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Annual Report for 2018/19 of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, Trading As Creative New Zealand, Is Presented to the House of Representatives G.11G.11 ARTS COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND TOI AOTEAROA ANNUAL REPORT PŪRONGO Ā TAU 2019for the year ended 30 June PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PURSUANT TO THE CROWN ENTITIES ACT 2004 Creative New Zealand Annual Report 2019 1 Contact us Website: www.creativenz.govt.nz Email: [email protected] Wellington Office Level 2 2-12 Allen Street Te Aro Wellington 6011 T: 04 473 0880 Auckland Office Level 1 Southern Cross Building Cnr High and Victoria Streets PO Box 1425 Auckland 1140 T: 09 373 3066 ISSN 2357-1659 (Print) ISSN 2357-1667 (Online) FRONT COVER: Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, a co-presentation between Silo Theatre, Auckland Arts Festival and Victor Rodger. Photography: Raymond Sagapolutele. More about this story on Page 25. In accordance with section 150(3) of the Crown Entities Act 2004, the Annual Report for 2018/19 of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, trading as Creative New Zealand, is presented to the House of Representatives. The report covers the period of the 2018/19 financial year – 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 – and reports against Creative New Zealand’s one output class: Promotion and support of the arts. Michael Moynahan Chair, Arts Council 31 October 2019 Caren Rangi Deputy Chair, Arts Council 31 October 2019 Contents Ngā ihirangi Our Chair and Chief Executive review the year 1 About Creative New Zealand 4 SECTION ONE: THE YEAR IN REVIEW 6 About this report 8 Creative New Zealand’s strategic direction 2016–2021 9 Our performance framework 2018/19 11 Our year in numbers 13 Delivering to our strategic outcomes 2018/19 15 Our deliverables 2018/19 26 A snapshot of arts practice in 2018/19 37 Trends in our funding delivery 49 SECTION TWO: STATEMENT OF PERFORMANCE 57 Statement of Non-Financial Performance 2018/19 58 Statement of Financial Performance 2018/19 75 Independent Auditor’s Report 101 SECTION THREE: GOOD EMPLOYER REPORTING 105 Section 1: The year in review Our Chair and Our biggest year yet In the year Creative New Zealand celebrates its 25th anniversary (and the Arts Council its 55th), we invested a Chief Executive record $47.974 million directly in the sector through our review the year funding, capability building and advocacy programmes. The arts sector rose to the occasion, with New Zealand artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations creating Ngā tirohanga mai tō mātou and presenting an impressive array of high-quality works tiamana, me te tumuaki nō throughout the year. tēnei tau As our investment has grown, our offering has expanded; as has the demand for funding. By way of context, we Every day, the arts inspire and delight us. held 66 funding rounds in 2018/19 (25 percent more than we did in 2017/18) with a total of 2426 applications (a 41 They enable us to express ourselves creatively percent increase on 2017/18). We’ve been able to meet this and help make sense of the environment increased demand with about the same level of staffing we live in. The arts strengthen individual, and resources as the previous year, with decisions now all driven by external assessment which provides greater whānau, community and societal wellbeing. independence and artist-led decision-making. Quite simply, they help create a better world. Our expanded offering saw a number of significant We know from our research that New Zealanders value new initiatives developed in 2018/19, including the: the arts. When we last asked in 2017, eight out of ten adults said they’d attended or participated in at least one ▪ Innovation Fund arts event in the past 12 months. Over half of the country ▪ Toi Rangatahi Fund and the Northland Youth Arts agreed that the arts help improve New Zealand society, and Capability Fund (with the Ministry of that they contribute positively to the economy and help Youth Development). define who we are as New Zealanders. Other achievements and activity included: In 2018/19, the arts continued to deliver value for ▪ more than 2,600 high-quality New Zealand New Zealanders across Aotearoa. Creative New Zealand’s artworks developed purpose is to encourage, promote and support the arts in New Zealand for the benefit of all New Zealanders. ▪ more than 266,000 participations in projects or We’re delighted that our investment is delivering great art events funded by Creative New Zealand, with the and growing public engagement with the arts, both locally majority of our Toi Tōtara Haemata and Toi Uru and internationally. Kahikatea Investment programme organisations reporting an increase in New Zealanders actively engaging with their arts activities ▪ more than 2 million attendances reported by arts organisations providing arts experiences across the country and across all artforms ▪ successful completion of 624 grants and other opportunities (such as residencies and fellowships) by artists and arts organisations ▪ more than $10 