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The COVID-19 Cultural Recovery Programme Impacts Report 2021/22 looks at the impact of COVID-19 funding for the arts, culture, heritage, media and broadcasting sectors delivered between June 2021 and July 2022. 
COVID-19 Cultural Recovery Programme Impacts Report 2021/22
Round 8 of the Regional Culture and Heritage Fund (RCHF) has opened for applications and will close at 5pm on Friday 30 June 2023. Architectural drawing is of the forthcoming Hawke’s Bay Museums Research and Archive Centre (HBMRAC) project, an earlier RCHF recipient.
Another round of support for our public arts and heritage spaces
More than forty cultural sector initiatives have been announced today as the latest recipients of the Cultural Sector Regeneration Fund, giving them the backing they need to make a lasting impact for the arts, culture and heritage sectors.
Third Regeneration Fund decisions to support key cultural infrastructure
The Government is making it easier for the screen sector to access support in order to attract more domestic and international productions to help grow the economy.
Supporting a strong future for screen sector
Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is calling for public nominations for ngā toi Māori artists, arts practitioners to be recognised at this year’s Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi Awards 2023. The purpose of Ngā Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi Awards is to recognise artistic excellence, achievement and the contribution of Māori artists working in customary and contemporary ngā toi Māori to Aotearoa New Zealand. Three awards are open for public nomination from 5 May to 12 June 2023.
Nga Taonga Toi a Te Waka Toi 2023 Nominations Open Now
Shakespeare’s greatest love story returns to the Royal New Zealand Ballet in a passionate re-telling choreographed by Andrea Schermoly (Stand to Reason, Within Without). Exquisite sets and costumes by Academy Award-winning designer James Acheson, first seen onstage in 2017 to universal acclaim, bring to life all the splendour and seduction of Renaissance Verona, swept up in Prokofiev’s exhilarating, sensuous score. Touring nationwide, the latest production finishes in Napier on 10 June.
RNZB presents Romeo & Juliet
Significant damage caused at the National Erebus Memorial site by recent extreme and unprecedented weather events in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, means a new enduring home for the memorial needs to be found.
New site required for National Erebus Memorial due to safety concerns
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra takes audiences on a musical journey from Aotearoa to Italy with exciting performances in Kāpiti, Wairarapa, Hastings, Taupō and Hamilton in June. NZSO Music Director Emeritus James Judd conducts a breathtaking collection of music in Stravinsky & Mendelssohn Portraits of Italy as part of the Orchestra’s popular Setting Up Camp winter tour
Take a musical trip from Aotearoa to Italy with the NZSO in June
Saturday 1 July and Sunday 2 July will see senior Māori performers from around the country take the stage in Te Papa’s Soundings Theatre. More than a dozen groups from the far north to Te Waipounamu are travelling to Te Papa to perform kapa haka over the two days. The event is free to the public, and the performances are live-streamed by Te Papa on Facebook and YouTube to reach a national and global audience – in the past more than 100,000 people have viewed live-streams of the performances.
Taikura Kapa Haka returns to Te Papa Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July

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Appeal for relatives - Commonwealth War Graves Clutha District

News: 1 August 2022

An appeal for relatives is a search to locate the next of kin for soldiers who fell in war. Could you be connected to this individual?

  • Name: John Stanley Gordon
  • Service number: 426169
  • Date of death: 14 January 1943
  • Regiment: Royal New Zealand Air Force
  • Rank: Leading Aircraftman
  • Cemetery: Tapanui Cemetery
  • Reason for contact: Leading Aircraftman John Stanley Gordon has an official Commonwealth War Grave in Tapanui Cemetery, West Otago. We have inspected his grave and identified some significant maintenance we would like to undertake.  

We wish to make contact with any family members of the casualty listed above.

If you are related and can provide us with the documentation, please contact [email protected]

Published on 1st August 2022