2010–13 Strategic Plan - Creative New Zealand

Creative New Zealand alsorecognises the special place ofPacific peoples and their arts.New Zealand is a Pacific nation,and our population, culture andnational identity are increasinglyenriched and influenced byPacific peoples and cultures. Acommon theme among Pacificcommunities is the need to passon cultural knowledge and skills toNew Zealand-born Pacific children.Creative New Zealand funding forheritage arts projects supports this.What will we do toachieve this outcome?Effective funding for communityarts depends on CreativeNew Zealand having good workingrelationships with its partners,on there being effective systemsand processes for allocating anddevolving funding for communityarts, and on Creative New Zealandand local authorities having a goodunderstanding of New Zealandcommunities.Creative New Zealand will continueto provide support through theContestable Funding programmeand the Creative CommunitiesScheme, which is deliveredby Creative New Zealand inpartnership with local authorities.The Contestable Fundingprogramme includes the followingspecific initiatives targeted atMāori communities:• Toi Ake, which supports thepreservation and developmentof toi Māori for hapū and iwi,and• the Tohunga TukungaProgramme, which providestohunga with opportunities toshare their knowledge and skillswith senior Māori artists.Organisations that we fundthrough the RecurrentFunding programme alsooffer opportunities for localcommunities to engage in thearts. Creative New Zealand’sinvestment through RecurrentFunding supports the developmentof a sustainable infrastructure inthe arts sector by funding selectedarts organisations to provideprogrammes of activity over one tothree years.In 2009 Creative New Zealandcompleted research on Māori andPacific heritage arts. The purposewas to provide insight into thehealth of these heritage arts inNew Zealand, and to help informCreative New Zealand about how wecan best target support and fundingfor Māori and Pacific heritage artsfrom 2010. Over the period ofthis plan, we will implement theoutcomes of this research.We will also continue to implementthe Asian Aucklanders StrategicAction Framework 2008–2012,which we have developed inpartnership with the Auckland CityCouncil and the ASB CommunityTrust. The framework has beendeveloped as a pilot strategy toengage Asian Aucklanders in thearts; if it is successful, a nationalstrategy will be implemented.Creative New Zealand plans toundertake two key research andpolicy activities over 2010–2013to enable us to better understandhow New Zealanders are engagingin the arts. First, we will developa community arts policy. Second,we will review our CulturalDiversity Strategy (June 2006),with a view to it becoming partof a wider diversity strategy thatwould encompass access to,and participation in the arts fordisabled New Zealanders.We will measure our progress inengaging New Zealanders in thearts through the three-yearlyresearch into New Zealanders’attitudes, attendance andparticipation in the arts.Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Strategic Plan 2010–2013 13