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The Government is supporting a major upgrade of Timaru’s iconic Theatre Royal and the construction of a new connected Heritage Facility museum and exhibition space with $11.6 million from the Government’s Infrastructure Fund, Jacinda Ardern announced today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

The Government is increasing investment in the Creatives in Schools programme, providing work opportunities for an additional 300 artists, Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern and Minister of

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage
  • Education

A jobseekers programme for the creative sector and four new funds have been set up by the Government to help our arts and music industry recover from the blow of COVID-19.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

Thousands of artists and creatives at hundreds of cultural and heritage organisations have been given much-needed support to recover from the impact of COVID-19, Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern announced today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Grant Robertson
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

More New Zealanders are set to learn about the incredible navigational and voyaging prowess of early Māori and Pacific settlers who arrived here more than seven centuries ago.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

New Zealanders will come together at community events across local marae, parks, schools and atop maunga to commemorate Waitangi Day, Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern said today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

The Waikato will soon be home to a world-class 1300-seat theatre, providing more local jobs and a boost for tourism thanks to a $12 million investment from the Government's Provincial Growth Fund.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

New Zealand’s Pacific and Māori voyaging heritage is acknowledged and celebrated today as waka of the Tuia 250 voyage flotilla arrive in Tūranga / Gisborne.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Kelvin Davis
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage
  • Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti

A design that includes a walkway projecting outward to the horizon has been selected for the new National Erebus Memorial after recommendation by a Design Selection Panel, announced Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern has acknowledged the passing of leading New Zealand filmmaker Geoff Murphy, saying he was a trailblazer of the local film industry, making films that told our unique stories and put our culture on screen.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern today expressed sorrow at the death of highly-regarded museum director Thérèse Angelo.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

Trailblazing Māori dramatist and fiction writer Renée, revered critic, curator and poet Wystan Curnow and admired poet, publisher and librettist Michael Harlow are the winners of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary achievement, Jacinda Ardern announced today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage

Prime Minister and Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Wahine disaster at an event in Wellington today.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage