About
Creative Rodney

Making Art Work is an initiative from the Rodney Local Board to support and enable community-led art activities, culture and events throughout the Rodney area.  It involves having an Community Arts, Culture and Events Co-ordinator, whose role is to identify, curate, programme and enable community activities.

The Co-ordinator works with local artists and creative organisations to offer support in the development and delivery of their creative ideas, events and projects, whether this be assisting with funding, marketing, or helping to find the right location or people to work with. 

Your Rodney Community Arts, Culture and Events Co-ordinator:
Renée Tanner

With over 25 years of experience in the creative sector Renée enjoys assisting artists and creative organisations to grow and succeed, and to ensure they remain inspirational and sustainable.

Renée has worked as a curator, public programmes coordinator, marketing manager, arts advisor and sponsorship manager. Her work has included developing and launching a crowdfunding website for arts projects; ‘Boosted by the Arts Foundation’, and launched The Auckland Art Gallery Foundation membership programme.

Across many genres, including the visual arts, theatre, dance, music, festivals and events, Renée has assisted with sourcing funding and sponsorship, PR and marketing, idea development and mentoring. 

In 2015 Renée established her own company called Lightbox Projects specialising in creative solutions for brand and event development and now operates as a full service operation, working from conceptual development through to design, project management and delivery. Clients and projects have included: Open Studios Waitākere, Black Grace Dance Company, Red Leap Theatre, Māngere Ōtāhuhu Arts, Creative Henderson Massey, Auckland Art Gallery Foundation, Mackelvie Society, Kāhui St David’s and Auckland UNESCO City of Music.


”The Rodney area is rich with talent and many great existing projects. I see the co-ordinator role as one of motivator and go-between within the community, and I’m always looking forward to meeting artists and community members and helping to build an exciting range of local projects”. - Renée Tanner

Rodney Community Arts, Culture and Events Co-ordinator Role

  • Identify and grow creative opportunities within communities and support community delivery of creative initiatives and events.

  • Allocating resource to support a range of local creative activities

  • The Arts, Culture and Events coordinator will be a part of the Rodney Community Team and will work collaboratively with the Community Facilitators and other Rodney Community Team members to maximise the benefits of all the roles working together

  • It is anticipated that this role will contribute specialist arts advice to Rodney Community Team projects and activities

  • The focus will be on supporting local people to deliver projects and activities that provide wider community benefit and fill identified gaps in current arts, culture and events provision 

  • Established 2024

    First call for proposals open August 2024.

  • Arts Supporter

    Proud to be supporting arts, culture and events in the Rodney Area

  • Arts Advocate

    For a more creative Tāmaki Makaurau

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