Now we see the result: our research team
have combed through the 637 grants (totalling $16
million) handed out under the new Arts Continuity fund, and you either have to
laugh or cry.
Here are some highlights from the successful applications:
To research and write the first draft of
a novel about male affection in hypermasculine spaces.
AWARDED: $13,000
Towards the composition, recording and
production of music inspired by the psychogeography of the West Coast.
AWARDED: $34,900
To support the personnel costs and
post-production editing for an art documentary based on Papua New Guinea tattoo
practice and revival.
AWARDED: $27,500
Towards writing a children’s picture book
(text only) about sustainable community activist Helen Dew.
AWARDED: $3,200
To create and develop an online publication,
arts learning resources and musical content based on children’s drag theatre
show, The Glitter Garden.
AWARDED: $18,000
Towards the composition and instrumental
arrangement of 10 songs for children, from ideas given by children.
AWARDED: $24,600
Towards writing poetry that explores
indigeneity and love in the time of climate change.
AWARDED: $17,798
Towards writing a novel about the
collapse of democracy in an association of alpaca breeders.
AWARDED: $26,000
Towards a dance concept video showcasing
the impact Coronavirus has had on the New Zealand Chinese community.
AWARDED: $24,500
Towards the development of a first draft
of a play that explores the menstrual cycle.
AWARDED: $16,766
Towards an Indigenised Hypno-soundscape
to take you to the imagined worlds of our Kōrero Pūrākau.
AWARDED: $49,999
Towards development of a movement
technique that guides and empowers the participants in becoming specialists in
their own body.
AWARDED: $4,530
Towards 3 x hour-long live-streamed
electronic music performances with live visual animations, from a kitchen in
Paekakariki.
AWARDED: $47,703
Towards a wananga for Maori healing
theatre practitioners.
AWARDED: $50,000
Towards composing and recording ten
original compositions inspired by emotions felt during the Covid-19 lockdown.
AWARDED: $8,885
Towards development of a new body of work
exploring modernism, feminism & queerness, with specific reference to the
Otago region.
AWARDED: $30,089
Towards revision and editing of a sailing
memoir.
AWARDED: $7,200
Towards a Māori, queer, young adult novel
adaptation of Hamlet based on my innovative unproduced screenplay ‘Hamarete’.
AWARDED: $21,000
Towards designing new Māori typefaces for
print and digital.
AWARDED: $22,110
Towards the writing, arranging and
preproduction of music that forms a song-cycle from the suburban labyrinth.
AWARDED: $21,800
Remember: this money is all
going straight onto the Debt Monster's credit card. Our kids will be paying it back with interest. It makes an
absolute joke of the Government's COVID-19 response and proves how politicians
will use any crisis as an excuse to do special favours for their favourite
interest groups.
4 comments:
I am laughing and crying at the same time.
I am seriously considering applying for a grant to "Study and promulgate aspects of the use of gobbledegook where its use results in significant fiscal advantage over and above those who otherwise have a better grasp of reality"
$100 K should do it
As you say, dont know whether to laugh or cry at such stupidity. Probably disbelief and anger that my money is used for such nonsense.
St John Ambulance. An essential service. But when it comes to funding, the government says NO. Yet more & more of our tax dollars are waisted on trivia, as listed above. Sorry, but the answer is; "It makes me cry."
The government gets away with this disgusting situation, because too few voters bother to research before they vote. Thankyou Mr. Houlbrooke, for enlightening those who support Muriels always welcome, & very informative, NZCPR News Letter.
I wonder why this sort of unbelievable wast of our money hasn't been printed in our daily papers, or discussed on our radios?
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