Create opportunities for local communities to engage with, and participate in local arts activities, for example:

• Performances by community choirs, hip-hop groups, theatre companies, musicians or poets.
• Workshops on printmaking, writing or dancing.
• Creation of new tukutuku, whakairo or kowhaiwhai for a local marae.
• Exhibitions by local craft groups promoting weaving, pottery and carving.
• Festivals featuring local artists.
• Creation of a community film or a public artwork by a community.
• Artist residencies involving local artists or communities.
• Seminars for local artist development.

Support the diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities, for example:

• Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions in Māori or Pasifika heritage or contemporary art forms.
• Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by local migrant communities.
• Arts projects bringing together groups from a range of different communities.
• Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by groups with experience of disability or mental illness.

Enable young people (under 18 years) to engage with, and participate in the arts, for example:

• A group of young people working with an artist to create a mural or street art.
• A group of young people creating a film about an issue that is important to them.
• Printing a collection of writing by young people.
• Music workshops for young people.
• An exhibition of visual art work by young people.