As the state's largest independent arts festival, we're thrilled to see the NSW Government launch the Creative Communities 10-year arts, culture and creative industries policy. Our CEO & Festival Director ensured independent artists were deeply imbedded in the policy via her role on the Ministerial Advisory Panel that helped shape the policy. As she said at on Tuesday nights launch:
"Our sector has been calling out for change for longer than many of us can remember. Change of the scale we need has to start with intention. Creative Communities draws a line in the sand that clearly states for our State, there is now an intention to support, enable and magnify across all of Government. It cannot be overstated how monumental this shift is. This is not just a policy that throws a desperate sector a few token gestures. It is a commitment to value, to treasure and to fundamentally imbed arts, culture and creative industries into our everyday lives.”
Creative Communities is grounded in five principles:
1. Prioritise First Nations culture
2. Embrace the arts, culture and creative industries
3. Advocate for the value of culture
4. Support sustainable growth
5. Take our creativity to the world and bring the world to our stories
This policy commits to an all of Government approach to support, enable and advocate for arts, culture and the creative industries, ensuring that everyone in NSW has the opportunity to actively participate in culture. We’re immensely proud, through Kerri Glasscock, to have contributed to ensuring inclusivity and fostering the growth of creative industries in NSW. Let's work together to take Sydney's stories to the world stage!
Created in collaboration with:
Bankstown Poetry Slam Darren Dale, Blackfella Films, Kerri Glasscock, Louise Herron, Sydney Opera House Ross Rudesch Harley, Michael D'Agostino, Sara Mansour, Kylie Kwong, Jonathan Zawada, KLP, L-Fresh the LION, Nakkiah Lui, Rachel Neeson, Romance Was Born, Liane Rossler, Julianne Schultz, Khaled Sabsabi, Julia Finn, Create NSW, Sound NSW, Screen NSW, Annette Pitman, Mark Crees, Kyas Hepworth, Emily Collins, Powerhouse, State Library of New South Wales, Art Gallery of NSW, Australian Museum, University of Sydney, Anna Burns, Heath Aston, Lizzie Butterworth, Angud Chawla, Grace Cramer
Read the full policy, click here: https://lnkd.in/g944sUz3
Founder, On Think Tanks
3wAdam Fong I wonder if your strategy contemplates working why local think tanks who would have the capacity to design and inform policy - but may not consider aerc and the creative sector within their priorities. There would be lots of lessons to be learned from your colleagues’ work with think tanks in the global south ( much of which we have documented via On Think Tanks) The added value of involving think tanks (broadly understood to include policy research in universities and NGOs) would be to expand the evidence base and tools that these use in their work on all other areas. It would certainly help them better connect to their communities.