Successful Past Applicants

 

Successful Applicants February 2024

 Applicant Project Amount Awarded

Thames Music Group Inc

 Thames Music Group Friday Concert Series 2024

$1,000

Whangamatā Community Marae Trust

 Matariki Festival 2024

$1,000

Thames Public Art Trust

 COMPLETE THREE SCULPTURES

$1,500

Tairua Heritage Society Incorporated  A Night at the Cabaret – 30’s Style

$500

Pastel Artists Coromandel

 Maxine Thompson Workshop

$295

Ngati Maru Runanga

 Kaumatua / Rangatahi Toi Maori

$2,000

Matai Whetu Marae

 Hauraki Festival

$4,000

Whangamata Area School

 Annie Junior

$1,000

Marilyn Swan

 Tairua... Let's Keep Moving. Winter Dance Classes. Marilyn Swan

$674

Colville Junction Charitable Trust

Colville Community Festival

$2,000

Whangamata Arts Collective

 Matariki celebration

$1,000

Karen McLeod Photography

 Coromandel Peninsula Youth Photography Awards & Exhibition 2024 $500

Matt Sephton

 Random Addition - #3

$1,500

Matatoki School

 School Production: Matariki and the lost chick

$1,000

Whitianga Art Group

 Artist Arcylic Workshop

$300

   Total: $18,269.33

Successful Applicants August 2023

Creative Communities Scheme August 2023
Organisation Project Amount Allocated
Coromandel Art Group Coromandel Art Group Annual Exhibition $945.00
Whangamatā Patch and Quilt King’s Birthday Quilt and Textile Art Exhibition $1,713.89
Isabel Gilbert-Palmer Ringawera Ringahera $1,262.00
Thames Music and Drama Inc Chicago. $2,500.00
Coromandel Independent Living Trust Artists in the Making - Creative Spaces $1,500.00
Puriri School Year 8 Pou Whenua $1,068.14
Eloise Green Princesses, Pirates and Fairies Picnic $376.00
Thames South School (Te Kura o Te Kauaeranga) A sense of identity $2,000.00
Roshan Tuivavalagi Vocal Nash $1,000.00
Neil Pascoe - Thames Musicians Club Thames Musicians Club Summer Concert $1,500.00
Arts Collective Whangamatā Inc Art Expand: Series of Autumn (2024) workshops for the artist.. $1,250.00
Coromandel Players Inc Santa in Space - a pantomime $400.00
   Total: $16,565.03

 

Creative Communities Scheme Festival Fund August 2023
Organisation Project Amount Allocated
Whangamatā Summer Festival Festival performers for our annual market $ 2,834.56
Steampunk the Thames Steampunk the Thames Festival $ 5,000.00
Mercury Bay Art Escape Advertising support for Mercury Bay Art Escape Open Studios Festival $ 2,858.56
   Total: $10,693.11

Successful Applicants March 2023

Organisation Project Description Amount Allocated
Brigita Mana Botma Kaupapa Whakahīhī Toi, Ki Kapanga. Project of Art Pride, Coromandel $1,181
Joshua Armstrong Live at the Green Room $1,700
Karen Moffatt-McLeod Coromandel Peninsula Youth Photography Awards & Exhibition $1,500
Whitianga Community Services Trust - Peter van der Putten Korowai and Taniko Weaving $1,280
Thames Music Group - Tony Winter Thames Music Group Free Friday Lunchtime Concert 2023 Series $1,500
Whangamata Area School Red Leap Drama - Amy Russell Red Leap Youth Devising Workshop $1,210.00
Te Moana Takiri Harrison Matariki Weaving Hui $1,250
Moanataiari School - Julie White Moanatairi School's Robin and The Sherwood Hoodies Musical $1,250.00
Leonardo Gobatto Magri Toi & Joy $1,100
Carla Jayne Molloy - Youth Music Festival MINOR B MUSIC FEST $2,500
Steampunk the Thames Inc - Caroline Thomas Steampunk the Thames Festival $920.00
Carla Jayne Molloy - Comedy Workshop Get Started in Standup Comedy $760
Isabel Gilbert-Palmer Six of the best Exhibition $522
St Georges Community Choir Street Requiem $1,224
Total: $17,897.04

 

 

