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Creative New Zealand Grants JULY – OCTOBER FUNDING ROUND 2007/2008 Creative New Zealand Grants JULY – OCTOBER FUNDING ROUND 2007/2008 This is a complete list of project grants offered in the first funding round of the 2007/2008 financial year. Applications to this round closed on 27 July 2007 and grants were announced in late October. Grants are listed within artforms under Creative New Zealand funding programmes. In this round, 225 grants totalling more than $4.1 million were offered to support projects by New Zealand artists, practitioners and arts organisations. More than $12.7 million was requested from 671 applications. Arts Board: Creative $24,205 $5,400 and Professional Aaron Kreisler: towards research for a new Composers Association of New Zealand Development publication and exhibition Festival Society Inc: to send a young composer $10,515 to the ACL Festival $2,160 CRAFT/OBJECT ART Richard Maloy: towards an artist residency at Cantaclay-Canterbury and Westland Potters: Artspace, Sydney Gisborne Rotary Club: towards professional towards the New Zealand Potters Inc annual $10,000 development for emerging young musicians convention $13,000 $3,800 MIT School of Visual Arts: towards an international artist residency Sam Hamilton: towards research and a Bronwynne Cornish: towards a residency at $13,800 residency in the Amazon Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi $4,000 $10,000 LITERATURE Institute Of Registered Music Teachers JAAM Publishing Collective: towards New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass: (Wellington Branch): towards costs for a guest towards the New Zealand Society of Artists in publishing JAAM 25 $2,000 presenter at the IRMT conference Glass biennial conference $6,000 $4,700 Michael King Writers’ Centre Trust: towards Marama Strings Charitable Trust: towards the the University of Auckland/Creative New Rigel Sorzano: towards attending the NeoCraft Queenstown Violin Summer School Zealand Writer-in-Residence at the Michael conference in Canada $15,000 $4,500 King Writers’ Centre in 2008 $15,000 Nelson Composers Workshop: towards the Nelson Composers Workshop DANCE New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ $8,000 Adam Hayward: towards a production agency Inc.): towards its programme of activities for research trip to Britain, the United States, 2008 New Zealand Choral Federation Inc: towards an France and Australia $50,000 annual programme of activities $5,000 $37,000 Otago University Press: towards volumes 215 IndependANCE: towards a programme of and 216 of “Landfall” New Zealand Jazz Foundation (Inc): towards ongoing professional classes and workshops $14,000 the 2008 New Zealand High Schools Jazz for the Auckland independent dance sector Orchestra course $17,400 Peppercorn Press: towards the quarterly $6,500 publication of “New Zealand Books” for 2008 Malia Johnston: towards a three-week creative $20,000 New Zealand Opera Training School: towards development workshop tutor fees at the New Zealand Opera Training $28,750 Takahe Collective Trust: towards publishing School three issues of “Takahe” $10,000 FINE ARTS $12,500 Morgan Simes: towards living costs while Ashburton Art Gallery: towards attending the University of Iowa/International Writing undertaking a residency with the Clare College international conference “Crossing Cultures” Program: towards a New Zealand writer’s $1,995 Choir attendance in 2008 $7,700 Emma Bugden: towards a curatorial residency $10,000 at PROGRAM, Berlin Bede Williams: towards postgraduate study in $2,850 MULTI-DISCIPLINARY Scotland Jambalaya Education Charitable Trust: towards $8,000 John Hurrell: towards writing a series of art the 2008 Jambalaya Festival in Rotorua reviews $10,000 THEATRE $10,080 Canterbury Arts and Heritage Trust: towards MUSIC Hyde Park Art Centre Chicago: towards an commissioning Stuart Hoar to develop a script Brass Bands Association of New Zealand Inc: international artists’ hui exploring social/ for a full-length theatre work, “The Great Art towards the National Youth Band School cultural engagement War” $12,000 Company 3 Ltd: towards the theatrical Alicia Frankovich: towards creating a body of Randell Cottage Writers’ Trust: towards adaptation of Shaun Tan’s graphic novel, “The work for an exhibition in Milan supporting the Randell Cottage Writers’ Trust Arrival” $12,570 $18,000 $26,945 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Western University of Canterbury: towards its writer- Briar Monro: towards the Wellington Theatre Institute of Technology, Taranaki: towards a in-residence programme in 2008 Practitioner Support Programme national and international artist-in-residence $26,300 $15,950 programme Louise Wareham Leonard: towards writing a $14,000 Geoff Pinfield and Arthur Meek: towards novel developing an adaptation of a Richard Meros Murray Hedwig and Anita Peters: towards $18,000 booklet as a solo