ARTSGLENELG Arts and Culture Strategy 2022 to 2026

ARTSGLENELG Arts and Culture Strategy 2022 to 2026.

Our goal is to strengthen connected and inspiring creative communities in Glenelg Shire. Achieving this will create:

• Healthy and well communities
• Safe, engaged and inclusive communities
• Experiences to enrich community life
• Enhanced relationships with the Traditional Owners of the region.

The Arts and Culture Strategy 2022 to 2026 is a four-year direction for delivering Arts and Culture services in the Glenelg Shire with a vision to achieve connected and inspiring creative communities.

The Strategy is closely aligned with other local, regional, state, and national strategic creative industries activities. It is supported by and links to the regional Southwest Creative Industries Strategy, launched in December 2020.

Following a community survey in 2020 with several face to face and online focus groups, the strategy has been put together with careful consideration of community feedback, current resources available and the climate of the COVID-19 pandemic that has required thoughtful change and adaptation.

The strategy is a tool for collaboration between Council, the creative and cultural sectors, and community to support and develop creative activity and cultural engagement.

The key purpose of this document is to assist both Council and community:

• To advocate for building the right conditions for our creativity to flourish
• To support communities to connect to their stories, and
• To ensure arts and culture makes a difference throughout our shire.

To achieve this, we need to foster the creative capacity, skills, spaces and supports for our communities and seek opportunities to enhance awareness of the unique cultures.

Implementing this Strategy is one of the Priority Projects in the Glenelg Shire Council Plan 2021 to 2025.

Consultation closed at 5pm Thursday 26 May 2022.

For more information, please contact:

Susie Lyons
Arts and Culture Manager
03 5522 2301
slyons@glenelg.vic.gov.au