Auckland City Council

Applications are invited for funding from the Creative Communities funding scheme, for projects taking place between December 1999 and April 2000. The scheme's focus is on increasing participation and increasing the range and diversity of arts at a local level.

Approximately $100,000 is available for distribution to projects which will take place in the Auckland City area, including Hauraki/ Gulf Islands, and which will:

* increase active participation in arts, or
* increase community wide interest in arts, or
* enhance or strengthen the local arts sector.

Application forms and copies of the criteria are available from Carolyn Goston, Secretary Leisure Advisors Section, Auckland City Recreation & Community Services, 379 2020.

***APPLICATIONS CLOSE 4.30 PM THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 1999 ***

HOW TO APPLY
There will be a free Public Information Session to assist applicants who wish to apply for funds, on: Wednesday 1 September 1999, 5pm - 6.30pm in the Hobson meeting room Parnell Community Centre, Jubilee Building, 545 Parnell Road, Newmarket.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>