theatre work creating a body of photographic works $9,750 $3,000 MULTI-DISCIPLINARY Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust: towards the 2008 Madeleine Sami: towards costs to attend Len Lye Foundation: to research and build a Len Dunedin Fringe Festival L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris Lye sculpture $25,000 $6,000 $26,395 Sally Stockwell: towards developing a multi- Sarjeant Gallery: towards an artist-in-residence MUSIC disciplinary work, “Gravity Hotel” under the programme Annabel Alpers: towards recording direction of Enrique Pardo $6,000 Bachelorette’s second album $17,500 $10,300 LITERATURE Young & Hungry Arts Trust: towards the Attar Music: towards composer fees for a CD Tony Anderson: towards writing and illustrating Playwrights Initiative component of Young & of new music a children’s book $6,000 Hungry 2008 $7,800 $23,000 Baroque Voices: to commission four composers Trevor Bentley: towards writing a biography $10,000 Arts Board: New Work $6,500 Simon Comber: towards recording a second Glenn Colquhoun: towards writing and CRAFT/OBJECT ART album performing a collection of poetry $10,900 Michael Crawford: towards researching and $19,200 developing a new body of cast glass work Clare “Flip” Grater: towards recording a second $4,500 Shirley Corlett: towards writing a novel for album young adults $9,200 Trudie Kroef: towards creating a new body of $9,000 work Green Fire Islands Production: towards $16,780 Sarah Gaitanos: towards writing a biography of rehearsal costs and performer fees Clare Galambos (recipient of the 2007 Todd Chris Weaver: towards creating a new body of $25,000 Writers’ Bursary) work $20,000 Jessica Hansell: towards recording an album by $14,290 Coco Solid Dylan Horrocks: towards completing of a $10,500 DANCE graphic novella Daniel Belton and Good Company: towards the $18,000 Mette Leroy: towards commissioning Chris choreography and filming of a new dance film, Watson Shonagh Koea: towards writing a collection of “Match Box” $2,800 short stories $39,060 $12,000 New Zealand Trio: to commission a piano trio Taiaroa Royal and Taane Mete: towards by Phil Dadson Andrew Mason: towards writing a history of creating and presenting “Tama Ma” $11,000 the State Literary Fund $68,800 $30,400 Plan 9: to record a soundtrack for Zig Zag, a Julia Sadler: creating and presenting film inspired by the work of Len Lye Sandy J McKay: towards writing a children’s “Proskyneo” (this includes the 2007 Tup Lang $20,750 novel Choreographic Award) $15,000 Southern Lakes Arts Festival Trust: to $27,650 commission a piano duet from Mike Nock Denis McLean: towards writing a biography of Spinning Sun Ltd: towards creating and $9,200 Howard Kippenberger presenting two short works $15,000 Stroma: towards a programme of new works $49,300 $11,000 Dianne Pettis: towards writing a novel FINE ARTS $20,000 Waikanae Music Society Inc: to commission Kaleb Bennett: towards a series of vehicular Kenneth Young Susan Pointon: towards completing a cultural performative sound works $9,000 $10,260 history of the New Zealand film industry $18,000 Steven Carr: towards creating two major sculptural works $17,235 2 THEATRE Stefen Lewis: towards the production of a Biennale of Sydney: towards a New Zealand Awkward Productions: towards developing and digital feature film presence at the 2008 Biennale of Sydney presenting Deborah Pope’s intimate circus $25,000 $70,000 theatre piece “Island 5” in the Wellington Kirsty MacDonald: towards the production of Blue Oyster Arts Trust: towards a 12-month Botanic Gardens $31,150 a documentary series of exhibitions and projects $24,300 $77,855 The Seeyd Theatre Company: towards a season David Mamea: towards the production of a Dunedin Public Art Gallery: towards an of new works $55,500 short film exhibition and associated publication $25,000 $85,000 Winning Productions: towards an eight-month Point of View Productions: towards the Enjoy Trust & Public Art Gallery: towards a programme of activity $65,000 production of an experimental film 12-month series of exhibitions and projects $22,210 $90,255 Wow! Productions Charitable Trust: towards Serena Stevenson: towards post-production for Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces: towards a developing and presenting a site-specific work, a multimedia installation solo international exhibition by a New Zealand “Hairway to Heaven” $13,765 $13,000 artist $4,850 Bridget Sutherland: towards the production of Screen Innovation an experimental short film Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: towards the $11,005 initiation of a touring exhibition Production Fund $20,000 The Screen Innovation Production Fund is a Arts Board: High Street Project: towards a 12-month partnership between Creative New Zealand exhibition programme and the New Zealand Film Commission. Presentation, Promotion $78,900 Creative New Zealand’s contribution is
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