previous grants and activities
The grants and activities made by Asia:NZ for the period July 2006 to June 2008.
Business | Culture | Education | Media | Research
Business
Auckland University of Technology: $12,000 to support a series of three seminars throughout New Zealand and one networking dinner in order to increase New Zealand business attention in Vietnam.
Auckland University of Technology: $6,000 to support a China Business Forum.
Economic Development Association of New Zealand: $3,000 to support an EDANZ conference.
KEA New Zealand: $23,000 for market research within the Asian business marketplace in New Zealand to assist and facilitate links between the Asian and mainstream business communities.
Next Stop India: $19,508 to support a series of seminars and road show promoting Next Stop India in order to increase New Zealand business attention in India.
Culture
Anuradhna’s School of Dance: $2,000 to assist in staging a concert of classical Indian dance in Auckland.
Ashley Remer: $1,400 to assist this art history student and co-editor of the Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies to travel to Singapore to study building developments at the Singapore National Museum in order to present the information to New Zealand museum professionals at the Museums Aotearoa Conference.
Asia Events Trust: $1,591.11 to provide international performers for the community-based Asian Events Trust’s annual Chinese New Year Festival day in Wellington.
Asia Pacific Culture Connection Centre: $1,400 to assist with accommodation for five visiting Chinese musicians taking part in the 2007 Spring Festival Concert in Auckland.
Asia Pacific Festival: $8,500 to assist in staging the 26th Asian Composers League Festival and Conference in Wellington showcasing traditional and contemporary performing arts from the Asia Pacific region.
Auckland Art Gallery: $5,000 to support the participation of the Chinese artists in the Long March in “Turbulence”, the third Auckland Triennial of contemporary art.
Auckland Festival AK07: $5,000 to assist in the staging of Korean Tea Music at the Festival.
Auckland Festival of Photography Trust: $4,000 to assist in the staging of the Auckland Diwali Festival of Lights photography project.
Auckland Malayali Samagam Inc: $500 to assist with the celebration of the golden jubilee year of Kerala State with its Kerala Piravi 2006 held in Te Atatu.
Auckland War Memorial Museum: $1,000 to assist in the staging of the Gyotu Monks project during the WOMAD festival in March.
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival: $4,500 to assist in inviting two additional authors from the Asian region to participate in the Festival.
Bruce Connew: $3,000 to assist this Wellington photographer and author with the photographic printing for a touring exhibition “Stopover – a Story of Migration” looking at the stories of 15 Indian Fijian families.
Capital E: $2,500 to assist with airfares and accommodation for Balinese puppeteer Kadek Budi Setiawan to participate in rehearsals and the first season performance of “Spinning Mountain”.
Capital Theatre Productions: $5,000 to assist in the staging of a six-venue New Zealand tour by Chinese pianist Sun Yingdi.
Chamber Music New Zealand: $2,000 to assist in the staging of two concerts in Auckland and Wellington with the Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea.
Chinese Culture Association of Christchurch: $2,000 to assist in the staging of a Chinese musical drama telling the story of two generations of migrants to New Zealand.
Christchurch Arts Festival: $4,000 to assist in the staging of two concerts by the Qing Mei Jing Yue Chinese instrument quartet, as part of the Festival’s Great Hall Chamber Music series.
Composers Association of New Zealand: $2,000 to assist with the participation of two Chinese composition students from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in the 2007 Young Composers’ Workshop in Nelson.
Creative New Zealand: $4,390 to reimburse airfares for two artists selected for the second Creative New Zealand/Asia:NZ arts residencies in Delhi’s Sanskriti Foundation in India and at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, China.
Danny Butt: $1,500 to assist with travel to China for the “Geomatics and Ecomatics: Three Stories” exhibition featuring three New Zealand new media artists at the Shanghai International Science and Art Exposition.
DOCNZ: $2,000 to assist in the staging of its third International Documentary Film Festival and Summit in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Dunedin City Council: $2,000 to assist in the staging of its sixth annual Asia/Chinese New Year festival.
Elizabeth Smither: $1,800 to assist this New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer to participate at the Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival.
Ethnic Council Wellington: $2,000 to assist in the staging of its annual Multicultural Festival.
