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The Rodger Fox Big Band has been invited to represent New Zealand at the 2024 Jazz Educational Network Conference in New Orleans early next year.

However he says his application to Creative New Zealand to fund the trip was declined.

It comes as Creative New Zealand looks to completely overhaul its funding model from March next year to try and alleviate competition. 

It's left Rodger and his band short of $89,000, with the tour costing a total $182,000.

They're now appealing to the public for help

Rodger Fox joins Nick Mills on Wellington Mornings.

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Today on The Huddle, David Farrar from Kiwiblog and Curia polling and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues- and more! 

Chris Hipkins and Andrew Coster have decided to send a police caravan to Hawke's Bay to help fight the ongoing crime wave? Will this help? And how scared must residents be to arm themselves?

Creative NZ and the James Cook poem - can you separate the art and the artist? David Seymour for one is certainly not happy, but Creative NZ says it needs context.

Rob Campbell was dismissed yesterday for his controversial comments. His earlier interviews indicate he's fired up to talk about co-governance more- will this cause trouble for Labour? 

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A concern the Bard of Avon has been unfairly slandered.

Creative New Zealand has declined a funding proposal for $31,000 towards the Sheila Winn Shakespeare Festival.

It's also called William Shakespeare's work part of a 'canon of Imperialism'.

Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ CEO, Dawn Sanders, says that's completely untrue.

She says the British Empire didn't exist in Shakespeare's time, so the description makes no sense.

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