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This section includes news stories, feature articles and media releases - all about our activities and the sectors we work with.
Feature articles Creative Communities Scheme: examples of grants supporting access to arts
Every year, the Creative Communities Scheme supports more than 2500 community arts projects throughout New Zealand with $3.1 million of Creative New Zealand’s funding.
Feature articles Creative Communities Scheme supports diverse arts projects
A festival showcasing the work of Deaf filmmakers, a cultural experience for intellectually disabled adults on a local marae and an art programme for disabled young people are among the projects that have been supported with funding though the Creative Communities Scheme.
Feature articles Unique Agency has pool of talent
The Unique Agency, New Zealand’s first talent agency representing people with disability and uniqueness, already has more than 60 people on its books after opening just a few months ago.
Feature articles Wonderful contribution of volunteers
Pippa Sanderson’s experience of volunteering at Volunteer Wellington inspired her to set up a volunteering programme at Arts Access Aotearoa when she joined the staff in early 2011 as its Community Development Advisor.
Feature articles Access Radio gives voice to arts in community
"Artists and their work are an integral part of our communities and access radio is a great way for people to hear about their projects," says Richard Benge, Executive Director of Arts Access Aotearoa.
Feature articles Juggling work family and writing
Auckland scriptwriter Chantal Rayner-Burt, legally blind since birth, has had a passion for film for as long as she can remember. Now 30, she has written and co-written scripts for several films - one of which has been selected to screen as part of the short film section at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012.
Feature articles Arts for all New Zealanders on the move
An Arts Access Aotearoa/Creative New Zealand partnership programme, encouraging arts organisations, venues and producers to improve their access to disabled audiences, is gathering momentum as it moves beyond Wellington.
Feature articles Working to improve access to the arts
Stew Sexton, Accessibility Advisor at Arts Access Aotearoa, recently found himself high above the stage at the new Q Theatre in Auckland, its lighting rigging accessible and spacious enough to accommodate his wheelchair.
Feature articles Artist shares skills with local community
Wairarapa artist and art tutor Harry Watson can't remember a time in his life when he wasn't working at his art.
Feature articles Sarah Houbolt: being bold and taking leaps
Fortune favours the bold. It's a view that underpins the creative life of Sarah Houbolt - Auckland performing artist, community arts worker and social researcher.
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