million invested in projects and initiatives that encourage New Zealanders to 1 Creative New Zealand Annual Report 2019 participate in the arts – this included the Creative Our Investment Strategy Te Ara Whakamua 2018–20231 Communities Scheme, run in partnership with is now guiding our investment decisions. In line with territorial authorities, which awarded more than $3.4 the strategy, we’ve reviewed the Tōtara and Kahikatea million to over 1,700 arts projects throughout Investment programmes and delivered the 2019 Investment New Zealand funding round, with $4.5 million in additional annual ▪ more than $1 million provided for capability building funding to go to organisations in the two programmes from initiatives for artists and organisations, covering areas 2020. We’re also implementing the results of the Grants such as audience and market development, strategy review and the review of the Creative Communities Scheme. and governance, and arts sector development As a result, additional funding has gone into both of these investment categories in line with the Investment Strategy. ▪ Nui te Kōrero: Weaving the threads (our key annual audience development gathering) was attended by over 210 members of the arts sector from across the country, with 90 percent of delegates finding it effective overall – strong Māori, Pasifika and youth perspectives contribute to the continued evolution of this event ▪ detailed planning for the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture 2020 in Hawai’i commenced, including selection of the artist delegation to represent Aotearoa ▪ we continued to build our relationships with other national arts councils, including developing a new relationship with the National Arts Council We’ve also developed the Pacific Arts Strategy 2018– of Singapore through the New Zealand-Singapore 20232, a first for Creative New Zealand. Delivery to this Enhanced Partnership, with the first actions focusing strategy has begun, with new leadership development on artistic exchange opportunities in place and increased funding for Pacific ▪ as part of our advocacy work, we built our arts (including for Pasifika-led organisations through the relationship with local government – assisting with Tōtara and Kahikatea programmes). local arts strategy development and partnering with local government sector representative bodies Our national strategy for ngā toi Māori, Te Hā o ngā Toi— Māori Arts Strategy 2019–20243, is in effect and has been ▪ when it comes to wellbeing, we ranked 7th out of the well-received by Māori artists and communities around 50 agencies in the Public Sector Reputation Index the country since its launch at February 2019’s Te Matatini in 2018/19. This result shows that our contribution festival. This strategy is guiding the way we’re investing to society and the wellbeing of New Zealanders is in, developing, advocating for and providing leadership increasingly well understood. We’ll continue to build around ngā toi Māori. on this by telling our own unique wellbeing stories to a wider audience. Setting our new direction 1 Creative New Zealand (2018). Creative New Zealand Investment Alongside all of the above, the Arts Council has undertook Strategy Te Ara Whakamua 2018–2023. Available at: an ambitious direction-setting programme over 2018/19 www.creativenz.govt.nz/ Investment_Strategy_2018-2023 to refocus the organisation for future success. The arts 2 Creative New Zealand (2018). Pacific Arts Strategy 2018–2023. sector’s generosity with its time, ideas and thinking – as Available at: www.creativenz.govt.nz/Pacific_Arts_Strategy we’ve developed our own – has improved these new 3 Creative New Zealand (2019). Te Hā o ngā Toi—Māori Arts Strategy directions immensely. 2019–2024. Available at: www.creativenz.govt.nz/maori-arts-strategy Creative New Zealand Annual Report 2019 2 Looking ahead we’ve adopted a new 10-year strategic 20 years, exploring different facets of career sustainability direction, Creating value for New Zealanders, that and the opportunities that exist to better support creative describes how our support for the arts creates long-term professionals in their work. The research led to the value for Aotearoa. This new direction marks a significant development of a set of draft principles for sustainable shift for Creative New Zealand; through this model we have, careers that we shared with the sector in August and for the first time, articulated the value we believe the arts September 2019. deliver for individuals, whānau, communities and society. Additional Crown funding of $1 million per annum into Figure 1: Our strategic direction for 2019-2029: our baseline from 2019/20 onwards will support our Creating Value for New Zealanders efforts to provide fairer remuneration for artists and arts practitioners. We’re grateful for this vote of confidence from the Government, the first baseline increase we’ve had in over a decade. New Zealand’s artists and arts organisations, public and private investors, and other partners all make a vital contribution towards our vision of dynamic and resilient New Zealand arts.
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