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Arts and Culture Event Support Scheme
Join us for our next Public History Talk : A biography of Lake Tūtira on Wednesday 06 July 2022. Historian Jonathan West will follow in the traces of Herbert Guthrie Smith, whose obsessive records of the changes witnessed while farming by the lake made him the founder of environmental history here. In-person or online at the National Library at 12.10pm.
Public History Talk - A biography of Lake Tūtira
Aotearoa New Zealand’s best young orchestral musicians unite in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington on 7 July to perform one of the greatest symphonic works ever written: Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony Titan. The NZSO National Youth Orchestra will be led by acclaimed Australian conductor Fabian Russell, who founded The Orchestra Project, a training programme for pre-eminent young Australian musicians.
Youth Orchestra takes on a titan of the music world in Wellington
Applications for the seventh round of the Regional Culture and Heritage Fund (RCHF) are now open with up to $13 million is available for distribution. Applications close at 5pm on Friday 15 July 2022. Image is courtesy of Whirinaki Whare Taonga.
Regional Culture and Heritage Fund
Kura and schools around New Zealand can start applying for Round 4 of the Creatives in Schools programme, Minister for Education Chris Hipkins and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Carmel Sepuloni announced on 17 June 2022
Creatives in Schools Round 4 open for applications
To herald the new public holiday, Te Papa will open a special interactive exhibition about Matariki to encourage everyone to participate in marking our New Year. The key themes of the experience are: remember, celebrate, and hope. The Matariki exhibition opens Saturday 10 June and closes Sunday 21 August. Entry is free.
Te Papa hosts official launch of Matariki, opens exhibition, announces events
Do you know a Pasifika creative that deserves to be celebrated for their contribution to our arts community over the past year? Creative New Zealand's annual Arts Pasifika Awards are back - and they're calling for nominations! This year, there are seven award categories open for public nominations which closes on 4 July.
2022 Arts Pasifika Awards: nominations now open!
The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa is inviting nominations for the next New Zealand Poet Laureate. The award celebrates outstanding contributions to New Zealand poetry. Nominations close Friday, 29 July at 5pm and the next Poet Laureate will be named on National Poetry Day, Friday, August 26 2022.
Call for Poet Laureate nominations

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Kāinga Te tuakiri, te taonga tuku iho o Aotearoa Ngā taonga rāhui Licensed Dealers

Licensed Dealers

Auctioneers or secondhand dealers licensed to trade in taonga tūturu - 31 January 2022 to 31 January 2023

Licensed dealers must renew their license annually. The Ministry will contact licensed dealers to renew their licences in late January. If a person, who is not shown below, is claiming to be a licensed dealer, please contact the Ministry for Culture and Heritage immediately.

If you would like to apply to become licensed to trade in taonga tūturu, please download the application form here (Word 103 KB). Please send the completed form to the address below with the licence fee of $57.50.

Protected Objects

Ministry for Culture and Heritage

PO Box 5364

Wellington 6140

For more information on licensed dealers, please read the Guidelines for licensed traders in taonga tūturu (PDF 155 KB)

Art + Object Ltd 3 Abbey Street, Newton, Auckland
FHE Galleries 221 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland
Gow Langsford Gallery 26 Lorne Street, Auckland
Jems of Remuera

346 Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland
John Cordy Ltd 553 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland
Webb's Fine Art Ltd 33A Normandy Road, Mt Eden, Auckland
Lindy Sweet Pea Antiques and Collectables 16 Oruanui Street, Taupō
A H Crawford Limited G1 17 Joll Road, Havelock North, Hawkes Bay 4130
Mowbray Collectables Mowbray Collectables, Otaki
Dunbar Sloane Ltd 74 Featherston Street, Wellington
Goldco International Ltd  PO Box 579, Wellington 6140
John Bertrand (Collectables) Ltd Wellington
Militaria Auction Ltd 48 Para Street, Miramar, Wellington
McCormack & McKellar Auctioneers Ltd 78 Peterborough Street, Christchurch 8013

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Updated on 15th June 2022