Lottery Tuia - Encounters 250 Programme
Lottery Tuia – Encounters 250 grants are available for projects that will enable events, activities and legacy projects that connect and build New Zealanders' understanding of the following key themes for the Tuia - Encounters 250 commemoration for 2019:
- New Zealand's Dual Heritage – Shared Future: increasing the accessibility and promoting our country's compelling dual heritage, the value of indigenous knowledge and cultural practices and our potential as an increasingly multicultural society
the first meetings between Māori and Europeans across the country and their impact on contemporary society
the arts, science, technology and mātauranga of two great voyaging traditions (Pacific and European)
whakapapa and identity:
enabling iwi/hapū to research, access and promote their experiences, stories, mātauranga and cultural practices at or before 1769 to promote a balanced historical narrative relating to New Zealand's dual heritage
exploring our common bond as voyagers to this country and the arrival stories of all New Zealanders (enabling cross-cultural conversations focused on migration and connections to New Zealand)
Ngā Hua / Outcomes
Organisations receiving grants are expected to demonstrate how their projects will contribute to the overarching LEH outcomes. In addition projects are expected to have community benefits including:
- Increased access, understanding and promotion of the distinctive regional stories, iwi/hapū history, mātauranga and heritage connected to the first meetings of Māori and Europeans
- Facilitation of commemorative events, activities and projects that express the diversity of perspectives and experiences in relation to the Tuia - Encounters 250 themes within regions
- Increased public engagement with the arts, science, technology and mātauranga Māori through initiatives developed to promote Tuia - Encounters 250 themes in regions across New Zealand