Arts Advocacy

"The arts empower us to look honestly at ourselves and our society and prompt us to think, feel and reexamine. A world without art is a world without culture, heart, passion or creativity."

Director Helen Craig

CURRENT
Wanganui District Councillor since 2013
Council appointment to Board of Visit Whanganui since 2012 
Wanganui District Council - Arts spokesperson since 2013
Board of Whanganui Regional Heritage Trust since 2013
Interim Chair Artists Open Studios Whanganui 2014
Wanganui District Council Public Art Monitoring Group since 2011


What do we do?
Providing advocacy for the creative sector in Wanganui.

Event Guide Production & Publishing:
Awa Event Guide Whanganui since 2011
www.awaeventguide.co.nz

Employees
Karen Craig - Manager of Awa Event Guide (no relation but happy to share a great surname)

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Whanganui UCOL/Wanganui District Council Arts Tertiary Education Working Party 2013

MANAGEMENT
Board Artists Open Studios Whanganui 2010, 2011, 2012

ARTS EVENT MANAGEMENT
REAL Whanganui Festival 2011
Artists Open Studios Whanganui 2013
Wanganui Festival of Glass 2012 & 2013

Building public profiles to promote Wanganui Tourism:
NZ Life & Leisure Magazine - Katie Brown Glass Issue 46 page 38,
Ed Boyd Issue 49 page 148
Helen Craig Issue 46 page 146 


GENERAL EVENT MANAGEMENT
Local events coordinator during the NZ National Party Lower North Island Annual Conference 2013
 "Ladies to Lunch" fundraising team with special guest Michelle Boag- Wanganui Collegiate School 2012


FUNDRAISING
Spearheaded the REAL Whanganui Festival 2011 through a Lotteries Grant for $115,000