Community groups receive creative grants
Thirteen Kāpiti groups and individuals will undertake a wide variety of creative projects this year, thanks to receiving Creative Communities Scheme grants.
The Committee considered 17 applications and granted a total of $19,188 to the 13 successful recipients.
The Creative Communities Scheme is funded mostly by Creative New Zealand, with a small amount from the Council, which also administers the scheme. It aims to support and encourage local communities to create and present diverse arts activities within the District.
Council’s Creative Communities Committee is made up of three Councillors, three iwi representatives, two community representatives and one youth council representative.
There are two funding rounds each year. The next funding round will be held in March / April 2016, with the funding meeting in April 2016.
The successful grant applicants and their projects are:
|
Applicant |
Project |
Grant ($) |
|
Kāpiti Music Centre |
Towards cost of Kāpiti Music Centre end of year concert |
1,500.00 |
|
Crows Feet Dance Collective |
Contribution towards a dance/theatre performance 'Hākari - The Dinner Party' |
1,500.00
|
|
Creativity over a Cuppa - Ōtaki |
Contribution towards the costs of a weekly craft group |
1,300.00 |
|
Friends of the Kāpiti Coast District Libraries Inc |
For cost of venue hire and printing for the Friends of Kāpiti Libraries Biennial Literary Festival being held 6-8 November 2015 |
500.00 |
|
Kāpiti Kids Motivation Trust |
Contribution towards three days of 6-9 school visits by NZ Defence Artist Matt Gauldie and singer and multi-instrumental musician Steve McDonald |
2,691.00 |
|
Diane Connal |
To cover advertising costs for the Summer Studio Art Tour of Waikanae being held on Waitangi weekend 2016 |
500.00
|
|
Himiona Grace/Briar Grace-Smith |
Project costs for creating a short film profiling prominent Paekākāriki artists |
2,000.00 |
|
New Zealand Comedy Trust |
To cover marketing and advertising costs for Class Comedian Programme 2016 |
1,200.00 |
|
Kāpiti Chamber Choir & Kāpiti Chorale |
To cover costs of newspaper advertisements for a combined concert: Mozart Comes to Town, from the Kāpiti Chorale and the Kāpiti Chamber Choir with orchestra |
1,000.00 |
|
Tagata Tuvalu Trust |
To cover the cost of a Tuvalu Cultural Dance Performance |
1,000.00 |
|
Sarah Delahunty |
Contribution towards costs of producing “Much Ado About Nothing, in Paekākāriki |
2,000.00 |
|
Kāpiti Youth Orchestra |
To produce anthology of writing about Paekākāriki |
2,456.00 |
|
Ōtaki Primary School |
Contribution towards Annual Kāpiti & Ōtaki Primary Schools’ Kapahaka Festival |
1,541.00 |
|
|
Total |
$19,188.00 |