Arts Continuity Grant Batch 5 - notified 22 May 2020 Closed: 29 May 2020
An Arts Continuity Grant is offered to support a short-term arts project, or the stage of a project, that can be delivered within a changed and evolving environment as a result of COVID-19. Decisions are made weekly, with a batch of applications assessed and recommended each week.
Projects can include the creation and/or presentation of new work. Existing projects submitted to our suspended funds can be reframed and resubmitted. Applications were open from 14 April to 29 May. More about how to apply
Results for batch 5 - applicants notified 22 May 2020
68 grants totalling $1,701,087 have been offered to support projects by New Zealand artists and practitioners in this funding round, across the three funding pools (General, Māori and Pacific).
96 eligible applications were received, with a total of $2,545,403 requested. This was broken down as follows:
- General Arts: 49 projects totalling $1,131,619 were supported. $1,927,385 was requested by 76 applicants.
- Māori Arts: 13 projects totalling $426,087 were supported. $474,637 was requested by 14 applicants.
- Pacific Arts: 6 projects totalling $143,379 were supported. All applicants were successful.
Also:
- 34 of the funded projects supported the development of arts practice and the creation of new work.
- 15 were to support building the resilience of the New Zealand arts sector.
- 11 supported projects enabling New Zealanders to participate in the arts.
- 8 supported projects enabling New Zealanders to experience high-quality arts.
Artforms were supported as follows:
- 4 Community Arts
- 4 Craft/object
- 3 Customary Māori Arts
- 2 Dance
- 5 Interarts
- 9 Literature
- 7 Multidisciplinary
- 10 Music
- 2 Pacific Heritage Arts
- 10 Theatre
- 12 Visual Arts
See the cumulative totals of the Arts Continuity Grant since it opened
Funding recipients
Alexa Wilson
Towards the development of 'The Politics of Dreaming'.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $27,010
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Arts Festival Taranaki Charitable Trust TAFT
Towards a planning project for a new festival celebrating the Artists of Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Auckland Fringe Festival
Towards personnel costs to redevelop AFF's community engagement strategy and arts sustainability framework.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ben Aves
Towards Raglan Roast Live, a streamed music show featuring 7 bands over 6 weeks.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $47,923
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Catherine McLean
Towards creating new ceramic sculpture.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $2,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Chevron Te-Whetumatarau Hassett
To research and practice development to produce new works.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $31,040
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Chris Tse, Emma Barnes
Towards editing an anthology of LGBTQIA+/Takatāpui writers from Aotearoa New Zealand.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $11,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Clerestory Press
To administer and promote the National Re-Draft Writing Competition for Teenagers.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $13,200
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Clovis McEvoy
Towards creation of a new art-music experience for virtual reality.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $16,800
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Connect the Dots Charitable Trust
Towards the research, development and delivery of new strategies to engage older people in high quality arts participation.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
AWARDED: $43,368
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Cora-Allan Wickliffe
Towards costs to research and develop content for a hiapo arts and motif publication.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $3,508
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Cubbin Theatre Company
Towards website development and online resource creation for parents, which support Cubbin’s existing theatrical works.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $37,781
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Dane Mitchell
Towards research, development and production of new work.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Daniel McGrath
To unmask the hidden gifts that our elders have shared through oral recording.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $45,738
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
DEAF WELLBEING SOCIETY INCORPORATED
Towards weekly arts and crafts projects/lessons filmed with NZSL and subtitles for the deaf community.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
AWARDED: $11,618
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Dominic Hoey
Towards the development and workshopping of a one person show about the realities of trying make a living as an artist in Aotearoa.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $13,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Duncan Sarkies
Towards writing a novel about the collapse of democracy in an association of alpaca breeders.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $26,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Free Theatre Christchurch
Towards personnel, and associated research and development costs for a new work based on Samuel Butler's novel, 'Erewhon: Over the Range'.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $23,525
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Gayatri Adi
Towards writing an original New Zealand play.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $12,400
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Going West
Towards publishing highlights and features from our archive spanning 25 years of NZ's most celebrated writers.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $47,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ioannis Psathas
Towards an isolation-based musical collaboration featuring 16 New Zealand artists resulting in a suite of 8 new works.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $32,850
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Jacqueline Pearson
Towards Zoom realtime tuition and creating a series of video masterclasses.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
AWARDED: $4,972
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Towards an artist fee and IT hardware costs to research and create a new body of work for a major solo exhibition.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $20,863
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Joanne Black
To create a new series of portraits for exhibition.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $19,294
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Josephine Archer
To create the new work 'dance.mov'.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $18,403
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Joseph Michael
To transform data sets captured last year of the world’s largest known kauri tree, Tane Mahuta into assets that can be applied to VR and/or AR.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $40,260
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Judith Cranston
Towards the kindyRock app for children and caregivers to be able to access interactive music sessions at home.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $49,619
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Julia Croft
Towards the research and development periods of a new performace work, CASSANDRA.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $27,750
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Juliet McLean
Towards a short documentary on close listening to music featuring 'O Juliet' performing at Rhythm Ace Studio.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $3,200
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Kaituhi Creative Ltd
To write and develop two separate 1 hour, easily tour-able and accessible plays for Maori audiences.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $35,050
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Kate Parker
Towards development of a sculpture journey with movement exploring interconnectedness.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $13,057
