Creative New Zealand is reviewing and seeking submissions on the way it supports music and musicians in New Zealand to help it develop funding priorities and policies for music for the next five years (2013-2017).

Creative New Zealand is reviewing and seeking submissions on the way it supports music and musicians in New Zealand to help it develop funding priorities and policies for music for the next five years (2013-2017).

The review covers Creative New Zealand’s roles and responsibilities for music, priorities for supporting the creation, presentation, and distribution of New Zealand music and for encouraging New Zealanders to participate in music.

As part of the consultation Creative New Zealand has published a Music Discussion Paper and is inviting feedback on the questions raised in it.

The discussion paper does not include:

• opera, which will be reviewed separately
• professional orchestras – these were the subject of a separate review by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage in 2011–13 (see page 20).

The discussion paper summarises the activities and infrastructure which make up New Zealand’s music sector and the different sources of support for it. It sets out Creative New Zealand’s contribution to the sector and explains the principles that guide that support.

The discussion paper:

• introduces Creative New Zealand and roles, and explains the key principles that guide support for New Zealand music (see page 4)
• summarises the key features of New Zealand’s music sector and the main activities that make up the sector (see page 6 ) summarises the different sources of support for the music sector and its infrastructure (see page 10)
• sets out Creative New Zealand’s contribution to supporting the sector, and explains the specific approach to supporting the creation, presentation and distribution of New Zealand music, including New Zealanders’ participation in music (see page 13)
• includes detailed information about the music sector and about Creative New Zealand's own funding programmes in the Appendices at the end of the paper (see page 26).

The feedback will help Creative New Zealand to decide:

• its roles and responsibilities for New Zealand music
• what its development priorities should be for New Zealand music
• what parts of New Zealand’s music infrastructure Creative New Zealand should fund music organisations to develop and maintain over the next five years
• how funding and other programmes will support New Zealand music and musicians over the next five years.

The deadline for submissions is 5pm, 17 May 2013. They can be made online or in hard copy.  Information on how to provide a submission is in the discussion paper.

Source: Creative New Zealand