April 24, 2019
Grants find ways to bring tamariki to arts
Māori theatre production house Taki Rua has received $51,000 towards a national pilot programme to develop te reo Māori playwrighting with Māori medium high school students.
It’s one of 20 grants from a Creative New Zealand’s new Toi Rangatahi funding for projects involving young people aged 10 to 25 years.
The fund is part of a $5 million, five-year ‘Young New Zealanders and the arts’ initiative announced last year by Arts Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The Kākāno Youth Arts Collective, based at Corban Estate Arts Centre in West Auckland, for a visual arts programme 'Te Kotinga Pūkenga.
Creative Waikato scored $62,000 for a regional arts mentoring programme for rangatahi Māori within small townships of Waikato.
The NZ Book Council got $25,000 to deliver writing programmes in Oranga Tamariki residences.
Creative New Zealand art development services manager Cath Cardiff says young people were involved in the development of projects and in assessment of the proposals, and the programme also provides for young people to lead their own projects
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