All Arts Lab seminars & workshops take place at Kerr St Artspace, Devonport

To find out more about Arts Lab workshops or to register your attendance please contact Lynn Lawton:
lynn.lawton@depotartspace.co.nz
PH:  09 963 2328

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2011 WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS:

Arts Lab New Media and Legal Seminar – 16 November
One day seminar $30
Kerr St Artspace

A practical presentation on new media, print media and a discussion on legal issues for creative workers.

The new media segment is a presentation from media expert Lewis Bostock on how to use social networking sites to expand your potential client base, accompanied by real examples and facts and figures about how the world of media is shifting rapidly. Also how to use social networking sites to promote your work, exhibitions, live performances and films.

David MacLaughlin, a lawyer who specialises in the field of intellectual property advises and fields questions on issues of copyright and privacy.

Federico Monsalve has worked for a national and overseas media company and provides guidelines on how to write media releases likely to be noticed and published.

Arts Lab Creative Practitioners Two Day Workshop – 23 & 24 November
Two day workshop – ($80)
Kerr St Artspace

If you are serious about making a sustainable living in your chosen creative field, this two day intensive, interactive workshop provides you with the tools and skills to realise your vision.  Tools include exercises for setting realistic and achievable goals, identifying constraints to your goal achievements, time management and speaking confidently and articulately about your arts practice.

The workshop includes practitioners who share their experiences and offer solid advice on how to sustain yourself financially whilst maintaining your artistic practice.

Arts Lab Business of Arts Three Day Workshop – 28-30 November
Three day workshop – ($150)
Kerr St Artspace

The Business of Arts workshop is an intensive three day programme where artists learn how to set themselves up as a business. GST, tax, costing & pricing structures, cash books, competition, PAYE, depreciation are all explored in detail.

The programme is facilitated by experienced company director Frances Denz who demonstrates how to manage cash flow, predict income and expenses and looks at maximising earning potential whilst keeping overheads to a minimum.

At the conclusion of this workshop all participants receive a workbook plus Excel spread sheet templates for managing finances.

Arts Lab Job Search and Interview Skills Workshop – 7 December
One day workshop – ($30)
Kerr St Artspace

An indepth workshop on preparing your CV, portfolios and cover letters for maximum effect. Also get insight from the employer’s point of view, how the interview and selection process works with a focus on empowering you and developing your confidence in the job application process.

We look at questions asked in an interview and provide models for reply, how to write cover letters that communicate your suitability for the position, interview preparation, advice on show-reels and portfolios, responding to unsuccessful job applications and more. A valuable workshop to assist you in securing that wanted job.

Arts Lab Workshops & Seminars
The Depot
28 Clarence St
Devonport, AUCKLAND
Ph:  09 9632328

The Awards encompass contemporary New Zealand painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, unique photography, and for the first time, video. The Awards are designed to encourage and develop the visual arts in New Zealand and to reward those producing outstanding work. They differ from other important New Zealand art prizes in that they aim to provide challenging opportunities and broadening experiences to the four major winners by way of residencies at  top-class international institutions. This year the Awards are being judged by three distinguished New Zealand artists – Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith.

The Awards will be presented at the Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, on Monday 5 September. The Exhibition of Winners and Selected Finalists will be on display at the Pah Homestead from 6 September to 16 October 2011, before travelling to The Dowse where the exhibition will run from 29 October to 4 December 2011. A Salon des Refuses of the finalists not selected for the travelling show will be on display at the Pah Homestead from 6 September – 14 October 2011.

To enter the 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011, applicants must guarantee that the work is a one-off original, not of an edition, that was executed by the applicant in the 12-month period prior to 11 August 2011, when entries close. Entries must not have been exhibited in a public exhibition.

