Deadline: 23 February 2024
The Christchurch City Council is inviting you to apply for the Christchurch Creative Communities Scheme.
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.
- Support the diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities, for example:
- 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.
- Enable young people under 18 years to engage with, and participate in the arts, for example:
- 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.
- Participation
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.
