Auckland Council provides grant funding to support community oriented projects and activities.

The following community group funding rounds for the central area will be open on 1 June 2013:

. Community Group Assistance Fund (Round 1) – closing 14 July 2013

· Community Group Accommodation Support Fund – closing 14 July 2013

· Local Board Discretionary Community Group Funding (Albert-Eden, Great Barrier,
Maungakiekie-Tamaki, Orakei, Puketapapa, Waiheke, Waitemata) – varied closing dates,
available on the website.

Community Workshops are scheduled for the following days:

Tuesday 28 May 2013
Panmure Community Hall
5:30pm – 8:15pm

Wednesday 29 May 2013
Freemans Bay Community Hall (Side Room)
2:45pm – 5:45pm

Thursday 30 May 2013
Ferndale House (Main Room)
3:00pm – 6:00pm

Thursday 6 June 2013
Fickling Convention Centre (Hillsborough Room)
3:00pm – 6:00pm

More funding workshops will be scheduled throughout June (including Waiheke and
Great Barrier workshops).

Find out more: phone 09 301 0101 Or visit www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/funding

Proposal to commission artwork for Regional Renal Centre Waiora Waikate Hospital campus.

The centre opened in November 2012 and is located at the eastern end of the campus. This new ‘fit to purpose’ facility caters for renal patients from the central North Island who come for dialysis treatment.

The facility retains the sense of community the staff have managed to create over the years. This is the central service for the Midland DHB region which includes Lakes, Bay of Plenty, Tairawhiti and Taranaki DHBs. Patients come into the service for anywhere between 6 months to 20 years, and therefore by managing the life term of these patients a real sense of family and involvement is created.

Please click here for detailed information about the artwork required.

Call for proposal for a five-screen interactive, video/ sound exhibition opening at Mangere Arts Centre, Friday 3 May 2013.

The human body is the first musical instrument, with a sound making potential more inventive and unique than any other known instrument. Worldwide, we explore the sounds we can make with our bodies, often discovering personal quirks that are carried forward from childhood and perfected over time as a skill shared amongst families and friends.

BODYTOK QUINTET presents some sixty-plus performances from the archive of sounds made with the body only. The artist behind the project invites contributions from our local community to make the exhibition more relevant to you the audience.

Anyone with the skills of making sound with their body (described above), can offer a performance for the Mangere exhibition of Bodytok.

Each performance is recorded privately on video, by the artist, without an audience of any kind (unless requested). All that’s required is for you to choose a background colour from a range offered, and to perform your bodytok-sound direct to camera. Short, sweet and easy!

Each performance is archived with the permission of the participant for potential inclusion in BODYTOK QUINTET.

All on-screen performances remain anonymous.

If you can volunteer to participate in the BODYTOK QUINTET project please email annie.bradley@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz for further details.

The Bodytok recording session is scheduled on the weekend of April 13-14 at the Mangere Arts Centre between 11am and 4pm.

We welcome any Bodytok contributions offered.

Te Tuhi is now accepting proposals for Drawing Wall and Billboard projects.

Applications for the 2013-14 period should be at Te Tuhi no later than 5.00 p.m. on Friday 10th May 2013. They will be accepting proposals by post addressed to the Te Tuhi Billboard project or Te Tuhi Drawing wall. And also by email via the info@tetuhi.org.nz.

The links below have all the required information.

Drawing Wall Project Proposal

Billboard Project Proposal

The Pacific Dance Fono has been an annual dance event since 2006 and is a forum for Pacific dance practitioners, choreographers, academics, managers and directors to discuss issues around Pacific dance especially relating to its place in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

2013 will be the seventh fono and will take place at the University of Auckland’s magnificent Fale Pasifika within the Pacific Studies department.  This year will also feature special keynote speaker and kumu hula Blaine Kamalani Kia from Hawai’i.

Kumu Blaine is the founder and president of the Ka Laua’e Foundation, a network of 15 halau (hula schools) across the Pacific, America, Japan and most recently in New Zealand. Besides offering a wonderful knowledge of ancient Hawaiian hula, Kumu Blaine also offers experience in running a large dance organization and an idea, a theme, a knowing – as is outlined in his theme, “Ke Ao Lewa – The Realm of Consciousness”.

“Ke  Ao Lewa” The Realm of Consciousness

“Ke Ao Lewa” speaks volumes about how we are to be conscientious with who we are as a “people” striving, coping, and succeeding in the twenty-first century of a technological world.

“Ke Ao Lewa” requires us to open your eyes beyond the earth’s surface and gravitation of worldly influences and to look, seek beyond the human comprehension for many of our answers are in the realms of the clouds, the stars, the moon, and the heavens.  We are sometimes short-sighted and fail to look deeper into our consciousness when the art of Hawaiian dance can become vapid and lose its ‘mana’.  A world of knowledge is in the dance, from the dance, by the dance.  “Ao.” A realm of knowledge!