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Kauae Raro
Towards research into sustainable customary Māori art materials.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $15,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Kerrin Sharpe
Towards a series of poems set in and around Lyttelton Harbour with the theme of surviving hard times.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $18,200
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Lima Productions
Towards artist fees and development costs for a new Pasifika interarts dance-theatre work entitled, 'Fakaleiti'.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $19,800
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Louise Clifton
Towards developing and publishing a how-to guide and overview of historical and contemporary shoemaking practice in New Zealand.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $17,112
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Louise Potiki Bryant
Towards the creation of a new video installation combining video, choreography, animation, soundscape and waiata.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $11,160
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Marcus McShane
Towards contributor fees, and associated materials and production costs to commission and present work for the '101 Rants' public exhibition.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $9,250
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Marie Le Lievre
To create a new body of work, website and catalogue.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $23,300
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
marion gordon-flower
Toward Kupenga Ora, which provides multi-cultural arts for oranga wellbeing, and the reestablishment of services using online approaches.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
AWARDED: $5,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Melissa Cole
Towards the research and development stage of the creation and presentation of a large scale crochet wharenui.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $41,325
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Mercy Pictures
Towards the development of 'Editions' with gallery artists as a supplementary and efficient opportunity within the 2020 calendar.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $21,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Michael Anderson
Towards presentation of high quality live music performances in video format from The Vibes, Strangely Arousing and Otium.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $13,360
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Natalie Maria
Towards a body of movement research within the parameters of home spaces.
This content is tagged as Dance .
AWARDED: $13,032
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ngatau Puketapu-Dahm
Towards researching and making a traditional Rau (sail) for a waka.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Nicholas Hollis
To create five musical instrument inventions and compose and record backing tracks.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $9,745
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Nightsong
Towards full Development of new work - including 2 new drafts, set & puppet design work with prototypes and a 2 week workshop.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
OneTree House
Towards OneTree House publishing programme 2020, planned for release or print up to September 2020.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $38,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Paolo Rotondo
Towards commissioning and performing new theatre works as live events online.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $43,437
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Red Scare Theatre Company
Towards a serialised audio theatre project.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $14,750
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Regan Taylor
Towards writing the final draft of "Mate" towards presenting a full season in 2021.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $12,180
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Rhombus Productions Limited
Towards creative development and rendering of two albums - Rhombus' fourth studio album and the second remixes and archives album.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $22,023
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ria Hall
Towards artist fees and associated costs to develop and produce a music podcast series.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $36,089
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Robert Ruha
Towards the creation of a new body of musical works by Rob Ruha.
This content is tagged as Music .
AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Sarah Hopkinson
Towards research and development of a new digital publishing platform.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $8,625
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Sheldon Rua
Towards a multidisciplinary online workshops in Spoken Word Poetry and Dance conducted via Zoom sessions.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $11,250
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Sonni Tukiwaho
Towards a stipend, dramaturgy and contributor fees to write and develop a new theatre script.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $23,165
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Stevie Davis-Tana
Towards a spoken word poetry visual album about reclaiming identity as a young person in Te Ao Māori.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $46,600
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Tales From The Farm Publications
To complete the illustrations, fact pages & book design for "Old Truck and the Flood", a sequel to "The New Old Truck".
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $4,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Tali Jenkinson, Barbara Makuati-Afitu
Towards personnel fees, and research and development costs for a project focussed on Engan heritage arts and music.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $31,169
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Tanya Batt
Towards artists fees to create and develop online arts teaching resources based on the album, 'Dance Upon Our Earth'.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $5,950
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
The Coalition for Books, Melanie Laville-Moore
Towards the costs of a "LitHub"-style website for Aotearoa New Zealand.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $49,968
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
The Jewel and the Jeweller
Towards a double residency at The Jewel and the Jeweller, culminating in an exhibition and virtual tour.
This content is tagged as Craft/object .
AWARDED: $20,043
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Thievery Limited
To develop an online platform that connects and inspires circus and visual arts communities.
This content is tagged as Multi-disciplinary .
AWARDED: $17,830
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Tracey Tawhiao
To create New Work for major solo exhibition.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $28,650
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Tupuranga
Journal of Indigenous Writing from Aotearoa: towards artist fees and technical costs for Tupuranga Journal's new emerging indigenous writer mentorship programme.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $26,039
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Vunilagi Vou
Towards costs to write and publish an artform publication commemorating the first year anniversary of South Auckland arts space, Vunilagi Vou.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $42,000
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Waikato Society of Arts Incorporated
To support Waikato Society of Arts' tutor wages to teach the adult classes in term 3.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $10,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Will Handley
Towards research and development for Plant Lab at CRIPTA747 Italy, and the production of three publications.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $13,300
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