Festival of India: $1,000 to assist in the staging of the annual Festival of India in Auckland’s Aotea Square.
Gisborne District Council: $1,000 to assist in the hosting of a touring 2008 Olympic Sculpture Exhibition in Marina Park, Gisborne.
Govett Brewster Art Gallery: $3,000 to assist the Art Gallery’s curator of contemporary art Mercedes Vicente to travel to Korea to meet senior curators and research Korean artists for an exhibition.
Hamilton Malayalee Association: $500 to assist the Association to celebrate Onam – an Indian Kerala Harvest Festival and to hold an International Evening of Song and Dance in Hamilton.
Hindu Council of New Zealand: $2,500 to assist in the staging of the first New Zealand Hindu Conference in Auckland.
Indian Social and Cultural Club: $1,000 to assist with the staging of a free Diwali Festival in Christchurch.
Judy Turner: $3,000 to assist in the staging of an exhibition of world textiles, of which half come from the Asian region, at the Pataka Museum, Porirua.
Martin Setchell: $2,000 to provide assistance to take part in a cultural exchange of city organists with Christchurch sister city Songpa-gu.
Migrant Support Services Inc: $800 to assist in staging an Asian Integration and Diversity Day in Auckland.
Min Kyoung Lee: $1,200 to assist the Auckland-based dancer with a workshop and to produce a video-work entitled “Three Wives, Meditation and Motion Sickness”.
Moyra Elliott: $2,000 to undertake, along with three other New Zealand ceramic artists, a residency at Fuping in China.
Mudra Dance Company: $5,000 to assist with the performance of Indian dance drama in the traditional Bharata-Natyam dance style by this Wellington-based company, under the direction of Indian classic dancer Vivek Kinra.
Museums Aotearoa: $20,000 to support an annual fellowship designed to increase awareness of Asia and to develop professional skills, networks and projects between Asian and New Zealand museums and galleries.
New Plymouth District Council: $2,000 to assist in the staging of a Japanese Cultural Fun Day as part of the annual TSB Bank Festival of Lights.
New Plymouth District Council: $2,500 to assist the District Council to include a Bollywood dance group from Auckland, the Rachana Natyalaya School, in the District’s official Waitangi Day commemorative event programme.
New Zealand-Asia Association: $1,500 to support in the organisation of its fifth biennial Viva Eclectrika fusion dance festival in Auckland.
New Zealand Chinese Association: $3,000 to assist in bringing filmmaker Li Tao from China for the Bananas New Zealand Going Global Conference in Auckland.
New Zealand Indian Fine Arts Society: $1,000 to assist with the staging of a Ghatam concert featuring visiting Ghatam maestro Karthik at the University of Victoria’s Memorial Theatre, Wellington.
New Zealand National Tai Chi Chuan Association: $800 to assist the Association to publicise its fifth annual World Tai Chi and Qigong Day in Auckland.
New Zealand School of Music: $1,800 to assist with the staging of a concert by Indian musician Shiv Kumar Sharma in Wellington in partnership with the Nataraji Cultural Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
New Zealand Sorbojonin Durgostav: $400 to assist in the organising of the annual Durga Puja Festival at Onehunga High School, Auckland.
New Zealand Thai Community Inc: $2,000 to assist in the staging of the Loy Krathong Festival at Civic Square in Wellington.
Otago Museum: $3,200 to enable the Museum to bring a specialist from Shanghai Museum to research the Museum’s ceramics collection and to explore opportunities for future staff exchanges.
Peter Mousdale: $1,500 to assist with the staging of an exhibition of paintings inspired by Chinese slogans painted on walls as part of the Shanghai International Literary Festival.
Prayas Culture Group of New Zealand: $1,500 to assist in the staging of “The Terrace” by Indian playwright Madhu Rai, and bring contemporary Indian theatre to a New Zealand audience in Auckland.
RMS Refugee Resettlement: $3,000 to support the Chinese and Burmese components of the interactive “The Migrating Kitchen Exhibition” at Pataka Museum, Porirua.
Salisbury House Gallery: $1,000 to assist with the staging of the collaborative exhibition “Sa Mi Da Re” in partnership with the Otaru Dunedin Sister City Society.
