Creative Indigo - Arts and Culture Strategy

A steering committee meeting was held in January to review the committee scoring of all Request for Tenders received. The committee determined a preferred applicant and Council is currently appointing this consultant.  An announcement will be made once the contract has been finalised. 

Future Tense was appointed as the successful tenderer to lead the Arts Strategy development in consultation with the steering committee.

An inception meeting will be held with the steering committee in the coming weeks to begin the the development process which includes confirming the goals for the project, community engagement and timelines.

The Steering Committee has met with Future Tense and signed off on the project plan. The first stage is a survey of artists living in the Shire. Creative practitioners of all kinds are invited to share their perspectives and hopes for the future.

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The results of the survey will be used as part of a health check of the Shire’s creative communities. It will also set up wider public consultations that will take place in late April and May.

Thank you to everyone who has filled out the Artist Practitioner survey, your contribution is so valuable and will help us identify what key areas creatives would like us to focus on in creating the Arts Strategy. If you have not filled out the survey please do so here.

Consultant Leith Thomas from Future Tense met with the Councillors and outlined our plans for in-person engagement, which will take place in May. 

For details on the public workshops please click here.

A big thankyou to everyone who came to one of our in-person or online workshops, your contribution is vital to the creation of the strategy. 

Following the workshops, the Steering committee met with Future Tense to discuss the key findings from the survey and the workshop sessions.

Future Tense is now in the process of creating the Draft Strategy which will go to Council for review in the coming months.