Successful Applicants September 2022

Applicant Project Title Amount Granted
Fay Purdie-Nicholls On The Inside - Art Exhibition $500.00
Coromandel Area School Creativity for Children's Wellbeing $500.00
WHANGAMATA SUMMER FESTIVAL INCORPORATED Market Performers costs for the Annual Markets $500.00
Thornton Bay Art Projects Group Te Puru School Pou Installation $3,000.00
Coromandel Players Inc Two AOTNZ shows for 2023 $400.00
Tyler James downey Kotahitanga Creative Community Mural $750.00
WTS (Watch this Space) Coromandel Connect The Artists – Watch This Space Shared Studios $1,885.00
Stewart Thomas Pedley ‘To Be A Man’ Music Video Production $400.00
Stuart Smith Chef Goes Round – Online Show $1,000.00
Sharyn Morcom NZ Trio to perform in Mercury Bay $1,041.00
Pastel Artists Coromandel Stephi Clark Workshop $440.00
Whangamatā Community Marae Trust Matariki Event and Arts Exhibition $2,750.00
The Far Out Folk Club The Far Out Folk Club – Open Mic / Open stage $1,500.00
Carla Jayne Molloy Soundcheck: Open Mic Nights $1,000.00
Whangamata community Event committee for Carols Whangamata Carols in the Park 2022 $500.00
Moana House Rest Home & Hospital Moana House Residents Art Showcase $500.00
Matatoki School ‘Ko Matatoki tēnei, ko mātou tēnei’ | ‘This is Matatoki, this is us’ mural $750.00
Carla Jayne Molloy Speakeasy: Word Open Mic Nights $1,000.00
Artists in the Making - cilt Artists in the Making - Creative Spaces $4,000.00
Colville Junction Colville Community Arts Festival $2,000.00
Thames Public Art Trust ThreePeat $3,000.00
Thames Musicians Club Concert at Kauaeranga $2,000.00
Whangamata Arts Collective Harcourts Challenge, Big Arts Day Out $1,000.00
Thames Music And Drama Inc. The Gallipoli Monologues $1,000.00
Ngati Maru Runanga Korowai Class $3,463.72
   Total: $34,879.72

 

 

 

Successful Applicants March 2022

Applicant name Project title Amount granted
Sarah Burren – Little Green Man Productions
Matariki Glow Show 2022 – Puppet Show
$ 2652.00
Sidharth Pagad
African Drum & Dance Retreat
$ 3147.00
Melinda Rapson Pauanui Mini Putt Mural $ 2090.09
Isabel Gilbert-Palmer
Kuaotunu Artspace Project $1682.10
TOTAL: $9571.19

 

Successful Applicants September 2021

Applicant name Project title Amount granted
Thames Music & Drama Inc Mamma Mia - The Musical $ 2600.00
Sean Kelly Sean Kelly & The Super 8's Coromandel Tour $ 800.00
Whangamata Summer Festival New Years Day Opera $ 1000.00
Thames Music Group Sunday Concert Series $ 1000.00
Thames Museum Society Murals for Taonga Maori Gallery $ 1667.23

Pastel Artists Coromandel Freeman Pastel Workshop $ 300.00
Jo McDonald The Maker Uppers Club $ 500.00
Watch this Space Coromandel Connect the Artists - Shared Studios $ 1000.00
Amplify Ocean & Art Ltd Amplify $ 500.00
Coromandel Independent Living Trust Creative Spaces - Artists in the Making $ 1000.00
Whangamata Arts Collective Art in the Park $ 1500.00
Whangamata Community Swimming Pool Pool Mural $ 1000.00
Daniel Tippett Meri te Tai Managakahia mural $ 1500.00
Carla Molloy Sunday Shorts - Whiti Film Festival $ 984.00
Mercury Bay Art Escape Art & MUsdic Evening $ 520.00
Colville Social Services Collective Colville Community Arts Festival $ 1000.00
S Rowe & J Lardner-Burke Create in Thames $ 797.27
Whangamata Community Events Whangamata Carols in the Park 2021 $ 500.00
TOTAL: $18168.50

Successful Applicants March 2021

Successful applicants for the March 2021  Creative Communities Scheme funding round.

Organisation
$
Whangamata Creative Fibre $450.00
Thames Public Art Trust $3,900.00
Whangamata Patch & Quilt Group $2,210.00
Thames Museum $587.00
Colville Community Creative Collaboration $4877.87
Lora Mountjoy $1,136.00
Yellow Eye Ltd for Nukes Ukulele Trio $2,440.00
Thames Christmas Wonderland $1,200.00
Te Roopu Tautoko o Hartaunga $1,000.00
Debbie Lim $4,000.00
Lena Daze $1,470.00
Thames Musicians $2,500.00
Total $25,770.87