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
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the first meetings between Māori and Europeans across the country and their impact on contemporary society
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the arts, science, technology and mātauranga of two great voyaging traditions (Pacific and European)
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whakapapa and identity:
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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
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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