Articles tagged as Music
Funding Workshops Creative New Zealand provides Local Councils with funding to support Community Arts and Cultural projects. The fund is called the Creative Communities Scheme. A set of new criteria and a changed process is to be introduced from 1 July 2010. North Shore City Council has organised the following workshops for community and artists [...]
Artists Forum 6pm Wednesday 16th June The Depot invites you to its first 5five evening. 5five is a forum for discussion amongst artists, musicians, writers and creative practitioners. The evening will be led by artist Robyn Gibson followed by an opportunity for participants to have the floor to discuss their own work and projects. Please [...]
Behind Devonport’s sleepy façade beats a thriving pulse of the rock n roll kind. Often heralded by the media as a ‘phenomenon’, the local music scene is growing ever stronger, with scores of young musicians clamouring to follow the legacy of bands such as The Veils and The Checks.
Sound Rocket is a series of three gigs by Auckland Artists sponsored by the Depot Artspace, Devonport Live and the Masonic Tavern. Sound Rocket celebrates New Zealand Music during NZ Music Month.
Creative New Zealand has embarked on its scheduled review of the Recurrently Funded Organisations (RFOs). As part of this review Creative New Zealand has published a discussion paper to generate discussion and feedback on its funding model for RFOs. The paper outlines four potential approaches to Creative New Zealand’s long-term investment in arts organisations, as [...]
Creative People’s Centre will again be celebrating NZ Music Month with workshops and events. We’ll be formulating our ideas around this over the next few weeks, and then will release the details. If there is a particular workshop or event you’d like to see happen, that furthers the future of the music industry in NZ, [...]
In December Jam Radio of Devonport received significant ARST (Arts Regional Services Trust) funding from North Shore City Council to create a series of interviews with iconic New Zealanders who have shaped the Auckland arts and culture scene over many years. The tentatively titled Cultural Icons project will be made over a two year period, with the audio and film from the interviews made accessible online.
With more music now available online than ever and 85% of the music available not actaully selling 1 copy it seems that one of the biggest struggles for independent artists is to actually gain some exposure for their music.
When it comes to music, copyright is the single most important legal concept.
For any writer the single most important legal agreement you sign in your career is likely to be a Publishing Agreement.