TCDC Creative Communities arts funding round opens

31 March 2011

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TCDC Creative Communities arts funding round opens

April funding round open 1-29 April

Individuals and groups developing local creative arts projects across the Coromandel Peninsula can apply for a helping hand as the first of this year's two Creative Communities Scheme funding rounds opens tomorrow.

TCDC Creative Communities Coordinator, Margaret Harrison says applications must meet one or more of the scheme's criteria. "Activities that may be funded include events or festivals, arts-related promotional activities, materials for a local arts event or activity, workshops for local artists and art groups, and personnel costs for one-off projects or costs associated with artist-in-residence schemes."

School-based projects that are "outside of the school's normal activities and provide opportunities for community participation or benefits to the wider community" are also eligible, she said.

Projects successful in gaining past funding encompassed such diverse themes as storytelling, poetry, whaikorero, dance, music, theatre, painting, craft and toi whakairo.

The scheme, backed by Creative New Zealand, aims to increase participation in the arts, broaden the range and diversity of the arts available to communities and enhance and strengthen the local arts sector.

Projects considered for Creative Communities New Zealand funding should: o Advance the development of arts and cultural activities within the community o Take place in the Thames-Coromandel District o Produce benefits mainly experienced within the District.

Annual funding rounds open each April and October and this year's April funding round closes on Friday April 29. Application forms can be downloaded from Thames-Coromandel District Council's website at www.tcdc.govt.nz/creativecommunities and must be returned to TCDC's Creative Communities Coordinator, Margaret Harrison.

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