Call for nominations to Arts Access/Creative NZ Award 2018
Call for nominations to Arts
Access
Creative New Zealand Arts For All
Award 2018
Arts Access Aotearoa is calling for nominations to the Arts Access Creative New Zealand Arts For All Award 2018. This award recognises a performing arts company, literary organisation, festival, venue, producer or gallery that best demonstrates its commitment to building new audiences by becoming more accessible to disabled and Deaf people.
The closing date for nominations is
5pm Monday 16 April 2018.
Rachel Sears, Education
Manager of The Court Theatre, makes an acceptance speech
when the theatre won the Arts Access Creative New Zealand
Arts For All Award 2017
The recipient of this
award will receive $4000, to be used to progress its work in
improving access to disabled audiences. Previous recipients
are eligible for nomination after three years have lapsed
(e.g. the 2015 recipient is eligible for nomination in 2018)
if they have introduced a series of new initiatives not
recognised in its previous award.
Stephen Wainwright, Chief Executive, Creative New Zealand, encourages people to make nominations. “We know how much the arts mean to New Zealanders so we’re delighted to support this award. It recognises the important work arts organisations do when they go the extra mile to increase access to the arts and build new audiences.”
The annual Arts Access Awards celebrate the contribution of individuals, groups and organisations in providing access to the arts. They also acknowledge the achievements and contribution of a New Zealand-based artist with a physical, sensory or intellectual impairment, or lived experience of mental ill-health.
Richard Benge, Executive Director of Arts Access Aotearoa, says the Arts Access Awards play an important role in profiling excellence and leadership in the arts and disability sectors. They also highlight leaders in the use of the arts as a tool supporting the rehabilitative process of prisoners and their reintegration back into the community on release.
The five other award
categories are:
• Arts Access Artistic
Achievement Award, recognising the outstanding achievements
and contribution of a New Zealand-based artist, who has a
physical, sensory or intellectual impairment, or lived
experience of mental ill-health
• Arts Access
Holdsworth Creative Space Award, recognising the outstanding
contribution and impact of a creative space that provides
opportunities for people with limited access to make art,
across any or all artforms
• Arts Access
Community Partnership Award, recognising a mutually
beneficial partnership between two or more organisations or
groups actively engaged in a community-based arts
project
• Arts Access Corrections Māui
Tikitiki a Taranga Award, recognising an individual who
demonstrates the qualities of Māui – innovation,
creativity and leadership – in providing cultural
inclusion and diversity through the arts within a New
Zealand prison that provides and encourages a pathway into
rehabilitation
• Arts Access Corrections Whai
Tikanga Award, recognising
the outstanding contribution of a community group,
organisation, Māori Focus Unit or individual working with
the Department of Corrections in a prison or community
setting, and using the arts as an integral part of a tikanga
programme to encourage a strong cultural identity and
support pro-social living.
Each of the six awards has a
nomination form. You are able to nominate yourself or
others. For more information and nomination forms, visit the
Arts Access Aotearoa website
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