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Previous recipients 2014-2016
Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust
2016
Grant Recipient
Amount
Project Description
Asia New Zealand Foundation
$2,000
2016 Auckland and Christchurch Chinese Lantern Festivals and introduction in parallel schools.
Dr Phoebe Hairong Li
$5,000
Towards the printing and binding of a catalogue for the exhibition A Pictorial History of the Chinese in New Zealand.
Dunedin Chinese Language & Cultural Trust
$4,300
For teaching Chinese Cantonese language and culture through the remainder of 2015 and into 2016.
New Zealand Chinese Association - Auckland
$20,000
For the New Zealand Chinese Association Easter Sports Tournament 2016
Qiao Yi Lion Dance Team Christchurch
$2,000
For the 2016 Christchurch Chinese New Year Parade
Arrowtown Autumn Festival Inc
$1,500
To bring a Dragon Dance Team to the Autumn Festival
New Zealand Chinese Society - Canterbury
$4,000
To replace heat pumps for the Community Hall
Auckland Chinese Community Centre
$7,000
To support 2016 Chinese New Year Festival and Market Day - the Year of the Monkey
Auckland Chinese Community Centre
$30,000
For hall renovations at the Auckland Chinese Community Centre
Asian Events Trust
$5,000
To support 2016 Chinese New Year Festival
New Zealand Chinese Association Auckland - Cantonese Music School
$5,000
For teaching of the Cantonese Language (oral and written)
Asia New Zealand Foundation
$2,000
For the 2016 Auckland and Christchurch Chinese Lantern Festivals and introduction into parallel schools
Jeffrey Sawers
$4,210
Restoration of Chinese graves at the Alexandra cemetery
Sylvia Yang Yuan - History of Churches
$9,000
Commissioned research into the history of Chinese Churches
James Beattie and Phoebe Li
$9,000
Commissioned research into the history of Chinese Merchants in New Zealand
New Zealand Chinese Oral History Foundation
$2,000
To record the Pukekohe Market Gardeners Wives’ reflections
Rainbow Chinese Community Centre Charitable Trust
$1,000
To support 2017 Hamilton Chinese Sport Day
Colleen Brown
$2,000
To support the book: The Kiwi We Left Behind
Susan Kim Louie
$750
Glass work casting project, Swing Bridge, at Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne
New Zealand Chinese Association
$17,000
To support 2017 Youth Leadership Conference
Mark Ngan Kee
$7,000
Ventnor Project - Rawene Cemetery investigation on ethnic human remains
Lawrence Chinese Camp Charitable Trust
$6,500
To relocate Joss House to its old site in the Lawrence Chinese Camp
Toitū Ōtago Settlers Museum
$10,000
Towards a documentary production - Journey to Lan Yuan
Victoria University of Wellington Foundation
$18,930
Chinese Heritage Printing Types restoration and relocation
Qiao Yi Lion Dance Team Christchurch
$1,000
For the Christchurch 2017 Chinese New Year Parade
Joanna Boileau
$500
Towards costs associated with the ISSCO 9th Conference
Joanna Boileau
$25,000
PROJECT: commissioned research into history of Chinese Laundries in New Zealand
Ruth Lam
$20,000
PROJECT: commissioned research into the history of Chinese fruit shops in New Zealand
2015
Grant Recipient
Amount
Project Description
Asia New Zealand Foundation
$1,500
To bring international performers to the Chinese New Year Lantern Festivals held over two-days, and also toured to schools in Rotorua.
Asian Events Trust
$5,000
To contribute to the Wellington Chinese New Year Festival over two days in February 2015, including various traditional festivities.
Auckland Chinese Community Centre Inc
$8,000
To fund the annual Chinese New Year Festival, featuring traditional celebrations, plus market and food stalls
Auckland Chinese Community Centre Inc
$5,500
To host an evening of Cantonese Opera at Aotea Centre to showcase creativity and musical diversity within the Chinese community.
Brendon Gin-Fraser
$2,000
To create a documentary with Dr James Ng (narrator, NZ Chinese community historian) and Mr Pastor David Yan (lyricist/ composer).
Chinese Culture Association (NZ) Inc.
$2,000
To host the 2015 Chinese Festival with a focus on the Chinese culture, engaging people through the involvement and interactions within Chinese Cultural events.
Ella Becroft, Petit Workshop
$6,000
To produce a play: ‘The Two Farting Sisters’; with a development workshop, three week rehearsal period and a preview season at the Wellington Fringe Festival, coinciding with the Chinese New Year.
Hamilton Chinese Golden Age Society Inc
$500
Towards the purchase of new costumes for over 30 performers.
Kim Lowe
$3,100
Towards installation of an exhibition: ‘Gold Mountain Takeaways’ at the Impact 9 International Print Conference in Hangzhou, China.
