Apply for Christchurch Creative Communities Scheme Grants (New Zealand)

Art Forms

• The scheme supports a wide range of arts projects under the following art forms:
  • Craft and object arts
  • Dance
  • Inter-arts
  • Literature
  • Māori arts
  • Multi-art form (including film)
  • Music
  • Pacific arts
  • Theatre
  • Visual arts

Funding Information

• Creative Communities Scheme grants are under $5,000.

Funding Criteria

• To get funding through Creative Communities Scheme, your arts project must do at least one of the following:
  • Participation
    • Create opportunities for local communities to engage with and participate in local arts activities.
    • Performances by community choirs, hip-hop groups, theatre companies or poets.
    • Workshops on printmaking, writing or dancing.
    • Exhibitions by local craft groups promoting weaving, pottery and carving.
    • Festivals featuring local artists.
  • Diversity
    • Support the diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities, for example:
      • Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions in Maori or Pasifika heritage or contemporary art forms.
      • Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by local migrant communities.
      • Arts projects that bring together groups from a range of different communities.
  • Young people
    • Enable young people under 18 years to engage with, and participate in the arts, for example:
      • A group of young people working with an artist to create a mural or street art.
      • A group of young people creating a film about an issue that is important to them.
    • Printing a collection of writing by young people.
  • Your project must also
    • Take place within Christchurch city or district where the application is made.
    • Be completed within 12 months of funding being approved.
    • Benefit local communities.

Eligible Projects

• They will prioritise projects that ensure Māori culture is visible and celebrated by the community.
• They will prioritise projects that are experimental, non-commercial, and accommodate constructive failure leading to artistic development.
• They will prioritise projects that uplift artistic traditions and communities that have been traditionally underrepresented.
• They will prioritise projects that are generated by Ōtautahi Christchurch and Te Pātaka-o- Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula-based artists and organisations.
• They will prioritise projects that increase community participation and develop inter-community partnerships.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) provides funding to local communities so New Zealanders can be involved in local arts activities.
• You can be an individual or a group, but individuals must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.
• There is no limit to how much you can apply for.

Ineligible

• Projects that cannot get Creative Communities Scheme funding
  • Fundraising activities.
  • Developing galleries, marae, theatres or other venues or facilities.
  • Local Council projects.
  • Projects mainly focussed on other areas, such as health, education or the environment, which only have a small arts component.
  • Arts projects in schools or other educational institutions that are normally funded through the curriculum or operating budgets.

For more information, visit Christchurch City Council.