Thank you

Kia ora to everyone who made a submission to the Dunedin City Council’s Annual & Long Term Plans.

We’ll keep you up to date with the results of the submission process and the next steps for the Transforming Dunedin group.

SYMPOSIUM OUTCOMES & THEMES

Please find below the primary themes and ideas that came forward from the nine sector workshops at the Transforming Dunedin Symposium on Saturday 3 March 2012. This is not a conclusive list of outcomes but rather is intended as an overview. The list begins with 6 over-arching themes from the day, followed by the top three outcomes form each sector group.

 

ARTS STRATEGY

If you are using this some of the below material for a submission to council, please also remember to ask in your submission for an arts strategy for Dunedin. An arts strategy is the vehicle needed to implement and realise these needs and ideas.

 

TOP SIX THEMES FROM THE DAY

1. Art/Design Model

This requires DCC to consider and include artists and designers into all levels of council planning and decision-making including a 1% budget allowance for public art in all new development across all government depts.

2. Incubation/Arts Focus

Local career pathways from schools to industry. Development of ongoing mentoring programmes. A close connection with communities and our suburbs – not just centralised or centralisation of resources. Focus on young people with the goals of being inviting and inclusive.

3. More Active Engagement with Tangata Whenua

Foster collaboration opportunities, awareness and partnership between Maori arts and broader arts community.

4. Art Spaces & Infrastructure

The idea of an arts precinct is popular across all groups. To include workshop/studio spaces where people can share ideas, facilities, tools, co-ordinators and supported by mixed-use tenancy. Incentivising re-use of space, marrying the need for spaces, with unused existing spaces, ranging from warehouses to shops to theatres and also use of temporary / ‘pop up’ arts spaces.

5. Coordinated Communication, Visibilit

A Creative Dunedin identity for the entire arts & cultural sector including online resources linked to social media along with digital calendars and billboards in public places profiling practitioners, events, venues etc. Building better relationships with local media to profile practitioners. Advertising at the airport and immediate information and incentives to visitors.

6. Advocacy Roles

An Arts Voice and sustainability of this arts voice in an ongoing practical way. Many groups identified the need for a point of liaison between the sector and funding organisations/sector organisations. Any ongoing leadership group should reflect and advocate for our community – this needs to be at a political and policy level and regularly rotates membership to ensure its relevance and sustainability

 

TOP THREE THEMES FROM EACH SECTOR GROUP

Architecture and Urban Planning
1.  Interdisciplinary Forum
A working group to oversee development of urban spaces and activities
2. Infrastructure
Physical and Other. An arts board, connective transport…
3. Focus on Specific Locations
Waterfront, George Street piazzas, Arts Precinct
Fashion and Design
1. Communication
Pro-active networks, showcase good practices
2. Adoption of “Art: Design” Model
A locally relevant – Waitakere model, showcase existing projects where artists have worked successfully with communities
3. Co-location
Collaborative projects and spaces. Encourage cross-sector partnerships
Literature
1. Increase Visibility
Profile building events to showcase writers (poetry on buses, biannual festival, City of Literature)
2. Writer’s Centre / Trust
Point of liaison with sector
3. Online Initiatives
Promotion and communication
Film and Media
1. Sector Forum and Brand
A Creative Dunedin identity
2. Media Industry Incubator
Pathways from schools to industry
3. Multi Media Arts Expo
Linked to an existing event like iD Fashion
Music
1. Youth Voice
Pathways from schools to industry, events for young people
2. Access to Venues / Spaces
Facilitators identify empty spaces
3. Music forum
Group to drive initiatives
Education
1. Connectedness
Touring school packages
2. Community based programmes
Artists in schools, designers in residence
3. Establishing cultural hub/s
Connection with suburbs, focus on young people, inviting and inclusive
Visual Arts
1. Shared Physical Art Centre
A workshop studio kind of space where people can share ideas, facilities etc
2. Visual arts infiltrate the city
Artists in residencies, dispersed and visible
3. Creative Incubator
Coordination and awareness of existing people & facilities
Performing Arts
1. Communication and Promotion
In multiple and innovative ways
2. Access to Venues / Rehearsal and Performance Spaces
Identify unused spaces medium term, pop-up studios and performances short term, close off George St long term
3. Better financial support
Community Arts and Health
1. Leadership and Advocacy
Need for an arts strategy
2. Networking / Communication
3. Visibility / Physical Hub
Art zone or zones – art precinct incentivising re-use of space
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