Mervyn Ah Chee
$1,000
To translate "The Journeys of two Families, Chan Ah Chee and Chan Sai Luoie" into Chinese characters to increase awareness of early history of Chinese in New Zealand.
New Zealand Bai Ling Classical Orchestra
$1,000
To support a multicultural concert, performed by the Orchestra to celebrate traditional and classical Chinese music to commemorate the Chinese mid-Autumn Festival.
New Zealand Chinese Association Inc - Auckland
$5,000
Towards holding a Youth Leadership Camp in December 2015 for Chinese youths aged 14 to 17 years.
Zealand Chinese Association Inc - Auckland
$5,000
To teach Cantonese at the Auckland Cantonese Music School.
New Zealand Chinese Association - Canterbury
$1,000
To support the launch of "Turning Stone into Jade', commissioned to commemorate and celebrate the 80th anniversary of the New Zealand Chinese Association
New Zealand Chinese Association - Otago & Southland
$16,500
To hold the NZCA Annual Sports and Cultural Tournament.
Qiao Yi Lion Dance Team - Christchurch
$2,000
To assist with buying new costumes for the Society’s performers.
Rainbow Chinese Community Centre Charitable Trust
$1,600
To assist with funding the Hamilton Chinese Sports Day, an annual one-day sports day and gala festival.
Renee Liang
$6,000
To rehearse and tour the show ‘Under the Same Moon’ to Wellington and Auckland.
Yau Yih Yun - Chinese Language Preschool
$5,000
To support a preschool that fosters and maintains the ability to communicate in spoken Cantonese, and develops an appreciation of Chinese identity and values through Chinese language.
Ruth Lam
$50,000
Commissioned research and documentation of the history of Chinese owned or operated fruit shops in New Zealand.
Joanna Boileau
$43,525
Commissioned research and documentation of the history of Chinese owned or operated laundries in New Zealand.
Harry Wong
$4000
To produce the short film “Double Happy”- the story of a Chinese family living in Haining Street, Wellington during the late 1940s.
Gary Young
$2000
To fund a short film “Coming of Age” - a project to provide a new voice of stories from a Chinese point of view, set in New Zealand.
2014
Grant Recipient
Amount
Project Description
Alexandra District Museum
$2030
To produce education packs about early Chinese history in the region, including teaching resources for schools and visiting groups.
Asian Events Trust
$5000
To promote Cantonese language, increase understanding of Chinese culture and bring the community together through the Wellington
Chinese New Year Festival.
Asia New Zealand Foundation
$6500
To assist with funding the 2014 Chinese New Year Lantern Festival in Hagley Park, Christchurch.
Auckland Chinese Community Centre Inc
$6000
To organise activities for the 2014 Chinese New Year festival and market day.
Chinese Cultural Association (NZ) Inc
$1500
To contribute to the 2014 Chinese Festival where a wide range of traditional dance, music and theatre programmes will be featured.
Jacqueline Dong
$2000
To enable Jacqueline Dong to participate in the Dance Excellence Festival in the United States of America.
Dunedin Chinese Language and Cultural Trust
$3800
To continue delivering the Chinese Cantonese Language and Culture programme.
Carolyn King
$2000
To fund a reprint of 1000 copies of the Por Pors Cookbook.
Hamilton Golden Age Society
$600
To assist with buying new costumes for the Society’s performers.
New Zealand Chinese Oral History Foundation
$2000
To record up to 10 poll tax descendants’ stories to preserve aspects of their family histories and provide a resource for New Zealanders.
New Zealand Chinese Association - Auckland
$3500
To facilitate and drive an effective Cantonese heritage and language programme, based mostly on oral language with word recognition, writing skills and Chinese culture.
New Zealand Chinese Association - Auckland
$7500
To fund the conference Diverse Bananas Global Dragons. The conference challenges perceptions of what it means to be Chinese and celebrates the
journeys, stories and identities and leading local and overseas born Chinese.
New Zealand Chinese Association Incorporated
$25,000
To review, edit and publish the History of the New Zealand Chinese Association.
New Zealand Chinese Association Incorporated
$17,000
To support the 2015 Leadership and Development Conference with feature speakers, leadership and cultural activities, and to provide for young delegates personal and professional development.
Rainbow Chinese Community Centre Charitable Trust
$1500
To assist funding the 2015 Hamilton Chinese Sports Day for Chinese clubs and organisations toparticipate in a one day sports festival.
Renee Liang
$6500
To fund “Paper Boats” a theatrical performance that explores the story of what it means to be Chinese and living in New Zealand.
Wellington Chinese Association Incorporated
$23,000
To fund the 66th New Zealand Chinese Association’s sports and cultural tournament over Easter, promoting friendship, goodwill, mutual understanding among New Zealand Chinese.
Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust
2016
Grant Recipient
Amount
Project Description
Asia New Zealand Foundation
$2,000
2016 Auckland and Christchurch Chinese Lantern Festivals and introduction in parallel schools.
Dr Phoebe Hairong Li
$5,000
Towards the printing and binding of a catalogue for the exhibition A Pictorial History of the Chinese in New Zealand.
Dunedin Chinese Language & Cultural Trust
$4,300
For teaching Chinese Cantonese language and culture through the remainder of 2015 and into 2016.
New Zealand Chinese Association - Auckland
$20,000
For the New Zealand Chinese Association Easter Sports Tournament 2016
Qiao Yi Lion Dance Team Christchurch
$2,000
For the 2016 Christchurch Chinese New Year Parade
Arrowtown Autumn Festival Inc
$1,500
To bring a Dragon Dance Team to the Autumn Festival
New Zealand Chinese Society - Canterbury
$4,000
To replace heat pumps for the Community Hall
Auckland Chinese Community Centre
$7,000
To support 2016 Chinese New Year Festival and Market Day - the Year of the Monkey
Auckland Chinese Community Centre
$30,000
For hall renovations at the Auckland Chinese Community Centre
Asian Events Trust
$5,000
To support 2016 Chinese New Year Festival
New Zealand Chinese Association Auckland - Cantonese Music School
$5,000
For teaching of the Cantonese Language (oral and written)
Asia New Zealand Foundation
$2,000
For the 2016 Auckland and Christchurch Chinese Lantern Festivals and introduction into parallel schools
Jeffrey Sawers
$4,210
Restoration of Chinese graves at the Alexandra cemetery
Sylvia Yang Yuan - History of Churches
$9,000
Commissioned research into the history of Chinese Churches
James Beattie and Phoebe Li
$9,000
Commissioned research into the history of Chinese Merchants in New Zealand
New Zealand Chinese Oral History Foundation
$2,000
To record the Pukekohe Market Gardeners Wives’ reflections
Rainbow Chinese Community Centre Charitable Trust
$1,000
To support 2017 Hamilton Chinese Sport Day
Colleen Brown
$2,000
To support the book: The Kiwi We Left Behind
Susan Kim Louie
$750
Glass work casting project, Swing Bridge, at Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne
New Zealand Chinese Association
$17,000
To support 2017 Youth Leadership Conference
Mark Ngan Kee
$7,000
Ventnor Project - Rawene Cemetery investigation on ethnic human remains
Lawrence Chinese Camp Charitable Trust
$6,500
To relocate Joss House to its old site in the Lawrence Chinese Camp
Toitū Ōtago Settlers Museum
$10,000
Towards a documentary production - Journey to Lan Yuan
Victoria University of Wellington Foundation
$18,930
Chinese Heritage Printing Types restoration and relocation
Qiao Yi Lion Dance Team Christchurch
$1,000
For the Christchurch 2017 Chinese New Year Parade
Joanna Boileau
$500
Towards costs associated with the ISSCO 9th Conference
Joanna Boileau
$25,000
PROJECT: commissioned research into history of Chinese Laundries in New Zealand
Ruth Lam
$20,000
PROJECT: commissioned research into the history of Chinese fruit shops in New Zealand
2015
Grant Recipient
Amount
Project Description
Asia New Zealand Foundation
$1,500
To bring international performers to the Chinese New Year Lantern Festivals held over two-days, and also toured to schools in Rotorua.
Asian Events Trust
$5,000
To contribute to the Wellington Chinese New Year Festival over two days in February 2015, including various traditional festivities.
Auckland Chinese Community Centre Inc
$8,000
To fund the annual Chinese New Year Festival, featuring traditional celebrations, plus market and food stalls
Auckland Chinese Community Centre Inc
$5,500
To host an evening of Cantonese Opera at Aotea Centre to showcase creativity and musical diversity within the Chinese community.
Brendon Gin-Fraser
$2,000
To create a documentary with Dr James Ng (narrator, NZ Chinese community historian) and Mr Pastor David Yan (lyricist/ composer).
Chinese Culture Association (NZ) Inc.
$2,000
To host the 2015 Chinese Festival with a focus on the Chinese culture, engaging people through the involvement and interactions within Chinese Cultural events.
Ella Becroft, Petit Workshop
$6,000
To produce a play: ‘The Two Farting Sisters’; with a development workshop, three week rehearsal period and a preview season at the Wellington Fringe Festival, coinciding with the Chinese New Year.
Hamilton Chinese Golden Age Society Inc
$500
Towards the purchase of new costumes for over 30 performers.
Kim Lowe
$3,100
Towards installation of an exhibition: ‘Gold Mountain Takeaways’ at the Impact 9 International Print Conference in Hangzhou, China.