The Fulbright Wallace Arts Trust Award has a different judging procedure and requires a separate entry form. The requirements and entry date for this award closes at 5pm on Monday 1 August 2011.  Go to the Fulbright website for details and application form: www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nz-wat.html

Paramount Award Winners for 2009 and 2010

Sam Mitchell Janus (2010) Acrylic on perspex (diptych)      Marcus Williams & Susan Jowsey The Correction

(2009) Photographic diptych

PRIZES
Total Value: approximately NZ $165,000.00

1. WALLACE TRUST PARAMOUNT AWARD
Six month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, plus a Bronze Trophy by Terry Stringer.
2. THE KAIPARA FOUNDATION WALLACE TRUST AWARD
Three month residency at Altes Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland
3. FULBRIGHT WALLACE ARTS TRUST AWARD
Three month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA
4. WALLACE DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Two month residency at the Vermont Studio Center, USA
5. 1ST RUNNER UP AWARD ($2,000)
6. 2ND RUNNER UP AWARD ($2,000)
7. JURY AWARD (Non-monetary)
Discretionary prize as decided by the jury
8. PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD ($500)
As voted by exhibition attendees.

For more information about the 20th Wallace Art Awards 2011 please email enquiries@wallaceartstrust.org.nz or call 09 639 2010. The Wallace Arts Trust Offices are located at The Pah Homestead, 72 Hillsborough Rd, Hillsborough, Auckland.

The BNZ Literary Awards are for both aspiring and established writers.

For many of New Zealand’s famous writers, such as Frank Sargeson, Keri Hulme, Maurice Shadbolt, Charlotte Grimshaw and CK Stead, winning the main Award, the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, was where it all started.

Entry categories

BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award category

For published writers – $10,000 prize money
Minimum length 1,000 words – maximum length 5,000 words

BNZ Novice Writer Award category

For unpublished writers – $1,500 prize money
Minimum length 1,000 words – maximum length 3,000 words

BNZ Young Writer Award category

For writers who are at secondary school – $1,500 for the student
and $2000 for the winner’s school
Minimum length 750 words – maximum length 2,000 words

Or if you’d prefer to post in your entry for the above categories, download the form PDF 180KB

BNZ Short Short Story Award

A shot story of a maximum of 150 words submitted via Facebook.

Meet the 2011 Judges

Owen Marshall – BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award Judge

Rachael King – BNZ Novice Award Judge

Penelope Todd – BNZ Young Writer Award Judge

Graham Beattie – BNZ Short Short Story Award Judge

Finding funding for your creative project can be daunting.  Compiled below are some useful links to organisations and resources which may assist you in identifying who to approach and how to present your proposal.

Minstry for Culture & Heritage: The cultural funding guide is an online database designed to make sources of funding for arts, cultural and heritage activities easy to find.

At the Funding Information Service you can find a wealth of information and resources on sponsorship, marketing and writing proposals.

Arts Alive – provides funds to assist professional performing arts organisations mount work in the Auckland city area. Community and cultural arts organisations and events are not eligible to apply.

The Community Group Assistance Policy covers all the different types of assistance. Council provides to community groups including grants for community group projects and services or accommodation costs, community loans, training and advice.

If you have a Auckland Public Libraries membership card you can access two online databases ‘Breakout’ and ‘Fundview’ on the Auckland City Libraries website.

The ASB Trusts will consider supporting innovative arts and cultural projects including public art works or programmes that aim to improve access, engagement and experience in arts and cultural opportunities for the community.

The New Zealand Lottery Grants Board was set up by Parliament to distribute the proceeds of state lotteries to the New Zealand community. It does this through Lottery Grants and direct payments to three statutory bodies.

Arts Access Aotearoa Arts Access Aotearoa is a Charitable Trust whose objectives are to ensure that people and communities of New Zealand have unhindered access to the arts, and opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts.

Creative New Zealand Creative New Zealand is a government organisation responsible for developing the arts in New Zealand. Their governing body is the Arts Council and the funding decision-making bodies are the Arts Board, Te Waka Toi (Maori arts board) and the Pacific Arts Committee.

