Scholarships and awards

	Auckland Regional Council Regional Park Residency The ARC gives an artist the opportunity to live and work in a regional park. The residency is open to visual artists and other ‘creators’, including filmmakers, poets, composers, writers and choreographers. The artist works for eight weeks between September and November 2009. The closing date for the 2009 residency is 16 February 2009.
	Christchurch School of Music Each year the School awards up to twelve bursaries, each worth 60% of the value of a full year’s primary fees. There are several scholarships available for competition among the School’s students. The scholarships are for music tuition or for the purchase of music or musical instruments.
	Community Trust of Southland Art Scholarships Available to groups or individuals involved with visual arts, (including arts, craft, film) and performing arts (including music, theatre and dance), literary arts and other art forms. Includes those wishing to bring elite arts practitioners to Southland for workshops, lectures, master class or similar.
	Creative New Zealand Offers a range of contestable funding programmes, grants to one-off arts projects and supports professional arts organisations on an annual or three-year basis.
	Creative NZ/Macmillan Brown Pacific Artists in Residence Offered on an annual basis at the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch. It is open to established traditional or contemporary Pacific artists in the fields of textiles, ceramics, painting, sculpture, and the literary and performing arts.
	Fulbright New Zealand Fulbright New Zealand offers a range of awards – from postgraduate study awards to visiting scholar awards.
	Laurie Coon Foundation Scholarship in Painting (University of Auckland) Awarded to students enrolled full-time in either the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Fine Arts conjoint degrees at The University of Auckland.
	Ministry for Culture and Heritage Links to information on major cultural sector awards, scholarships and residencies available to New Zealanders.
	Pacific Music Awards The S3 Pacific Music awards is a true celebration of Pacific music.
	The Arts Centre of Christchurch Artist in Residence This residency is by invitation and the artist must be involved in a project that wouldn’t be possible without the support of the Christchurch Arts Centre or the use of its facilities.
	University of Waikato Offers a range of music scholarships for school leavers, undergraduates and graduates.
	Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing (University of Canterbury) This residency, based in the Department of English at the University of Canterbury, is supported by funding from Creative New Zealand and is awarded annually to a New Zealand writer.
<	Waikato Museum and ArtsPost Award Entrants in this competition are required to create a sculptural art piece out of No.8 wire. The total prize-money is worth $10,000 and entries must be submitted by 17 April 2009.
	Westfield Style Pasifika Awards