Arts Waikato offers scholarships to support the arts for the 10th Year!

For the 10^th year running local artists, performers and others with creative talents have a chance to reach their goals through financial support from Arts Waikato – a regional arts trust.  Applications to the annual scholarship opened today, and close on the 12 August.  The scholarship funds course fees for recognised tertiary study or continuing education courses and training for people who have made, and will continue to make a contribution to the community arts sector in the greater Waikato region.  The applications can be made by individuals or by community arts organisations on behalf of staff or volunteers that they wish to provide professional development opportunities for.  Study does not need to be in the arts but it does need to support the arts (i.e. marketing or business administration for someone with this role within an arts organisation)

Recent scholarship recipients include; film makers, sculptors, weavers, potters, singers, dancers, actors, composers, digital artists, embroiderers, painters, carvers, music teachers, arts coordinators, screenwriters and more. More than $260,000 has been distributed to via the scholarships since the Arts Waikato Trust’s foundation (2001). Arts Waikato scholarships vary in value up to $5000, depending on the applicant’s course of study.

“Because we are an arts trust supporting the not-for-profit sector we are looking for candidates who are already active in their arts community, whether they are practitioners, performers, or a volunteer. They could be violinists, circus performers or proactive arts coordinators,” says Arts Waikato CEO Andy Gowland-Douglas.

This year the scholarships will be presented as part of the Waikato Community Arts Awards, to be held at Southwell School on Wednesday 5^th October.  This event replaces the scholarship awards night events of the past and includes some exciting new awards including Creative Places awards, Creative Schools, as well as the Outstanding Services to the Arts Awards that have been a part of the scholarship event for several years.  Nominations for the Outstanding Services to the Arts Awards open next week and the entries to the additional awards will open on July 4^th.

Scholarship application forms are available from www.artswaikato.org.nz/scholarships

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Posted: Mon 20 Jun 2011

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