How the Arts Advisory Group will influence and relate to Auckland Council

The majority of responses (35%) mentioned values that relate to the cohesiveness of the group and its ability to lead the arts sector as a whole. This involves the group’s role in encouraging collaboration within the sector and the membership of the group, developing the networks between them and establishing effective channels of communication that enable this interaction. The second key element of the activities of the group is its role in providing a unified voice which represents the diversity of views of the members of the group, and the relaying of these views to council by acting as a conduit.

The next main area of responses to this question (26%) discussed the role of the group in promoting the arts more generally in tandem with council. This means celebrating and acknowledging the importance of the arts within the city, helping the public to engage with artistic activities, as well as raising the national and international profile of the creative milieu of Auckland.

On an almost equal level of significance in terms of responses (25%), there was specific reference to changes in council procedures and attitudes brought about through the work of the group. Most of these responses envisioned the arts as becoming embedded as a core driver guiding council policymaking. Many addressed the importance for policymakers to be educated on, and therefore recognise, the importance of the arts to the wellbeing and prosperity of the city. This was followed closely by responses that called for a regional strategy for arts development.
Finally, a portion of responses (14%) mentioned funding as an area for improvement. Increases were called for, as well as measures to ensure funding was equitable, secure and reliable, and was given priority on the council agenda.

Accomplishments for the group to aspire to

In this round, the majority of responses (35%) focused on the group’s relationship to council. These were similar to responses in the first round – there was again a call for the sector’s increased impact on policy, and a need for recognition from policymakers of the relevance of the arts to council objectives. Slightly more significant than this was the emphasis on the development of strong lines of communication between the sector and council through which regular and meaningful consultation could occur.

Connectivity was again discussed frequently (30%), this time with more reference to the identity of the group. There were many calls for the group to ensure it was representative of the sector, in that it has a wide scope of inclusion and allows for the diversity of its members. The main task of the group at hand was seen to be the development of its identity, refining its range of activities and building a structure which could maintain these. Once this is achieved, other responses looked forward to the group providing a forum for sharing and dialogue amongst members.

Again, promotion of the arts was identified as an area for the group to consider (15%). Specifically, for the value of the arts to be seen as an important part of the branding of Auckland city.
Research activities were singled out as important for attention (12%) – mainly concerning the development of new strategy. Also highlighted was the need to carry out a stocktake of arts assets and generally more detailed analysis of the sector.

Finally, greater funding from council was flagged by a few of the responses (8%).

Core values and principles to guide the development of the group

The most significant section of responses to this question talked about the importance of the group being representative (14%). This means the group could claim to be inclusive and accessible, as well as having a broad mandate to make assertions on behalf of the sector as a whole.

Following closely to this (8%) was the need for transparency and integrity as core values guiding the group’s actions – ensuring it remained accountable and democratic in its processes. On par with these responses (8%), were the activities of advocacy and lobbying accompanied by an attitude of perseverance and commitment. Following closely (7%), were views that the group should maintain a ‘big picture’ approach that was visionary and aspirational in its thinking.

There were three other qualities that stood out equally amongst the responses (6%): diversity, communication and connectivity. The first links back to the main call for the group to be representative, but was noteworthy for making specific reference to the sector’s variety of ethnic groups, ages, and locations which need to be recognised and included in the greater identity of the group. Communication was often mentioned – between the group and council, local boards, and other agencies, as well as with other relevant sectors and groups in the city. Connectivity refers to the need for networking within the group – bringing in previously disparate actors who have a commonality in their involvement in the arts.

Another aspect worth mentioning which was not a major finding from the responses but was mentioned throughout the three rounds and as four per cent of the responses about core values – was the need to integrate and include both community and professional arts practices. Acknowledging this cleavage in the sector might involve special attention but will no doubt be crucial to the success of the group and tie in closely to its other values such as representativeness.

See the summary in the spreadsheet for more principles and values.

