Funds
Open applications
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
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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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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 6, the rounds may close before the closing date if we receive the maximum 225 applications. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 to $20,000
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Funding rounds
The annual Todd New Writer's Bursary enables a writer or playwright at an early stage of their career to write a new work. Read more
Amount:
Varies
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Funding rounds
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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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. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 to $10,000
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Funding rounds
The 35th 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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Funding rounds
Note: Closing date extended to 1pm Wednesday 30 June 2021. 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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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
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
Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ni Sa Bula Vinaka, Tālofa, Kia orana, Mālō e lelei, Noa'ia, Mauri, Mālō nī, Talofa lava, Tēnā koutou katoa. This fund provides support for existing Pasifika-led festivals with a track record of success that have a long-term strategic focus. Funding can be used for building the capability needs of your organisation in the areas of governance, leadership, digital capacity and festival staffing. Read more
Amount:
Up to $30,000 plus GST
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Funding rounds
Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ni Sa Bula Vinaka, Tālofa, Kia orana, Mālō e lelei, Noa'ia, Mauri, Mālō nī, Talofa lava, Tēnā koutou katoa. The Tolu Wave provides a funding contribution to eligible Pasifika festivals towards operational costs to present a festival in 2022 and/or 2023 and to develop organisational capability between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2023. The Tolu Wave will address the impacts of COVID-19 so that eligible Pasifika Festivals are able to deliver festival activity in 2022 and 2023, depending on relevant COVID-19 Alert levels. Read more
Amount:
Up to $400,000
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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 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
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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
This fund supports in-person/physical, digital or hybrid international presentations of work that are the result of one of Creative New Zealand's international initiatives. This includes adapting existing work to respond to this international presentation opportunity. Read more
Amount:
Up to $50,000
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Funding rounds
The Resilience Fund provides emergency support for organisations receiving multi-year funding (under our Tōtara and Kahikatea programmes) that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19.This funding round is to help organisations stabilise their business and remain viable up to 31 December 2021, in response to flow-on impacts of New Zealand moving to Alert Level 4 in August 2021. It’s partially funded by the Government’s COVID-19 Delta Relief Funding package announced in September. Read more
Amount:
Varies depending on minimum amount needed
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Funding rounds
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