Shanti Niwas Charitable Trust: $500 to assist in the staging of a multicultural festival in Auckland to celebrate diversity with senior citizens and their families.
Sri Lanka Association of New Zealand: $2,000 to enable the Association to retain the services of two dance, drama and musical instructors and to run workshops for young Sri Lankans.
Sri Lanka Dance Academy: $1,500 to assist in the staging of “Kolompure Shriya – the Splendours of Colombo” in Wellington to celebrate 30 years of community service.
Tamil Society Waikato: $500 to assist in the staging of its major cultural function, Muthamil Vizha.
Two Rooms Contemporary Art Gallery: $5,000 to assist in the staging of the exhibition “Mirror Worlds: Contemporary Video from Asia” and to bring to Auckland three of the eight video artists from India, South Korea and Thailand as part of AK07 (the Auckland Arts Festival).
United Chinese Association of New Zealand: $1,000 to assist in the staging of the Association’s annual Multi Cultural Festival and Chinese New Year celebrations in Auckland.
United Chinese Association of New Zealand: $1,500 to assist in the staging of the Association’s annual Moon Festival at the Aotea Centre, Auckland.
Waitakere City Council: $2,000 to assist in the staging of its fourth mid-autumn Mooncake Festival.
Wellington Arts Centre: $2,000 to support the attendance of Eric Holowacz, arts programme and services manager, at the Artists Forum International 2006 Conference and workshops “New Ways of Engaging Asia – Artists’ Mobility” and “Artists Residence”, held in Seoul, South Korea.
Wellington International Jazz Festival: $3,000 to support New York-based Filipino-American Susie Ibarra and Auckland-based Chinese musicians William Li and Tanya Wu at the Festival.
World Buskers Festival: $3,000 to support one of a series of Asian events in the New Zealand Festival in Christchurch.
Wushu Culture Association: $1,000 to assist in staging the Association’s fifth Auckland Wushu Festival at the Tamaki College Community Recreation Centre, Auckland.
Education
AFS: $20,000 to send six New Zealand teachers to Southeast Asia for a three-week study visit.
Asia Knowledge Working Group: $58,388 to further the work of a joint working group with the Ministry of Education.
Asia:NZ Singapore Scholarships: $56,988 to support Asia:NZ’s Singapore Scholarship programme for undergraduates to study at the National University of Singapore.
Asia-Pacific Model United Nations Conference: $10,000 to support the Asian component of a conference of 500 tertiary students from around the Asia Pacific region at the University of Auckland.
Auckland Chinese Language Association: $500 to assist with the annual Chinese Language Speech Competition.
China Scholarships: $5,333 to Auckland University of Technology to administer the programme with China Scholarship Council to enable 10 students to study in China.
Christchurch Kurashiki Sister City: $1,500 to assist a group of 14 students and two leaders to undertake a sister city student exchange with Kurashiki, Japan.
Cuba Street Carnival: $1,000 towards Wellington’s Cuba Street Carnival’s Chinese lantern-making activities with schools and youth groups.
Education Christchurch and Canterbury: $2,500 to assist a group of 10 students from 10 Canterbury schools to participate in a Christchurch-Wuhan student exchange.
Fairfield Intermediate School: $1,500 to assist with a study visit of 19 students and four teachers to their existing sister school, Saja Junior High School and to establish a new one with Himaka Junior
School in Handa, Japan.
International Languages Aotearoa New Zealand: $5,000 to assist with the costs of hosting the Moppets, a folk art troupe of Peking University Primary School in Auckland, Rotorua and Wellington.
Lincoln High School: $5,000 to assist a group of 20 students and three staff on a two-week study visit to Japan.
Manurewa High School: $5,000 to assist a group of 10 students and three staff on a two-week study visit to Japan.
Music Association of Auckland: $1,500 towards the Association’s Composition Competition.
New Zealand Asian Studies Society Inc: $20,000 to provide funding for the Asia:NZ/NZASIA Post-Graduate Research Awards to enable postgraduate students specialising in Asian studies to undertake thesis-related field work in Asia. The grant fund supports five postgraduate students.
