Arts Grants Closing date: 6 Apr 2018
Arts Grants help established New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to create and distribute their work. Grants can be up to $65,000.
Funding recipients
Adam Chamber Music Festival
To commission five new works for presentation at the Adam Chamber Music Festival 2019.
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AWARDED: $15,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Andrea Hopkins
To create new large scale works exhibited in a retrospective arts survey at Whangarei Art Museum 2018/2019.
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AWARDED: $42,326
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Anna McGregor
To Klara Kollektiv to record an album of works by Douglas Lilburn and Anthony Ritchie.
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AWARDED: $18,555
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Anne Noble
Towards the creation of a suite of bee projects for the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9).
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AWARDED: $27,490
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Arcade NZ Live Art Trust
Towards the creative development and production costs of Performance Arcade 2019: a festival of live art on The Waterfront, Wellington.
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AWARDED: $63,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Areta Wilkinson
To produce new artworks exhibited at The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) in Brisbane.
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AWARDED: $15,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Arohanui Strings - Sistema Hutt Valley
Towards music tutor costs for After School Programmes.
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AWARDED: $15,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Asian Aotearoa Arts Hui 2018 Organising Committee
Towards a national gathering that explores and celebrates diverse expressions of ‘Asianness’ in Aotearoa.
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AWARDED: $49,847
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Auckland Fringe
To showcase open-access, multidisciplinary arts at Auckland Fringe Festival 2019.
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AWARDED: $40,580
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Bruce Connew
To research and photograph the texts on known and unknown headstones and memorials from the New Zealand Wars.
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AWARDED: $21,250
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Catherine Chidgey
Towards writing a novel.
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AWARDED: $65,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Chris Gendall
Towards the recording of an album of chamber music by composer Chris Gendall.
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AWARDED: $16,400
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Chris Tse
To assist with the completion of a poetry collection manuscript.
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AWARDED: $24,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Clerestory Press
Towards the publication of the winning writing from the annual Re-Draft competition.
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AWARDED: $3,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Contemporary HUM
Towards the commissioning and online publishing of reviews and articles about New Zealand visual arts being presented internationally.
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AWARDED: $17,176
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Cora-Allan Wickliffe
Towards the research, skill development and practice revival of the Niuean heritage artform of hiapo.
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AWARDED: $14,785
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Creative Capital Arts Trust
To showcase high quality works at New Zealand Fringe Festival 2019.
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AWARDED: $24,850
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Creative Northland
Towards the arts learning workshops for young people participating in the Northland Youth Summit Arts Festival 2018.
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AWARDED: $40,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
CubaDupa Street Arts Festival
To commission a new work by John Psathas for CubaDupa Street Arts Festival 2019.
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AWARDED: $10,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
David Ling Publishing Limited
Towards Volume One of a biography of Maurice Shadbolt by Philip Temple.
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AWARDED: $4,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust
Towards an annual four-day programme of workshops, panel discussions and performances by and for young writers.
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AWARDED: $13,780
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust
To showcase high quality, innovative and diverse New Zealand arts at Dunedin Fringe Festival 2019.
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AWARDED: $25,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Elizabeth Sneyd
Towards a holistic music programme with and for young people in Porirua East, culminating in a series of events in 2018.
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AWARDED: $20,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ema Tavola
To attend and participate in an invitational curatorial project for the International Biennial of Casablanca, Morocco.
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AWARDED: $29,400
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Eternity Productions Ltd
To present a production of Puccini's 'Madam Butterfly' at Hannah Playhouse.
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AWARDED: $13,373
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Everybody Cool Lives Here
To workshop script and design elements of the play 'Unflattering Smock'.
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AWARDED: $51,173
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Galia Amsel
Towards professional development and the creation of new work for exhibition at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair.
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AWARDED: $7,838
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Gianmarco Liguori
Towards the release of a series of contemporary and archival experimental compositions.
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AWARDED: $15,149
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Gina Cole
To attend the 2018 Fall Residency at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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AWARDED: $27,100
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Going West Trust
Towards the 23rd Going West Festival in September 2018.
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AWARDED: $20,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Good Company Arts
Towards the research and development of an intermedial, collaborative work by artists from New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan.
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AWARDED: $19,519
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Gwangju Biennale Foundation
Towards presenting the work of Ella Sutherland and Simon Denny at the 12th Gwangju Biennale.
