The Arts and Culture Event Support Scheme is a fund of up to $22.5 million to help provide confidence for the arts and culture events sector to continue organising their events in the coming summer months.
The Scheme is about providing certainty for event organisers, confidence for vaccinated New Zealanders to attend and enjoy events, and reassurance for artists and crew that they can get paid if their events can’t go ahead as planned. It provides cover for event organisers to be able to recoup the non-recoverable losses of an event which is unable to be delivered at the scheduled time and location due to the event location being at ‘Red’ in the COVID-19 Protection Framework or under a government mandated local lockdown.
Support of up to $300,000 is available per eligible event. Events must be scheduled to take place between 17 December 2021 and 3 April 2022.
To be covered by the Arts and Culture Event Support Scheme, event organisers must register their event with Manatū Taonga and have received confirmation of their event’s eligibility in advance of the scheduled event date. Event organisers can register their summer event now.
List of Arts and Culture Event Support Scheme approved recipients
The following events have been registered and event organisers have received confirmation that they are eligible to receive financial support from the Arts and Culture Event Support Scheme, should they not be able to deliver the events due to their event location shifting to ‘Red’ under the COVID-19 Protection Framework.
Updated 21 January 2022
| Event | Organiser | Location(s) |
| Ending HIV Big Gay Out | New Zealand AIDS Foundation | Auckland |
| Good as Gold Festival | Thomas Bowey Limited | Auckland |
| Nightside - 12 hour day to night rave | Cameron Bavin | Auckland |
| Shakespeare in the Park 2022 | Shoreside Theatre Incorporated | Auckland |
| Silent Night Deadly Night - all ages Christmas Show | Robert Mahoney | Auckland |
| The Auckland Art Show | Jackfish Ltd | Auckland |
| The Others Way | The Others Way Limited | Auckland |
| Gopal Bhatia presents Magical Pancham | Gopal Krishna Bhatia | Auckland |
| Britomart Block Party NYE 2021 | BHC TRADING LIMITED | Auckland |
| Haus of Yolo | The Dust Palace Productions Ltd | Auckland |
| APO concerts in February and March 2022 | Auckland Philharmonia Trust | Auckland |
| Highlife New Years Eve Festival 2021 | Highlife Entertainment Limited | Auckland |
| Groove in the Grapes 2022 | Velocity Consulting Group Ltd trading as Turanga Creek Wedding and Events | Auckland |
| Island Time | Endeavour Live Limited | Auckland |
| Lychee Baybee | All My Friends Limited | Auckland |
| Auckland Pride Festival | Auckland Pride Festival Inc | Auckland |
| Olive Copperbottom: a Dickensian tale of love, gin and the pox | Penelope Ashton | Auckland |
| California 90s tribute tour | Waxstar Ltd | Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin |
| Aussie, Aussie, Aussie | Waxstar Ltd | Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty |
| K Motionz | Endeavour Live Limited | Auckland, Waikato, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington |
| 1991 | Endeavour Live Limited | Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown-Lakes |
| Waterbourne / Sub Focus | Endeavour Live Limited | Bay of Plenty |
| The Seafarer's Playground | Events Innovated Ltd | Bay of Plenty |
| CSO presents Raiders of the Lost Ark | Christchurch Symphony Trust | Canterbury |
| Lamb & Hayward Masterworks - Dangerous Liaisons | Christchurch Symphony Trust | Canterbury |
| Jesus Christ Superstar | Ashburton Performing Arts Theatre Trust | Canterbury |
| Rolling Meadows | Sub180 Entertainment Ltd | Canterbury |
| Art Deco Festival Napier 2022 | Art Deco Trust Incorporated | Hawke’s Bay |
| Sub Focus Napier | Endeavour Live Limited | Hawke’s Bay |
| The Magic Flute | Festival Opera Ltd | Hawke's Bay |
| Pirate Kai | The Drama Workshop Ltd | Hawke's Bay and Wellington |
| Golden Sounds | Endeavour Live Limited | Marlborough |
| Havelock Mussel Festival | Havelock Mussel Festival Incorporated | Marlborough |
| Adam Summer Celebration | Nelson Music Festival Trust | Nelson |
| The Nutcracker | Primarily Dance Trust | Nelson |
| The Nutcracker | Primarily Dance Trust | Nelson |
| Footloose | Whangarei Theatre Company Inc | Northland |
| Dimension Festival | Phat Productions Trading Ltd | Northland |
| BOI Music Festival | Jacman Entertainment Ltd | Northland |
| Sub Focus Dunedin | Endeavour Live Limited | Otago |
| Aspiring Conversations | Southern Lakes Arts Festival Trust | Queenstown-Lakes |
| Hybrid Minds & Koven - Queenstown | Trademark Live Limited | Queenstown-Lakes |
| King Beats Charity Music Festival | King Beats Festival Limited | Queenstown-Lakes |
| Arrowtown Burns Supper and Ceilidh Dance | Electrotechnical Service Ltd | Queenstown-Lakes |
| Aronui Indigenous Arts Festival | Aronui Arts Festival Charitable Trust | Rotorua |
| Yatra Festival 2022 | Spacecraft Studio Ltd | Tasman |
| Fields Festival | Remix Media Ltd | Waikato |
| Club Festivus | Live Nation Australasia Pty Ltd | Waikato |
| That weekend | TFB Productions Ltd | Waikato |
| Coro Summer Fest | Matthew Sephton | Waikato |
| The Beach Ball with Broods, Flamingo Pier & Imugi | An Emerald City LTD | Waikato, Tasman, Taranaki, Bay of Plenty and Northland |
| Let it go - the songs of Frozen in concert | Showcase Entertainment Group Ltd | Wairarapa, Wellington, Tasman and Christchurch |
| The Greatest Drag Show | Alexander Kachfi | Wellington |
| Soho Cinders | The Wellington Footlights Society Incorporated | Wellington |
| Sub Focus Wellington | Endeavour Live Limited | Wellington |
| Mako Road | Eccles Entertainment Ltd | Wellington |
| Lunar New Year Festival - Wellington 2022 | Asian Events Trust | Wellington |
| Amici Ensembe with Jian Liu | Waikanae Music Society Incorporated | Wellington |
| The Performance Arcade 2022 | The Performance Arcade Trust | Wellington |
| Tora Bombora festival | Louis Murphy-Harris | Wellington |
| Chase and Status, Hybrid Minds, Koven & more | Trademark Live Limited | Wellington |
Updated on 21st January 2022