New Zealand Chinese Language Association: $3,000 to assist in the first Chinese language Teachers’ Conference.
New Zealand Poetry Society: $1,500 toward the annual junior haiku competition for New Zealand students.
Olivia Boddy: $1,500 to assist participation in the Glimpses of China performance in Shanghai, China.
Preparing for a Future with Asia: $112,718 to stage a summit meeting and associated activities.
Riverina School, Auckland: $2,000 to assist a group of 20 students to undertake a sister school exchange with Sunsa School, Seoul, South Korea.
Royal Society of New Zealand: $8,000 to enable the Royal Society of New Zealand to select and support outstanding young science and technology students to participate in a range of challenging programmes in Asia.
Royston Scholes, Mt Maunganui Intermediate School, Te Puke: $1,000 to enable participation in the New Zealand Principals delegation’s visit to China, organised by the Confucius Institute, Auckland.
Steve Boviard, Lynfield College, Auckland: $1,000 to enable participation in the New Zealand Principals delegation’s visit to China, organised by the Confucius Institute, Auckland.
Tauhara College, Taupo: $3,000 to assist a group of 20 students to undertake a geography field trip to Singapore and Malaysia.
Te Puke High School: $3,000 to assist a group of 24 students to participate in their first reciprocal exchange with North Vista Secondary School, Singapore.
Teacher Study Visits Programme: $10,000 to enable two outstanding New Zealand educators to participate in The Linking Latitudes Conference in India, organised by the Asia Education Foundation, Australia.
Tessa Sidnam: $1,500 to assist participation in the Glimpses of China performance in Shanghai, China.
Victoria University of Wellington: $12,500 to support specific projects by the chair of Malay studies.
Virtual Trade Mission: $10,000 to support both on- and offshore components of the Mission’s part of the 2007 Voice of Youth at APEC.
Wanganui High School: $1,500 to assist a group of 18 students and two staff to undertake a study visit to China.
Wellington Chinese Speech and Cultural Day Inc: a $500 to assist with the annual Chinese speech competition.
Young Leaders Network: $146,824 to stage an inaugural Young Leaders Forum and launch the network and associated activities.
Managed Funds
Korean Studies Programme
- Asia:NZ/Korean Artist Residency Exchange: $13,380.75 to assist in the establishment of the first Asia:NZ/Korean Foundation artist residency exchange partnership with the Korea Foundation, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch Arts Centre and the Korean Museum of Contemporary Art.
- David Holborow Memorial Scholarships: $3,000 to each – Brigid Boyle, Ann Kim, and Julie Jang.
- Hye Rim Lee: $3,800 to assist with the staging of a solo exhibition at the Kukje Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.
- Korean Studies Workshop: $9,000 to enable four New Zealand educators to participate in the workshop in Korea.
Korea Language and Cultural Immersion Programme:$1,200 Samuel Carter, $1,200 Po Yee Chiu, $750 Ruby Liu and $750 Janet Wong to participate in programme. - Korean Cinerama Trust: $10,000 to assist with the staging of the Korean Film Festival in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
- Sarah Kim: $1,500 to attend the Korean Women’s International Network Conference in Korea.
New Zealand Japan Young People’s Exchange Programme Board of Trustees
To assist young New Zealanders with the costs of organised study tours to Japan.
- Kelsey Matheson: $5,000
- Rushil Patel: $5,000
- Chanell Brooks: $5,000
- Christopher Horne: $4,500
- Cameron Stevens: $4,000
- Katarina Schwarz: $2,500
- James Stott: $2,000
- Maeve Payne-Harker: $3,000
- Gary Davis: $1,500
- Laura Davis: $1,500
- Sarah Anderson: $1,500
- Zoe Lindsay: $1,500
- Shayna King: $1,500
- Ashleigh Stewart: $1,000
- Samuel Farr: $1,000.
Orion Fund
New Zealand Japan Language Teachers’ Programme: $19,491.88 to enable four New Zealand Japanese language teachers to participate in a language and cultural immersion programme in Osaka, Japan – Darren Kerr, Debra Atkin, Joelle Walker, Emily Hartwig.
Kansai New Zealand Centre Teacher Programme: $12,557 to assist Japanese educators on an exchange programme to New Zealand.
