Arts Action Now invites you to join one of two online wānanga, where we’ll collectively brainstorm the ingredients needed for a responsive and inclusive strategy for our sector—one that mends the broken pieces and paves the way for a vibrant, sustainable future.
This wānanga is an open invitation to ringatoi, artists, creatives, makers, shakers, cultural activists, and anyone from the creative communities, to contribute to a collective call for an Aotearoa Arts Culture and Creativity Strategy, to be developed with the next elected government.
This isn’t an engagement session with a government agency. We select the language to frame what we want to get across. This is unadulterated collective sector-led reimagining. A collective approach with shared benefits and outcomes.
The wānanga will be facilitated by Kelcy Taratoa, Ngā toi Māori Navigator at Creative Bay of Plenty | Te Waka Auaha Toi and Elyssia Wilson-Heti, Activist, Interdisciplinary Artist, Producer, 2020 Arts Laureate and member of the arts collective FAFSWAG.
The kōrero from the wānanga will inform a sector briefing for the next Minister for Arts and Culture, as well as any other relevant Ministry.
Join one of two sessions:
Why do we need a strategy?
An Aotearoa Arts, Culture and Creativity strategy would provide a framework for the intentional development of the sector’s future at a national and regional level.
The strategy would:
- Be informed by data to clarify the current state of the sector
- Inform policy and facilitate and align investment
- Affirm the value of arts, culture, and creative work in its own right as well as its contributions to community hauora/wellbeing, and the creative economy
- Express a clear government ambition for the sector, and enable an aligned cross-Ministry, and central-to-local government approach to the sector. Ministries would include the Ministry of Education, Business, Innovation and Employment, Health, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Social Development
- Identify the regional infrastructure needed for local activation to strengthen reach, grow community access and participation build inclusion, and develop sector capability and the wider ecosystem
- Set out a framework for how success will be measured
- Provide the information required to develop a sector investment plan.
