Welcome to Creative Rodney
Making Art Work - Creative Rodney is an arts initiative from the Rodney Local Board to support and enable community-led arts activities throughout the Rodney area.
About Making Art Work: Creative Rodney
Making Art Work is an initiative from the Rodney Local Board to support and enable community-led arts activities throughout the Rodney area. It involves having an Co-ordinator, whose role is to identify, curate, programme and enable community arts activities.
The Rodney Community Arts Culture and Events Coordinator works with local artists and creative organisations to offer support in the development and delivery of their creative ideas and projects, whether this be assisting with funding, marketing, or helping to find the right location or people to work with.

Funding Applications Now Open
Call for Proposals
Now Open
Are you a local performer, musician, creative or artist? Do you have a cultural or creative project or event that you’d like to make happen in the Rodney area?
Send us your ideas!
The latest funding round will open on the 1 August 2025, closing on the 1 September 2025. Funding is available for projects taking place between October 2025 and June 2026.
The Rodney Community Arts Culture and Events Coordinator is interested in hearing from you and learning about your creative projects or events, even if they are just an “idea”. For example, it could be dance, film, craft, visual arts, music, kapa-haka, spoken word, digital arts, a publication, a performance, event or an exhibition.
The Creative Rodney 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.
New Projects
The Rodney Creative Coordinator develops a work Programme of activities and events to be delivered within the scope of the project fund. Explore the projects happening in the next 12 months.
Get in Touch!
Want to get in touch with our Creative Rodney Co-ordinator, Renée? It all starts with a conversation about what you want to do, from there, together we work out what advice or support you need, so we’d love to hear from you.