Māngere - Ōtāhuhu Arts is an initiative from the Māngere Ōtāhuhu Local Board to support and enable community-led arts activities throughout the Māngere - Ōtāhuhu area. It involves having an Art Broker, whose role is to to identify and curate, programme and enable community arts activities. The Art Broker works with local artists and creative organistations, to offer support in the development and delivery of their creative ideas and projects.
What kind of support?
The Art Broker is interested in what creative projects you’re involved in the Māngere Ōtāhuhu area, be it dance, film, craft, visual arts, music, kapa-haka, spoken word, digital arts, a publication, a performance or an exhibition. It could be that you are creating an opportunity for learning and participation like a workshop or a work co-created with the Māngere Ōtāhuhu community - anything that has a creative angle to it - and could happen anywhere from the street to theatres, shopping centres or marae. You could be an individual, a group or an organisation. You could be a professional, an emerging creative or anyone in between. The Art Broker is open to all creative projects, even if they are just an “idea”. The main criteria for receiving Art Broker support is that your creative project is one which will:
meaningfully involve your community
be led by local people
have a strong creative idea behind it
How does it work?
The Art Broker works with you to support you in developing and delivering your creative project or idea, whether this be assisting with funding, marketing, or helping to find the right location or people for you to work with. It all starts from a conversation about what it is you want to do - and from there we work out what advice or support you need. The Art Broker uses their own knowledge and experience to provide you with advice, assistance and support. The current Art Broker is Renée Tanner. Read about her below to learn what experience she has to share.
APPLY FOR FUNDING
Each year Māngere-Ōtahuhu Arts puts a “call for proposals” out, for those seeking funding support via our annual contestable funding round. The current round closed in September 2023, for projects taking place from October 2023 to June 2024. If you missed this funding round, your Arts Broker is available ongoing to provide support around funding and how to get your project off the ground. So get in touch!
māngere ōtāhuhu arts - call for proposals 23-24
Are you a local performer, musician, creative or artist?
Do you have a creative project that you’d like to make happen in the Māngere Ōtāhuhu area?
We are looking for people and organisations to submit ideas for creative projects that happen in and with local communities anytime from the October 2023 to June 2024.
These projects could involve craft, performance, visual arts, music, film, dance, kapa haka, spoken word, or digital arts - anything that has a creative angle to it - and could happen everywhere from the street to theatres, shopping centres or marae.
The main criteria for this programme are:
- to meaningfully involve your community
- projects are led by local people
- each project has a strong creative idea behind it
The Māngere Ōtāhuhu Arts Broker, Renée Tanner, can support you to develop and deliver your creative project or idea, whether this be assisting with funding, or helping to find the right location or people for you to work with.
If you are interested in getting involved, you’ll need to provide the following info:
- Your idea and any useful links or images
- Some information about you or your organisation
- Who you would be working with in the community
- Your contact details
- Where you live or how you are connected to the Māngere Ōtāhuhu area
- What support you need for your project (venue, participants, marketing etc)
- If you are looking for funding support, please provide details around how much funding you need and what specifically you would use this for.
Please send the above information by 4th September by filling in the Apply for Funding Application Form.
If you would like to talk, or meet up and learn more before submitting a project, don’t hesitate to get in touch with Renée. Mob. 021 1496707.
If you’d like to learn more and see what kind of projects have been supported in the past, please visit the CURRENT PROJECTS and PAST PROJECTS pages of our website www.mangereotahuhuarts.org.nz
Kia ora!
Renée Tanner of
Lightbox Projects Ltd / Māngere Ōtāhuhu Arts Broker,
Supported and funded by the Māngere - Ōtāhuhu Local Board.
Meet your Art Broker
ART BROKER
Renée Tanner
With over 20 years of experience in the creative sector Renée enjoys assisting artists and creative organisations to grow and succeed, and to ensure they remain inspirational and sustainable.
She has worked as a curator, public programmes coordinator, marketing manager, arts advisor, sponsorship manager, as well as developing and launching a crowdfunding website for arts projects; ‘Boosted by the Arts Foundation’, and most recently The Auckland Art Gallery Foundation membership programme.
Across many genres, including the visual arts, theatre, dance, music, festivals and events, Renée has assisted with sourcing funding and sponsorship, PR and marketing, idea development and mentoring.
“The Māngere-Ōtāhuhu area is rich with talent and many great existing projects. I see the broker role as one of motivator, coordinator and go-between within the community, and I’m always looking forward to meeting artists and community members and helping to build an exciting range of local projects”.
Renée Tanner of Lightbox Projects Ltd / Arts Broker for Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Arts