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AWARDED: $48,703
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival Foundation
To showcase a tour of commissioned New Zealand works in the Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival 2019.
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AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Haruhiko Sameshima
Towards an illustrated book on the work and life of pioneer New Zealand woman potter Elizabeth Lissaman.
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AWARDED: $6,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Honolulu Biennial Foundation
Towards production of new work by New Zealand artists for the Honolulu Biennial 2019.
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AWARDED: $30,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Ian Wedde
Towards the second stage of a historical novel based on nineteenth century German immigrants to New Zealand.
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AWARDED: $27,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Inside Out Productions
Towards the rehearsal phase of the production 'Hinemoa and 'Tutanekei'.
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AWARDED: $65,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Institute of Modern Art
Towards the New Zealand contribution to major international exhibition, The Commute.
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AWARDED: $24,150
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Java Dance Company Ltd
To develop and rehearse Cacao, a full length dance work in the Artisan Series.
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AWARDED: $53,700
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Karen Trebilcock
Towards a new YA novel.
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AWARDED: $15,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Le Moana
Towards the USA touring costs of two performance works, '1918' and 'Fatu Na Totō'.
This content is tagged as Pacific arts .
AWARDED: $65,000
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Lemuria Limited
Towards the production and delivery of the visual arts programme for Shared Lines: Kaikoura Arts Festival.
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AWARDED: $65,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Massey University Press
Towards a biography of Theo Schoon.
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AWARDED: $12,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Matthew Randall
To create a bronze cast pou whakairo artwork that commemorates and conveys the histories of the tīpuna of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa.
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AWARDED: $52,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Megan Dunn
For the Louis Johnson Bursary towards a narrative non-fiction book about the rise of professional mermaids.
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AWARDED: $24,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Monash University Museum of Art, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
Towards a monograph on New Zealand artist Alicia Frankovich.
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AWARDED: $20,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Muscle Mouth
To develop a new dance work for presentation at the Auckland Arts Festival 2019.
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AWARDED: $64,987
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
New Zealand Improvisation Trust
Towards an eight-day festival of improvisational theatre featuring performances, workshops and networking.
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AWARDED: $15,758
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pukenga Whakaata
Towards the costs of artwork restoration, iwi engagement and catalogue for an exhibition by John Walsh.
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AWARDED: $23,435
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass Inc.
Towards the inaugural AUSGLASS and NZSAG joint glass arts conference.
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AWARDED: $36,124
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Nga Kaihanga Uku
Towards travel costs to attend and participate in ceramic and wood-firing technology workshops in Oregon, Portland.
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AWARDED: $12,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Ngati Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated
Ko te karanga me te whaikōrero te kaupapa matua o tēnei wānanga.
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AWARDED: $50,000
FUNDING POOL: Toi Ake Fund
NZ Singing School Trust - Te Wananga Toi Waiata
Towards faculty fees for the 2019 New Zealand Singing School.
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AWARDED: $25,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
OneTree House
Towards two children's picture books.
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AWARDED: $7,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Orchestras Central
Towards activities to develop and grow orchestral musicians in Waikato.
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AWARDED: $6,900
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Paurini Wiringi
Towards the creation and development of digitised taonga puoro.
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AWARDED: $44,467
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Perri Exeter
To present dance work 'Side B' and youth workshops in Napier by Trip The Light Dance Collective.
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AWARDED: $10,457
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Philipa Adam
Towards completing the manuscript for a new novel.
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AWARDED: $51,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Prima Volta Charitable Trust, Festival Opera
To present 'La Traviata', an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, in 2019.
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AWARDED: $38,100
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
Towards New Zealand artists' participation in The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9).
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $45,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Rangiwaho Marae
Towards ngā mahi toi of Ngāti Rangiiwaho to adorn Te Poho ō Rangiiwaho.
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AWARDED: $55,000
FUNDING POOL: Toi Ake Fund
Rekindle Ltd
Towards the cost of tutors for Necessary Traditions, a multi-day festival focused on traditional, resourceful craft skills.
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AWARDED: $14,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Reuben Friend
To attend and participate in the 2018 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) at Durban University, South Africa.
This content is tagged as Interarts .
AWARDED: $6,500
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Robert George
Towards the development and production of an arts documentary about New Zealand-based Tongan artist, Kalisolaite 'Uhila, Artist in Residence, Japan.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $27,600
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Robert Jahnke
Towards the development and creation of a new body of artworks, 'Lamentation'.
