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50 years of friendship. 50/50 for the future of art - Help us grow the new Aoraki Art Fund

 

The Friends of the Aigantighe turn 50 this year. We could have marked the occasion by simply looking back at what the Friends have helped achieve since 1976. Instead, we decided to put something substantial towards the future.

We have committed $50,000 from Friends funds to the new Aoraki Art Fund. Now we are asking our community to help us match it.

For every new dollar donated, we will add another dollar, up to $50,000. Give $50. We add $50. Together, that’s $100.

 

Our aim is to begin with:

$50,000 from our community

+ $50,000 from the Friends

= $100,000 for the future of art

 

 

For 50 years, Friends members and volunteers have found practical ways to support art and the Aigantighe Art Gallery. Sometimes that has meant helping with an artwork or exhibition. Sometimes it has been fundraising, conservation, education, events, advocacy or simply bringing people together around a shared interest in art.

We want that support to continue. Our usual fundraising will still help us respond to projects and opportunities as they arise. The Aoraki Art Fund gives us something different: a fund that can grow and provide another source of support over the longer term. That is why we felt our 50th anniversary was the right time to begin.

 

What could the fund help us support?

The Aoraki Art Fund gives us the chance to support good ideas and new opportunities as they arise. That might mean helping care for an important artwork, supporting an exhibition or acquisition, encouraging education, creating an opportunity for an artist, or backing a project that helps more people connect with visual art.

Most importantly, it gives the Friends another way to keep saying yes to good ideas that support visual art in South Canterbury, now and into the future. We hope the fund will grow over time, giving future generations of Friends the same opportunity to support art, artists and our community.

 

About the Aoraki Art Fund

The Friends of the Aigantighe established the Aoraki Art Fund in partnership with the Aoraki Foundation. The Aoraki Foundation manages and invests the fund for long-term benefit. Income generated by the fund can help the Friends support projects and initiatives that encourage a love of visual art in South Canterbury, including suitable projects developed in collaboration with Aigantighe Art Gallery.

For more detailed information about how the fund works, giving options, tax credits and long-term fund management, visit the Aoraki Foundation.

 

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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE AORAKI ART FUND https://www.aorakifoundation.org.nz/aoraki-art

 

Will you help us reach $100,000? You do not have to be a Friends member to take part.

Perhaps Aigantighe has been part of your life for years. Perhaps you are an artist, a regular visitor, a former volunteer or someone who simply wants art to have a strong future in South Canterbury.

 

And you do not need to make a large donation.

A $20 gift becomes $40.

A $50 gift becomes $100.

A $250 gift becomes $500.

Every contribution moves us closer to the $50,000 we are hoping our community will raise.

 

We have put our $50,000 on the table... Will you help us match it?

50 years of friendship.

50/50 for the future of art.

 

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We wanted the Aoraki Art Fund to do more than hold money, we wanted it to keep working for visual art in South Canterbury, year after year.

That is why we chose to establish the fund with the Aoraki Foundation, South Canterbury’s community foundation. Aoraki Foundation helps local people and organisations create long-term funds for the causes they care about. It provides the professional investment management, governance and administration needed to look after those funds over time.

For the Friends, that makes good sense. We can concentrate on why the Aoraki Art Fund exists, supporting visual art, encouraging good ideas and helping people connect with Aigantighe Art Gallery. Aoraki Foundation takes care of the long-term management and investment of the fund.

Just as importantly, it gives us a way for the benefit of local generosity to keep working here in South Canterbury. Money earned, saved or built during one generation can continue making a difference long after the original gift has been made. Rather than doing good only once, a gift can become part of a fund designed to generate support for the years ahead.

That feels especially fitting as we celebrate 50 years of the Friends. We have benefited from the generosity and foresight of people who came before us. The Aoraki Art Fund gives our generation the chance to do the same for those who come next.

 

The Friends provide the purpose. Aoraki Foundation provides the stewardship.

Together, we are building a fund with the potential to keep supporting visual art in South Canterbury well beyond our 50th anniversary.

The Aoraki Art Fund has grown from 50 years of friendship, generosity and a shared belief in the value of visual art in our community.

We are grateful to the many Friends members, volunteers, supporters, donors and past committee members whose time, energy and generosity have helped shape the Friends of the Aigantighe since 1976.

We also warmly acknowledge the Aoraki Foundation for working with us to establish and manage the Aoraki Art Fund, and for providing the long-term stewardship that will help the fund grow.

Our thanks also go to Aigantighe Art Gallery, its staff, artists and the wider South Canterbury community who continue to make the gallery and visual art such an important part of life here.

 

And most of all, thank you to everyone who chooses to support this new fund.

Every gift, large or small, helps us build something that future generations of Friends can continue to use to support art, artists and good ideas in South Canterbury.

 

Thank you for being part of our next 50 years.