“Ke Ao Lewa” teaches us to always look beyond the human form.  To seek that which cannot be obtained by physical forms.  We must manifest ourselves in the realms of our ‘kupuna’ through the art of dance and allow ones senses to connect to the higher realms above.  This is the ultimate satisfaction.  To “know” you are a part of their realm of “Lewa.” A consciousness! ~ Kumu Blaine Kamalani Kia

Iosefa Enari – Director of PDNZ

Pacific Dance New Zealand is honoured to have Kumu Blaine Kia as this year’s keynote speaker and international guest. Kia follows a line of important speakers who have shaped the fono over the years to what it is today. Kumu Blaine will bring to this important event his own practical and philosophical position as to where dance is placed in the 21st century and its role in continuing to bridge the old and new worlds. These are vital notions when looking at dance as cultural milestones in our history and Pacific region. We look forward to this year’s event and the talanoa (discussion) that yields for our community here in New Zealand Aotearoa.

When:
Friday 8th March,
10am – 12:30pm (Keynote and open discussion)
12:30pm – 1:00pm (lunch)
1:00pm – 4:00pm (Practical workshop)
4:00pm – 5:00pm (networking)

Where:
Fale Pasifika, Auckland University
Cost:
Waged – $20 pre-registered, $25 on the day
Unwaged – $10 pre-registration, $15 on the day
Download a registration form here
Email – auckland@pacificdance.co.nz
Phone – 09 376 00 60

Download a registration form here:  Registration_Form_Fono_2013

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The University of Otago
Saturday 4 May 2013
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 1 March 2013

The recent award of the Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award and a New Generation Award from the Arts Foundation signals Shigeyuki Kihara’s growing recognition as a significant international artist, whose dynamic career includes, amongst others: a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2008); performances staged at such leading institutions as the Musée du Quai Branly, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand; and works featured in the Asia Pacific Triennial, Auckland Triennial and the upcoming Sakahan Quinquennial held at the National Gallery of Canada in May 2013.

Of Samoan and Japanese heritage, Kihara interrogates the ways that art, performance, and the public interact and prompt dialogue about understanding the complexities of humanity. Her oeuvre includes photographs, dance performance, video installations, and interactive community performances. Kihara’s work comments on issues such as colonialism, European representations of Indigenous peoples, gender, globalization, sexual minorities in the Pacific, and tourism.

In order to stimulate original research into the work of Shigeyuki Kihara, a public symposium will be held at the University of Otago on Saturday, 4 May. Sponsored by the Cultures, Histories and Identities in Film, Media and Literature Research Network of the University of Otago, this symposium coincides with a mid-career survey exhibition entitled ‘Undressing the Pacific‘ that will be held at the Hocken Collections (20 April to 8 June).

This symposium will broadly interrogate Kihara’s creative work, artistic development, and the critical issues that it raises from diverse disciplinary perspectives. A key outcome of this symposium will be the publication of an edited, peer-reviewed quality-assured volume about Kihara’s broad body of work. Participation in the symposium will enable the volume’s authors to develop their ideas in critical dialogue with each other. Presentations selected for inclusion in the volume will be required to submit their completed manuscripts for review by 1 August 2013.

If you are interested in contributing to this symposium, please send a proposal (up to 300 words) and a 100-word biography. Your proposal should elaborate your research topic and clarify distinctive aspects of your disciplinary or methodological approach. In developing your proposal, keep in mind that both the symposium and the planned publication are being developed with the intention of attracting a diverse audience that encompasses academia, the New Zealand art world, the general public, and the Pacific community.

Proposals are due on 1 March in order to complete selection of participants by 10 March. Please send your proposals and any queries to: erika.wolf@otago.ac.nz

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Shigeyuki Kihara
Artist and Curator/Producer

http://shigeyukikihara.wordpress.com/
http://vimeo.com/channels/shigeyuki

Artspace

Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust is teaming up with Artspace in 2013 to offer the first of three Education Internships focused on connecting students and young people with the most exciting artists and their creations of challenging and inspiring contemporary art. Made possible by a grant from Creative New Zealand’s Sector Development Incentive fund, the programme recognises the importance and value of Artspace engaging with New Zealand’s growing community of young Pacific Islanders in a meaningful and sustainable way.

The Intern will develop a tailored education programme at Artspace, actively encouraging the involvement of local primary, secondary and tertiary schools. Tautai and Artspace together with a pool of mentors, will work collaboratively to assist each intern in generating workshops and events with the specific aim of attracting young students to contemporary art and working with them to form an education program about the art made now and its potential. The internship runs on a 9-month contract (30 hours p/w). It will be preferably awarded to a candidate who has strong ties within the Pacific community. The first internship is to be fully advertised in January 2013.

Part time position (three days per week) – beginning during February 2013

Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust is seeking an enthusiastic well organised and energetic person to have primary responsibility for organising our secondary school workshop program for pacific heritage students. The role will also assist in some of the general administration functions and with delivery of other parts of the Tautai program.

Key skills sought are experience in planning and implementing events and an ability to engage with and motivate a range of people. Other attributes include being self-directed and able to work alone, a problem solver and flexible thinker. A current New Zealand driver’s license is a requirement and access to a vehicle would be useful. Previous experience in preparing funding applications would be an advantage.

This role is office-based in Ponsonby Road Auckland and there could be some flexibility in hours/days of work. However during a three day workshop full time attendance will be necessary and some of those workshops are held outside of Auckland.

For additional information and for applications email: manager@tautai.org

Applications for this role are sought by Friday 20 January 2013