Compiled by Elise Sterback for the Auckland Arts Working Group

In the transition to the new Auckland governance, the creation of an Auckland Arts & Culture Advisory Group by Auckland’s arts and culture sector was strongly recommended by members of the ATA.  (The sports and recreation sector have undertaken this type of regional strategy development some time ago.)

To help progress the initiative the Working party formed out of the sector wide TAPAC meetings in 2009 wishes to facilitate three sessions to explore and collectively work towards the foundation of an Auckland Arts & Culture Advisory Group.

The concept has since been favourably received by outgoing council senior officers and Creative NZ. The new Manager Arts, Culture and Events, Gail Richards and Manager, Community  Development Arts and Culture, Louise Mason  of Auckland Council are also supportive of the discussion and are interested to see the outcomes of the workshops from our sector.

We invite you to the first of these sessions (with The Big Idea Assist’s Elisabeth Vaneveld facilitating) on Wednesday 24 November 3:00 – 6:00pm, Town Hall Reception Room, entry off Queen St at the clock tower end.

The Agenda:

• Background:  how this mission came about
• Defining the purpose of the Auckland Arts & Culture Advisory Group
• The vision of the Auckland Arts & Culture Advisory Group
• We may get as far as beginning the goals and objectives – or at least sow the seeds for the next meeting…..

We are pleased to announce that Kerry Harvey from the Ministry of Culture and Heritage and Elizabeth Beale from Creative New Zealand will be in attendance.

The intended participants in this work-shopping process are representatives from any of greater Auckland’s arts and cultural organisations. We welcome those of you who want to take part and wish to work actively and collaboratively with their peers to co-create the Advisory Group and define its purpose and approach.

Ideally from your organisation a senior manager and a board member will attend.  As this will be a working meeting /workshop, it is highly desirable that all attendees are well-informed and to this end, the Working Group is working on some background documents intended to bring the meeting participants to the same starting line, which will be circulated to those who have RSVP’d prior to the workshop.

Please rsvp your attendance by Friday 19 November to Maggie at maggie@artistsalliance.org.nz

The Auckland Arts and Culture Working Group:

Maggie Gresson, Anne Rodda, James McCarthy, Candy Elsmore

Maggie Gresson
Executive Director
Artists Alliance

1 Ponsonby Road
Newton
Auckland
New Zealand

Phone: + 9 376 7285
Mobile: + 021 220 9623
Email: maggie@artistsalliance.org.nz

www.artistsalliance.org.nz
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Artists Alliance receives significant funding from Creative New Zealand and ASB Community Trust.

This Bill demolishes the Arts and Toi Maori Boards and makes one Council of 13 Members.

If your Community Arts Council or you as an individual want to note the lack of concern for funding or support for your Community Arts Council in the last fifteen years you can write a submission to this current bill.  This can be done online:  http://www.parliament.nz/.

All you need to do is describe your concerns and experiences. You could also note some or all of the following and stress that you believe:

1. Creative New Zealand is a development agency. Currently development is focused towards a narrow band of high art forms; without development plans or resourcing at the community level. Creative New Zealand funding and support appears to be inaccessible to all but those involved in professional arts.

i. Request a member of Creative New Zealand staff be dedicated to support community arts and community arts councils.

2. Community and recreational arts organisations desperately miss the support and advice they used to receive at local, regional and national level from dedicated staff in the former regional offices.

i. Request reinstatement of dedicated officers in the regional offices to work with community, recreational groups and individuals to build capability and capacity at community level.

3. Creative New Zealand needs to adopt a wider definition of the arts to become more inclusive and encouraging of cultural diversity, access and participation. In order to have a creative New Zealand continually developing and striving for excellence, support and resources need to be focused across all forms of art not just towards professional arts organisations and a narrow range of art forms.

As a Community Arts Provider you might wish to extend your submission to discuss your relationship with your territorial local authority, describe your interests and activities and then say why your activities and art form are important parts of the process to provide the Arts to All New Zealanders as suggested in the both the 1994 Act and the 2010 Bill.

