EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR PHASE ONE (Seed Funding) OF THE FUND ARE NOW OPEN
 

• 5pm, Friday 29 November 2024: Artist/Producer Expressions of Interest for PHASE ONE open
• Midnight, Sun 16 February 2025: Artist/Producer Expressions of Interest for PHASE ONE close

Read the Expression of Interest Guidelines

Performing Arts Network New Zealand (PANNZ) has made an agreement with Creative New Zealand to deliver a $2 million Festivals Commissioning and Presentation Fund (the Fund).

The Fund will support high-quality, new and/or reimagined work by New Zealand artists to be created and presented within Aotearoa New Zealand by New Zealand festivals and other consortium presenting partners.

Curatorial decisions for the Fund will be made in partnership with festivals.  PANNZ will work alongside festivals as commissioners and/or presenters and to select work through an EoI process from artists and arts organisations in Aotearoa.

This momentous fund aims to support the realisation of works that are artistically ambitious and compelling, with strong artistic teams and experienced producers. Importantly the fund will focus on supporting works onto stages that are likely to have national impact in festivals across Aotearoa with diversity in scale and artform.

Curatorial decisions will ensure Commissions and their presentations include a balance of art-forms and practices, reflect the role of mana whenua, and connect with the vitality and diversities of communities in Aotearoa.

While the fund focuses on investing in new work, it may also invest in re-imagined work that would benefit from further investment to realise its full potential.

This Fund is a one-off opportunity that will support works to be commissioned for presentation at festivals in 2026 - 2028.

Artist and Artwork Eligibility 

• View the EoI Guidelines for Eligibility.
   

Festival Eligibility

Eligible festivals must:
 

• Curate a programme, be fee paying (fair and reasonable fees to artists), and commit to presenting the work.
• Be experienced in collaborating with other festivals, and understand or have experience in commissioning work.
• Present professional, live works of high quality (can be single or multi-artfrom)
• Have meaningful engagement and strong relationships with local communities and audiences.

PANNZ seeks the opportunity to use a partnership model with festivals. We will look to work with festivals of differing scales from small/medium to large, and where thoughtful and deep engagement occurs between local communities and the festival.

The Team

Jo Bond, Senior Producer is leading this initiative, the strategic direction is led by CEO Louise Gallagher alongside Kaiārahi Māori Dolina Wehipeihana.

Contact details

Jo Bond: jo@pannz.org.nz
Dolina Wehipeihana: dolina@pannz.org.nz

Creative New Zealand established the Fund with some of the previous Government’s one-off Covid-19 support for the sector. The Fund is the final part of a package of special projects collectively known as Support for artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations. If successful, and funding permitting, Creative New Zealand may look at how it might be continued as an ongoing means of supporting the commissioning and presentation of work for festivals.

Read the announcement from Creative 12 April 2024