Grants Made By Arts Council
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 23. Grants to assist the arts were announced today by the chairman of the Arts Advisory. Council and Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Seath).
He said that to ensure the orderly development of the arts would continue, the council would continue its activities until the Queen Elizabeth the Second Arts Council of New Zealand was constituted.
Applications for training, travel and teachers’ awards for 1965 would be called for shortly as well as applications from the amateur theatre for production grants for the period June 1 to December 31.
Mr Seath said that an interim grant of £15,000 could be made to the New Zealand Opera Company and another of £5OOO to the New Zealand Ballet Company. Both would be for the year ending March 31, 1965. Miss J. Wallace, of Dunedin, a cellist studying at the Guildhall School of Music. London, would receive £6OO to extend her training award for a third year.
A grant of £250 would be made to Mr P. Zwartz, conductor of the Wellington Harmonic Society and Wellington Youth Orchestra, to assist him to take part in the third international conductors’ competition to be held in Liverpool. In Christchurch The New Zealand Federation of Chamber Music Societies would receive a grant of £2865 to enable it to organise a four weeks’ master class in string playing by the Berkshire Quartet of America in Christchurch next February. To assist the work of art societies throughout the country a grant of £BOO for the year ending March 31, 1965, would be made to the Association of New Zealand Art Societies. A grant of £430 would be made to the Auckland Art Gallery to enable an exhibi-
tion by three British painters, Josef Herman, Ivon Hitchens and Alan Davie, to be taken on a tour of the four main centres.
A grant of £lOO would be made to the publication “New Zealand Potter,” to
help in arranging a lecture tour by Mr J. Kingston, a well known New Zealand potter.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30398, 24 March 1964, Page 3
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