Community groups receive creative grants (1)
More than $20,000 has been given to a dozen groups and individuals to undertake a wide variety of creative projects to be enjoyed by Kāpiti residents this year.
The Creative Communities Scheme grants committee considered 15 applications and granted a total of $21,548.54 to 11 successful recipients.
The scheme is funded mostly by Creative New Zealand, with a small amount from the Council, which administers the scheme.
The Council’s Creative Communities Committee is made up of three councillors, three iwi representatives, two community representatives and one youth council representative.
The successful grant applicants and their projects are:
|
Organisation or Individual Applicants Name |
Project Name |
Project Short Description |
Amount Granted |
|
Kapiti Music Centre |
Kapiti Music Centre End of Year Concert |
End of year concert on 26th November 2016 - project includes all preparations for the concert. |
$2,000.00 |
|
Waitohu School Board Trustees |
Ōtaki-Kāpiti 2016 Annual Kapa Haka Festival |
All primary schools between Paekākāriki and Ōtaki to celebrate tikanga Maori by sending their kapa haka groups to perform for each other, whanua and community members at our district wide kapa haka festival. |
$1,719.00 |
|
Otaki Promotions Group Inc |
Otaki Kite Festival - kite making workshops |
Hold workshops in the community for the public and secondary school students to create kites. |
$750.00 |
|
Mahara Gallery Trust |
Te Whenua - the land |
Publication of 160 Kāpiti children's artworks and poems. |
$1,000.00 |
|
Coastella Ltd |
Coastella Community Music Initiative |
The Coastella Community Initiative is a program for visiting artists of the Coastella Music Festival to give participatory workshops, perform concerts and engage with students at primary schools on the Kāpiti coast. |
$5,090.00 |
|
Kāpiti Youth Orchestra |
Kāpiti Youth Orchestra Incorporated |
Teach and nurture young people from the ages of 9 - 18 to play and perform with confidence in a youth orchestra, and collaborate with other youth orchestras in the Lower North Island. |
$3,000.00 |
|
Phillip Gerard Simmonds |
Community Orchard Soiree |
A free evening concert in Raumati South's Community Orchard presented by local artists. |
$1,590.00 |
|
Sarah Delahunty |
The Tempest |
To follow-up the success of last year's community theatre project "much Ado About nothing" with a production of Shakespeare’s "The Tempest", and to again involve a large range of people as participants and audience. |
$1,500.00 |
|
Little Dog Barking |
Little Kowhai Tree Tours Kāpiti |
Aimed at Early Childhood and Lower Primary School aged groups, making the performances accessible by presenting them in their centre or school. This means the audiences are smaller; children are in their familiar environments, creating greater opportunity for participation in the performances. |
$1,899.54 |
|
New Zealand Comedy Trust |
Class Comedians Programme 2017 |
The Class Comedians programme provides a unique opportunity for secondary school students to actively participate in the arts within the Comedy/ Performance genre. It begins with in-school performances and workshop. Students are then selected to participate in the programme at no cost. |
$1,000.00 |
|
Kapiti Women's Health Collective Inc (known as the Kapiti Women's Centre) |
"Have a Go Arts programme" |
Affordable introductory art courses for women on the Kāpiti Coast. |
$2,000.00 |
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Total: |
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21,548.54 |