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Creating opportunity and connecting the sector through projects built for long-lasting impact and positive change.

This innovative programme has been designed to bring creativity into your daily routine whether you are at work or at home.

Featuring artists and talent from around the Waikato region, Creativity Every Day will take you on a journey where you can enjoy our short creative activities, learn from an artist and start building your own creative habits. Using materials readily available in an office setting, you will be able to creatively utilise what is around you on a daily basis.

Supported by research and a policy for workplace creativity, this can also be implemented throughout businesses to further strengthen collaboration, team morale and new ways of thinking.

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A movement and campaign to bring the community together through the accessible power of creativity.

Waikato artists are championing the fight for unity through works of art that speak powerful messages of hurt, sorrow, hope and strength. The creative works aim to spark crucial conversations against racism and fuel the narrative for kotahitanga.

The campaign led to a collaboration with School Kit, sparking the conversation in classrooms Waikato wide with hands-on arts activity.

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Cultural activator to unleash creative potential of South Waikato

Waikato artist and curator Leafa Wilson took on the role which was part of a pilot programme to work with local communities to tell the district’s stories, build residents’ creative skills, and seek creative opportunities.

Leafa worked with organisations and individuals across Tokoroa, Putāruru and Tīrau to deliver projects to increase individual practitioners’ confidence, as well as access and participation in relevant and extraordinary cultural activities.

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