We’ve allocated $58,632.36 to 18 arts, events and projects. The successful applicants are listed below.
Alexia Clark: Broadway Bound, $640.75
An open mic-type concert that gives musical theatre lovers the chance to perform in front of an audience.
The CanInspire Charitable Trust: CanBead Workshops, $700
Four jewelry-making/bead-craft workshops for people experiencing illness, trauma or loss.
Squash Co. Arts Collective: Long Ride Home, $713.36
A touring one-act-play about siblings for adult and young adult audiences.
Chyzabelle Chadwick: Kaitiaki Kids, $1,500
Students will create artworks inspired either by resident wildlife at Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery or by something else within the native conservation network. At the end of these sessions, students will exhibit their finished works at Wildbase.
Erin McLean: FOPS Performing Arts 2024 – No Exit, $1,500
A production of the classic French drama No Exit, written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1944. Following three petty, miserable, unpleasant people trapped in a room with each other, it's a darkly comic piece with serious undertones about the nature of Hell and what a life of misdeeds causes.
Slave Musician Collective and Recordings: Local band EP recording and release, $1,575
To enable some talented Palmerston North-based musicians to record and release music they have prepared for an EP.
Debra Mulholland: With children for children. Adapting or writing a story into a play for performance, $2,000
A 5-day school holiday program for up to 14 children from the age of 7 to 11 years old. They will get the chance to adapt an already existing children's book, or will write their own story or fairytale, then rehearse and perform it in front of an invited audience.
Kairanga School: Kairanga School murals, $2,000
Create murals at the entrance of the school that represent the values of the whare kura, tamariki and whānau (school, students and families).
Natasha Christensen: Training in advanced weaving techniques, $2,500
To revive the craft of weaving within the region, this training will provide people with the opportunity to privately study under the mentorship of master weaver Esther Nitschke MBE in order to advance their weaving skills and study weaving teaching methods.
Girls Rock Aotearoa Incorporated: To the Front Te Papaioea 2024, $3,000
A 4-day holiday programme aiming to empower young women and/or transgender, intersex, takatāpui, queer and gender diverse youth aged 12 to 17 years through music and community.
The Glow Show Company Limited: Badjelly the Witch Glow Show, $3,560
It’s been 50 years since Spike Milligan wrote this iconic story. A glow-in-the-dark puppetry version, for children and families during the July school holidays in Palmerston North.
Manawatū Theatre Society: A Time Like This, $4,000
A Time Like This is a full-length play being produced for public performance. It is the touching, tender, yet at times horrific story of 88-year-old Douglas Chapman, a World War One veteran, living in a rest home. It is Anzac Day 1984 and Douglas has marched in the parade. He is lonely and sad, and he drinks too much. As he drinks, he recalls his life in the final weeks of World War One.
Te Korio Childrens Centre: Te Korio mural, $4,200
Large bird mural on the Te Korio Children’s Centre building, painted by Swiftmantis.
Ryan Knighton: Hot Spot, $5,111.20
Hot Spot is a fresh and innovative comedy format that combines elements of panel shows such as Guy Montgomery’s Guy Monspelling Bee, Task Master, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Game Changers and more.
Lizzie Tollemache: FWB: Friends With Boundaries, $5,260
Towards rehearsal and production costs to stage this locally written play in Palmerston North, including a free talk and producer workshop for new and emerging artists.
He Aho Tangata (Rangitāne o Manawatū Settlement Trust): Wānanga Toi Rangitāne, $5,372.05
The newly formed roopu He Aho Tangata is hosting two wānanga for whānau and the local community to come and try their hand at raranga (weaving) and kowhaiwhai painting under the guidance of our tohunga in these sectors.
Derrick Sims: Shadow of the Deathbird, $6,000
Set in the late 1980s, Shadow of the Deathbird is an exciting, funny, and sometimes scary short film about a child filmmaker haunted by a supernatural creature hell-bent on destroying her masterpiece. To finish her production, she must not only confront and overcome the monster but also face her own self-doubt. The "real world" of the film will be photographed in Palmerston North.
Hokozoo Productions: Samoan educational song resources, $9,000
Record Samoan songs for children and adults to embrace the Samoan language and culture.