Community Arts

Waitakere City Council employees a full time Community Arts Co-ordinator to develop and facilitate community arts projects in parks, town centres, and other parts of the city; liase with the local and wider arts community; to provide  information on arts activity and contacts in the city; to develop arts networks and infrastructure in the city; and to produce a bimonthly newsletter, Artlink. 

Community arts projects

Community arts projects focus on including the public in the creation of artwork for their local community. Examples of projects such as this include the Titirangi Tiling Project, the Kelston Gateways and the Henderson Taniwha.

Other community arts projects currently underway include the:

• Godley Green Maze
• Wood Bay Tiling Project
• Te Atatu Walkway Tiling Project
• People's Park Gateway and
• Titirangi Community House Reading Wall. 

Community arts events

Each year the Council organises a number of Community Arts Events - these include Story Fest - a free family day of story-telling and performance, and the Pacifica Living Arts Festival.

Artlink

Artlink is Waitakere City's bi-monthly arts newsletter. Artlink supports all arts activity both commercial and community-based in Waitakere City. Artlink is currently distributed to 900 individuals and all public facilities and schools within the city.

A reciprocal arrangement between Waitakere, North Shore and Manukau cities was established in 2003 and Artlink is now distributed to all the arts centres and libraries in the 2 cities. Additional copies are sent to all tertiary institutions within Auckland. The deadline for each issue is the 10th of the preceding month.

For more information please contact the Community Art Coordinator.

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	Oct/Nov 08 (Size 424K)
	Aug/Sept 08  (Size 379K)
	June/July 08  (Size 1343K)
	April/May 08  (Size 507K)
	January/February/March 08  (Size 1704K)

2007

	November-December 07 (Size 1379K)
	September-October 07 (Size 1632K)
	July - August 07 (Size 1696K)
	May - June 07
	March - April 07 (Size 504K)
	December 06 - February 07 (Size 697K)
	October - November 06 (Size 720K)

Art Links - Art Contacts List

Contact us if you would like to receive a copy or submit your details for the next issue or download a copy by clicking on the link below.

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Art Links 2003 (Size 118K)