Creative New Zealand

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Creative New Zealand (previously the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council ^[1]) is the arts funding arm of the New Zealand Government. Its finances consists of approximately 50% central government funding and the remaining amount from the Lotteries Commission.

It's Māori Arts arm - Māori: Te Waka Toi provides funding for organisations such as Toi Māori Aotearoa which provides a Māori Arts specific focus.

The Culture of New Zealand is unique, drawing on centuries of its Tangata Whenua (indigenous peoples and culture) traditions and art forms, imported Pākehā or European NZ styles as well as the relatively new multicultural influences of various diaspora now located within New Zealand. Creative New Zealand aims to promote this uniqueness by encouraging new works, as well as allowing New Zealanders to see the best of world performances in New Zealand.

Amongst the grants issued by Creative New Zealand are grants to the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the New Zealand Opera. Other grants go to theatres, such as Bats Theatre, and for putting on performances of New Zealand and other works.

Another scheme of Creative New Zealand is the Creative Communities New Zealand Fund. There are several CCNZ Funding Co-ordinators who sit within local councils and receive biannual grants which are to be directed to local arts projects.

Funding for television is through New Zealand On Air.