Festivals Commissioning and Presentation Fund

Performing Arts Network New Zealand (PANNZ) has made an agreement with Creative New Zealand to deliver a $2 million Festivals Commissioning and Presentation Fund (the Fund).

The Fund will support high-quality, new and/or reimagined work by New Zealand artists to be created and presented within Aotearoa New Zealand by New Zealand festivals and other consortium presenting partners.

Curatorial decisions for the Fund will be made in partnership with festivals.  PANNZ will work alongside festivals as commissioners and/or presenters and to select work through an EoI process from artists and arts organisations in Aotearoa.

This momentous fund aims to support the realisation of works that are artistically ambitious and compelling, with strong artistic teams and experienced producers. Importantly the fund will focus on supporting works onto stages that are likely to have national impact in festivals across Aotearoa with diversity in scale and artform.

Curatorial decisions will ensure Commissions and their presentations include a balance of art-forms and practices, reflect the role of mana whenua, and connect with the vitality and diversities of communities in Aotearoa.

While the fund focuses on investing in new work, it may also invest in re-imagined work that would benefit from further investment to realise its full potential.

This Fund is a one-off opportunity that will support works to be commissioned for presentation at festivals in 2026 – 2028.

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