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AWARDED: $50,062
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Samuel Snedden
Towards development of of the stage adaptation of the Alain de Botton novel 'Essays in Love'.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $38,085
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Sarah Laing
Towards a collection of diary and personal essay comics based on the longstanding blog, Let Me Be Frank.
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AWARDED: $44,800
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Sarah Watkins
To record an album of New Zealand compositions for violin and piano performed by Andrew Beer and Sarah Watkins.
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AWARDED: $15,330
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Shane Bosher
Towards the research and development of a new work.
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AWARDED: $21,735
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Sistema Aotearoa
Towards a youth development programme in the lead up to the Hui Taurima performance in South Auckland.
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AWARDED: $20,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Sound and Light Exploration Society
To produce a six month programme of performances, workshops and events at the Pyramid Club.
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AWARDED: $30,570
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Southland Museum and Art Gallery
Towards bringing the exhibition 'Kolose: The Art of Tuvalu Crochet' to Murihiku (Southland).
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
AWARDED: $17,473
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Stroma New Music Ensemble
To stage a series of three concerts with a focus on women composers from New Zealand and Australia.
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AWARDED: $18,655
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Struck by Lightning, Guy Langford, Grant O'Neill
Towards the New Zealand tour of 'Shortland Street - The Musical'.
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AWARDED: $30,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Te Puna i Rangiriri Trust
Towards a series of advanced wānanga teaching the heritage arts practice of non-instrumental waka voyaging, and navigation techniques.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $63,750
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Te Putahi, Christchurch Centre for Architecture and City-Making
Towards the creative development of integrated work, 'A Feast of Artists', as part of FESTA! 2018.
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AWARDED: $24,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Te Rehia Theatre
Towards the development season of 'Cradle Song', a new work by award winning Māori playwright Albert Belz.
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AWARDED: $35,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Te Runanga A Iwi O Ngapuhi
Towards a mentoring and wānanga programme focussed on capability building, and the cultural transmission of mātauranga Māori arts practice.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $39,350
FUNDING POOL: Toi Ake Fund
Te Runanga O Te Whanau
Towards a five day community event, Toi Moko Māori, showcasing tā moko and Māori performance arts.
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AWARDED: $10,000
FUNDING POOL: Toi Ake Fund
THE BEND
Towards an album featuring selected poems by Sam Hunt set to original music.
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AWARDED: $20,471
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
The Dust Palace
Towards creation costs for the new circus-theatre work 'Le Cirque Volé'.
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AWARDED: $59,496
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
The Sapling
Towards a multi-contributor website for the discussion of children’s books.
This content is tagged as Literature .
AWARDED: $30,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
The Spinoff
Towards The Spinoff Books, a section of The Spinoff that produces high-quality coverage of the New Zealand literary scene.
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AWARDED: $30,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Thomas Ikitogia
To record and produce the debut music album, 'Motherland'.
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AWARDED: $15,000
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
Tipukura
Towards the production and touring costs of 'Behind The Lines', a collaborative performance show featuring mātauranga Māori, music and arts.
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AWARDED: $64,840
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
TOHU - symbol in motion
To create a new major dance work for the Auckland Arts Festival 2019.
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AWARDED: $65,000
FUNDING POOL: Māori Arts Fund
Trick of the Light Theatre (NZ)
Towards further development of the theatre work 'Troll'.
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AWARDED: $51,075
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Tupoho Iwi and Community Social Services
Towards tā moko wānanga teaching toi moko whakairo practices particular to the Whanganui region.
This content is tagged as Ngā toi Māori .
AWARDED: $33,000
FUNDING POOL: Toi Ake Fund
University of Canterbury
Towards the Artist in Residence Programme at the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies.
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AWARDED: $18,000
FUNDING POOL: Pacific Arts Fund
UPSURGE Festival - Bay of Islands Arts Festival
Towards a five day celebration of the arts, music, performance and theatre in the Bay of Islands region.
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AWARDED: $20,000
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Wellington Treasure Trust
Towards the fifth annual LitCrawl festival celebrating Aotearoa and international literary communities.
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AWARDED: $31,500
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
Zanetti Productions, Virginia Frankovich, Julia Croft, Nisha Madhan
Towards the creation and presentation of a new performance work 'Medusa' in Wellington and Auckland.
This content is tagged as Theatre .
AWARDED: $52,800
FUNDING POOL: General Arts Fund
