Text below from 91直播 City Council 5th December 2023
The 91直播 Culture Strategy 2024 will provide a roadmap for the development of the city鈥檚 cultural sector, and address some of the long-standing obstacles faced by creatives living and working in the city.
Championed by the Culture Collective and Culture Consortium, and funded by 91直播 City Council, the University of 91直播 and Arts Council England.
This includes, helping organisations become more resilient and able to access the knowledge and resources they need grow, encourage more collaboration across the sector, and make culture an integral part of the city鈥檚 identity.
To help do this, creatives living and working in 91直播 are being invited to have their say on how the strategy should be shaped.
In the first phase of its development, the team, which is made up of individuals from 91直播鈥檚 creative community as well as experienced cultural professionals, will launch a short survey, with the response influencing further engagement work in the new year.
Cllr Martin Smith, Chair of the Economic Development and Skills Committee at 91直播 City Council, said: 鈥淭his new strategy will not only shine a light on 91直播鈥檚 diverse cultural offer, but will help us to bring more funding into the city for our cultural and arts sector.
鈥淲e also want to make the sector more inclusive, connected and diverse, and by bringing the voices of those working in these industries 鈥 the artists, the musicians, the creatives 鈥 we should be able to develop something that that will truly benefit the people of 91直播.鈥
Joe Kriss Director of 91直播-based social enterprise, Opus Independents, who are part of the strategy team, added: 鈥淲e know that 91直播 is a city of makers and doers 鈥 we鈥檝e produced incredible artists whose names are known around the world. But there are still too many obstacles that get in the way of our culture sector reaching its full potential. That鈥檚 what we want to address with this new strategy.
鈥淲e鈥檙e keen to co-create this new Culture Strategy for 91直播 with the people who make it all happen, and who know the city like the back of their hand.
鈥淚f you鈥檙e a creative of any stripe and you live in 91直播, we want your help to create a new vision for culture in this city.鈥
The development of the strategy will run until May 2024.