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At the request of the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand Flag is to be flown at half mast on all Government and public buildings on Wednesday 21 April, the day of the New Zealand Memorial Service for His Royal Highness.
New Zealand Flag half-masting directive - Death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh
Anzac Day commemorates all New Zealanders killed in war and honours our returned servicemen and women. In 2021, we're encouraging New Zealanders to mark Anzac Day in a safe and meaningful way. Here are details about the official Anzac Day events in Wellington on Sunday 25 April.
Anzac Day
The Cultural Sector Innovation Fund provides $60 million over three years to support innovative projects that improve the sustainability and resilience of the sector. Round one of the Fund will be delivered through a nationwide events series, Te Urungi: Innovating Aotearoa. These immersive, collaborative events are designed to harness our collective creative energy and innovative spirit to fuel bold ideas that enable arts, culture and heritage to thrive.
Join us in innovating Aotearoa through a series of 14 regional events held across the country
Kei Roto i te Miru: Inside the Bubble is a podcast series capturing New Zealander’s experiences during the 2020 lockdown. The series uses oral histories collected during the lockdown to reflect on how we responded collectively as a nation to this moment in history, and shares some of the many ways New Zealander’s experienced the lockdown. The series will be published on RNZ’s podcast channel. It will also be aired weekly on RNZ ‘Nights with Bryan Crump’, Mondays starting 29th March.
Kei Roto i te Miru - Inside the Bubble
Round one funding between $1,000 and $20,000 is available now to create installations and events. They must be free to experience and bring culture and creativity to people in our communities. They’ll be in easy to access spaces people regularly go or are easy to discover, such as community hubs, shopping malls, parks, beaches, marae, churches, reserves, or along a waterfront.
Cultural Installations and Events Fund open now
A Governance Group of eight experts has been appointed to lead the next phase of work on a potential new public media entity, Minister for Broadcasting and Media Kris Faafoi announced today.
Governance Group to lead next phase of work on a potential new public media entity
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Hon Carmel Sepuloni launched a unique creative project in Tāmaki Makaurau at the new Media Design School Campus in Wynyard Quarter. Aho Wahine is a series of interactive bi-lingual apps that breathe new life into the traditional stories of Aotearoa, interpreting them from the point of view of the female characters.
Creativity Meets Tech
Minister Sepuloni has announced the opening of the $5.7 million Mātauranga Māori Marae Ora Fund. This Fund is one of 18 initiatives within the wider $20 million Mātauranga Māori Te Awe Kōtuku programme being led by Manatū Taonga in partnership with other government and cultural agencies. There will be six funding rounds between now and June 2022. The first round is open now and closes on 24 March 2021.
New fund to help preserve mātauranga and taonga Māori on marae

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