Mervyn Ah Chee
$1,000
To translate "The Journeys of two Families, Chan Ah Chee and Chan Sai Luoie" into Chinese characters to increase awareness of early history of Chinese in New Zealand.
New Zealand Bai Ling Classical Orchestra
$1,000
To support a multicultural concert, performed by the Orchestra to celebrate traditional and classical Chinese music to commemorate the Chinese mid-Autumn Festival.
New Zealand Chinese Association Inc - Auckland
$5,000
Towards holding a Youth Leadership Camp in December 2015 for Chinese youths aged 14 to 17 years.
Zealand Chinese Association Inc - Auckland
$5,000
To teach Cantonese at the Auckland Cantonese Music School.
New Zealand Chinese Association - Canterbury
$1,000
To support the launch of "Turning Stone into Jade', commissioned to commemorate and celebrate the 80th anniversary of the New Zealand Chinese Association
New Zealand Chinese Association - Otago & Southland
$16,500
To hold the NZCA Annual Sports and Cultural Tournament.
Qiao Yi Lion Dance Team - Christchurch
$2,000
To assist with buying new costumes for the Society’s performers.
Rainbow Chinese Community Centre Charitable Trust
$1,600
To assist with funding the Hamilton Chinese Sports Day, an annual one-day sports day and gala festival.
Renee Liang
$6,000
To rehearse and tour the show ‘Under the Same Moon’ to Wellington and Auckland.
Yau Yih Yun - Chinese Language Preschool
$5,000
To support a preschool that fosters and maintains the ability to communicate in spoken Cantonese, and develops an appreciation of Chinese identity and values through Chinese language.
Ruth Lam
$50,000
Commissioned research and documentation of the history of Chinese owned or operated fruit shops in New Zealand.
Joanna Boileau
$43,525
Commissioned research and documentation of the history of Chinese owned or operated laundries in New Zealand.
Harry Wong
$4000
To produce the short film “Double Happy”- the story of a Chinese family living in Haining Street, Wellington during the late 1940s.
Gary Young
$2000
To fund a short film “Coming of Age” - a project to provide a new voice of stories from a Chinese point of view, set in New Zealand.
2014
Grant Recipient
Amount
Project Description
Alexandra District Museum
$2030
To produce education packs about early Chinese history in the region, including teaching resources for schools and visiting groups.
Asian Events Trust
$5000
To promote Cantonese language, increase understanding of Chinese culture and bring the community together through the Wellington
Chinese New Year Festival.
Asia New Zealand Foundation
$6500
To assist with funding the 2014 Chinese New Year Lantern Festival in Hagley Park, Christchurch.
Auckland Chinese Community Centre Inc
$6000
To organise activities for the 2014 Chinese New Year festival and market day.
Chinese Cultural Association (NZ) Inc
$1500
To contribute to the 2014 Chinese Festival where a wide range of traditional dance, music and theatre programmes will be featured.
Jacqueline Dong
$2000
To enable Jacqueline Dong to participate in the Dance Excellence Festival in the United States of America.
Dunedin Chinese Language and Cultural Trust
$3800
To continue delivering the Chinese Cantonese Language and Culture programme.
Carolyn King
$2000
To fund a reprint of 1000 copies of the Por Pors Cookbook.
Hamilton Golden Age Society
$600
To assist with buying new costumes for the Society’s performers.
New Zealand Chinese Oral History Foundation
$2000
To record up to 10 poll tax descendants’ stories to preserve aspects of their family histories and provide a resource for New Zealanders.
New Zealand Chinese Association - Auckland
$3500
To facilitate and drive an effective Cantonese heritage and language programme, based mostly on oral language with word recognition, writing skills and Chinese culture.
New Zealand Chinese Association - Auckland
$7500
To fund the conference Diverse Bananas Global Dragons. The conference challenges perceptions of what it means to be Chinese and celebrates the
journeys, stories and identities and leading local and overseas born Chinese.
New Zealand Chinese Association Incorporated
$25,000
To review, edit and publish the History of the New Zealand Chinese Association.
New Zealand Chinese Association Incorporated
$17,000
To support the 2015 Leadership and Development Conference with feature speakers, leadership and cultural activities, and to provide for young delegates personal and professional development.
Rainbow Chinese Community Centre Charitable Trust
$1500
To assist funding the 2015 Hamilton Chinese Sports Day for Chinese clubs and organisations toparticipate in a one day sports festival.
Renee Liang
$6500
To fund “Paper Boats” a theatrical performance that explores the story of what it means to be Chinese and living in New Zealand.
Wellington Chinese Association Incorporated
$23,000
To fund the 66th New Zealand Chinese Association’s sports and cultural tournament over Easter, promoting friendship, goodwill, mutual understanding among New Zealand Chinese.