The Purpose of the Report
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the Pathways Project undertaken by Arts Murihiku with funding from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage from Jan 2023 until 30 June 2024. This report will also provide a framework for Arts Murihiku into the future by showing how AM can best serve the arts community in Southland into the future.
Background – why applied, rationale, objectives and scope of the project.
Arts Murihiku is Southland’s regional arts body. Our purpose is to support, connect, grow, promote and advocate for the arts. Our focus is doing this through capability building activities for and with the arts sector across Murihiku/Southland. In 2021 using the Murihiku Regional Arts Strategy vision of being a thriving arts and creativity region with the sector being visible, valued and vibrant we developed a programme called Pathways for the Arts in Murihiku. We then applied to the Regeneration Fund through Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage to fund this programme. This application was successful and Arts Murihiku was granted $448,800 to be used over 18 months until 30 June 2024.
