact of COVID-19, maintain their key people and in some cases support the broader ecology of freelance practitioners until 30 June 2020. Investment clients are the 83 arts organisations currently receiving multi-year funding via the Tōtara and Kahikatea investment programmes. Given the rapidly changing circumstances this will continue to be reassessed. Read more
Amount:
There is no maximum amount, but organisations should request the minimum amount needed from Creative New Zealand in order for the organisation to regain stability or remain stable until 30 June 2020.
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This new residency is a Creative New Zealand partnership with the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji created through the CNZ Pacific Arts Strategy 2018 – 2023. The programme offers three months in Suva for a mid-career or established Aotearoa-based artist of Pasifika heritage to work on an arts project themed around climate change. Read more
Amount:
$25,000
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We have postponed opening this round while the arts sector adjusts to the recent shift in Alert Levels. Over the coming weeks, we’ll work with organisations to learn more about the impact it has had and to understand where support is needed most. Kia kaha. 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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