The submission closing date is 8th October 2010. You might also visit your local Member of Parliament and discuss your submission.

The Arts Participation Trust will be making a submission along with suggested amendments to the Bill. If you would like a copy of the proposed amendments, assistance with making a submission or more information please see www.artsparticipation.org.nz or contact Monica at info@artsparticipation.org.nz or Glen Wiggs (Chair, Arts Participation New Zealand) at glen@wiggsy.com .

This is a forum for the community arts sector to come together to connect, collaborate and be inspired.

WHEN: 10am to 3pm Sunday 26 September 2010

WHERE: Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design

24 Balfour St, Parnell, Auckland

Further details on attached flier and at www.artsaccess.org.nz

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

Opening exhibition and social event

Time: 5–7pm            Saturday 25 September

CAN Forum

Time: 10am–3pm Sunday 26 September

10am–11am              Official welcome, followed by panel discussion entitled Developing networks, projects and people with

Di Jennings, Community Economic Development, Community Waitakere

Gail Richards, Manager Arts, Auckland City Council

Marianne Taylor, Co-Executive Director, Arts Access Aotearoa

11am–noon               Pecha Kucha presentations featuring 10 arts organisations and artists

noon–1pm                 Lunch provided (koha)

1pm–3pm                  Workshops introduced by Arts Access Aotearoa and including a presentation by Suzanne Vesty, Director of Spark Studio

The day will be a mix of presentations from guest speakers with experience in the field and facilitated workshops. When you register, please let us know your first and second workshop preferences from the following topics:

A:  Inclusive arts practice and governance: models of best practice

B: Collaborations and Partnerships: engaging with artists – a brainstorm of ideas and potential projects to inspire the network

C: Sustainability – shaping our future:  Funding and models of community development

TO REGISTER

Spaces are limited and bookings are essential. For further information, please contact Arts Access Aotearoa (T: 04 802 4349 E: info@artsaccess.org.nz) with ‘CAN Forum’ in the subject field (if by email) and the following details:

Name/s:

Organisation:

Number attending:

Workshop preferences (choose two from A, B or C):

Access requirements: (e.g: Sign Language interpreter)

Dietary requirements:

We are very grateful to Youthtown for providing refreshments and lunch by koha.

The fund’s objectives are:

• to build audiences for the performing arts and
• to develop and maintain Auckland’s performing arts infrastructure including resources, skills, information, professional support and networks

Auckland City Council receives proposals in March and August each year from individuals, organisations, venues or businesses seeking funding for their projects in the city.

Projects may be a production season, a performance series, a one-night show or concert, or festival work of music, dance or theatre, or a combination of these artforms.
Arts Alive does not support school projects, community or amateur groups.

The applicants must be prepared to enter a funding agreement that provides an arts grant for their project and the opportunity for Auckland City Council to promote its involvement in and support of the professional performing arts in Auckland.

Funding round dates
Next round: August 2010 (Round 33).
Funding term: between 1 November 2010 and 31 December 2011.
Closing date: 4.30pm, Friday 20 August 2010.
Decisions: will be announced in late October 2010.

Please note, due to the transition into the new Auckland Council later this year, this is the only funding round for Arts Alive this year.

Click here for more information.

The sum of $10 million was distributed to all the territorial authorities in the Auckland region to spend on “significant art and culture projects” when the Auckland Regional Services Trust (ARST) was dissolved in 1998.

Council received $628,000 and decided to keep the capital intact and spend only the interest.

By contrast, other Auckland councils have spent all their funds and local artists are concerned that after the change in governance, Rodney’s fund, which is held in trust and administered by Council, could disappear into the supercity’s coffers.

Council’s community development manger Paul Green says that staff are preparing a report for presentation to Council which outlines options for retaining the funds in Rodney.

The report is scheduled to go to Council’s July 8 meeting.

http://www.localmatters.co.nz/