Residency Programme 2025
Research Residency Programme 2025 is now closed
This residency opportunity includes a stipend of $5,000, open to individuals, groups or collectives.
Applications for the Research Residency close on Sept 26, 5 pm.
SHL’s Research Residencies offer writers and practitioners from art or art-related fields the opportunity to focus on their research practices in ways that are less outcome-oriented and are not exposed to the pressure of deadlines. We see research in an expansive sense, which could include anything from conversational to action research, project development, material explorations, scholarship and more. During the Research Residency, the recipient will engage with the library and work with its resources, as well as contribute to its programming or organisation. This could take the form of reading groups, crits and/or suggested additions to the collection.
SHL is interested in supporting significant, urgent, and underrepresented areas of practice; collectively oriented or situated projects; archival interventions and projects relevant to the context of SHL. (For example, projects relating to a history of place in Maota Samoa (Samoa House) or Karangahape Road, to our lineage from the closure of Elam School of Fine Arts Library, to library/archival studies, institutional critique, etc.)
SHL provides the recipient with a stipend, a materials budget alongside ongoing support from the SHL staff.
Applications for the Research Residency close on Sept 26, 5 pm.
What’s on offer
Recipients will receive:
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A stipend totalling $5,000
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A $500 budget towards materials
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An allocated book-buying budget to purchase specific texts relevant to your research practice or project
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Full access to SHL, our collection of 7500+ texts and other resources
Residencies will be organised on a case-by-case basis with support from SHL staff, our Board of Trustees and advisers.
Expectations
Recipients will be expected to:
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Complete approximately 110 - 150 hours of research (equating to approximately $45.45 - $33.33 per hour). The majority of your research hours should be at SHL if possible, however arrangements can be made to work elsewhere on a case by case basis. Please note no travel budget is provided in addition to your stipend.
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Nominate texts relevant to your research to be purchased by the Research Librarian for SHL’s collection
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Make a shareable resource available at SHL i.e a reading list of texts / online sources/media that were key to your research throughout your residency
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Deliver a public engagement, such as a talk, film screening, or workshop
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Communicate regularly with SHL staff
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Compile a brief report upon completion (written, oral, video, visual)
Duration
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The residency must start by 1st of Nov 2025, with the completion deadline to be discussed with SHL staff. The term of your residency will be organised in a way that is most beneficial to you. This could look like an intensive short period of research, or regular weekly research days over multiple months. You are able to self determine your hours and how your stipend is spent, this is only a suggestion.
How to apply/ Proposals will be accepted in any of the following formats:
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A written outline of your research proposal
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A video recording (max. 10 minutes)
Proposals should include:
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Your name(s) & contact details
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An introduction to your proposed research interest and trajectory, including how your project relates to SHL and our history or our position in the local ecology if relevant (approx. 600-800 words)
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A basic budget of your material costs and needs (these may include making materials, printing, subscriptions, fabrication costs etc.)
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1-2 examples of relevant work images of work, sample of writing
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A short personal bio(s) and/or a collective bio (approx. 150 words)
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Rough dates to start and end your residency, including an indication of how you will allocate your time
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Please send your written or video proposals by email to samoahouselibrary@gmail.com.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the application process further, please do not hesitate to contact us.
SHL is an independent fine arts library and alternative education platform. In our six years of operation, we have opened a public space for research and critical discussion, established a collection and archive from public donations, run a calendar of public programming (including our open programme curriculum), and supported and collaborated with practitioners and arts organisations both locally and internationally.
Our residency programme is supported through funding from Creative New Zealand.
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AAF Writers Residency 2025 - this is now closed
The Asian Artists’ Fund 2025 is a co-investment partnership between Foundation North, Creative New Zealand and Auckland Council. In 2025, the Asian Artists’ Fund is being administered by Satellites.
In partnership with Asian Artists' Fund, the AAF residency is for an artist developing a text of any kind (this may be poetry, fiction, non-fiction, theatre).
The artist receives $10,000 and six months access to the co-working space at Samoa House Library.
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