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Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Grant Robertson has announced he is calling for applications to the fourth round of the Regional Culture and Heritage Fund (RCHF). The round opened on 07 March 2019. Applications close at 5pm on Thursday 18 April 2019. Decisions will likely be announced in June/July 2019.
RCHF Round Four is now open
Deeper insights into the life and times of Helen Kelly and Te Rauparaha are among the New Zealand stories to be revealed through this year’s annual New Zealand History Awards, Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage Chief Historian Neill Atkinson said today.
Annual history awards reveal New Zealand’s stories
Heritage EQUIP now offers extra support and incentives for regional projects, including new Professional Advice Grants. Applications for the next funding round close on 22 March 2019.
Learn about our Heritage EQUIP fund
Do you want to see an outstanding disabled artist recognised? How about an inclusive project celebrating community arts or a leader providing access to the arts for people in New Zealand? Nominations to this year’s Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards, presented annually by Arts Access Aotearoa, close on Monday 8 April 2019.
Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2019 call for nominations
Today SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music signed a Mahi Tahi agreement to work together with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (Māori Language Commission). With the signing of the Mahi Tahi agreement, SOUNZ commits to use and promote the use of te Reo Māori across the organisation’s work and operations, and Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori agrees to provide ongoing support to achieve this.
SOUNZ signs a Mahi Tahi agreement with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori
A new book, Here we are, read us: Women, disability and writing, creatively explores the sometimes complicated and often neglected relationship between writing and disability. This little book with big ideas features eight diverse, well-known and emerging women writers. They are: Tusiata Avia, Steff Green, Helen Vivienne Fletcher, Charlotte Simmonds, Michele Leggott, Trish Harris, Te Awhina Arahanga and Robin Hyde (the only non-living writer).
Crip the Lit launches “little book with big ideas”
Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland Arts Festival is a place for ambitious ideas by storytellers, provocateurs and creators. A globally recognised celebration of art and culture taking place each March in New Zealand’s largest city, AAF will be presented for the 11th time in 2019 from 7 to 24 March.
Welcome to the Auckland Arts Festival
Grammy Award-winning American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham will perform for the first time with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington and Auckland in March.
NZSO goes out of this world with The Planets and opera star Susan Graham
This year in 2019, New Zealand will mark 250 years since the first meetings between Māori and Europeans during James Cook and the Endeavour's 1769 voyage to Aotearoa New Zealand. A national commemoration, Tuia – Encounters 250, will acknowledge this pivotal moment in our nation’s history as well as the exceptional feats of Pacific voyagers who reached and settled in Aotearoa many years earlier.
Tuia – Encounters 250

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An entrance for disabled access is off Lambton Quay.

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Please use our main phone number of (04) 499-4229 to contact staff.

Learn more about the history of the Public Trust Office Building here.

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Updated on 16th January 2019