Media
Angie Knox: $6,300 to visit and prepare a series of articles to help demystify China.
Auckland University of Technology: for work placement: at The Jakarta Post, $2,250 to Cameron Broadhurst, at the China Daily Online each $2,450 to Laura Bond and Marc Checkley.
Charmian Smith, Otago Daily Times: $3,838 to visit India to prepare a series of articles on how the country is modernising.
Danya Levy: $2,150 to visit Vietnam to report on the APEC meeting in Hanoi.
Dean Williams, Radio New Zealand: $4,732 to visit Cambodia to produce a series of radio features exploring New Zealand’s involvement in Cambodia’s development.
Grant Fleming, New Zealand Press Association: $3,000 to report on the East Asia Summit in Cebu, the Philippines.
Jim Tucker, New Zealand Journalists Training Organisation: $3,000 towards staging the Media Diversity Forum.
Joy Wang, Shanghai Daily: $1,800 for work placement at The Dominion Post.
Keith Ng: $2,250 to undertake a six-week work experience at The Hindu newspaper in Chennai, India.
Kevin Norquay, New Zealand Press Association: $3,000 to visit Beijing to preview preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games.
Lillian Ng, TV3: $9,000 to visit Japan to produce a series of reports on health care and other topics.
Lisa Davis, Television New Zealand: $4,057 to visit Vietnam to produce for ASB Business a series of six business stories highlighting the country’s position as one of New Zealand’s fastest-growing trading partners.
Massey School of Journalism: for work placement at the Phnom Penh Post, $2,250 each to Lachlan Forsyth and Rebecca Shannon, and at the Shanghai Daily, $3,250 to Kate Chapman.
Michael Field: $2,500 to visit Chennai, India, to be guest lecturer at the Asian College of Journalism.
New Zealand Journalists Training Organisation: $3,490 to bring Associate Professor Arlene Morgan from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York USA, as speaker to the “Diversity in the Media Forum” held in Wellington.
Russell Brown: $7,050 to visit Singapore and Vietnam to prepare a series of features.
Ryan Hutchings: $4,190 to visit India to produce a series of radio documentaries looking at the irrigation and water collection techniques used by villagers and farmers in the drought-stricken state of Rajasthan and the phenomenon of super malls in Indian cities.
Sharon Marris, Taranaki Daily News: $3,000 for work placement at the Deccan Herald, Bangalore, India.
Sophie Zhang, Baraka Productions: $5,000 towards producing a television documentary on the Maori entertainer and musician Leon Wharekura to teach blind Chinese children in Tianjin, China.
Sue Ingram, Radio New Zealand: $2,234 towards participation in training workshops and as a speaker on broadcasting and cultural diversity, organised by the Asia Pacific Institute of Broadcasting and Development in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Susan Pepperell, Waikato Times: $5,900 to visit China to prepare a feature on Waikato businesses that have established joint ventures or partnerships with China-based associates.
Research
Ans Westra and Adrienne Jansen: $20,505 contract for work to date to research, write and photograph for a book and exhibition of Asian Muslims in New Zealand.
Asia Pacific Roundtable Scholarship: $6,300 to support an Asia:NZ Scholarship student to attend the 21st Asia-Pacific Roundtable in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Colmar Brunton: $27,992 to conduct survey of school principals looking at Asia awareness in schools for Asia:NZ’s education programme.
Ecosynergy Group: $16,230 to conduct a pilot study into online networking amongst Asian migrants.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs: $1,000 to assist with accommodation for two speakers attending the India-New Zealand Day held at Victoria University of Wellington.
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs: $3,000 to assist with accommodation for speakers attending the NZIIA seminar on “East Asia: Political and Economic Integration” held at Turnbull House, Wellington.
PricewaterhouseCoopers: $32,816 to research and write the Asia Megatrends synthesis report.
Terry McGrath: $4,000 to research and write the fifth Outlook paper on returning Asian students and their impact on New Zealand-Asia relationships.
University of Otago: $2,840 to support the speaker-related costs of the University of Otago Asia-Research Cluster conference on “Representing Asia, Remaking New Zealand in Contemporary New Zealand Culture”.