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Tuia - Encounters 250 Programme 2018 grants made

Name Amount Purpose
Auckland Council (Auckland) $175,000.00 Programme of events to commemorate first encounters.
Expressions Arts and Entertainment Trust (Upper Hutt City) $26,100.00 Exhibition to tell the stories of the first encounters between Māori and Europeans in the Hutt Valley
Garden Marlborough 2004 Inc. (Marlborough District) $8,000.00 Day tours in Totaranui to raise awareness of history of the area
Hinenui Whānui Charitable Trust (Gisborne District) $11,858.00 Commemorative event launching video and ebook resources telling the Iwi's story of their waka horouta.
Te Rākau Hua O Te Wao Tapu Trust (Wellington) $365,000.00 Post-production work on recordings of the 2017 performance of 'The Undertow' at Te Papa Tongarewa.
Te Rākau Hua O Te Wao Tapu Trust (Wellington/Nationwide) $230,000.00 Travelling and showing the film 'The Undertow' in various locations around the country.
University of Otago (Otago/Marlborough) $114,000.00
Te Au Marie (Far North District) $167,000.00 Content development and installation of an exhibition at the Russell Museum.
Hokotehi Moriori Trust (Chatham Islands) $50,000.00
Totaranui 250 Trust (Marlborough District) $54,000.00 Collation of ten stories around first encounters in Totaranui, and events that occurred in the region afterwards.
Te Runanga o Ngati Kea Ngati Tuara Trust (Rotorua District) $70,000.00 Waka ama project.
Wellington Regional Orchestra Foundation Incorporated (Wellington Region/ Wairarapa Regions) $73,375.00 Concert featuring a work composed specifically for taonga pāoro and the orchestra, and a schools programmes.
Regional Facilities Auckland (Auckland) $150,000.00 Exhibition programme connected to taonga dating from around the late-eighteenth century and the first meetings between Māori and Europeans.
Major Arc Charitable Trust (Wellington/Nationwide) $187,749.00 A cinematic feature version of a documentary on Tupaia's voyage on the Endeavour.
Arakite Charitable Trust (Far North District) $255,127.00 Archaeological excavation at one of the earliest sites of human habitation in New Zealand.
Mercury 250th Anniversary Trust (Thames- Coromandel District) $311,497.00 A series of events known collectively as Te Pōwhiri (The Welcome).
Te Ha 1769 Sestercentennial Trust Board (Gisborne District/Nationwide) $400,000.00 Commemoration programme for the Tairāwhiti (Gisborne) region.
Auckland War Memorial Museum (Auckland/Far North District/Thames-Coromandel District)) $454,985.00 Programme of commemorative activities at the Museum and off-site.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Nationwide) $500,000.00 Acquisition and return of taonga.
Toi Hauiti Charitable Trust (Gisborne District) $27,830.00 Exhibition and workshops centred around the first encounters and dual heritage themes.
Pushing Arts NZ Trust (Whangarei) $65,000.00 Street murals based on the theme ‘Tuia te muka Tāngata’ or 'Weaving the threads of Humanity'.
Wellington Museums Trust Incorporated (Wellington) $117,178.00
Atea a Rangi Educational Trust (Hawke's Bay) $193,113.00 Four-pronged educational project for tamariki.
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (Nationwide) $223,456.00 Concerts of orchestral instruments and taonga pūoro at schools.
Te Au Marie (Whangarei/Far North District) $500,000.00 Programme of events to complement the arrival of the Tuia voyaging flotilla.
Totaranui 250 Trust $214,000